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On August 21, 1940, a Nazi raider torpedoed the British merchantman Anglo-Saxon and machine-gunned the survivors as they tried to escape in their lifeboats. One little boat escaped with seven men. Five of them perished, but Robert Tapscott and Wilbert Widdicombe endured for seventy full days and 2,300 miles to landfall on the other side of the Atlantic. This is the almost incredible account of their ordeal - one of the most thrilling stories of the sea that almost never came to light. "It has seldom happened," writes William McFee in the introduction, "that a narrative so circumstantial, so entirely stripped of all humbug and false sentiment, has come out of the depths of the sea, to inspire us with admiration for human valor." Two Survived is an unforgettable true story of survival against the very longest odds. (5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 218 pages, b&w photos)
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Excellent, very authentic.......2007-09-22
This was a very good book, so authentic you almost feel part of the hapless crew of this boat. The strong point is, it was written during the war, and it was not edited afterwards.. Luckily for us readers. You get a very authentic feel of how things were seen then. Excellent, well worth reading!
Great story.......2006-08-05
This is an excellent book. All Brave Sailors by Revell Carr covers the same story in much greater detail and is also recommended highly.
Good story - not well written .......2006-02-17
This is an amazing survival story but I think it could have been written better. This story was written in 1940 or 1941 right after the events described take place. The copy of the book I have was printed in 2001. Even though it is 60 years later they still say things like "they can't say where the convoy was headed because of security concerns...." I think 60 years later it is fine to know where a coal cargo ship is heading. There are several things like this in the book - it just shows 60 years later they didn't even spend a few minutes updating some minor details. That's minor stuff.
What I thought was worse was the way the author wrote the book. He starts of the first few pages telling you most of the story... who dies ... who survives... how long it all took... where the survivors finish their journey. I think that is a very poor way to tell a story. It's like watching a five minute edit of a movie just before you see the whole movie - kind of ruins most of the suspense. It's a good story but I would recommend skipping the intro & reading it at the end of the book. The guys endured some terrible events for sure. I do think it is worth reading if you like survival stories - it is one of the most amazing survival stories ever.
A much better read I would recommend is "Adrift".
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Saying Farewell to Innocence can be a gut-wrenching experience. Donny and Tricia had only themselves to rely on as they grew up during the turbulent years of the '30's '40's and '50's. Having a father who deserted them, and a mother who clung to them for the essentials of life, they learned to fend for themselves struggling to come of age. Their father, a narcissistic authoritarian, who adhered to the principal that children should be seen and not heard, enforced his demands with a soft rubber hose. Their mother, a soft-spoken woman with no self-confidence, relied on her husband for all things. Before he beat her to death, the kids helped her escape his dominating ways. But freedom from fear has a price. After a devastating divorce, with no help from family members, on either side, they found themselves thrust into a role usually reserved for adults-providing the economic and emotional stability necessary to keep the family together. Their childhood and adolescence are filled with wondrous, hilarious, and heart-wrenching adventures as they struggle to survive and triumph over life's harsh realities, and survive their birth, their circumstances, and their parents.
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Heartbreak and Humor - A Great Memoir.......2007-10-03
I'm a big fan of memoirs and this is the best one I've read in a long time. Set in the 1940's and 50's, the story follows the life of young Donny. The reader learns how Donny and his family survive the war, poverty, and a abusive father who abandons them all. It's not all doom and gloom though. Donny may lose his father, but gains amazing friends and humorous life experiences and adventures in Los Angeles. I highly recommend.
Becoming of Age.......2007-03-24
I read Farewell to Innocence in one sitting. It is a heartgrabbing tale of two kids trying to grow up with most of the odds stacked against them. Their mother, a loving, but uneducated and timid woman is dominated by her brutal, overbearing husband. The family loses two children, one shortly after birth another a few years later to illness. Meanwhile the breadwinner loves his booze more than his family. Donny and Tricia live a life filled with strict rules and rubber hose enforcement. Beatings are almost normal for Donny, who's slightest mistake earns a trip to the garage. At least at the beginning, living in their railroad car there was no garage.
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This book is a survival book for all Fathers and Mothers who are trying to raise their children singly. Fred Minner tells of his struggle in a society where it is not the norm for fathers to be the caregivers. Fred beats all the odds that society puts before him and survives it all. Fred tells of his journey and through reading this book you may be encouraged to follow in his footsteps
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Title: Divorce pains: what does a 13-year-old girl have in common with two NBA stars? All three have survived a breakup between their respective parents.(family)(Cover Story)
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Title: Meeting the challenge: SIHO, a Columbus health-benefits company, survived after losing its two largest customers, Cummins and Arvin.(Regional report: South Central)(Southeastern Indiana Health Organization)
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"This is the first major study of American Indians in Vietnam. . . . Dr. Tom Holm, a Cherokee-Creek himself and a Vietnam veteran, provides the unheard 'Indian Voice,' and he shares an insightful perspective on that controversial war."
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At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on extensive interviews with Native American veterans to tell the story of their experiences in Vietnam and their readjustment to civilian life.
Holm describes how Native American motives for going to war, experiences of combat, and readjustment to civilian ways differ from those of other ethnic groups. He explores Native American traditions of warfare and the role of the warrior to explain why many young Indian men chose to fight in Vietnam. He shows how Native Americans drew on tribal customs and religion to sustain them during combat. And he describes the rituals and ceremonies practiced by families and tribes to help heal veterans of the trauma of war and return them to the "white path of peace."
This information, largely unknown outside the Native American community, adds important new perspectives to our national memory of the Vietnam war and its aftermath.
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Patterns of fire occurrence, size, uniformity, & severity have been a major force shaping landscape patterns & influencing productivity throughout N. America for thousands of years. Animals' responses to fire are influenced by fire season, intensity, severity, rate of spread, uniformity, & size. Responses may include injury, mortality, immigration, or emigration. This report explains how the habitat changes caused by fire influence faunal pop's. more profoundly than fire itself. Chapters: regional variation in fire patterns; effects of fire & animal responses; fire effects on animal pop's. & communities; fire effects on fauna; & mgmt. & res. implications. Ill.
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A thorough understanding of the role of microbes in C cycling in relation to fire is important for estimation of C emissions and for development of guidelines for sustainable management of dry ecosystems. We investigated the seasonal changes and spatial distribution of soil total, dissolved organic C (DOC) and microbial biomass C during 18 months, quantified the soil CO"2 emission in the beginning of the rainy season, and related these variables to the fire frequency in important dry vegetation types grassland, woodland and dry forest in Ethiopia. The soil C isotope ratios (@d^1^3C) reflected the 15-fold decrease in the grass biomass along the vegetation gradient and the 12-fold increase in woody biomass in the opposite direction. Changes in @d^1^3C down the soil profiles also suggested that in two of the grass-dominated sites woody plants were more frequent in the past. The soil C stock ranged from being 2.5 (dry forest) to 48 times (grassland) higher than the C stock in the aboveground plant biomass. The influence of fire in frequently burnt wooded grassland was evident as an unchanged or increasing total C content down the soil profile. DOC and microbial biomass measured with the fumigation-extraction method (C"m"i"c) reflected the vertical distribution of soil organic matter (SOM). However, although SOM was stable throughout the year, seasonal fluctuations in C"m"i"c and substrate-induced respiration (SIR) were large. In woodland and woodland-wooded grassland C"m"i"c and SIR increased in the dry season, and gradually decreased during the following rainy season, confirming previous suggestions that microbes may play an important role in nutrient retention in the dry season. However, in dry forest and two wooded grasslands C"m"i"c and SIR was stable throughout the rainy season, or even increased in this period, which could lead to enhanced competition with plants for nutrients. Both the range and the seasonal changes in soil microbial biomass C in dry tropical ecosystems may be wider than previously assumed. Neither SIR nor C"m"i"c were good predictors of in situ soil respiration. The soil respiration was relatively high in infrequently burnt forest and woodland, while frequently burnt grasslands had lower rates, presumably because most C is released through dry season burning and not through decomposition in fire-prone systems. Shifts in the relative importance of the two pathways for C release from organic matter may have strong implications for C and nutrient cycling in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems.
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This study examined the short-term effects of wildfire on fungal communities in two Mediterranean ecosystems in northwestern Spain, dominated by Pinus pinaster Ait. and Cistus ladanifer L., respectively. A large wildfire burned the areas on August 2002. During the autumn of 2003, fruiting bodies found in the plots were identified, and mycological richness, diversity and production in both burned and unburned areas were measured. A 50mx2m transect was established in each plot. In P. pinaster plots, total fungal dry weight decreased from 35.3kgha^-^1 in unburned plots to 1.9kgha^-^1 in burned plots, where richness, diversity of mycorrhizal species and production of edible fungi were significantly lower. Dry weight for mycorrhizal species was higher than for saprophytic fungi in the unburned treatments (75% and 25% of the total, respectively), but it was not significantly different in burned areas (56% and 44%). In C. ladanifer plots, mycorrhizal species diversity was higher than that for saprophytic species. However, diversity of total, mycorrhizal and saprophytic fungal species was significantly lower in burned plots. An overall decrease of richness was also observed in these plots. Fire significantly increased the abundance of the pyrophytic mycorrhizal species Leccinum corsicum, whereas Boletus edulis, usually associated with C. ladanifer in northwestern Spain, was not found in burned plots. Some mycorrhizal fungi associated with C. ladanifer are common to Pinus forests, so these pyrophytic shrubs can play an important role in the regeneration of P. pinaster stands after wildfire.
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