The War of Our Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War of Our Childhood write by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel. This book was released on 2009-09-18. The War of Our Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One survivor tells of the fire-bombing of Dresden. Another survivor recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes. These are typical in the stories collected in The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II. For this book Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, a childhood refugee himself after the fall of Nazi Germany, interviewed twenty-seven men and women who as children—by chance and sheer resilience—survived Allied bombs, invading armies, hunger, and chaos. “Our eyes carried no hate, only recognition of what was,” Samuel writes of his childhood. “Peace was an abstraction. The world we Kinder knew nearly always had the word ‘war’ appended to it.” Samuel's heartfelt narratives from these innocent survivors are invariably riveting and often terrifying. Each engrossing story has perilous and tragic moments—school children in Leuna who are sent home during an air raid but are strafed as moving targets; fathers who exist only as distant figures, returning to their families long after the war—or not at all; mothers who are raped and tortured; families who are forced into a seemingly endless relocation that replicates the terrors of war itself. In capturing such experiences from nearly every region of Germany and involving people of every socio-economic class, this is a collection of unique memories, but each account contributes to a cumulative understanding of the war that is more personal than strategic surveys and histories. For Samuel and the survivors he interviewed, agony and fright were part of everyday life, just as were play, wondrous experience, and above all perseverance. “My focus,” Samuel writes, “is on the astounding ability of a generation of German children to emerge from debilitating circumstances as sane and productive human beings.”
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars write by Mischa Honeck. This book was released on 2019-02-21. War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.
The Vietnam War in American Childhood
The Vietnam War in American Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vietnam War in American Childhood write by Joel P. Rhodes. This book was released on 2019. The Vietnam War in American Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.
Innocent Weapons
Innocent Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innocent Weapons write by Margaret Peacock. This book was released on 2014. Innocent Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Innocent Witnesses
Innocent Witnesses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innocent Witnesses write by Marilyn Yalom. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Innocent Witnesses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a book that will touch hearts and minds, acclaimed cultural historian Marilyn Yalom presents firsthand accounts of six witnesses to war, each offering lasting memories of how childhood trauma transforms lives. The violence of war leaves indelible marks, and memories last a lifetime for those who experienced this trauma as children. Marilyn Yalom experienced World War II from afar, safely protected in her home in Washington, DC. But over the course of her life, she came to be close friends with many less lucky, who grew up under bombardment across Europe—in France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland. With Innocent Witnesses, Yalom collects the stories from these accomplished luminaries and brings us voices of a vanishing generation, the last to remember World War II. Memory is notoriously fickle: it forgets most of the past, holds on to bits and pieces, and colors the truth according to unconscious wishes. But in the circle of safety Marilyn Yalom created for her friends, childhood memories return in all their startling vividness. This powerful collage of testimonies offers us a greater understanding of what it is to be human, not just then but also today. With this book, her final and most personal work of cultural history, Yalom considers the lasting impact of such young experiences—and asks whether we will now force a new generation of children to spend their lives reconciling with such memories.
