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Author : CHRISTOPHER W A. OWEN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783831173
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book BRIDGNORTH IN THE GREAT WAR. written by CHRISTOPHER W A. OWEN and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher W. A. Owen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473866138
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Bridgnorth in the Great War written by Christopher W. A. Owen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history of WWI explores the wartime sacrifices and contributions made by the people of this charming, historic English town. The town of Bridgnorth, located along the Severn River in Shropshire, is a popular tourist destination known for its historic castle and unique funicular rail system. Though it is steeped in military history, much of its role during the Great War has remained obscure until now. Misled by government propaganda, many of Bridgnorth’s men enlisted in the military for what they thought would be a short-term adventure. Their commitment and fortitude in the face of bloody trench warfare gives testament to the incredible bravery of the people of Bridgnorth, and their losses are evidenced in the various commemorative monuments erected throughout the town and surrounding hamlets. Utilizing contemporary documents and wartime servicemen's poignant letters, some of which are disclosed here for the first time, Bridgnorth in the Great War reveals how this once prosperous and industrious West Midlands' town endured great sacrifice in the name of Britain’s war effort.
Author : Christopher W. A. Owen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473866103
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Ironbridge in the Great War written by Christopher W. A. Owen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed as the birthplace of modern industry and the first cast iron metal single span bridge, Ironbridge is venerated the world over yet its social history is at times unfamiliar.One hundred years ago this sleepy town, set by the river Severn, willingly volunteered its lifeblood to a war that everyone confidently believed would be a short-lived, adventurous romp. Misled by government propaganda, they soon discovered through fighting relative's letters and various official news reports, many of which are unearthed for the first time throughout this book, that it had rapidly degenerated into an endless morass of bloody violence with the probability of their men meeting a painful death on a daily basis thrown in for good measure.The town's wartime heritage is one of enterprise and hard work as the majority of the Great War gun-fodder comprised working-class men drawn from prestigious local companies. Maw & Co, the world-famous ceramic tile maker, raised its own company of enlisted fighting men, in common with other businesses nationwide, that were known as Pals Battalions. As in most instances across the land, it subsequently paid a heavy price for this mass act of patriotism. Ironbridge also became a cradle of the fledgling women's wartime workforce, who helped produce vital heavy munitions components at another famous local company's works.Ironbridge in the Great War is the story of the town's great sacrifice, as evidenced by the numerous and diverse war monuments that populate the town and its surrounding hamlets. This is detailed work that includes fascinating facts about the town, which, despite being constantly under the world spotlight, remained, until now, a part of its hidden wartime social history.
Author : Derek Beattie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906663827
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (638 download)
Download or read book South Shropshire's First World War written by Derek Beattie and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Percy F. Westerman
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776528581
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)
Download or read book The Submarine Hunters written by Percy F. Westerman and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get set for high seas adventure in this thrilling read from action-adventure master Percy F. Westerman. Full of realistic details gleaned from Westerman's own time in the Royal Navy, this classic World War I story will leave readers breathless with suspense.
Author : Janet Doody
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958723
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Great War Britain Shropshire: Remembering 1914-18 written by Janet Doody and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Shropshire offers an intimate portrayal of the county and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it describes local reaction to the outbreak of war; charts the experience of individuals who enlisted; the changing face of industry; the work of the many hospitals in the area; the effect of the conflict on local children; the women who defied convention to play a vital role on the home front; and concludes with a chapter dedicated to how the city and its people coped with the transition to life in peacetime once more. The Great War story of Shropshire is told through the voices of those who were there and is vividly illustrated through evocative images from the archives of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.
Author : Christopher Owen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783463546
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Wellington in the Great War written by Christopher Owen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Meanwhile, men serving in the armed forces were scattered far and wide. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.
Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526703548
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Guiseley Terriers: A Small Part in the Great War written by Stephen Barber and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Battle of the Lys in April 1918, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig said of the 147th (Territorial) Brigade:'I desire to express my appreciation of the very valuable and gallant services performed by troops of the 49th (West Riding) Division since the entry of the 147th Brigade into the Battle of Armentires. The courage and determination showed by this division has played no small part in checking the enemys advance and I wish to convey to General Cameron and all the officers and men under his command my thanks for all they have done.'In April 1918, the Saturday night soldiers from Bingley, Guiseley, Haworth, Keighley, Settle and Skipton halted the German advance at a critical time in the war during the German spring offensive. Haigs Backs to the Wall order had just been issued when the 1/6th Duke of Wellingtons Regiment was sent to the front-line at Armentires. After nearly four years at the front, they had been transformed from part-time enthusiastic amateurs to battle hardened veterans, having fought in some of the Great War's major battles, including suffering the effects of mustard gas at Nieuport. It was a source of pride to the men of the battalion that they had never given up ground to the enemy, unless ordered to by a higher authority, and only then reluctantly.Using newspaper archives, war diary extracts, personal accounts and previously unpublished photographs, Stephen Barber retraces the formation and history of the 1/6th Duke of Wellingtons Regiment from the creation of the Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1860, to its mobilisation in the Great War. A day-by-day account of their movements and actions over the four-year period culminates in the pursuit of the retreating German Army at Famars, on 1 November 1918.
Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1839523492
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Charles Warren written by Kevin Shillington and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-08-08 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Charles Warren Royal Engineer is a compelling story, full of action, conflict, triumph and disaster, with reputations gained and lost. All set against the background of an expanding British Empire. It is a tale of secrecy, Freemasonry and pioneering archaeology as the young Lt Warren, still only in his twenties, tunnelled under the Holy City of Jerusalem in search of evidence of the Temple of Solomon and Herod the Great. A man of high principle and dogged determination Warren thrived on a challenge: searching for lost British spies in the desert of the Exodus, or publically calling out the rapacious colonialism of Cecil Rhodes. Later, in different circumstances, he ordered the arrest of Winston Churchill. Although thrice knighted for his many achievements, Warren is most widely remembered as the controversial Metropolitan Police Commissioner who failed to catch Jack the Ripper . In the end he faced the supreme challenge in the Anglo-Boer War, becoming the scapegoat for one of Britain's greatest military disasters, the Battle of Spion Kop. In this new biography, the first for 80 years, historian and biographer Kevin Shillington delves into the records and presents a reassessment of Warren's reputation.
Author : Marie Kreft
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 178477006X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Slow Travel Shropshire written by Marie Kreft and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slow Shropshire Travel Guide - Insider advice and holiday tips on everything from the best local pubs and markets to Shrewsbury highlights and county walking routes. Also featuring UNESCO-listed Ironbridge Gorge, Offa's Dyke, Severn Valley, Shropshire Hills, Ludlow, Welsh Marches, castles and historical sites, and US connections with the University of Minnesota, the Caldecott Medal, and Yale University.
Author : I. F. Clarke
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603580
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914 written by I. F. Clarke and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s—to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction—the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things-to-come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German War of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing; and, in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come.
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : London : Selwyn and Blount
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Railways and the Great War written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by London : Selwyn and Blount. This book was released on 1921 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Johnstone
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473858984
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Shropshire at War, 1939–45 written by Janet Johnstone and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the outbreak of the Second World War, Shropshire authorities immediately implemented pre-arranged plans to cope with the approaching conflict on the Home Front, including the building of air raid shelters and pillboxes and the renovation of redundant camps and disused airfields.Men not eligible for the services volunteered for the LDV (later the Home Guard), the AFS and the ARP. Women were recruited for a variety of other posts, with members of the WVS dealing with a massive influx of evacuees from Merseyside and Smethwick right from the start.Shropshires factories turned to armament production, coal mines increased their output and farmers cultivated more acreage (an extra 47,000 acres ploughed for food production in the first year of the war).PoW Camps sprang up, with prisoners frequently seen being transported to work on local farms, while uniformed servicemen and women from Britain, the Commonwealth and America became familiar sights on the streets.Using a variety of sources, including newspapers and verbal testimonies, the author paints a picture of the effect that six years of war had on those Salopians who, when others marched away, remained on the Home Front. Their struggles, acceptance of shortages, hardships and determination not to give in are reflected throughout this book.
Author : J. A. B. Somerset
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802006486
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Shropshire written by J. A. B. Somerset and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial, dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain before 1642, together with the necessary interpretive introductions and notes to explicate the materials for the reader. Shropshire, in two volumes, is the eleventh publication in the series. In the introduction Alan Somerset surveys the social and economic history of each major borough and provides a commentary on the major issues raised in the documents. He discusses travelling performers routes, the places they performed, and the remarkable public exhibitions of high-wire artists, camels, bears, and giants. The records for this county are rich and varied, providing new detail about local playing and festivities. From Shrewsbury for example, comes the complete documentation of a unique, semi-circular outdoor amphitheatre. The documents reveal much - from robbery and riots - to the sometimes acrimonious disputes that show the growing Puritan opposition to sports, which attempted to combat an equally stubborn affection for traditional customs. These records are an invaluable addition to the scholarship of early drama, establishing as they do part of the total context of the great drama of Shakespeare, his predecessors, and his contemporaries.
Author : Rob Walters
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445631415
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Battle For Stow written by Rob Walters and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Lindsay Carson Mullins
Publisher : London : Athlone P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Historical and Archaeological Publications of Societies in England and Wales, 1901-1933 written by Edward Lindsay Carson Mullins and published by London : Athlone P.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
