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Education of a Poor Country Boy
"Jack Evans was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He is an eighty-seven-year-old father of five children, grandfather of fourteen grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren. This book captures his lifetime of construction for sixty years as a crane operator and ten years as an estimator for projects such as demolition, steel erection and sheet piling. Along with these some of the inspirational parts of his life are captured as well."--Back cover.
The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper
A fascinating insight into the detective who was responsible for hunting Jack the Ripper
Coming for August
Living on a spit of land at the harbour edge August, a troubled alcoholic works in a cafe only to socialise at his employer's main competitor. Stuck in a meaningless life, unhappy with those around him and seemingly unable to alter his future August stumbles about the neighbourhood until everything changes when he meets a strange platypus-like creature by the seashore. At first the creature brings August the adventure he craves until slowly his life begins to unravel and everything is cast in to doubt.
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This memoir is both for those who remember World II, and those to whom it is only history. Through the eyes of a teenage boy, comes a sensitive and detailed picture of life on the home front and death on the battlefield, during those tumultuous years from 1939 to 1945. With emotional honesty, the narrative follows the author from toy soldiers in Iowa to basic training in Texas, through bloody battles in France to Hitler's Bavarian retreat at Berchtesgaden. Life and death become intimate and real throughout the dramatic transition from boyhood to manhood.
Confessions of a Special Agent
Many are the tales of young men lying about their age to join the Army, yet Jack Evans sought far more at the age of just possibly just seventeen to act behind enemy lines as an agent of the Special Operations Executive.Evans had joined the RAF in 1940, despite being well under the legal age, and two years later was recruited into the SOE as a member of the Small Scale Raiding Force. Evans related his experiences with the SOE to author Ernest Dudley in the 1950s, in which he describes his training, including learning how to jump by parachute in preparation for an operation into France though he was withdrawn from the operation when his true age was disclosed. He then joined the SSRF, taking ...
Poems by Jack
A tribute to 90 years of memories captured in poetry by Jack Augustine Evans, written with love, warmth and insight.
Out of the Jaws of Hunland
The thrilling adventures of two Canadian soldiers in the Great War (WWI), first published in 1918. Both fought in the trenches and were taken prisoner by the Germans. The authors, Evans and McMullen, relate their war experiences, being taken prisoner, their subsequent escape attempts and finally eluding their captors. With maps and photos.
Rain Is the Hourglass of Memory
Poetry. In this long overdue collection of poems, Jack Evans achieves what few can: a black and white world, Bogie and Bacall, John Coltrane, Tarkovsky--without a single frame of film projected or note played. RAIN IS THE HOURGLASS OF MEMORY serves a reader, an introduction, a companion to the work of a great and criminally underappreciated poet.
Big Jack Evans
Big Jack Evans is a work of fiction that spans nearly a century and a half, following five generations from nineteenth century Russia to present day southern Illinois. From Jimmy Boldin in 1874, the privileged only child of hardworking immigrants, to Jeff Jordan in 2015, we see the good, the bad, and the truly ugly side of human nature. Jack Evans is thrown into a world without much mercy, and he is driven to not only survive, but to excel through the most tragic circumstances. Along the way, we meet Andy, a man approaching the last third of his life who is struggling to make some sense of his own journey, along with a cast of characters throughout the years that reflect the American experience. When Andy and Jeff's worlds are incidentally intertwined by an overheard conversation in a small town restaurant, neither of their lives would ever be the same.
