Bøger af Mary Lovell

Frank's diary begins on June 6, 1944 when he first learns of the invasion of Europe, D-Day, while stationed in England. He arrives in France on D-day +4. The diary ends with an entry on September 14, 1945, the day he arrives home in Massachusetts. As a chief warrant officer, he was a few miles behind the front line. We follow Lovell as he bears witnesses to some of the most monumental events of the 20th century. Well aware he was living during a period of major historical importance, Lovell believed it was his duty to record these events. The results are the reader is offered a unique perspective into an individual solder's view of his wartime experiences. Included in the diary are Frank Lovell's eyewitness accounts of the 9th Infantry Division cutting off of the Cotentin Peninsula, the Battle of the Hedgerows, Operation Cobra, the Battle for St Lo, the closing of the Falaise Gap, the liberation of Belgium, the Battle of the Hürtgen Forrest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Roer to Rhine River Drive, the Liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp, and the post-war Allied Occupation of Europe. Also included are many WWII photos from Lovell's private collection. Work is currently ongoing for future publication of Frank Lovell diary entries from the North Africa and Sicily campaigns of 1942 and 1943. To learn more, visit us at franklovellww2diaries.com or email us at franklovellww2diaries@gmail.com.

After carrying their story around for years, a mother and daughter share their personal recollection of a tornado hitting their hometown. Sally was in the middle of the storm, and Mary, her daughter, was across town on the other end of the phone. Experience their heart-wrenching account as Mary received what she thought would be the last phone call from her mother.

The first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers, and were saddled with the ruinous upkeep of Blenheim. The family fortunes were revived in the nineteenth century by the huge dowries of New York society beauties Jennie Jerome (Winston's mother) and Consuelo Vanderbilt (wife to Winston's cousin).Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, the construction of great houses, the domestic tragedies, and the happy marriage of Winston to Clementine Hosier set against the disastrous unions of most of his family, which ended in venereal disease, papal annulment, clinical depression, and adultery.The Churchills were an extraordinary family: ambitious, impecunious, impulsive, brave, and arrogant. Winston-recently voted "The Greatest Briton"-dominates them all. His failures and triumphs are revealed in the context of a poignant and sometimes tragic private life.