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On Saint Patrick's Day 2016, Jim Farrell received a surprising email: an M-1 rifle engraved with the name M. Teahanhad been discovered in Normandy 72 years after its owner, Martin (Matty) Teahan, Jim's uncle, had been killed in the June 1944 D-Day invasion of France. A young private in the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Matty had been laid to rest beside his fellow heroes in the Normandy American Cemetery, but now French Army General Patri...

Excerpt from My Baseball Diary: A Famed American Author Recalls the Wonderful World of Baseball, Yesterday and TodayIn 1912, my Uncle Tom bought me a blue baseball suit. I liked it that the suit was blue. During those days, the White Sox wore blue suits on the road. Father Dondaville arranged to take a picture Of me in my suit, which he did in front of the parish house on Grand Boulevard. He had me squat like a catcher, with my hat turned arou...

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Excerpt from An Omnibus of Short Stories ON A sunny Monday morning Tom Lambert reported for work at the studios of Grandiose Films, Inc. He went to the office of Sidney Klem, producer, and introduced himself to the secretary, Miss Kennedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten B...

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From meeting Charles Lindbergh at Pan Am back in the '60s up till the megamerger of United Airlines with Continental Airlines in the mid-2000s, Jim has seen the rapid growth of the airline industry firsthand. From the jet era inception with the Boeing 707, to the historic introduction of the 747, which he witnessed himself, right up to the 787 introduced by United, he has been on a wild roller coaster ride that took him from Pan Am to Eastern ...

The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. After establishing its origins in the Catholic Worker movement, the Beat generation, the civil rights mo...

Theo Farrell is Professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London.Frans Osinga is an Air Commodore in the Royal Netherlands Air Force and a Professor at the Royal Netherlands Defence Academy.James Russell is an Associate Professor at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey.

Theo Farrell is Professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London.Frans Osinga is an Air Commodore in the Royal Netherlands Air Force and a Professor at the Royal Netherlands Defence Academy.James Russell is an Associate Professor at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey.

Whether you're an outsider, marine deserter, dope smoker, policeman, musician or part of the Irish Government, Ireland refuses to let you live a simple life. In five short stories James Farrell takes us, with some very interesting characters, on a tour of Ireland through the decades, through town, city and village, through peace and conflict, personal and global turmoil, the humorous and the heartbreaking, All OUR TROUBLES follows the ordinary...

bTitle:/b Historical notes and stories of the County Longford. (First edition.).br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections inclu...

Singapur 1937. Walter Blackett, Direktor eines britischen Kautschukunternehmens, weiß sich von der bewährten Ordnung britischer Kolonialherrschaft getragen, als er die Feierlichkeiten zum hundertjährigen Jubiläum seiner Firma ausrichtet. Noch ist die Welt, zumindest für die Engländer, in Ordnung, haben die Da Dousa Sisters ihre Gesangsauftritte, ist der zerzauste Hund La Condition humaine nur halbtot und gibt es standesgemäße Paraden und Feste...

A sprawling tale of immigrant families' struggles with harsh urban realities

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

Loved and hated, visited and avoided, seemingly everywhere yet endlessly the same, malls occupy a special place in American life. What, then, is this invention that evokes such strong and contradictory emotions in Americans? In many ways malls represent the apotheosis of American consumerism, and this synthetic and wide-ranging investigation is an eye-popping tour of American culture's values and beliefs. Like your favorite mall, One Nation un...

Indien 1857: George Fleury, ein junger Angehöriger der britischenOberschicht, reist zu dem isolierten britischen AußenpostenKrishnapur. Von dort soll er über den positiven Einfluss vonZivilisation und Fortschritt auf das rückständige Indien berichten.Gerüchte von Unruhen und Aufständen erreichen die Stadt, dasLand ist in Aufruhr, doch die Vertreter der Britischen Ostindien-Kompanie halten Tea Time, fest überzeugt von ihrer militärischenund mor...

A sprawling tale of two families' struggles with harsh urban realities The first book in Farrell's five-volume series to be republished by the University of Illinois Press, "A World I Never Made" introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain...

A sprawling tale of two families' struggles with harsh urban realities The first book in Farrell's five-volume series to be republished by the University of Illinois Press, "A World I Never Made" introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain ...

The second novel in Farrell's pentalogy picks up where "A World I Never Made" left off in the ongoing saga of the O'Neill and O'Flaherty families. Continuing on the theme of poverty's effect on children, we return to scenes of Danny O'Neill's life in Chicago, where the schism between his life in public and his private experiences at home begins to create in him a tension and bewilderment suggestive of the problems he will face in his future.