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English
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explores the effects of war on the modern world. People fight for power, their religion, and for survival. Combatants, including women and child soldiers as well as UN peacekeepers, share their stories, their hopes and fears about life in war torn areas of the world.
5) Remembering China from Taiwan: divided families and bittersweet reunions after the Chinese civil war
Author
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
8) Four sons
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This film tells the tale of the Bavarian Bernle family and how their lives are affected by the outbreak of World War I. Mother Bernle is heartbroken when her sons are called to the front-- and on opposite sides. As two choose to fight for the Allies, while the other two fight for the Germans, the family is visited by the inevitable cruel irony of war: not only are the brothers likely to discover one another on the battlefield, they may also find a...
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Traza el efecto domin̤ de la guerra y la inmigraci̤n en dos nįos: Samuel, de cinco ąos, cuya madre lo mete en un tren Kindertransport desde la Austria ocupada por los nazis a Inglaterra en 1938, y Anita, de siete ąos, que aborda otro tren ocho ďcadas m̀s tarde a los EE.UU., donde se separa de su madre.
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train...
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Series
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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"For most of us, clicking "like" on social media has become fairly routine. For a Marine, clicking "like" from the battlefield lets his social network know he's alive. This is the first time in the history of modern warfare that US troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home. Lisa Ellen Silvestri's Friended at the Front documents the revolutionary change in the way we communicate across fronts. Social media, Silvestri contends,...
