In love and war : the story of a family’s ordeal and sacrifice during the Vietnam years

Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq

✍ Asquith, Christina 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House 🌐 English ⚖ 230 KB

Retail Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S.

The Tender Soldier: A True Story of War and Sacrifice

✍ Gezari, Vanessa M. 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Simon & Schuster 🌐 English ⚖ 464 KB

Sugar in the blood: a family's story of slavery and empire

✍ Stuart, Andrea 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf 🌐 en-US ⚖ 557 KB 👁 2 views

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

✍ Stuart, Andrea 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 3 MB

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully

Lilla's Feast: One Woman's True Story of

Lilla's Feast: One Woman's True Story of Love and War in the Orient

✍ Osborne, Frances 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

At the end of her life, Frances Osborne's one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother Lilla was as elegant as ever--all fitted black lace and sparkling-white diamonds. To her great-grandchildren, Lilla was both an ally and a mysterious wonder. Her bedroom was filled with treasures from every exotic corne

The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War

✍ Chong, Denise 📂 Fiction 🏛 Penguin USA, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War

In love and war : the story of a family’s ordeal and sacrifice during the Vietnam years

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