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Kelly, Charles Brian was born on February 11, 1935 in New York City. Son of Lester Joseph Kelly and Claire (Murray) Burke.
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Best Little Stories of World War II is a journalistic history of World War II in the form of more than 150 vignettes reflecting the war's humor and pathos, triumph and tragedy. Here is the story of the war as it affected soldiers and civilians, leaders and common folk alike - real people who bravely endured the times. While one can never learn or tell all their stories, one can honor their memories by recounting their amazing, inspiring, poignant, ironic, and yes, even pitiful stories in this war to end all wars. Included are such stories as: • Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a 75-mile "death march" in Germany and was saved b the same man who had rescued him from a car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. • Karl Fuchs, a German tank gunner who wrote tender letters to his wife as his Panzer division invaded Russia. • Jim Kilroy, worker at a shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, whose say of signing off on his inspections became the morale-boosting slogan for countless GI's: "Kilroy was here." • Kasuo Sakamaki, pilot of a midget submarine who was captured after a failed attempt to infiltrate Pearl Harbor. • "Kitty," the diary of a Jewish teenager in Amsterdam rescued after the war by her father and published in thirty-two languages as Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. These and many more stories and anecdotes fill the pages of this fascinating book that will make World War II come alive with the thoughts and feelings of those who were there.
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BEHIND THE GREAT POWERS , global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from
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Behind the White House's impressive facade lies the long history of the men who have lived and governed within it's walls. From births to deaths, weddings to funerals, the White House has seen it all. In Best Little Stories from the White House, author C. Brian Kelly takes us on a tour of the White House's fascinating history, giving us a glimpse of the most memorable presidential moments: Theodore Roosevelt 's children once snuck their pony upstairs in the White House elevator to cheer up their sick brother. Winston Churchill once suffered a minor heart episode while struggling with a stuck window in the White House. John Quincy Adams was known to skinny-dip in the Potomac. Woodrow Wilson liked to chase up and down the White House corridors playing "rooster fighting" with his daughter Nellie.
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Kelly, Charles Brian was born on February 11, 1935 in New York City. Son of Lester Joseph Kelly and Claire (Murray) Burke.
Bachelor in English, Yale University, 1957.
Editorial trainee, Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, 1958; reporter, state editor, Harrisonburg (Virginia) Daily News-Record, 1959-1960; reporter, Richmond News Leader, 1960-1961; reporter, Washington Star, 1962-1978; freelance writer, since 1958; lecturer in journalism, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1980; editor, Military History magazine, Leesburg, Virginia, since 1984; executive editor, World World War II, Vietnam, Sports History, Biblical History, Am's, Leesburg, Virginia, 1986-1989; co-founder, co-public, Montpelier Public, Charlottesville, since 1989.
( Best Little Stories of World War II is a journalistic hi...)
( BEHIND THE GREAT POWERS , global military conflict, and...)
( Behind the White House's impressive facade lies the lon...)
(US History and America Studies)
First lieutenant Virginia Air National Guard, 1957-1964. Member National Press Club.
Married Barbara Donnan Sloan, 1963 (development 1974). Children: Katheryn Sloan, Charles Brian Junior, James Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth McMorrow. Married Ingrid Fougner-Lassen Smyer, 1993.