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Hold High the Torch: A History of the 4th Marines (Elite Unit Ser. #No. 18)
by Kenneth W. ConditHold High the Torch, the first of a series of regimental and squadron histories by the Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, is designed primarily to acquaint the members of the 4th Marines, past and present, with the history of their regiment. In addition, it is hoped this volume will enlarge public understanding of the Marine Corps’ worth both in limited war and as a force in readiness. During most of its existence the 4th Marines was not engaged in active military operations, but service of the regiment in China, the Dominican Republic, and off the west coast of Mexico, was typical of the Marine Corps’ support of national policy.In many of its combat operations, the 4th Marines was only one element of a much larger force. In other instances, as in the Dominican Republic and China, the regiment was a subordinate unit in situations which were essentially political and diplomatic. Only so much of these higher echelon activities as are essential to an understanding of the 4th Marines story have been told. This is a regimental history and the focus is therefore on the 4th Marines.
Hold On to the Sun
by Michal GovrinThe Israeli author&’s poetry, essays, and stories on the haunting legacy of WWII &“swirl mystically out of history and into dazzling floods of wonder&” (Don DeLillo, author of White Noise). In this portrait of the artist as a young woman, one of Israel&’s most acclaimed contemporary writers weaves together a kaleidoscope of fiction, poetry, and essays. Populated by both fictional and real people, each tale is in some way a search for meaning in a post-Holocaust world. Reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, characters irrationally and humanely find reason for hope in a world that offers little. Essays describe Govrin&’s visits to Poland as a young adult, where her mother had survived a death camp, but had lost her husband and their child, Govrin&’s half-brother. Capturing the depths of denial and the exuberance of youth in a multiplicity of voices, this haunting collection &“joins the few serious books that try through artistic means to face the unspeakable&” (Aharon Appelfield, author of Badenheim 1939).
Hold Tight: A Novel
by Christopher BramDuring World War II, a gay navy sailor works undercover to catch Nazi spies, in this &“fast-moving&” novel from the author of Gods and Monsters (Publishers Weekly). During shore leave in New York, Seaman Second Class Hank Fayette, a Texas country boy in the big city, finds himself visiting a gay brothel, where he is swiftly arrested during a raid. Facing the prospect of a dishonorable discharge—or worse—he is given another option: Return to the brothel, near Manhattan&’s West Side piers, and work undercover as a prostitute. Nazi agents are rumored to haunt the area, and Hank is a perfect lure to trap them. This military man is about to risk his life for his country in a way he never expected in &“a spy thriller that breaks new ground&” from the author of Eminent Outlaws and The Notorious Dr. August (Kirkus Reviews).
Holding Fire (Alpha Security #2)
by April HuntMISSION IMPOSSIBLEAlpha Security operative Trey Hanson is ready to settle down. When he meets a gorgeous blonde in a bar, and the connection between them is off the charts, he thinks he's finally found the one. But after their night together ends in a hail of gunfire and she disappears in the chaos, Trey's reasons for tracking her down are personal . . . until he learns she's his next assignment.Elle Monroe never expected to see Trey again. The night they shared was incredible, but the last thing she's looking for is a relationship. Now that it's clear she's being targeted, though, she has no choice but to trust this man she barely knows with her life. And Trey's not just determined to keep her safe . . . he's determined to win her heart.***The Alpha Security seriesBook 1 - Heated Pursuit (Rafe and Penny)Book 2 - Holding Fire (Trey and Elle)Book 3 - Hard Justice (Vince and Charlie)
Holding Juno
by Mark ZuehlkeFollowing his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland - the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin.Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, "the defining popular history of Canada's D-Day battle."
Holding On and Letting Go: A Life in Motion
by Lindsay Swoboda&“... explores the ache of holding on—to dreams, identity, and relationships ... the moments of joy, unexpected community, rediscovered passion ... Her storytelling is lyrical, grounded, and profoundly human ...&”—Corie Weathers, LPC, author, clinician, military spouseWhen dancer Lindsay Swoboda marries a Marine, her dream of following her passion for performing collides with the realities of their military life: back-to-back overseas moves, navigating pregnancy during deployment, and creating new support systems again and again.As their growing family moves around the globe, Lindsay finds both tension and beauty in each new beginning. She creates a dance program in Korea. Becomes a mother in Hawaii. Morocco offers healing for her marriage after multiple deployments. In Ecuador, a fire, riots, and a high-risk pregnancy remind her there is uncertainty even in what appears to be a peace-filled chapter. Looking forward to being closer to family after nearly a decade away, the Swobodas nestle into Virginia just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeking new ways to cope with constant change and challenge, Lindsay writes her way through loneliness, self-doubt, and anxiety, and shares the burden and brilliance of each season with a community of friends. In her memoir Holding On and Letting Go: A Life in Motion, Lindsay unfolds her military spouse journey with lyrical storytelling and sensory imagery, encouraging readers to champion both big and small victories, make space for grief and goodness, and find the courage to persevere. Cover art painting by military spouse Lindsay Wilkins.
Holding Out for a Hero: A Men in Uniform Novel
by Codi GaryHe wasn't looking for love . . . Two years after the death of his wife, Sergeant Blake Kline is still hurting. He isn't ready to date, but whenever he stops by his local diner and sees the friendly smile of his favorite waitress, he feels a spark of true happiness again. And when her life is unexpectedly threatened, Blake discovers his feelings for her might not be as platonic as he thought. She was holding out for the hero of her dreams . . . Bookworm Hannah York has always been a hopeless romantic--preferring book boyfriends to blind dates--and she's been day-dreaming about Blake since the moment he came into her diner. She's convinced they'll never be more than friends . . . until Blake kisses her and "weak in the knees" becomes more than just a line from her favorite romance novel. The closer Blake and Hannah get, however, the harder he fights to keep her at a distance.But forever has a way of sneaking up on you . . . When their blossoming relationship takes a complicated turn, Blake will have to face his past . . . or risk losing Hannah forever.
Holding The Line (Spec Ops Squad Series, #1)
by Rick ShellyAfter eons of searching, humanity finally learned it was not alone-that there were many intelligent alien races among the stars. By joining the Alliance of Light, Earth hi discovered allies with whom to explore the universe- ' and an enemy that would never rest until the Alliance lay in ruins.... Sergeant Bart "Dragon" Drak, just back from fighting on the planet Dintsen, is given a daunting new task. Assigned to an experimental regiment as a Spec Ops Squad leader, he must try to create a unit made up of every alien race in the Alliance. And with all the bad blood among the aliens, training these troops to fight as a team might be impossible. But before the training is completed, Drak gets the news that the Ilion Federation is making a push toward the core worlds, which would spell doom for the Alliance. The orders: Drak must return to the hellish battleground of Dintsen with his regiment, and hold off the Federation tide to the last manor alien....
Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)
by M. Girard DorseyHolding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty.The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare as obsolete or taboo. Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical weapons use in a new way.
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863
by Eric J. WittenbergThe award-winning Civil War historian examines the actions of Union Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Chickamauga in this history and tour guide.This volume provides an in-depth study of the two important delaying actions conducted by mounted Union soldiers at Reed’s and Alexander’s bridges on the first day of Chickamauga. Much like Eric J, Wittenberg’s “The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg—which won the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s 2015 Book Award—this volume combines engaging military history with a detailed walking and driving tour complete with the GPS coordinates.On September, 18, 1863, a cavalry brigade under Col. Robert H. G. Minty and Col. John T. Wilder’s legendary “Lightning Brigade” of mounted infantry made stout stands at a pair of chokepoints crossing Chickamauga Creek. Minty’s small cavalry brigade held off nearly ten times its number by designing and implementing a textbook example of a delaying action. Their efforts thwarted Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s entire battle plan by delaying his army’s advance for an entire day. The appendices of this book include two orders of battle, a discussion of the tactics employed by the Union mounted force, and an epilogue on how the War Department and National Park Service have remembered these events. Complete with more than 60 photos and 15 maps by master cartographer Mark Anderson Moore, Holding the Line on the River of Death is a valuable addition to the burgeoning Chickamauga historiography.
Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values
by Ronny JacksonA behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician.I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to President Trump. It was rarely medical, to be honest with you; it was whatever was going on in the news. I&’d be the first person he&’d see in the morning. The president was completing tasks two to three hours before anybody else showed up in the West Wing to work. He&’d get up at five o&’clock in the morning and would be watching TV, tweeting, making phone calls, and doing all types of other tasks. President Trump would poke his head into my office or I&’d walk out, and we would say, &“Good morning. Did you see this or that?&” He was always asking me about things on TV and what was going on, from Iran to Stormy Daniels. He&’d say, &“Walk with me.&” So I&’d walk him to the Oval Office, and we&’d talk about everything. I&’d walk out through the outer Oval Office and the chief of staff, national security advisor, and even the CIA briefer would be standing there, waiting to get in and talk to him. I&’d walk out, they&’d walk in, and his day would start. I was the first person he saw every morning and the last person he saw every evening when he went to bed.
Holding the Line: Holding The Line (Special Ops Squad #1)
by Rick ShelleyAs members of the Alliance of Light, humans have committed to the battle against the Ilion Federation, and they’re doing their part. But the Alliance’s army is fragmented, and to unify their forces, the army’s leaders must do the unthinkable: they form the First Combined Regiment, made up of soldiers from every alien race in the Alliance.The Spec Ops Squad is supposed to be the best of the best, an elite group within the First Combined Regiment to take care of the dirtiest jobs. Sergeant Bart “Dragon” Drak isn’t too surprised to learn that these warriors don’t have a whole lot in common, and it’s obvious that it will take a lot of work to turn a bunch of commandos into a team. He didn’t sign up for this, but he’s got to see it through.In the midst of training, the Spec Ops Squad is called off to planet Dintsen to fight off an invasion from the Ilion Federation. With such an elite fighting force, beating them back should be a piece of cake... except Ilion’s got the same kind of team on their side, and theirs are better trained. Drak will have to face down tremendous odds and new challenges to bring his team home.
Hole-in-the-Rock: An Epic in the Colonization of the Great American West
by David E. MillerFirst published in 1962, David E. Miller’s award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and hagiography when Miller first became attracted to its study in the 1950s, and few reliable sources were at that time available.Not content with exhausting archival material, Miller contacted all locatable descendants of the members of the original party, and thereby brought to light a great number of previously unexploited sources. The Hole-in-the-Rock study achieved additional depth from his intimate knowledge of the actual trail acquired on repeated traverses by Jeep and on foot.A member of the LDS Church, Miller wrote of the Mormons with sympathy and understanding, but with a commitment as well to the critical standards of the historical profession.A must-read for anyone interested in American History.
Holidays at Home Omnibus
by Grace ThompsonThe beloved saga of a Welsh coastal community coping on the home front through World War II—six novels in one volume! These six heartwarming novels follow the inhabitants of St David&’s Wells, a small Welsh seaside town, charting the highs and lows they experience during the Second World War. From engagements to tragic accidents, the arrival of evacuees to the return of the local soldiers, ice cream indulgences to utter deprivation, this bestselling series from much-loved author Grace Thompson includes: Wait Till SummerSwingboats on the SandWaiting for YesterdayDay TrippersUnwise PromisesStreet Parties
Holland at War Against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch Relations 1940-1945
by M. R. FootFirst Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Hollow Chest
by Brita SandstromDebut author Brita Sandstrom arrives with an unforgettable modern folktale of the darkness around and inside us, and the courage it takes to keep hope alive. “Hollow Chest is remarkable on so many levels—its exquisite writing, its startling originality, its deep empathy. An astonishing debut.” —Anne Ursu, award-winning author of The Lost Girl Charlie has been having nightmares. Eyes watching him in the night, claws on his chest, holding him down. His dreams have been haunted for years, ever since German bombs rained down on London, taking his father’s life, taking his city’s spirit, taking his beloved brother, Theo, off to war in France.Now Charlie is left to take care of his grandpa Fitz while his mother works, waiting for the day when Theo will come home. And with World War II nearly won, that day is almost here. Grandpa Fitz warns Charlie that soldiers sometimes come back missing a piece of themselves, but Charlie isn’t worried. Whatever Theo has lost, Charlie will help him find it. When Theo finally does return, though, he is cold and distant. But Charlie refuses to accept that the brother he knew is gone, and soon, he discovers the reason for his brother’s change: war wolves. Terrifying ancient beasts who consume the hearts of those broken by grief. The wolves have followed soldiers back home from the front. And if Charlie truly wants to save Theo, he’s going to have to find them and get his brother’s heart back. But can a heart that’s been eaten ever be replaced?
Hollow Triumph
by Murray ForbesThe only novel by radio personality Forbes, basis for the classic 1948 film noir (also known today under its UK title, “The Scar”), shot by John Alton and starring Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett.Upon his parole from jail, gangster John Muller pulls one final job against a rival mobster and flees to Los Angeles. There, he is mistaken for psychologist Victor Bartok, for whom he is a double except for a scar on Bartok’s face. When Bartok’s secretary Evelyn, who is love with him, mistakes Muller for Bartok, Muller plots to assume his identity. All goes well until Muller mistakenly scars the wrong side of his face, making Evelyn aware of his plan.
Hollywood Remembrance and American War (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
by Andrew Rayment and Paul NadasdyHollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist American modes of remembrance. The authors first develop the framework for, and elaborate on, the co-evolution of Hollywood war cinema and American war memorialization in the historical, political and ideological terms of remembrance, and the parallel synergic relationship between the aesthetic and industrial status of Hollywood war cinema and the remembering of American war on film. The chapters then move to analysis of Hollywood war films – covering The Great War, World War II, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, The Cold War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – and critically scrutinize the terms upon which a film could be considered a memorial to the war it represents. Bringing together the fields of film studies and memory studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in not just these areas but those in the fields of history, media and cultural studies more broadly, too.
Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War
by Chris Dixon Sean BrawleyThis book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history.
Holocaust At Sea: The Drama Of The Scharnhorst
by Fritz-Otto BuschOn Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life.The luck of the Scharnhorst had become a legend. In 1942 she had slipped unscathed through the Channel under the very bows of the British fleet to harry the Arctic convoy-routes. The British convoy which sailed for Murmansk on Christmas Eve, 1943, seemed a perfect target for another lightning raid. In fact it was a trap to lure the battleship into the open and then destroy her.This is the story of the Scharnhorst’s dramatic sortie from her Norwegian lair.The story of a battle fought with outstanding courage against impossible odds until the most feared of all Hitler’s battleships sank at last off North Cape.
Holocaust Education Revisited: Wahrnehmung und Vermittlung • Fiktion und Fakten • Medialität und Digitalität (Holocaust Education – Historisches Lernen – Menschenrechtsbildung)
by Markus Gloe Anja BallisDer Band wendet sich Konzepten von „Holocaust Education“ zu, die auf einer Tagung an der LMU München im Februar 2018 diskutiert worden sind: Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verschiedener Disziplinen reflektierten über Zieldimensionen, mediale Repräsentationen sowie Wandel und Herausforderungen bei der Vermittlung der Themenfelder Holocaust und NS-Verbrechen. Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Konzepten von „Holocaust Education“ hat sich auch im 21. Jahrhundert als produktiv erwiesen: Es kann ein vielstimmiger und auf die Gegenwart bezogener Diskurs entfaltet werden, der von Fragen der Vermittlung im Klassenzimmer bis zu der Virtualisierung von Zeugenschaft in Museen und daraus resultierender didaktischer Konsequenzen reicht. Der InhaltZur Einführung • Wahrnehmung und Vermittlung • Fiktionen und Fakten • Medialität und DigitalitätDie HerausgeberDr. Anja Ballis ist Professorin am Fachbereich Didaktik der deutschen Sprache und Literatur der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.Dr. Markus Gloe ist Professor am Fachbereich Politische Bildung und Didaktik der Sozialkunde an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (The Holocaust and its Contexts)
by Paula Cowan Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann James GriffithsThis collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its contributors are from countries that have a unique relationship with the Holocaust, such as Germany, Israel, neutral Switzerland, and Allied countries outside the UK. Their research provides new insight into the diverse ways in which primary aged students engage with Holocaust education. Chapters explore the impact of teaching the Holocaust to this age group, school and museum teaching pedagogies, and primary students’ perspectives of the Holocaust. This book will appeal to school and museum educators of primary aged students whose work requires them to teach the Holocaust, Citizenship (or Civics) or Human Rights Education. Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been a transformation in school and museum-based Holocaust education. This book clearly demonstrates that primary education has been included in this transformation.
Holocaust Fiction and the Question of Impiety
by David John DicksonThis book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose’s theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our understanding of the Holocaust, before then highlighting how this gradual simplification has led to an increasing sense of emotional distance from the historical past. Holocaust fiction, the book argues, attempts to close this emotional and temporal distance by creating an emotional connection to bodies in pain. Using different concepts relating to embodied experience – from Sonia Kruks’ notion of feeling-with to Alison Landsberg’s prosthetic memory – the book analyses several key examples of Holocaust literature and film to establish whether fiction still possesses the capacity to approach the Holocaust impiously.
Holocaust Heroes: Resistance to Hitler's 'Final Solution'
by Mark FeltonThis inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis ‘Final Solution. It shows that the Warsaw Uprising in Poland during April to May 1944 was not the only occasion of defiant opposition. Throughout the Nazis extermination programme Jews and other prisoners fought back against their murderers, often with stunning results. The Germans were nearly always taken by surprise by the sudden emergence of armed Jewish resistance and often paid dearly. This happened in ghettos and concentration campos (including Treblinka, Auschwitz, Syrels and Sobibor) throughout Poland and the Ukraine. Some Jews tried to stop the machinery of the Holocaust by rising up and destroying the gas chambers while others bravely tried to take over an extermination camp and escape en masse. In virtually every case the brave men and women who volunteered to fight back paid with their lives. Importantly these men and women are not just portrayed as victims but also as brave and resourceful fighters and resisters against their tragic fate. These are stories that are uplifting, inspiring and often profoundly moving.
Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past
by Sir Martin GilbertIncludes a new foreword by Rob RinderWhat readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Devastating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Everybody should read this' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Informative and emotional' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐In June 1996 Martin Gilbert took a group of students on a two-week journey across middle-Europe which encompassed all the major places in the Holocaust - from Wannsee where the extermination of the Jews was decreed, to the camps themselves, via deserted Jewish communities and synagogues as well as the sites of the ghettos and deportation.'The achievement of Gilbert's HOLOCAUST JOURNEY is to reduce to comprehensible, human terms of the scale of the genocide that to many is still unimaginable' LITERARY REVIEW'Filled with short, well-informed and often heart-rending accounts of the fate of the Jews' TLS'HOLOCAUST JOURNEY travels along the tracks of a history we would rather forget to the sites of wartime horror, and is also a moving excavation of the past' INDEPENDENT