by Jennifer Rosner “You’re going to Poland in December?” My family and friends asked. “Yes!” I answered, adding yet another thick pair of socks to my pack.
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Recreating WWII Poland: A Novelist’s Trip Back in Time
Tagged with: Jennifer Rosner, Poland, The Yellow Bird Sings, WWII
Posted in Historical Fiction, World History
Posted in Historical Fiction, World History
Ship of Death: “We Must Go At Any Cost”
by Catharine Arnold Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses the dark, cramped, and overall ‘hellish’ conditions as the Spanish flu wreaked havoc on the ship.
Tagged with: Catharine Arnold, Pandemic 1918, Ship of Death Series, Spanish Flu, USS Leviathan
Posted in World History
by Catharine Arnold Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses the dark, cramped, and overall ‘hellish’ conditions as the Spanish flu wreaked havoc on the ship.
Posted in World History
Ship of Death: The Tragic Tale of the USS Leviathan
by Catharine Arnold In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic killed an estimated 100 million people worldwide. By 1919, Spanish flu was responsible for the deaths of 500,000 people in the United States,…
Tagged with: Catharine Arnold, Pandemic 1918, Ship of Death Series, Spanish Flu
Posted in World History
by Catharine Arnold In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic killed an estimated 100 million people worldwide. By 1919, Spanish flu was responsible for the deaths of 500,000 people in the United States,…
Posted in World History
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: An Indicator of Things to Come?
by Philip Jett It was 1918 and there was a killer on the loose. Worse than any serial predator in modern history, its deadly grasp was swift, its hold resolute, and its thirst for killing unquenchable. No one was safe.…
by Philip Jett It was 1918 and there was a killer on the loose. Worse than any serial predator in modern history, its deadly grasp was swift, its hold resolute, and its thirst for killing unquenchable. No one was safe.…
Voyage of Mercy: “The Distress is Universal”
by Stephen Puleo Ireland, 1846. Father Theobald Mathew implores assistant secretary at the British Treasury, Charles Trevelyan, to provide aid to Ireland as the potato blight ruins crops across the country. Read on for an excerpt from Voyage of Mercy.
by Stephen Puleo Ireland, 1846. Father Theobald Mathew implores assistant secretary at the British Treasury, Charles Trevelyan, to provide aid to Ireland as the potato blight ruins crops across the country. Read on for an excerpt from Voyage of Mercy.
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