Voices in Bronze and Stone: Kansas City's World War I Monuments and Memorials

Voices in Bronze and Stone offers the reader first-hand awareness of Kansas City's experience of the Great War--from eye-witness reports on the home front to stirring accounts of heroism on the battlefield, in the air, and at sea. Grouped around descriptions of 19 different World War I monuments throughout the city, the 38 stories offered here give voice to the men and women who built and dedicated the monuments and the 440 men and one woman whose stories the monuments commemorate. A tour guide to the monuments invites adults and young people to experience first-hand what their ancestors who fought the Great War continue to say.

Author: James J. Heiman
Publisher: Kansas City Star Books
Published: 04/20/2015
Pages: 358
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780692409282

About the Author
A veteran of the Vietnam War and a career educator, James J. Heiman holds an undergraduate degree from Rockhurst University and master's and specialist's degrees from the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri--Kansas City, and Loyola University, New Orleans. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri--Kansas City and teaches in the Humanities Division of the Metropolitan Community College, Blue River, in Independence, Missouri. He has been a teacher-consultant with the Greater Kansas City Writing Project since 1984 and specializes in teaching developmental reading, creative writing and researching Kansas City in the Great War. Jim has three children and one grandchild. Jim and his wife, Mary, live in Independence, Missouri.

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