Six Years After D-Day: Cycling through Europe
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0929398823 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marie Bennett Alsmeyer served as a pharmacist's mate in the Navy WAVES during WWII. She and her husband live in Tyler, Texas.Linda G. Her previous books are The Way of the WAVES and Old WAVES Tales. DePauw, who wrote the introduction, is the editor and publisher of Minerva, Quarterly Report on Women and the Milita
In England, they visited the beefeaters and raven-masters at the Tower of London and strolled the campuses of Cambridge before departing for the Netherlands. Next came Belgium, then France again, where they narrowly escaped an anti-American riot in St. While Hank's "guide books and maps were vital to his enjoyment" of the Alsmeyers' European adventure, the contemporary reader will need nothing more than a well-lighted armchair. Filled with original journal entries, Six Years After D-Day is an enchanting travelogue filled with charming characters, sly wit and sobering portraits of postwar Europe. . From Publishers Weekly On April Fools' Day in 1950, newlyweds Marie and Hank Alsmeyer began
The children crouched under a sturdy dining room table until the last of the bombs had hit. In 1950, a young couple (both WWII veteransa WAVE and an airmanand both with GI Bill journalism degrees) quit their jobs on a South Texas weekly newspaper and embarked upon a 1200-mile bicycle tour through Europe.Such a trip made no sense at all in 1950," writes Alsmeyer, but it was a gloriously crazy, senseless thing to do.” Based on notes, diaries, and letters, the book is more than a mere travelogue. It chronicles the people and places of postwar western Europeincluding the citizens of Vimoutiers, France, a town accidentally bombed by Americans.One family with twelve children lived in one of the houses that fell during the first wave of the raid. They said that only the night before, their father had warned them that if there was ever a bombing raid, they must hide under the sturdy round table.”Bicycle enthusiasts, war historians, sociologists, women's studies scholars, and readers of travel narratives will
Worth reading The author and her husband in 1950 bicycled in France, England, and the Low Countries and this book was published in 199Worth reading Schmerguls The author and her husband in 1950 bicycled in France, England, and the Low Countries and this book was published in 1994. It is a quite interesting book, showing how much the countries through which they traveled still suffered from the damage sufferred in the war. Some of the reflections of the author are poignant. They took a trip which they would never forget, and one has to admire them and the friends they made on the trip. This book was better than I expected.. . It is a quite interesting book, showing how much the countries through which they traveled still suffered from the damage sufferred in the war. Some of the reflections of the author are poignant. They took a trip which they would never forget, and one has to admire them and the friends they made on the trip. This book was better than I expected.. There should be more books like this A Customer By giving us this book, Alsmeyer provides inspirtation and sets a splendid example for every woman who has lived long enough to have a sense of her own history. We can hope that many women who enjoy reading this book will come to the last page and then dig out their own boxes of memorabilia, recall the adventures of their lives and tell their stories.