A Combat Infantryman’s Story of his World War II experiences – mainly in “A” Company, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. If the battle was to be won, it was finally up to the infantry to do the job. Here is the story of one such infantryman, William F. McMurdie. From induction until discharge: in training, in combat, and as an occupation soldier. It includes the Battle of the Bulge, the advance to the Rhine, the Remagen Bridgehead, and more.
Picturing life in pre-World War II in the Philippines, the author introduces the reader to her beloved Islands and to life in a rural mission station in the 1930s. Wrenched from her tranquil home when Japanese soldiers invaded her hometown just four days after Pearl Harbor, she and her brother David and her sister Ruth are sent to join other mission families hiding in the hill country. Dad and Mother stay behind with the mission’s hospital patients. Jean was thrust abruptly from a carefree childhood into the realities of war – a daybreak escape to the hills, months of hiding, a daybreak capture by the Japanese, years of internment and humiliation, privation, and the thrilling rescue at dawn. Move with her from Santo Tomas to Los Baiso, to eventual freedom.
Young Theras, born an Athenian, is taken to Sparta by a relative when his father is lost at war. He is forced to live like a Spartan, a brutal life with no pity for those who are not physically perfect and totally obedient to Spartan control. After enduring rigorous training and repeated cruel incidents, he escapes with a Perioikoi boy and heads for his beloved Athens. Here is the story of a hard and dangerous journey, including an escape from slavers.
Here is a touching story of a young Roman boy, Flavius, and his developing compassion for his captured Greek Slave, Ariphron. Ariphron was given to Flavius by his father, General Lucius Mummius, at the time of Mummius’ public Triumph for his victories in Greece and Corinth. You will learn a great deal about Roman Culture by observing Flavius’ relationship with his family among the sights and sounds of Rome. Drama, personal development, tragedy, hope, compassion, triumph – this story has it all…
The White Isle is Britain – a barbaric land to the Claudian family exiled from Hadrian’s Rome, but an island of strange enhancement and stirring adventures to Lavinia, their daughter. Because Favonius, Lavinia’s father, had been too much in sympathy with the old Republic and had protested when the Emperor proposed to take the street Favonius’ house was on to expand his palace, Favonius incurred the Emperor’s disfavor and was suddenly appointed “legatus” too far away Britain. After sad farewells and an abrupt cancellation of Lavinia’s wedding, the whole family began their long journey along the Roman roads, through Gaul, across the channel to the white cliffs of the British coast. The contrast between the cultures of the early British Christians and the pagan Roman aristocracy and Lavinia’s conversion to Christianity makes a dramatic setting for the novel.
Here is a gentle story, motivated by sibling love and ending happily, that explores the culture of pagan Athenian society in the time of Euripides. Lysis and his sister Callisto go to the play during the festivals of Dionysus, breaking many of the societal restrictions on the roles of boys and girls, children and adults. The roles of men and women, free men of other city-states, Athenian citizens, and slaves come into focus. The pantheon of Greek gods, goddesses, and heroes is seen from the eyes of these children.
In 1961, Olivia Coolidge wrote this account, both factual and fictional, of the Gallic War of 58 to 51 B.C., narrated by the fictional soldier in Caesar’s army, which provides a more vivid and readable companion to Caesar’s “Commentaries on the Gallic War.” For more than 50 years, this book has been one of the finest introductions to Caesar, Roman civilization, and the Gallic War available to children.
Olivia Coolidge provides us with a panoramic view of Roman history through biographies of twelve of the most powerful, brilliant, influential, and well-placed men spanning 450 years of the Roman Empire: Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Nero, Seneca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian, and Constantine. Her methodology is similar to that of Plutarch’s Lives but is focused across a wider range of history with a better perspective of the ultimate impact their experiences will prove to have on the ascension and endurance of the Empire.
Selections from the Histories written by the great Herodotus, as chosen by Headmaster John S. White, for the purpose of introducing boys and girls to the works of this famous historian storyteller and his account of the Greco-Persian Wars in 446 BC.
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