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Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 - Libby Klekowski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450-mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe. Attempts to break the stalemate were murderous and futile. Censorship of the press was extreme--no one wanted the carnage reported. Remakably, the Allied command gave two intrepid American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on what they saw. Their travels are reconstructed from their own published accounts, Rinehart''s unpublished day-by-day notes, and the writings of other journalists who toured the front in 1915. The present authors'' explorations of the places Wharton and Rinehart visited serves as a travel guide to the Western Front.

DKK 523.00

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Running Wire at the Front Lines - Louis J. Lauria - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This compelling memoir tracks the war experiences of a radio wireman in the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Fifth Infantry Division. Born in Brooklyn and having left school in the sixth grade to work, the author enlisted at the age of 17. The book explores his time in combat, when he laid down wire for radio communications, often along the front lines and during battles, always alert for German troops. Featured are his sketches of the scenes of his work with fellow soldiers. Particular attention is paid to the role of the wireman and the history of the Fifth Infantry Division.

DKK 334.00

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Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864 - Jay W. Simson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

For nearly a century and a half most historians of the Civil War have accepted the claim by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby that George Armstrong Custer bears all of the guilt associated with the summary executions of six of Mosby''s Rangers at Front Royal, Virginia on September 23, 1864. This book challenges that view through a comprehensive look at the events of the day and a history of the persons involved, contending that Custer was not responsible for these executions, being neither present on the scene nor the initiating officer.

DKK 334.00

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Easing Pain on the Western Front - Paul E. Stepansky - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses'' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.

DKK 325.00

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Abbott and Costello on the Home Front - Scott Allen Nollen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. The films covered include the service comedies Buck Privates, In the Navy , and Keep ''Em Flying ; more mainstream comic relief films such as Pardon My Sarong and Who Done It? ; and post-war experiments such as Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives . More than 120 stills and lobby cards from the author''s personal collection illustrate the text, including many showing outtakes or deleted scenes.

DKK 334.00

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Home Front Heroes - Elizabeth Abele - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured masculine figures who choose love and community over the path of the stoic loner committed solely to duty. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial boundaries. The author presents pieces of contemporary popular culture that create the complex mosaic of the present-day American heroic ideal. Hollywood popular films are examined that best represent the often painful shift from traditional heroic masculinity to a masculinity that is less "exceptional" and more vulnerable. There are also chapters on how issues of race and gender intersect with the new masculinity and on subgenres of 1990s films that also developed this postfeminist masculinity.

DKK 429.00

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Protecting the Home Front - Michael Scheibach - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated." Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as FCDA wardens, auxiliary police, nurses, home preparedness advisors, coordinators of mass feeding drills, rescue and emergency management personnel, and in various local, state, regional and national organizations. The author examines the diverse roles they filled to promote homeland protection and preparedness at a time when atomic war was an imminent threat.

DKK 429.00

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Hardball on the Home Front - Craig Allen Cleve - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country''s morale. More than 400 replacement players made their major league debuts between 1943 and 1945, among them Sal Maglie, Andy Pafko, Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial. The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented. He highlights nine players--Frank Mancuso, Ford Mullen, Ed Carnett, Lee Pfund, George Hausmann, Cy Buker, Bill Lefebvre, Eddie Basinski, and Nick Strincevich--who took the field while the major leaguers were fighting in the war. They share their memories of being called up to play in the majors, and their feelings about providing much needed and much wanted entertainment to thousands of Americans during the war years.

DKK 382.00

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Missed Signals on the Western Front - Mike Bullock - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Though the medium of wireless communication was in relative infancy during World War I, the technology could have made a profound impact on tactical operations and on the entire strategic conduct of the war. Providing details on how and why the technology did not fulfill its promise as a great military tool until years later, the book points primarily to the British Army's institutional bias against wireless communication as the technology's downfall, reinforced by the crude, unreliable wireless sets with which the army began the war. It also demonstrates how improved wireless communications between infantry, command, artillery and air observation could have improved the flexibility, accuracy and effectiveness of the British military strategy in the German Spring Offensive, the Hundred Days Counteroffensive and the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, and Cambrai.

DKK 429.00

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Weather Reports from the Autism Front - James C. Wilson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Based on detailed research and a lifetime of personal experience, James Wilson recounts his personal journey as the primary companion of his now twenty-six-year-old autistic son, Sam. This realistic, irreverent account of an autistic young man and his misadventures while transitioning to adulthood provides enlightening truths as well as sardonic humor. Formally seen as a neurological disorder, autism is increasingly being looked upon as simply a form of neurodiversity. Rejecting mainstream attitudes, Wilson explores this modern view of autism through his own experience as well as quotes from autistic people and bloggers, some of whom are the most vocal proponents of this viewpoint. A detailed bibliography accompanies this engaging memoir of a father and son''s experience negotiating the slippery slopes of normality.

DKK 240.00

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From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Stories from doctors, nurses, and therapists dealing on a daily basis with the opioid crisis in Appalachia should be heartbreaking. Yet those told here also inspire with practical advice on how to assist those in addiction, from a grass-roots to a policy level. Readers looking for ways to combat the crisis will find suggestions alongside laughter, tears, and sometimes rage. Each author brings the passion of their profession and the personal losses they have experienced from addiction, and posits solutions and harm reduction with positivity, grace, and even humor. Authors representing seven states from northern, Coalfields, and southern Appalachia relate personal encounters with patients or providers who changed them forever. This is a history document, showing how we got here; an evidenced indictment of current policies failing those who need them most; an affirmation that Appalachia solves its own problems; and a collection of suggestions for best practice moving forward.

DKK 429.00

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Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines - Dhaval R. Desai - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai''s life during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. Throughout, his commitment to fostering and advocating for caring and compassion in the practice of medicine shines as Desai shares his unique perspective.

DKK 320.00

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I Promise You I'll Be Home - Al Martinez - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As a 21-year-old Marine sent to the front lines of the Korean War, Al Martinez dispatched letters almost daily to his young bride, Joanne. In battle, he experienced the worst that war can bring, and then he served as a combat correspondent and as writer and editor of his regimental newsletter, the Ridgerunner . After the war, he entered a career in journalism, becoming a featured columnist for the Los Angeles Times where he would earn three shared Pulitzer Prizes. Written from the unique perspective of an obviously gifted, professional writer at the beginning of his career, his letters home capture his experiences eloquently and with depth of understanding as they express the dangers, hardships, fear, friendships, and even humor of life at the front. His vivid, often humorous pen-and-ink drawings portray scenes from the front lines.

DKK 325.00

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The Emperor and the Peasant - Kenneth Janda - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak''s story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.

DKK 429.00

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Evaluating Baseball's Managers - Chris Jaffe - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their performance and tendencies. Rather than focusing solely on in-game tactical decisions, it also analyzes broader, off-the-field management issues such as handling players, fans, and media, enforcing team rules, working with the front office, and balancing pressure versus performance.

DKK 429.00

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Eyewitnesses to the Great War - Libby Klekowski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beginning with the novelist Edith Wharton, who toured the front in her Mercedes in 1915, this book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists (and a few rogues) on the Western Front and concludes with the doughboys'' experiences under General Pershing. Americans were "over there" from the war''s beginning in August 1914, and because America was neutral until April 1917, they saw the war from both the French and German lines. Since most of the Americans who served, regardless of which side they were on, were in Champagne and Lorraine, this sector is the focus. Excerpts from memoirs are supplemented by descriptions of personalities, places, battles and even equipment and weapons, thus placing these generally forgotten American adventurers into the context of their times. A special set of maps based upon German Army battle maps was drawn and rare photographs supplement the text.

DKK 334.00

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Toy Cannon - Bill Mccurdy - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Despite the pressures of racism and a troubled personal life, Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn achieved remarkable success as a major league player. In a career that stretched from 1963 to 1977, he slugged 291 home runs, 223 of them in Houston ballparks (Colt Stadium, the Astrodome) notoriously unfriendly to power hitters. A strong-armed, speedy outfielder, Wynn was also adept at getting on base (seven times in the top 10 for on-base percentage) and then swiping a bag (225 career steals). This memoir recounts his triumphs and struggles in detail.

DKK 259.00

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C.M. Kornbluth - Mark Rich - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cyril Kornbluth is a legendary figure in science fiction. As a teenager in the years before World War II, he wrote prolifically and brilliantly under multiple pennames. After military service he developed a voice distinctive for its commanding intelligence, passion, and wit, displaying it in a string of novels and short stories including his award-winning "The Little Black Bag." His sudden death in 1958, at the early age of 35, marked the end of an era--it was a time when his chosen literary field was contemplating its potential demise. This comprehensive biography tells the story of this remarkable writer and his works for the first time.

DKK 588.00

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American Silent Film Comedies - Blair Miller - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Many movie genres developed during the silent era, but none was as lasting as comedies. Actors and actresses stood in front of crude, hand-cranked cameras and invented a style that made people laugh and forget their troubles. This is an encyclopedic work to persons, institutions and terms associated with silent film comedy. For people, there is a capsule biography and a summary of their contribution. For studios and companies, there is a brief history and for terms, a full definition is given.

DKK 429.00

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Glenn Killinger, All-American - Todd M. Mealy - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This first biography of W. Glenn Killinger highlights his tenure as a nine-time varsity letterman at Penn State, where he emerged as one of the best football, basketball and baseball players in the United States. Situating Killinger in his time and place, the author explores the ways in which home-front culture during World War I--focused on heroism, masculinity and sporting culture--created the demand for sports and sports icons and drove the ascent of college athletics in the first quarter of the 20th century.

DKK 334.00

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Vampire Films of the 1970s - Gary A. Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always a cinema staple--were no exception. Spurred by the worldwide success of Hammer Film''s Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969), vampire movies filled theaters for the next ten years--from the truly awful to bonafide classics. Audiences took the good with the bad and came back for more. Providing a critical review of the genre''s overlooked Golden Age, this book explores a mixed bag from around the world, including The Vampire Lovers (1970), Dracula Versus Frankenstein (1971), Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973), ''Salem''s Lot (1975), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Love at First Bite (1979) and many others.

DKK 334.00

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Doing My Bit Over There - David J. Bullis - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Motivated by patriotism, 21-year old Everard Bullis of St. Paul, Minnesota--the only boy of five siblings from a middle-class family--enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1917 and went to the Western Front. His clear-eyed memoir describes in detail the Fifth Marine Regiment''s desperate stand against repeated German assaults at Belleau Wood, along with actions at Soissons, St. Mihiel and Blanc Mont Ridge. Historical figures appear, including Captain Frank Whitehead, George W. Hamilton ("America''s Greatest World War I Hero") and General John J. Pershing.

DKK 288.00

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Charlie 2-1 Bravo - E.e. Summerfield - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

In 2012, Specialist Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. A Special Forces dropout, Summerfield was given a second chance at leadership as the head of an infantry team in one of the most IED-ridden areas in Afghanistan. With zero training and little intel, his squad navigated IED belts, leadership conflict and enemy ambushes. This book provides a thought-provoking and often humorous account of life on the front in a frontless war, all from the perspective of a low-ranking enlisted soldier.

DKK 359.00

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Attack of the Monster Movie Makers - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films. Merry Anders, Charles Bennett, Ben Chapman, Herman Cohen, Robert Day, Val Guest, Susan Hart, Candace Hilligoss, Rose Hobart, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jacques Marquette, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Nelson, William Phipps, Vincent Price, Ann Robinson, Herbert Rudley, Harry Spalding, Kenneth Tobey, and Lupita Tovar reflect on their work in such movies as Berserk, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Cat-Women of the Moon and many others.

DKK 259.00

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From Vietnam to the Arctic Circle - Jack Whitehouse - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As a U.S. Navy officer, Jack Whitehouse served aboard a World War II-era destroyer at the peak of the Vietnam War, ran special operations on a patrol gunboat out of Guantanamo Bay following the Cuban Missile Crisis and deployed with the Royal Norwegian Navy to counter Soviet threats north of the Arctic Circle. His detailed memoir recounts American efforts to win the Cold War from the perspective of a young lieutenant on the front lines 1964-1975 and the personal struggles and perseverance of sailors fighting an existential enemy at sea.

DKK 334.00

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Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 - Libby Klekowski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Running Wire at the Front Lines - Louis J. Lauria - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864 - Jay W. Simson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Easing Pain on the Western Front - Paul E. Stepansky - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front - Scott Allen Nollen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Home Front Heroes - Elizabeth Abele - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Protecting the Home Front - Michael Scheibach - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Hardball on the Home Front - Craig Allen Cleve - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Missed Signals on the Western Front - Mike Bullock - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Weather Reports from the Autism Front - James C. Wilson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines - Dhaval R. Desai - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

I Promise You I'll Be Home - Al Martinez - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Emperor and the Peasant - Kenneth Janda - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Evaluating Baseball's Managers - Chris Jaffe - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Eyewitnesses to the Great War - Libby Klekowski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Toy Cannon - Bill Mccurdy - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

C.M. Kornbluth - Mark Rich - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American Silent Film Comedies - Blair Miller - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Glenn Killinger, All-American - Todd M. Mealy - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Vampire Films of the 1970s - Gary A. Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Doing My Bit Over There - David J. Bullis - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Charlie 2-1 Bravo - E.e. Summerfield - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Attack of the Monster Movie Makers - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

From Vietnam to the Arctic Circle - Jack Whitehouse - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

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