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Author : Pippa Virdee
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ISBN 13 : 9780954118549
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Coming to Coventry written by Pippa Virdee and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717435
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Coventry written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.
Author : Frederick Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408860279
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Coventry written by Frederick Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a few minutes past seven on the evening of Thursday, 14 November 1940, the historic industrial city of Coventry was subjected to the longest, most devastating air raid Britain had yet experienced. Only after eleven hours of continual bombardment by the German Luftwaffe could its people emerge from their half-sunk Anderson shelters and their cellars, from under their stairs or kitchen tables, to venture up into their wounded city. That long night of destruction marked a critical moment in the Second World War. It heralded a new kind of air warfare, one which abandoned the pursuit of immediate military goals and instead focused on obliterating all aspects of city life. It also provided the push America needed to join Britain in the war. But while the Coventry raid was furiously condemned publically, such effective enemy tactics provided Britain's politicians and military establishment with a 'blueprint for obliteration', to be adapted and turned against Germany. A merciless four-year war of attrition had begun. In this important work of history Frederick Taylor draws upon numerous sources, including eye witness interviews from the archives of the BBC which are published here for the first time, to reveal the true repercussions of the bombing of Coventry in 1940. He teases out the truth behind the persistent rumours and conspiracy theories that Churchill knew the raid was coming, assesses this significant turning point in modern warfare, looks at how it affected Britain's status in the war, and considers finally whether this attack really could provide justification for the horror of Dresden, 1945.
Author : Frank Greene Bates
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book How Coventry Came to be written by Frank Greene Bates and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Smallman
Publisher : Hometown World
ISBN 13 : 9781849932929
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Santa Is Coming to Coventry written by Steve Smallman and published by Hometown World. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (825 download)
Download or read book How Coventry Came to be and Coventry, Our Town, 1741-1941 written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632861984
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Coventry written by Frederick Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Luftwaffe's air raid on Coventry, England on the night of November 14, 1940 represented a new kind of air warfare. Aimed primarily at obliterating all aspects of city life, it was systematic, thorough, unconnected to any immediate military goal, and indifferent to civilian casualties. In a single night, roughly two-thirds of the city's buildings were damaged or destroyed as the bombers laid waste to legitimate industrial targets and civilian structures alike. The old St. Michael's Cathedral, a 14th century Gothic structure that burned to the ground that night, still stands in ruins today as a testament to the city's destruction during the raid. Pragmatic British government propagandists would exploit Coventry's perceived status as a "historic town," playing down the city's industrial reputation. This would prove to be a powerful tool, and, as Frederick Taylor shows, was instrumental in tipping public opinion in the then-neutral United States away from isolationism and in favor of help for Britain. But the bombing would also set a dangerous and destructive precedent as Allied air forces would study the Germans' methods in the attack and ultimately employ similar tactics in their equally ruthless and destructive attacks on German cities, eventually leading to the bombing of Hamburg in 1943 and Dresden in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands, mostly civilians. On the 75th anniversary of the Coventry bombing, acclaimed historian Frederick Taylor brilliantly narrates this momentous act and analyzes its impact on World War II and the moral quandaries it still engenders about the nature of warfare.
Author : Sarah Crossan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619630478
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Weight of Water written by Sarah Crossan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic, gifty offering that combines first love, friendship, and persistent courage in this lyrical immigration story told in verse. Carrying just a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother are immigrating to England from Poland. Kasienka isn't the happiest girl in the world. At home, her mother is suffering from a broken heart as she searches for Kasienka's father. And at school, Kasienka is having trouble being the new girl and making friends. The only time she feels comforted is when she's swimming at the pool. But she can't quite shake the feeling that she's sinking. Until a new boy swims into her life, and she learns that there might be more than one way to stay afloat. The Weight of Water is a coming-of-age story that deftly handles issues of immigration, alienation, and first love. Moving and poetically rendered, this novel-in-verse is the story of a young girl whose determination to find out who she is prevails.
Author : David Hart Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407410029
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Four Weeks in May written by David Hart Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1982, the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year, she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the Falklands. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes, she had capsized, and was to sink early the next day. In her final moments, when all those not killed by the explosions had been evacuated from the ship, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.
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ISBN 13 : 9781849933124
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Santa Is Coming to Coventry X12 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacki Smith
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609256174
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Coventry Magic with Candles, Oils, and Herbs written by Jacki Smith and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable reference on candle magic for beginners as well as experienced magic practitioners. Jacki Smith has been crafting magic candles for more than twenty-five years. In Coventry Magic with Candles, Oils, and Herbs, she shares recipes, spells, and divinations anyone can use to increase love, prosperity, luck, and abundance. Often, when doing magic to help solve a problem, Jacki writes, we don’t realize the source of the issue we’re facing. Jacki Smith uses the humor of her own life experiences to show readers how to ferret out the underlying issues and beliefs that can often sabotage magical spells. Coventry Magic with Candles, Oils, and Herbs is an invaluable reference for beginners as well as experienced magic practitioners. The book features: Basic tips for candle carving Using Tarot, gemstones, and elementals in candle spells A guide to hundreds of candles and how to use them in a myriad of ways An herb and oil encyclopedia Jacki’s seven steps approach to personal magic
Author : Paul Mason
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915637
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Coventry’s Medieval Suburbs written by Paul Mason and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports the results of 2003-2007 excavations at Hill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford Street, three suburban streets which stood directly outside the city gates of Coventry for much of the medieval period.
Author : David McGrory
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445650002
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Coventry's Blitz written by David McGrory and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the blitz that blighted Coventry during the Second World War, commemorating its 75th anniversary.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Autocar written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857561012
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book I Came to Coventry written by William Henry Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VI, pt.III ; King Henry VI, condensed ; The taming of the shrew ; A midsummer night's dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Cobbett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cobbett's Political Register written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
