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Author |
: Brian Matthew Jordan |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2015-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780871407825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0871407825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by : Brian Matthew Jordan
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of the Gov. John Andrew Award (Union Club of Boston) An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans— tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions— tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche. In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff ’s Liberty’s Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.
Author |
: Laura Browder |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2010-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807898338 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807898333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Janey Comes Marching Home by : Laura Browder
While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty. When Janey Comes Marching Home juxtaposes forty-eight photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war. Women from all five branches of the military share their stories here--stories that are by turns moving, comic, thought-provoking, and profound. Seeing their faces in stunning color photographic portraits and reading what they have to say about loss, comradeship, conflict, and hard choices will change the ways we think about women and war. Serving in a combat zone is an all-encompassing experience that is transformative, life-defining, and difficult to leave behind. By coming face-to-face with women veterans, we who are outside that world can begin to get a sense of how the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shaped their lives and how their stories may ripple out and influence the experiences of all American women. The book accompanies a photography exhibit of the same name opening May 1, 2010, at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and continuing to travel around the country through 2011.
Author |
: Paula J. Caplan |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 339 |
Release |
: 2018-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504057011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504057015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home by : Paula J. Caplan
Why are those devastated by war or other military experiences called mentally ill? The standard treatment of therapy and drugs can actually be harmful, and huge numbers of suffering veterans from earlier eras demonstrate its inadequacy. Most of us are both war-illiterate and military-illiterate. Caplan proposes that we welcome veterans back into our communities and listen to their experiences, one-on-one. Beginning a long overdue national discussion about the realities of war and the military will help us bridge the dangerous chasms between veterans and nonveterans.
Author |
: Kevin Coyne |
Publisher |
: Viking Adult |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015056787990 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marching Home by : Kevin Coyne
A sailor faces a kamikaze hurtling at his ship, then walks a police beat back home, trying to keep the peace."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore |
Publisher |
: Capstone |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1404801715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781404801714 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Johnny Comes Marching Home by : Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
Sing and learn about the history of the United States with this age-old tune.
Author |
: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 6 |
Release |
: 1864 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015096523504 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Johnny Comes Marching Home by : Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
Author |
: William Heffernan |
Publisher |
: Akashic Books |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2012-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617751431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161775143X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Johnny Came Marching Home by : William Heffernan
The international bestselling author of The Corsican delivers “a carefully constructed and evocative Civil War-era tale.” —John Lutz, New York Times–bestselling author When Johnny Came Marching Home is a mystery, a love story, and William Heffernan’s best book to date. The novel tells the story of three boys who grow up in rural Vermont in a seemingly indestructible friendship, then see their lives ruined as they go off to fight in America’s “great and noble war.” Trapped in a what appears to be an endless bloodbath—vividly presented with Heffernan’s meticulous historical research—the boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war’s end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the third comes home as an unfeeling psychopath. The novel turns on the subsequent murder of the psychopath, and the offer of redemption for the wounded young man who must investigate the crime. When Johnny Came Marching Home is a story about war and how it affects the lives of all who become a part of it, both directly and peripherally. Although set during the Civil War, this book casts shadows of what we endure today and the horrors to which young soldiers are subjected. “Heffernan swings his vivid tale back and forth between past and present, war and peace—a neat tour de force he pulls off with admirable assurance.” —Kirkus Reviews “A powerful, intriguing, and complex novel about the intricacies of friendship and the devastating effects of war.” —Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Death Artist
Author |
: Don Lemna |
Publisher |
: Holiday House |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2009-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0823422119 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780823422111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis When the Sergeant Came Marching Home by : Don Lemna
In 1946 when his father returns from the war, a ten year old boy and his family move from the Montana town where they had been living to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere, where they work hard trying to make ends meet.
Author |
: Lillian M. Henry |
Publisher |
: AuthorHouse |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2017-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524672874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524672874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by : Lillian M. Henry
Stepping ashore in 1635 at Boston Harbor from the ship Plain Joan, William Hickok begins this saga of the Hickok family in America. Two hundred and twenty-six years later, his descendants are embroiled in what comes to be known as the War Between the States or, more simply, the Civil War. Asa Hickok and his brothers, along with their neighbors, answer the call to arms, and this story follows their journey, as well as that of the rest of their families, as all attempt to adjust to the turmoil of changing times. Come and march with the men through the hills and valleys. Wait with the wives and mothers as they keep the home fires burning. Discover two men in love with the same woman, a wounded warrior, and the tragic deaths of friends and brothers as this account of life during those troubled times progresses. Read on and find out what happened when Johnny came marching home.
Author |
: Gregory Sarno |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780595337750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0595337759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again by : Gregory Sarno
Screenplays about soldiers in three wars: the Civil War, the Vietnam War and the War in Afghanistan.