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قصة جندي أميركي من الشمال (يانكي) وصبي من الجنوب
94 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1960
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Peter D. Burchard
36 books2 followersPeter Burchard was the author of 26 books, nonfiction and fiction, adult and juvenile and the illustrator of more than 100 books.
His biography "One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment" (1965), became the main source of historical material for "Glory," the Academy Award-winning film featuring Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick, who portrayed Col. Shaw, commander of the first black regiment in the Civil War.
His first published illustrations appeared in Yank, a magazine published by the Army, in which he served as a signal operator during World War II on troop ships between the United States and France, Egypt and the North Atlantic. He began illustrating books in 1947, the year of his graduation from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art.
Beginning with "The River Queen" (Coward McCann, 1957), a riverboat story, Burchard wrote several self-illustrated books for children. His short novel, "Jed" (1960), the story of a friendship between a 16-year-old Yankee soldier and a Southern boy, had 14 printings in the United States and was published in several languages, including Arabic.
He received a Christopher Award for the humanitarian value of his illustrations for Bulla's "Pocahontas and the Strangers." In 1966, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Shaw biography.
Other subjects of his books are sailing, the history of flight, World War II and New York City during the Boss Tweed era. His most recent book was "Frederick Douglass: For the Great Family of Man" (Simon and Schuster, 2003), a Parents' Choice honor book.
He was a member of the international PEN Club and, up to the time of his death, served on the panel of advisers for the George Polk Awards. His final work, a fictionalized autobiographical story of a young serviceman's first love affair in New York City, is "Paper Shoes."
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His biography "One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment" (1965), became the main source of historical material for "Glory," the Academy Award-winning film featuring Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick, who portrayed Col. Shaw, commander of the first black regiment in the Civil War.
His first published illustrations appeared in Yank, a magazine published by the Army, in which he served as a signal operator during World War II on troop ships between the United States and France, Egypt and the North Atlantic. He began illustrating books in 1947, the year of his graduation from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art.
Beginning with "The River Queen" (Coward McCann, 1957), a riverboat story, Burchard wrote several self-illustrated books for children. His short novel, "Jed" (1960), the story of a friendship between a 16-year-old Yankee soldier and a Southern boy, had 14 printings in the United States and was published in several languages, including Arabic.
He received a Christopher Award for the humanitarian value of his illustrations for Bulla's "Pocahontas and the Strangers." In 1966, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Shaw biography.
Other subjects of his books are sailing, the history of flight, World War II and New York City during the Boss Tweed era. His most recent book was "Frederick Douglass: For the Great Family of Man" (Simon and Schuster, 2003), a Parents' Choice honor book.
He was a member of the international PEN Club and, up to the time of his death, served on the panel of advisers for the George Polk Awards. His final work, a fictionalized autobiographical story of a young serviceman's first love affair in New York City, is "Paper Shoes."
http://www.iberkshires.com/story/1481...
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October 17, 2019
Jed is a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He lied about his age in order to be allowed to join and he is now far from his home in Wisconsin and sixteen years old. He is a veteran of the battle of Shiloh Creek and his unit is now in Mississippi and it is the fall of 1862. As experiencing the death and destruction of a battle will do to a person, “all the glitter and promise had gone out of soldiering.”
Yet, there is still a spark of idealism in Jed and it is rekindled when he encounters a local boy that has wandered away from home and has broken his leg. Even though the boy is hostile to the Yankee soldier Jed, he takes pity on the boy and moves him to the surgeon for his unit. The bone is set and bound in place. The boy wants to return home so the surgeon loans Jed his horse for the return trip, as the boy cannot walk.
The Union Army often ran low on supplies, so they made do by living off the land. Which meant that they often simply took livestock and foodstuffs from the local farms at gunpoint, leaving the people to starve. Jed was a participant in one such raid and it greatly disturbed him, he vowed to never go on such missions again unless he was ordered.
With the help of some of the kindly men in his unit, Jed is able to successfully return the boy to his mother and then thwart an attempt to pillage their farm without being disloyal to the Union cause. This is a good story about a boy/man that keeps his ethical and moral principles while others have the heat of battle destroy theirs.
Yet, there is still a spark of idealism in Jed and it is rekindled when he encounters a local boy that has wandered away from home and has broken his leg. Even though the boy is hostile to the Yankee soldier Jed, he takes pity on the boy and moves him to the surgeon for his unit. The bone is set and bound in place. The boy wants to return home so the surgeon loans Jed his horse for the return trip, as the boy cannot walk.
The Union Army often ran low on supplies, so they made do by living off the land. Which meant that they often simply took livestock and foodstuffs from the local farms at gunpoint, leaving the people to starve. Jed was a participant in one such raid and it greatly disturbed him, he vowed to never go on such missions again unless he was ordered.
With the help of some of the kindly men in his unit, Jed is able to successfully return the boy to his mother and then thwart an attempt to pillage their farm without being disloyal to the Union cause. This is a good story about a boy/man that keeps his ethical and moral principles while others have the heat of battle destroy theirs.
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