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Alex Kershaw
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NAVAJO CODE TALKER
ONE OF THE LAST FOUR LIVING NAVAJO CODE-TALKERS, THOMAS BEGAY, REMEMBERS
Thomas Begay was playing football in a gravel pit near his school in New Mexico when someone announced the Pearl Harbor attack by saying, “The Japanese are coming over, and they are going to kill all of us.”
I said: ‘Oh gosh! I don’t want to die.’” Begay, of Window Rock, Arizona, now in his late 90s, is one of only four men st Read more of this blog post »
Thomas Begay was playing football in a gravel pit near his school in New Mexico when someone announced the Pearl Harbor attack by saying, “The Japanese are coming over, and they are going to kill all of us.”
I said: ‘Oh gosh! I don’t want to die.’” Begay, of Window Rock, Arizona, now in his late 90s, is one of only four men st Read more of this blog post »
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“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, what you do—is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way. —HERACLITUS”
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
“Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." — Booklist”
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
“Bavaria, May 8, 1945.
While civilians embraced...and took to the streets around the globe...many infantrymen in Europe, brutalized and broken, sat alone with their grief or paced their rest areas in mournful silence. "There is V-E Day without, but no peace within," wrote the war's most decorated infantryman, Audie Murphy..."People were damaged," remembered Thunderbird Guy Prestia. "It was like we'd been in a car crash. There was trauma. It takes a while to get over that."..."There was great relief," recalled [Lieutenant Colonel Felix] Sparks, "but no celebrations."....It was hard to believe, hard to accept that the killing and dying were finally over. There would be no more Anzios, Salernos, or Reipertswillers. Finally, after the death of 135,576 young Americans, Europe was free.”
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
While civilians embraced...and took to the streets around the globe...many infantrymen in Europe, brutalized and broken, sat alone with their grief or paced their rest areas in mournful silence. "There is V-E Day without, but no peace within," wrote the war's most decorated infantryman, Audie Murphy..."People were damaged," remembered Thunderbird Guy Prestia. "It was like we'd been in a car crash. There was trauma. It takes a while to get over that."..."There was great relief," recalled [Lieutenant Colonel Felix] Sparks, "but no celebrations."....It was hard to believe, hard to accept that the killing and dying were finally over. There would be no more Anzios, Salernos, or Reipertswillers. Finally, after the death of 135,576 young Americans, Europe was free.”
― The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
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“Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." — Booklist”
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
― The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
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“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
― Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
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Jenean wrote: "Mr. Kershaw, I first read your book "Escape from the Deep" several years ago and then re-read it this fall after visiting the exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Since then I've bee..."d day again!!!!
Mr. Kershaw, I first read your book "Escape from the Deep" several years ago and then re-read it this fall after visiting the exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Since then I've been working my way through the rest of your titles - I read "Avenue of Spies" in two days last week and am a few chapters into "The Bedford Boys" now. I really enjoy all of them, especially how you make the men (and women) you write about seem so "real" - the personal details are terrific. I'd love to know what you're working on now! ~ Jenean
A woman in Berlin. And. The final enemy by Richard Hillary and all of Cornelius Ryan and Paul brickhill!
Mr. Kershaw, it seems that every book I pick up about the World Wars have only one or two stars from you. Other than your books, are there any authors I should read? I'm specifically talking about Human Smoke and Keegan's The First World War.As I reviewed here, I loved Avenue of Spies.
Thanks for accepting my friend request.
Happy New Year.
Cynthia Dunn
Thanks for the friend request, and congratulations on your book "the Liberator"
I am curious? Saw the television show "The Americans" the other night for the first time. I barely watch TV. I fancy I want to write a book about the "Cold War" myself and thereby I've read a lot of the recently published materials over the last fifteen years or so on it. Why hasn't recent scholarship on the "Cold War" penetrated the mainstream consciousness? Thoughts, observations, anything?
