Wartime Kiss - 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 Wartime Kiss write by Alexander Nemerov. This book was released on 2013. Wartime Kiss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collects a series of photos and film stills of kisses and intimate moments from the World War II era, explaining the culture significance of these moments and what they say about society at the time.
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times - 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 I Kiss Your Hands Many Times write by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak. This book was released on 2013-08-27. I Kiss Your Hands Many Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding. In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal. Aladár survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself. After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she’d last seen, but he was still in love with her. After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed. Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Maszák’s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population—the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti-Semitism—and with the rest of the world. She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted—from a country and its individuals. Praise for I Kiss Your Hands Many Times “I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family in pre– and post–World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents’ devotion in one of history’s darkest hours.”—Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group “In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history.”—Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America “How many times can a heart be broken? Hungarians know, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family more than most. History has broken theirs again and again. This is the story of that violence, told by the daughter of an extraordinary man and extraordinary woman who refused to surrender to it. Every perfectly chosen word is as it happened. So brace yourself. Truth can break hearts, too.”—Robert Sam Anson, author of War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina “This family memoir is everything you could wish for in the genre: the story of a fascinating family that illuminates the historical time it lived through. . . . Informative and fascinating in every way, [I Kiss Your Hands Many Times] is a great introduction to World War II Hungary and a moving tale of personal relationships in a time of great duress.”—Booklist (starred review)
Miracle Kiss
Miracle Kiss - 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 Miracle Kiss write by Douglas Hale. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Miracle Kiss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James is a reporter always trying to find a good story. When he runs into a group of WWII veterans he suspects their story is no different than the countless he's already heard.As the elevator rose he was thinking of how this meeting might play out. Two things could happen. One, he would be looked at as an outsider and not be allowed into their little get together. Or two, he would slip in un-noticed at first and then someone would ask him who he was. When the elevator doors opened he was relieved to see a good sized group of what was likely family and friends. That would make it easier for him to walk in without really being noticed.He entered the room and looked around. Where's the bar? He thought. It would probably look better if I had a drink with me. After getting a drink he spotted a table in the middle of the room with some old pictures on it. On the table was one small picture of a soldier and two large photos in the middle. One was of a captain and the other looked like an army nurse. He'd seen this before, most likely some of the guys that didn't make it back. But James was wondering what the story was on the army nurse. She looked a bit older than the others.Over the next several days James unravels the mystery about how the army nurse helped these men become one of the most decorated units of the war. But most importantly, how her love and sacrifice would influence the group of men. And also how much her love would change James' life forever, through a grand-daughter she never knew.
The Kissing Sailor
The Kissing Sailor - 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 Kissing Sailor write by Lawrence Verria. This book was released on 2012-05-15. The Kissing Sailor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple’s identity took on a dimension of its own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse. And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the sailor’s identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt’s most famous photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their findings propelled one claimant’s case far ahead of the others and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when another candidate’s claim proved more credible. With this book, the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt’s photo. It is the first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple’s and the photographer’s brushes with death that nearly prevented their famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The sailor, part of Bull Halsey’s famous task force, survived the deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors. The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States. Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at Flanders.
Military Comedy Films
Military Comedy Films - 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 Military Comedy Films write by Hal Erickson. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Military Comedy Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.
