Résultats pour "Paradise" dans Militaire

They came by boat from a starving land, and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains, seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe, as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.

While it is in the eastern United States where most Americans identify our military history, the vast resource-rich Pacific Northwest, stretching from Northern California through British Columbia, endured a series of battles and wars over the course of the 19th century that were of regional and national importance. Beginning with the earliest known accounts of wars among the American Indians of the region, Fighting for Paradise: A Military History of the Pacific Northwest describes early European contact.

War in Paradise is a collection of articles about the impact of World War II on the Sunshine State. It covers subjects such as German prisoners of war, U-boat attacks along the Florida coast, three Florida natives killed at Pearl Harbor, Army Air Force bombing runs that fell on civilians in Florida, German saboteurs who landed on the Florida peninsula, RAF trainees in Florida, the suicide of a German POW, and the murder of a Floridian in German custody.

The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions...