Books with author Patrice O'Shaughnessy

On September 11, the world was shown the face of bravery. As one woman so poignantly put it: “As we ran out, they ran in.” These heroes were doing the job they do each day, protecting more than eight million residents in the 320 square miles that is New York City. That horrible day, we were made heartbreakingly aware of the risks these people take daily, risks their loved ones knew all too well. First-hand witnesses to the heroism of the FDNY, the photographers of the Daily News knew these risks too. They have been covering the life and death situations—the human drama that fire creates—since the founding of the the Daily News in 1919. These seasoned photographers of the Daily News have chased fire trucks in their radio cars since the earliest days of photojournalism, photographing children and animals being rescued from burning buildings and capturing the disbelief on the faces of those gazing at the remnants of their lives going up in smoke. These photographers know intimately the faces of those left behind from covering the all too many funerals, mourning with the families a loss that felt not only across a city of millions, but also acutely within a deeply bonded fraternity across the country. Culled from the archive of the Daily News, consisting of more than six million images, this book represents more than eighty years of the world renowned New York City Fire Department in action, fighting fires, rescuing lives, and bringing peace and order to chaos, fear, and destruction. In the Fire Department of New York, there are more than 11,400 Fire Officers and Firefighters. In addition, the FDNY includes 2,800 EMS and Paramedics personnel. This book is a tribute to their dedication, bravery, and humanity.

Strangely caught up out of the rut and routine of Paris war-work, not even choosing my direction (the Fates did that), contributing, however, the eternal readiness of my soul, which the poet says is all, I was conveyed, as on a magic carpet, to the blue valleys and the rust and gold and jasper hills of A lsace, where the color is laid on thick, thick. There I was one, during many historic days, of the delightful group of blue-clad, scarred, decorated officers forming the French Military Mission, which since the autumn of 1914 had administered the little reconquered triangle of Alsace and planted in it the seed for the re-G allicizing of A lsace Lorraine. It was a bit of French history in the making, which detached itself quite peculiarly free from the mass of war happenings, somewhat as a medallion from that against which it is placed. My little book shows how humanly and simply the men of the French Military Mission, accustomed to supreme events, together with a woman from over the seas, lived through those thirteen historic days preceding the armistice. It will perhaps be worth the readers while I mean the nice, bright, perceptive readers while for mostly the throbbing, high-colored beauty of Alsace is veiled by dusty, argumentative, statistical pamphlets, so many of which are printed, so few of which are read. I once saw a great building full of such, and dozens of them were presented me for my sins, though I had never thought to read another book on A lsace, much less to write one.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made