Yours Faithfully, Florence Burke (eBook)

An Irish Immigrant Story

Ellen B. Alden (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
570 Seiten
Ellen Alden (Verlag)
978-1-937985-95-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Irish immigrant Florence Burke has lived in Massachusetts for more than a decade but hes still a tenant farmer and his family lives in near-poverty. He came to America for a better life, but finds his adoptive country less than hospitable. Florence recognizes that owning land is the path to prosperity, but the bank won't grant him a loan and he's running out of options. An opportunity arises that could make his dreams come true, but it involves great personal risk to both himself and his family. He recalls the gamble he took when he fled the Potato Famine in Ireland, and wonders if he could make a gamble on his life one more time? Will his wife and children understand his decision to join the war?Yours Faithfully, Florence Burke is based on nineteen original letters from my great, great grandfather to his wife and children. It is a story of one Irish immigrant in a million struggling to make it in America at a time when the nation is divided.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American Civil War • historical fiction • Immigration • Indie Author • Irish History • potato famine
• ISBN-10: 1-937985-95-4 / 1937985954
• ISBN-13: 978-1-937985-95-0 / 9781937985950