G eBooks
eBooks di Titolo G editi da Arcadia Press di Formato Pdf
Guerrilla WifeA World War II Memoir of Love and Survival in the Philippines. E-book. Formato PDF Louise Reid Spencer - Arcadia Press, 2026 -
A gripping World War II memoir of survival, courage, and love in the occupied Philippines.In December 1941, Louise Reid Spencer was living in the Philippines with her husband, Spence, when the news arrived: Pearl Harbor had been bombed. At first, war seemed distant, almost impossible to believe. But within weeks, the life she had known was gone.As Japanese forces advanced, Louise was forced into a world of evacuation, secrecy, hunger, fear, and constant uncertainty. Along with other civilians, missionaries, families, and refugees, she took shelter in the hills, waiting for news, watching for danger, and trying to hold on to courage while the future became more uncertain every day.Guerrilla Wife is Louise Reid Spencer’s unforgettable firsthand account of life in the Philippines during World War II. Told with clarity, warmth, and quiet strength, it captures not only the danger of occupation and guerrilla resistance, but also the intimate realities of wartime survival: the longing for a husband at risk, the strain of hiding, the fragility of hope, and the stubborn will to endure.For readers interested in World War II memoirs, the Pacific War, women’s eyewitness accounts, and true stories of survival, Guerrilla Wife offers a rare and deeply moving perspective from inside a world torn apart by invasion.A vivid, personal, and historically valuable memoir of love and survival in wartime Philippines.
General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee. E-book. Formato PDF Fitzhugh Lee - Arcadia Press, 2017 -
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. A son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Fitzhugh Lee (1835 - 1905) was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish–American War. He was the son of Sydney Smith Lee, a captain in the Confederate States Navy, and the nephew of General Robert E. Lee.
George WashingtonA Life. E-book. Formato PDF Woodrow Wilson - Arcadia Press, 2017 -
"George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twenty-eighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes us on a journey from a look at Washington's times to his Virginia breeding to his life in colonial America. Wilson looks at how these factors shaped the man who would lead the nation in its fight for independence and into its first years as a new nation. This is an insightful look into our nation's early history by a man who would play a key part in it more than one hundred years later.