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Includes 15 cartoon illustrations. This highly humorous account of two self-confessed "short, fat, bald, middle-aged, inland Americans" who decide to join the war effort all the way from Wichita having left their jobs as journalists. As they go to New York to start their sea journey eastward, they start to find out that their life is going to be much more arduous than they initially thought… "In our pockets we hold commissions from the American...
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These letters cover an unbelievable variety of war-time experiences, not shared by many servicemen, from terrifying near-death experiences on the beaches at Iwo Jima where 6000 casualties occurred on the first day, and where a kamikaze pilot’s last-second inexplicable course-change caused his plane to crash harmlessly into the ship, (see front cover) to light-hearted accounts of tricky deals getting supplies. Also, in the move to Japan, the remarkable...
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The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family's door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred "Mickchen" Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler's Nazi Germany, they now face the terror of a new enemy--Stalin's Red Army. Driven from their home, Mildred and her family become refugees along with a sad, slow-moving caravan...
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POW Camp Concordia Preservation Society
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2020
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English
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'The history of prisoner of war camps in the United States is a subject that has been largely ignored by historians. Pride and Honor: The Diary of Franz Kuester, is an interesting and valuable recording of history. It gives us the views and thoughts of a Wehrmacht officer that were held in prisoner of war camps in Kansas, Indiana and Kentucky. Kuester comments on the work, leisure time (to include what movies he saw), education, food, weather and...
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