Historiske og politiske biografier

My goal for this book was to highlight fifty women veterans. But the outpouring response from the women warriors' willingness to share the reason behind their selfless service in the US Military was beyond what I could have ever imagined. These stories you are about to read will either make you laugh, cry, cheer, or get angry; they may even shock you! Just know that these women did what most women would not do, and that's serve their country. Women have been serving and loving America long before America loved her, but that never stopped the heart of a warrior.With over two million women that have served, past and present, what better way to show them homage than this? Storytelling is the best form of historical documentation, and these stories need to be told. Here is a small yet powerful introduction to sixty-eight of America's most brave and beautiful women telling their story Why I Served.

The Men of the Mountains brings vividly before its readers conditions long past-and some even now still prevalent-in the highlands of the South. The story of the conquest of this vast section of our country by the early settlers, and of the valor, honor, and humor of their descendants is well worth careful study.In this book, A W Spalding tells of the great natural resources of both the individuals and their mountains; it shows the character of work being done in this mountain land by many devoted men and women-teachers, medical workers, and home builders, and in the telling, all is woven into one thrilling story. It reveals the mountain and hill country of the South, and most specifically Appalachia, as a training ground for Christian workers-home and foreign. The Men of the Mountains presents the hardy, fearless American Mountaineer, converted and consecrated, as a great and powerful factor in the finishing of God's work in the earth.

Inspired by its author's wish to transmit the almost-extinct oral histories of yesteryear to her grandchildren and to generations as yet unborn, this book traces the migration of her ancestors from the Old World to the New during the greatest and most consequential mass migration in the history of humankind. And whereas everyone's family has a past full of interesting and exciting stories, the Prince Family of Flatbush was unusual because their New World saga began early in the history of the United States. It started in Brooklyn in 1657 and continued to unfold there-at least until the family migrated, in the 1920s, to the then-booming industrial stronghold of Cleveland-through 3 1/2 centuries of unimaginable upheaval and change. It was written by Marjorie Anne Prince, an eleventh generation member of the family since its migration from Holland and its inevitable intermarriages with families from France and England. Deeply immersed in the borough's passions and intrigues, the Princes built homesteads,started businesses, lost husbands or wives and babies, married, remarried, and died, always striving for lives filled with purpose and joy. Each of them maneuvered as adroitly as he or she could through the confusing landscapes of North America since its annexation and colonization. Although this story focuses on this particular family's collective journey, it honors, by implication, the experiences of hundreds of thousands of equivalent families during their first generations in the uncharted and usually terrifying New World.

"Weaving together diary entries, photographs, clandestine correspondences, and haiku, psychotherapist and activist Satsuki Ina reveals how her parents navigated life, love, loss, and loyalty tests during World War II, and how the effects of mass incarceration echo across generations"--

Every family has its secrets, its stories. I discovered ours one beautiful July weekend when my family gathered at a hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda, ostensibly to celebrate my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.When the sun went down that first evening, my parents surprised us all as they began to tell us for the first time what had happened to them 50 years ago. Amazed and astonished, we listened to them recount the details of their escape from Europe during World War II. Listening to these adventures, I was like a child entranced by a bedtime story. The heroes became more than my parents. They were Alfred (who was Jewish) and Laurette (who was Catholic), a young couple in love, whose world was suddenly blown apart the day the Germans invaded Belgium. Alfred was forced into a crowded cattle car and hauled off to an internment camp while Laurette remained behind in occupied Brussels with no idea of the whereabouts of her husband. The story of how the couple survived-- how Alfred escaped from the camp and Laurette left her family and everything she owned to join him in France, how they hid in a brothel in Lyon, escaped across the Mediterranean by freighter only to be detained in Morocco--- all this was beyond my imagination.My father had chosen Hamilton, Bermuda as the place to reveal their tale because it was the first harbor in the "New World" where he and Mom had landed after their long ordeal of running from the Nazis. As we were to discover, however, the landing in Bermuda was by no means a safe ending to their journey...