Letters Home: A Jewish Chaplain's Vietnam Memoir, Paperback - Sheldon Lewis

Reducere. Rabbi Lewis was deployed to Vietnam as an Army chaplain from 1970 to 1971 to be present with Jewish personnel in the Central Highlands. Serving men...

A portrait of the literary sensation and short-story master Lucia Berlin, told through a compilation of sketches, letters from, and photos of, frie...

Reducere. Dr. Sheldon A. Jacobs, a licensed marriage and family therapist who is an advocate for the homeless, was alarmed by the growing problem of homeless...

Reducere. DescriptionBob Kunkel grew up in a large, Catholic family on a dairy farm in central Minnesota. Although he was older than some draftees, at 22, he...

There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collect...

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In Letters Home, author Helen Min-Yen Shao shares her story of coming from China to the United States by herself to attend college for four years. ...

In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In 1982, Barbara Williams Lewis became a thirty-seven year old runaway. She moved to Los Angeles with her three children. Born black and poor in Wi...

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 s...

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American.

Reducere. In calligraphy by the author. Folktales about and exploration of the mystical meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet. Open the old prayerbook-like pages o...

Following Donald W. Stroup's productive and stimulating life, his golden years offered opportunity to 'come home' to the simpler comforting days of...

Reducere. Historians see the Second World War as one of the most significant events of the 20th century. The war ripped thousands of young Americans away fro...

Reducere. It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We w...

Reducere. "As he did in Marley, Grogan makes readers feel they have a seat at the family dinner table....4 stars."--People John Grogan, author of the phenome...

Reducere. "A frank, intriguing memoir."--People "Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos." --The New York Times Book Review "Home reflect...

Reducere. Letters to Pat chronicles the day by day events of Bill Eshelman, a young Marine Captain writing home to his wife. Hoping to command a U.S. infantr...

Reducere. Loner is a personal memoir of one man's experience in South Vietnam and the aftermath of serious injury. Told with authentic detail, humor, and pat...

Reducere. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in ...

Reducere. In calligraphy by the author. Folktales about and exploration of the mystical meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet. Open the old prayerbook-like pages o...

DescriptionFrom bestselling author of the remarkable memoir, The Distance Between Us comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her pl...

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 s...

Publisher: Stackpole BooksAuthor(s): Phil GioiaIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photog...

Reducere. The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom.

Reducere. Originally published in 1970, under the title Times and Places, this book is a collection of twenty-three of her articles from the New Yorker, publ...

Reducere. Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving hou...

Reducere. Mark M. Smith served two tours in Vietnam, 1967 to 1969, with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. In the 1970s and 80s, Mark wrote about his experience. ...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedyWhile Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is s...

Reducere. During his childhood, C. D. Griffith lived on his family's Indiana farm in the Eel River bottoms where he worked the land, hunted, and fished, neve...