From the Ashes of 1947

From the Ashes of 1947
Author: Pippa Virdee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108428118

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Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.

Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds
Author: Jerzy Andrzejewski
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810115194

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Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.

Land of Snow and Ashes

Land of Snow and Ashes
Author: Petra Rautiainen
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782277374

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The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.

Ashes of Heaven

Ashes of Heaven
Author: Terry C. Johnston
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466843225

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Ashes of Heaven Terry C. Johnston The U.S. Army's goal: to wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier's Northern Plain. But before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched his spring campaign into the heart of Indian country, the commander took one last stab at negotiations—and called on a Cheyenne woman and the famous half-breed pony scout named Johnny Bruguier. Together, they traveled to the valley of the upper Rosebud River to urge the Sioux to surrender. But a personal grudge exploded in the ranks of the U.S. Army. Now, as a man and a woman risk their lives for peace, the culmination of the great Sioux War is set in motion, and the Bear Coat takes on the last of the fierce Lakota warriors...

Risen from the Ashes

Risen from the Ashes
Author: Hans Cohn
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780761832836

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Risen from the Ashes is one man's memoir of hope and survival during the Holocaust. Having cheated death four times through perseverance, hope, faith, and humor, Hans Cohn vividly narrates his experience from the horrors of the past to spiritual renewal.

Ashes of Izalco

Ashes of Izalco
Author: Claribel Alegra
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781508569121

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A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.

Earth Abides

Earth Abides
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1993-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0899683703

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Rising From the Ashes of Bengal's Partition: Untold Story of a 'Phoenix' Aspiring to Live a New Life

Rising From the Ashes of Bengal's Partition: Untold Story of a 'Phoenix' Aspiring to Live a New Life
Author: Jiban Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781645871668

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Usually books on partition are sob stories, but not this one. 'Rising from the Ashes of Bengal's Partition' is an untold story of the journey of a child born around the time of partition, who battled many hurdles and aspired to lead a new life - like a Phoenix. This is a story of his - and his generation's - unflinching determination to move ahead. This is the story of the real people who did not curse their fate and sit idle shedding tears. It covers a child's - and his generations - torturous journey from refugee camps and colonies to the world above the sky. The story covers a span of seven decades of time and space - people and events, politics and economics, corporates and their leaders and above all the kaleidoscopic panorama across the journey through Bengal and India. The book opens up several untraveled terrains - personal experiences, a person's struggle, sufferings, tears, joys and smiles. It documents people's perception about critical contemporary events, which conventional history does not cover. The author writes from the ringside, for example on how it was to work for the most reputed corporate of the country and, what happened in the business and economy when the 'Tiger' was 'Uncaged.' Sure, readers would like to run through the author's experiences. The author has poured his heart and soul out into writing this story.

Among the Ashes

Among the Ashes
Author: William J. Abraham
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2017
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0802875289

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How can we hold fast to the hope of life eternal when we lose someone we love? In this book William Abraham reflects on the nature of certainty and the logic of hope in the context of an experience of devastating grief. Abraham opens with a stark account of the effects of grief in his own life after the unexpected death of his oldest son. Drawing on the book of Job, Abraham then looks at the significance of grief in debates about the problem of evil. He probes what Christianity teaches about life after death and ultimately relates our experiences of grief to the death of Christ. Profound and beautiful, Among the Ashes tackles the philosophical and theological questions surrounding loss even as it honors the experience of grief.

Bar Harbor's Gilded Century

Bar Harbor's Gilded Century
Author: Lydia Vandenberg
Publisher: Down East Books
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0892728892

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Maine's premier tourist destination, Bar Harbor has many historic buildings. The area was once a shipbuilding and farming hamlet that became a Gilded Age resort of the highest order-until a fire in 1947 destroyed many of its buildings. This pictorial history takes Bar Harbor from its origins to the fire. It also offers intriguing curiosities, including insights on the upstairs-downstairs aspects of resort life. The book's captions are packed with fascinating information.