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This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside - and how it affected social life during the war years.

This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside ¿ and how it affected social life during the war years.

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On January 19, 1829, Presidentelect Andrew Jackson began his threeweek journey from his home at the Hermitage near Nashville, Tennessee, to the nation's capital at Washington City to assume his new role as the seventh president of the United States. What was to be acelebratory trip, greeting wellwishers along the way, was instead a sad time for Jackson, whose wife, Rachel, had died just weeks earlier and was buried on Christmas Eve, 1828. Bitt...

This is the shocking but true story of Joseph Gavi, a small Jewish boy growing up in Minsk, Belorussia, during the German invasion of WWII. Relive unspeakable horrors surrounding Joseph's struggle to simply survive - then to overcome - his brutal oppressors through covert action with the Freedom Fighters. Follow as he rescues more than 200 of his people from the imprisoning ghetto while constantly evading death by execution. Read in Joseph's o...

On to Freedom! Author Carlton Jackson has done it again! This time with Freedom's Way, weaving a compelling tale in an epic novel showing the extraordinary efforts to which freedom-loving people will go for their dream of Liberty. In this book, two pre-Civil War era slaves, Ellen and William Craft of Georgia, devise a brave and cunning plan of escape from their life of bondage that is full of intrigue and peril at every turn of this amazing jo...

Mose Rager: Kentucky's Incomparable Guitar Master is the story of this true Kentucky music legend who preferred living the quiet life to the fame he could have earned playing the country music circuit. There are many country guitar legends, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Eddie Pennington, to name a few, who trace the roots of their music to Mose Rager of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (home of the Everly Brothers). Known for developing a unique t...

Colonel George M. Chinn's (1902-1987) life story reads more like fiction than the biography of a Kentucky soldier. In Kentucky Maverick , Carlton Jackson details the life of a legendary and highly decorated Marine whose career spanned both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam.

Their story recalls the nature of celebrity and youth in the early days of rock 'n' roll.

The bus system that came to be known as the Greyhound Bus Company was founded by Carl Eric Wickman, an enterprising Swede of Hibbing, Minnesota. The first bus was a seven-passenger Hupmobile touring car that was used to transport miners across the Mesaba Iron Range to and from work. Wickman was soon joined by another Swede, Andrew Anderson, and they began operating in earnest the route from a saloon in Hibbing to the fire-hall in Alice. From t...

The evacuation of British children before and during World War II transformed the country forever and vastly altered the lives of thousands of English children and their families. The government geared up as early as 1938 for the war it strongly suspected was ahead, organizing the monumental task of sending more than four million people-mostly children-first to the relative "safety" of the British countryside and then to Canada, Australia, New...

Jackson traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies.

Hattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of her life and career, Carlton Jackson tells the inside story of her working relationships, her personal life, and the many obstacles she faced as a black performer in the white world of show business during the first half of the twentieth century.

Martin Ritt has been hailed as the United States's greatest maker of social films. From "No Down Payment" early in his career to "Stanley and Iris, " his last production, he delineated the nuances of American society. In between were other social statements such as "Hud, " "Sounder, " "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, " "Norma Rae, " and "The Great White Hope,