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Men of the Bombers

Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783409436
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Men of the Bombers written by Ralph Barker and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the 'Phoney War' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a nightmare on long flights and when the crews suffered more from lack of oxygen and heating than from enemy action. The fascinating story of a famous MP who used his influence to become a tail gunner at the age of 55 and who lost his life trying to stop German Panzers before Dunkirk proves remarkable reading and a famous name in cricket, Bill Edrich, recounts his days flying low-level daylight raids in Bristol Blenheims during 1941. Then there is a young New Zealander, Jimmy Ward, who climbed out onto a Wellington bomber's wing at considerable altitude to extinguish an engine fire and how despite his own modesty he was awarded a VC. Other stories tell of amazing escapes from burning aircraft, the heroism of aircrew who sacrificed their own lives so that others may survive and how a mid-upper gunner took the controls of a Mitchell B-25 to pilot her safely home.

No Surrender

Author : Dave Bowler
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409146804
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book No Surrender written by Dave Bowler and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unauthorised biography of the world's most entertaining - and Britain's most successful - cricketing all-rounder In his prime, year in, year out, Ian Botham provided the most memorable moments of the cricketing season. Yet there has always been more to Botham than just cricket, and this biography examines why he inspires both admiration and fury in his fans. Primarily a celebration of Botham and cricket, NO SURRENDER explores the life and times of the most important cricketer of the past quarter century.

Daylight Bombing Operations 1939-1942

Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783831774
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Daylight Bombing Operations 1939-1942 written by Martin Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no records of war more valuable than the first-hand accounts of the individuals who were actually there. The vivid honesty of the stories on display here brings into sharp focus the personal fears as well as the sheer exhilaration of flying sorties by day, often through heavy flak, sometimes at hedge-hopping or wave- skimming heights, as the squadrons of Blenheims, Mosquitoes, Mitchells and Venturas swept across the Continent towards their targets.??From the outbreak of the Second World War to the eve of VE Day, the medium bomber crews of 2 Group RAF and 2nd Tactical Air Force flew vital operations over Europe. Here their story is told, month by perilous month, often in the words of the airmen themselves, their accounts supported by meticulous research. Their exploits include the first sorties of the war, the famous Operation Oyster to bomb the Philips works at Eindhoven and other low-level pinpoint attacks against key targets in occupied Europe and Scandinavia. ??While sharing in the triumph of their bombing successes, we are not spared details of the appalling sacrifices and the failed and aborted raids. These details are relayed in a series of poignant personal snapshots, highlighting the extraordinary valour of these ordinary men. Remarkable photographs include aerial views of targets under attack, as well as dramatic portraits of the aircraft involved. This book serves as a moving tribute to the efforts of the pilots involved in some of the most perilous daylight bombing operations of the Second World War.

The Final Innings

Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075099276X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Final Innings written by Christopher Sandford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The declaration of war against Germany on 3 September 1939 brought an end to the second (and as yet, final) Golden Age of English cricket. Over 200 first-class English players signed up to fight in that first year; 52 never came back. In many ways, the summer of 1939 was the end of innocence. Using unpublished letters, diaries and memoirs, Christopher Sandford recreates that last summer, looking at men like George Macaulay, who took a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket but was struck down while serving with the RAF in 1940; Maurice Turnbull, the England all-rounder who fell during the Normandy landings; and Hedley Verity, who still holds cricketing records, but who died in the invasion of Sicily. Few English cricket teams began their first post-war season without holding memorial ceremonies for the men they had lost: The Final Innings pays homage not only to these men, but to the lost innocence, heroism and human endurance of the age.

Australian Cricket Team in England in 1948

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Cricket's Strangest Matches

Author : Andrew Ward
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1911042408
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cricket's Strangest Matches written by Andrew Ward and published by Portico. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of cricketing weirdness – and there’s a lot of it to choose from! Within these pages you’ll find a game that was played on ice, meet a plague of flying ants who failed to dampen players’ enthusiasm, and examples of the grand old tradition of one-armed teams versus one-legged teams. The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true. Fully revised, redesigned and updated with a selection of new material for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for the cricket fanatic in your life. Word count: 45,000 words

The Essential Wisden

Author : John Stern
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408178966
Total Pages : 1097 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Wisden written by John Stern and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the highlights of 150 editions of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Jack Robertson and Syd Brown: More Than Just The Warm-Up Act

Author : Chris Overson
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
ISBN 13 : 1908165391
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Jack Robertson and Syd Brown: More Than Just The Warm-Up Act written by Chris Overson and published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North London cricket followers turned to their morning newspapers for eleven summers, in 1939 and from 1946 to 1955, to see how Robertson (J.D.) and Brown (S.M.) had fared as the Middlesex opening batsmen. They were not often disappointed. The pair opened the batting 366 times and their partnerships put on 14,116 runs, reaching 100 runs or more on 35 occasions. As memories of their endeavours fade, cricket enthusiasts nowadays have perhaps typecast them as the warm-up act to the prodigious talents of Bill Edrich and Denis Compton. But they were more than that. Even that curmudgeonly old critic E.M. Wellings thought Jack ‘a beautifully fluent stroke-maker’, and Syd ‘a splendid county batsman’. He thought selectors looked too hard for flaws in Jack’s top-class batting technique, thus restricting him to 11 test matches; and he reckoned Syd to be among the finest fielders in the deep. Using material from a wide range of sources, Chris Overson here writes on their early influences, their almost simultaneous start at Lord’s in 1934, their inevitable cricketing ups and downs − often in those days before crowds of 10,000 or more − and their lives after they had left the field of play.

Wisden Cricketers of the Year

Author : Simon Wilde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408140845
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Wisden Cricketers of the Year written by Simon Wilde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully-produced and fully-illustrated, large format celebration of the greatest players in the history of cricket.

Ma Shaw's War

Author : Dennis Shaw
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907611797
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Ma Shaw's War written by Dennis Shaw and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ma Shaw's Wars...and after the king's speech, the blitz kidzA colourful, incident-packed story of one of the very limited generation of women whose lives were dragged into two world wars, whose menfolk were treated like cannon fodder...fighting, and sometimes dying, in the merciless action of both 20th century conflicts with Germany. And two young sons, the author and his brother, reared during the ferocity of the Birmingham blitz during the Battle of Britain.Ma Shaw's Wars is not a work of fiction. With its roots in poverty-torn Ireland, all of the inspirational story of battling against sometimes unbelievable odds, is as accurate as the writer could make it, as a social document describing life in days gone by and how different it all was in contrast to the 21st century. This segment of a normal family's history contains action, betrayal, courage, endurance and hope for the future.DENNIS SHAW has been a working journalist for more than 60 years, since beginning as a messenger boy in 1948. He is now, a media consultant in professional golf. During his career he has written for Midland provincial, and National newspapers, including the original Sun, and the Times, for whom he was a byline writer for five years. He was a recipient in the AstroTurf British Sports Journalist Awards in 1977, and later was the Heart of England Midland Sports Columnist of the Year. He has ghost written two books, When England Called for Graham Taylor and Deadly for former Aston Villa chairman, Doug Ellis.

Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets

Author : Tim Quelch
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 190917839X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets written by Tim Quelch and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Andrew Strauss's team seized the world title in the summer of 2011 they finally recovered what had been lost at the Adelaide Oval in 1959. In 1953 England became the 'unofficial world champions'. Len Hutton's victory at the Oval in that coronation year heralded an apparently golden age in England's Test match history. There were many heroic performances not only from the immaculate Len Hutton and the dashing Denis Compton but there were controversies, too. The title, 'Bent Arms' refers also to the petty constraints that its Test players endured while 'Dodgy Wickets' reflects the political sensitivities associated with being Imperial ambassadors.Key features- Book tells the story of the triumph and loss of the England cricket team in the 1950s through the memoirs of those who took part, for and against- The tale is set against a backdrop of a declining British Empire, the institution that had helped spread the game, fostering also a complacent attitude about enduring British supremacy- Written by critically-acclaimed author Tim Quelch, whose previous books on football - Never Had It So Good and Underdog! - have received high praise for capturing the social aspects of the eras each covered

The John Reddisson Saga - My Early Life

Author : Freddy Johnson
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781484260
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The John Reddisson Saga - My Early Life written by Freddy Johnson and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Reddisson is born into a London working-class family in the early 1930s. The Second World War arrives and John is evacuated to Kent, Cornwall and South Wales. He later attends grammar school in London. He gains a place to study languages at Cambridge after National Service. We accompany John to the Italian Riviera on travel courier work. After Cambridge, he joins the Army Education Branch and we follow him on postings to Kent and Singapore. Finally, John attends an eighteen-month Russian course, including several months spent living with a White Russian family in Paris.

British Film Catalogue

Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317740629
Total Pages : 8374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book British Film Catalogue written by Denis Gifford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 8374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001.The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to the present day. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.

Don Kenyon

Author : Tim Jones
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445647575
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Don Kenyon written by Tim Jones and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the life of Worcestershire CCC's most influential captain through fascinating pictures.

The Bedsers

Author : Alan Hill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574142
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Bedsers written by Alan Hill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting twins Alec and Eric Bedser are a remarkable duo. From humble origins at Woking to their reign as key members of the Surrey team during the magnificent succession of seven championships in the 1950s, they share a rare and precious relationship. The Bedsers is Alan Hill's engrossing study which explores the puzzles of their identical twinship. Alec Bedser was England's bowling standard bearer in the years following the Second World War. His exceptional strength and prowess yielding almost 1,924 wickets, including 236 in 51 Tests. He was at the peak of his powers in the 1953 series against Australia, when his aggregate of 39 wickets beat the previous record held by Maurice Tate. It included match figures of 14 wickets for 99 runs at Nottingham - a feat only surpassed against Australia by Wilfred Rhodes, Hedley Verity and Jim Laker. High among his other distinctions was his record against Don Bradman whom he dismissed on eight occasions. After retirement, Alex maintained his connection with cricket in fulfilling administrative duties, which included a record term as Chairman of the Test selectors. Knighted in 1997 for his services to cricket, he is the only English bowler to receive the honour.

A History of Cricket in 100 Objects

Author : Gavin Mortimer
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847659594
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book A History of Cricket in 100 Objects written by Gavin Mortimer and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the preserve of the English, now, for nations the world over, summertime means cricket bats to be oiled, rain forecasts analysed and tea in the pavilion. Cricket has enthralled us since the seventeenth century. But what is it about the game that provokes such fervour? Award-winning sports author Gavin Mortimer calls together a cast of salt-of-the-earth Yorkshiremen, American billionaires and dashing Indian princes to tell the strange and remarkable tale of cricket's journey from medieval village sport of 'club-ball' to the global media circus graced by superstars from Denis Compton to Sachin Tendulkar. If you've ever wanted to know what a hoop skirt has to do with overarm bowling, why England fight Australia over a burnt bail, or how to avoid tickling a jaffa in the corridor of uncertainty, Mortimer chalks up a stunning century of tales in the first truly accessible global history of cricket.

A Year in the Life of Somerset CCC

Author : Andy Nash
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497189
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book A Year in the Life of Somerset CCC written by Andy Nash and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the unique point of view of the club chairman, A Year in the Life of Somerset County Cricket Club is the story of the highs and lows of county cricket.Somerset County Cricket Club was founded in 1875 and since then has provided its many members and supporters with countless memories. In recent years the Club has established itself as one of the leading clubs in England, closely competing for honours every season and developing many young players through its age-group and Academy system. The Club has simultaneously transformed its fortunes off the pitch, managing to redevelop the County Ground in Taunton without freighting itself with large debts. In October last year the ECB granted Somerset Provisional Category B status, meaning it can now progress towards hosting England ODIs and T20 fixtures, which will bring many benefits to the West Country. This book provides a captivating insight into the daily workings in and around the Club throughout 2012 as it meets numerous challenges and prepares future plans.All royalties from sales of this book have been kindly donated by the author to the Clowance charity that promotes youth cricket.