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: The Great Crusade in Europe
World War II Memories: The Great Crusade in Europe
You are about to embark on a great crusade…
A paratrooper is left for dead among dying enemy soldiers. A medic survives captivity in Nazi Germany only to be liberated by the Russians. A recon scout draws gunfire to save Is trapped on the Seigfried Line. In this salute to a fading generation, award-winning journalist Joseph David Cress presents a collection of memories from World War II veternas who marched across Europe into the heart of Hitler’s Third Reich.