War in Paradise is a collection of articles about the impact of World War II on the Sunshine State. It covers subjects such as (1) German prisoners of war; (2) U-boat attacks along the Florida coast; (3) three Florida natives killed at Pearl Harbor; (4) Army Air Force bombing runs that fell on civilians in Florida; (5) German saboteurs who landed on the Florida peninsula; (6) RAF trainees in Florida; (7) the suicide of a German POW; and (8) the murder of a Floridian in German custody. The book also contains maps, pictures, and sources.

War in Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida

History

Kleinberg, Eliot

Americas

The Florida Historical Society Press

Canaveral Light

Canaveral Light is an explosive novel about the struggle of early Florida pioneers to live in harmony with the land and its native people. Florida history serves as a backdrop to the conflict of the story. The Seminole war and the resulting dominion of the white man over the Indian parallels his dominion over the Negro. As the conflict moves onto the larger canvas of the war between the states, the struggle of two friends mirrors the efforts of the Seminole and the Negro to coexist in paradise.

Literature & Fiction

Don D Argo

Genre Fiction

Henry Plant: Pioneer Empire Builder

Kelly Reynolds

The last bullet-scarred days of Indian Territory and the first years of frontier Oklahoma are the backdrop for The Pontotoc Conspiracy, a historical novel of murder, mystery, and revenge, and a crime that shocked a brand new state and the nation. The Pontotoc Conspiracy captures the unsettled conditions in the last part of Indian Territory, including Pontotoc County, heart of the Chickasaw Nation, where distant courts and thin law enforcement brought many to administer their own personal justice.

The Pontotoc Conspiracy

Swatek, Phillip M.

Documented history of the Florida Historical Society, Florida's oldest cultural institution, having been founded in 1856.

Florida Historical Society, 1856-2004

Jerrell H. Shofner

Not unlike all our lives this book is a series of stories, separate but interconnected. They are all true with the exception of some literary license where details were lost in the telling and retelling. Guardian Angel 911 will provide an insight to the sojourn of a native, born in the isolated hammocks and swamps of the real Florida, before the population exploded in the third quarter of the twentieth century.

Guardian Angel 911

J. T. GLISSON

William Warren Rogers, professor of history emeritus at Florida State University, provides vignettes of Florida's capital city and urrounding area. From essays on bank robbers and crime to a look at the development of Dale Mabry Airport, Rogers and his students create a well-rounded (and reliable) historical sampler of the region's extensive history.

A Historic Sampler of Tallahassee and Leon County

William Warren Rogers

This book includes an overview of the people, institutions, and events that shaped the establishment, growth and history of the African-American community in Orlando. We examine the creation of the neighborhood's educational centers, plases of worship, and businesses, and the irony of how desegregation inadvertently led to the decline of the community. Significant instances of racial unrest in Orlando that are often overlooked are detailed in this manuscript

Crossing Division Street: An Oral History of the African-American Community in Orlando

Benjamin D. Brotemarkle

The authors have traversed the waters of the St. Johns River by air boat from the flood-plain and marshes southwest of Fellsmere which mark its beginning, and later by larger vessel to the point where its waters join one of the great oceans of the world. Their voyages are documented with numerous photographs and detailed descriptions. George "Speedy" Harrell and June Geiger are longtime volunteers at the Florida Historical Society and founding members of the Mosquito Beaters.

The St. Johns from the Marshlands to the Atlantic

Science & Math

George Leland Harrell

June Geiger

Biological Sciences

A history of the evolution of surveying public lands in Florida and traces the problems associated with any new frontier through the personalities of the major historical figures of the period.

Faces On The Frontier

Joe Knetsch

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