Local Authors Past and Present
Work in progress here -- the field is richer than first envisioned. We hope to incorporate past authors (Marianne Moore, Jean Craighead George, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and so on), present authors/illustrators (Amy Bates, Megan Lloyd-Thompson, Adrienne Su, Kim van Alkemade, Sherry Knowlton, and so on), and books from authors who knew the Valley well and wrote about events here (Lois Lenski, Lois Lowry, Conrad Richter, and so on). We will organize them with category headers for better searching and annotate them with the particulars as we work on this. Keep checking!
World War II Memories: Peril in the Pacific
World War II Memories: Peril in the Pacific
No ordinary person knew of these
Islands unknown that dotted unknown seas
A teenage boy slowly starves to death in an internment camp. A jungle fighter prays for deliverance as he is dragged underwater. A Marine is nearly buried alive in the volcanic sand of Bloody Iwo. In this salute to a fading generation, award-winning journalist Joseph David Cress presents a collection of memories from eyewitnesses of World War II in the Pacific. Through its pages, you will experience the fury of the Kamikaze, a punishing attack by depth charges, a frantic escape from a sinking battleship, and a crossfire by nervous troops in the wake of Pearl Harbor. This book gives readers the flexibility of either following the war stories of each eyewitness from start to finish or reading those memories that pertain to topics of interest. There is also a chronology that arranges the stories in the order in which the memories took place.