As the 50th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki draw near, the debate over their propriety intensifies. Some argue that Japan was already defeated--that the bombings, especially of Nagasaki, were not necessary. This book profiles the two cities and their people, before and after those fateful days. 400 photos.

Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (World War II Commenorative Series)

History

Goldstein, Donald

Dillon, Katherine and Wenger, J. Michael

Military

Brassey's, 1995

When the 206th Coast Artillery Regiment of the Arkansas National Guard was called into federal service in January of 1941, few of the soldiers saw this action as anything more than a temporary detour in their lives. The war, after all, was in Europe and Asia and did not seem to involve them; many of the men thought they would serve their one-year enlistment and go home. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed all that.
The Williwaw War highlights the event sthat shaped the service of Arkansas’s 206th in the Aleutian Islands, including the Japanese strikes on Dutch Harbor on the third and fourth of June 1942, as well as the naval battle of the Komandorski Islands and the recapture of Attu and Kiska.
Written by the noted co-authors of the best-welling books on World War II, The Williwaw War chronicles the efforts of the men of the 206th as they battled terrible weather, overwhelming boredome and deprivation, and the Japanese, who were succesfully attempting to distract the Americans from the main Japanese assault on Midway Island.

The Williwaw War: The Arkansas National Guard in the Aleutians in World War II

Dillon, Katherine V.

Americas

University of Arkansas Press

In my parents’ generation, most people had one or two jobs during their working lives. Today, the average is twelve. I had fifty! I started by delivering newspapers by bicycle and I ended sixty years later delivering career advice by Zoom. In between, I was a furniture mover, beer vendor, and Good Humor man. As an agricultural worker, I was a part of the most successful and longest lasting communal experiment of the twentieth century, the Israeli kibbutz. I was a community worker and social science researcher. I served in the most inept unit of one of the most elite branches of the Israel Defense Forces. I was a college teacher, a labor educator, and a freelancer who sometimes juggled as many as six jobs at the same time. I had the fun experience of working with writers, actors, and stand-up comedians in the unlikeliest place: JPMorgan Chase. I had some jobs that I was great at and others where I abysmally failed. I worked with and for some characters, scoundrels and even out-and-out crooks who stole millions of dollars from an organization devoted to helping poor people. I worked for incompetent managers, abusive managers and great managers.\nBut for the most part, I worked with wonderful, supportive colleagues, many of whom remain lifelong friends. My work brought me into contact with celebri ties like Ossie Davis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Danny Kaye, Teddy Kollek, Michael Moore, and Chuck Schumer. I witnessed discrimination against groups of people and was personally discriminated against by a most unlikely source. Like many other people, my career was impacted by great social and historical events like the Vietnam War, a war in the Middle East, 9/11, the bank merger and downsizing era, the recession of 2008 and the pandemic. I have dealt with ethical issues like benefiting from nepotism, teaching in a religious school as an atheist, and advising students at Columbia University on how to get jobs on Wall Street during the day while attending the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in the evening.\nThrough my own work experience and as a career advisor for Russian immigrants, Orthodox Jews, and college students from the U.S. and dozens of other countries, I have encountered just about every work-related problem, so the book offers practical job search and career development advice. I think you’ll find it to be interesting, informative, entertaining, sad, poignant, uplifting and funny.

A Working Life: 50 Jobs in 60 Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Boss Lady Press

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