Warrior Priest

Warrior Priest

Warrior Priest

Mike Johnson

23,19 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
AuthorHouse
Año de edición:
2005
Materia
Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781420889482
23,19 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

World War II is a story told most often through the eyes of national leaders, generals and, occasionally, infantrymen. Warrior Priest underscores why that cauldron continues to stir imaginations and curiosity by conveying the war’s global impact in ways rarely told. Here are woven together memorably the lives of a young priest turned airborne chaplain, a Cracow student turned Polish lancer, an aircraft carrier fireman, two young women partisans in Warsaw and a French village, and a small town girl who follows a volunteer flyer to England where she first treats the wounded in a London hospital and then joins the U.S. Army nurse corps. Meticulously researched, Warrior Priest’s characters interact with real-life people in historically authentic locales and situations and in an accurate chronology from 1939 through 1946. From a quiet, small town in 1930s Ohio to a Vatican-run seminary. From a Polish lancer charging German invaders to a U.S. airborne chaplain jumping into the night. From a London hospital during the Blitz to a church basement in battered Warsaw. From the harrowing streets of the ghetto to heroic river crossings. From the heaving deck of an imperiled aircraft carrier to a memorable walk down a church aisle. From invasion beaches to evacuation hospital tents. From an occupied French village to the Nazis’ only death camp in France. Warrior Priest pulls the reader into and through the cauldron of World War II by weaving together the lives of everyday people in unforgettable ways.

Artículos relacionados

  • Heart of Darkness
    Joseph Conrad
    Although Polish, Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best.  As a reader we are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’ ...
    Disponible

    6,42 €

  • To Gain What’s Lost
    AnneMarie Brear
    She thinks her life has changed for the better, her dark secrets hidden, but little does she know… The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Yorkshire, England in 1864, Anna Thornton leads a privileged life. But she is not content. She wants her life to mean something and longs to be accepted for the free-thinking, independent woman she is. When the dashing, adventurer Matt Cowan ...
    Disponible

    13,72 €

  • Hannah
    E. Ruth Harder / ERuth Harder
    More than 2000 years ago, the world was a very different place. Into that world was born a very unique girl-Hannah. An orphan, she is, never the less, intelligent, ambitious and fiercely independent. Hannah’s bond with her first true friend, Mary, leads her into a life where she becomes a singular woman who is true to her soul, and strong in her faith in God. Against all rules ...
    Disponible

    12,57 €

  • Beyond Derrynane
    Kevin O'Connell
    Wed in an arranged marriage to a man nearly fifty years her senior, sixteen-year-old Eileen O'Connell goes from being one of five unmarried sisters to become the mistress of Ballyhar, the great estate of John O'Connor, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Ireland. When O'Connor dies suddenly seven months into their marriage, Eileen must decide whether ...
    Disponible

    13,40 €

  • Melting the Blues
    Tracy Chiles McGhee
    Winner of the 2016 Fauset Book Award in the Category of First FictionSet in Arkansas in 1957,  the complexities of identity, yearnings for love and acceptance, and racial tension are all unmasked in the riveting literary drama, Melting the Blues, by debut author Tracy Chiles McGhee. Augustus Lee Rivers, a farmer and bluesman, has two obsessions:  his relationship with the Dunca...
    Disponible

    17,93 €

  • Daughter of Destiny
    Nicole Evelina
    Before queenship and Camelot, Guinevere was a priestess of Avalon. She loved another before Arthur, a warrior who would one day betray her.In the war-torn world of late fifth century Britain, young Guinevere faces a choice: stay with her family to defend her home at Northgallis from the Irish, or go to Avalon to seek help for the horrific visions that haunt her. The Sight calls...
    Disponible

    13,94 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Speechless
    Mike Johnson
    There came a time when Michael Paewai Meer lost the power of speech. Was he struck dumb by eternity or did he abandon words?  This lyrical novel traces Michael’s relationship with language from the arrival of the mysterious Word Bringer when he was a child, through the intoxication of words and passion, a reunion with his childhood sweetheart, to his final incorrigible silence....
    Disponible

    23,69 €

  • Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour
    Mike Johnson
    In 1988 Bob Dylan left behind the bands he’d been playing with, Tom Petty and The Grateful Dead, and launched his own four-piece band, beginning a remarkable musical odyssey known as the Never Ending Tour that would last thirty-one years, only coming to an end when covid closed the venues at the end of 2019.In this first volume, Mike Johnson picks up the story the year before t...
    Disponible

    33,72 €

  • Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour
    Mike Johnson
    Mike Johnson completes his massive study of Dylan’s Never Ending Tour, tracking Dylan’s remarkable renaissance from 2012 to 2019, the influence of Frank Sinatra on Dylan’s seemingly miraculously recovered voice. He further chronicles how Dylan transforms and reworks his material. Once again Johnson highlights Dylan’s finest performances. ...
    Disponible

    34,88 €

  • Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour
    Mike Johnson
    Mike Johnson picks up the story of The Never Ending Tour from Volume 1 with a detailed account of the two peak performance years, 2000 - 2001, and follows Dylan through the most dramatic shift of his career when, in 2002, he largely abandons his guitar and moves to the keyboards.Johnson then dives right into the most problematic years of the NET, 2006 - 2009, when Dylan’s weird...
    Disponible

    35,28 €

  • Love in the Age of Unreason
    Mike Johnson
    Anything can happen and regularly does in the wide-angled lens of these spinning lines. The world passes through in its carnival masks. Despair and joy gyrate through ribbons of asphalt memories of glass divisions of mind. These poems give off brightly coloured sparks as they probe the fate of love in an age of unreason. ...
    Disponible

    20,40 €

  • Inspirational Football Stories for Young Readers
    Mike Johnson
    Can the game of football change the world? Absolutely!In 'Inspirational Football Stories for Young Readers', you’ll discover 12 unbelievable true tales that prove football’s power goes far beyond the field. From legendary players like Pelé and Lionel Messi to incredible team triumphs that lifted entire nations, these stories are perfect for young football lovers who are looking...
    Disponible

    13,76 €