[PDF] The Valiant Volunteers eBook

Author : Terry L. Johnson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1463475667

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When World War I began in August 1914, a number of young Americans volunteered for service with either the Foreign Legion or one of the ambulance services. A number of them entered French Aviation. An even smaller number formed Nieuport 124, a squadron of American pilots commanded by French officers, the famous Lafayette Escadrille. This is the beginning of their story... "Bottom line...this is a great book and I'd like to share it with the Air Force's top leadership." General T. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff of the Air Force. July 24, 2006.

Author : Christine Liava'a
Publisher :
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Soldiers
ISBN :

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"At the beginning of the Great War, 1914-1918, the British Empire rallied to Lord Kitchener's call to arms. British men in Tonga, a protectorate of Britain, although never part of the Empire, heeded his call and enlisted in the Australian and New Zealand forces. Some Tongan men joined them. This book, KoeKauTo'aNa'anauPoletau. Valiant Volunteers. Soldiers from Tonga in the Great War, lists the names of these men with their military details, family information, awards, and their deaths. Many photographs are included. An overview of their service and a chronology of events are also given. KoeKauTo'aNa'anauPoletau continues Christine Liava'a's series of genealogical and historical books dealing with those who served in the Great War from the Pacific region, which began with QaraviNa'iTavi. They Did their Duty. Soldiers from Fiji in the Great War. She has produced a valuable source of information about individuals and families in Tonga, New Zealand, and Australia, which will be of great interest to genealogists, military historians, and others with an interest in the history of Tonga." --Back cover.

Author : Mary Ulmet
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category :
ISBN : 1425984150

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The Ring of Fire This story begins with Freddie convincing his mother that he and his pet Tanga are grown up enough to deliver a wagon full of Dragon Cadet Cub cookies. The wagon is almost empty when they lose their sense of direction and become lost. The suspense grows, page by page, when Freddie and Tanga find themselves face to face with a fire, raging through the woods and threatening the home and garden of an elderly fire dragon. With no one close by to help, Freddie and Tanga are given the task to build a Ring of Fire. Can the raging fire be brought under control? How do Freddie and Tanga get back home? What happens to the cookies left in the wagon? Be prepared for some non-stop reading and a surprise ending after you open the cover of The Adventures of Freddie, The Little Fire Dragon: The Ring Of Fire. www.freddieandtanga.com

Author : Linda McDowell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1134057148

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Although the Second World War ended sixty years ago, there are still untold stories waiting to be heard: stories not only of diplomats and soldiers but also of refugees, camp inmates and ordinary people living in occupied territories, stories of women's and children's lives as well as those of men. In Hard Labour the forgotten voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944 are captured, telling the story of their flight from the advancing Soviet Army, their difficult journeys across central Europe, their lives as displaced people in Allied camps in Germany and finally their refuge in Britain. Hard work is at the centre of these stories, as the women became 'volunteer' workers, first for the Nazi war effort and then as labourers in the British post-war reconstruction plan. In what has been described as a 'venemous postscript' to the War, the fit and able amongst the vast homeless and often stateless population that fetched up in camps run by the Allies in war-devastated Germany were recruited by western states as labourers. Great Britain was the first nation to recruit displaced persons, offering jobs in hospitals and private homes as domestic workers and in the textile industry to young single women (and later men) from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and other once independent states. Many of these women spent the rest of their lives in Britain, longing to return to their homelands but independence came too late for many of them. At the centre of Hard Labour are the lives of twenty-five now elderly Latvia women who came to Britain between 1946 and 1949. Their memories are placed in the context of recent work in feminist history, illuminating debates about displacement and loss as well as the transformation of women's lives in post-war Britain.