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Coventry in the Great War

Author : Leonard Markham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473828406
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Coventry in the Great War written by Leonard Markham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War One, the city of Coventry was a powerhouse that kept the barrels loaded and the engines of war purring. An industrial giant, Coventry produced munitions by the million and built tanks, aircraft and fighting vehicles of every description. It never slept.??Coventry in the Great War commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict in 1914, telling the dour and ungilded story of the people who laboured and endured for over four grueling years. This eclectic narrative of the lives of city residents and incomers alike is juxtaposed with often-bloody accounts from the many theatres of war to give a representative and nuanced picture of one of the darkest chapters in world history. ??The 100th anniversary of the firing of the first fateful bullet is not a time for celebration but rather an opportunity for quiet reflection and studied lesson learning. The 2,599 men of Coventry who died in the cause of freedom deserve no less. ??During the First World War, the advanced state of the machine tooling industry in the city meant that pre-war production could quickly be turned to war production purposes, with the Coventry Ordnance Works assuming the role of one of the leading production centres in the UK, manufacturing a quarter of all British aircraft produced during the war.??But the experience of war also impacted on the inhabitants of the area, 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 Coventry were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. ??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. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.

Coventry and the Great War

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445645025
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Coventry and the Great War written by David McGrory and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of how the First and Second World Wars changed Coventry forever.

Great War Britain Coventry: Remembering 1914-18

Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969075
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Great War Britain Coventry: Remembering 1914-18 written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 185 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: Coventry offers an intimate portrayal of the city 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 Coventry is told through the voices of those who were there and is vividly illustrated through evocative images from the archives of Culture Coventry.

Coventry

Author : Helen Humphreys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393067200
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Helen Humphreys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of the Luftwaffe's devastating bombing of Coventry, two women traverse the city and transform their hearts.

Coventry

Author : Frederick Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632861984
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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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 416 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.

Coventry

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717435
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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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 169 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.

The Blitzed City

Author : Karen Farrington
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781313268
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Blitzed City written by Karen Farrington and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Luftwaffe's targetting and destruction of Coventry city remains the biggest and most destructive air raid on British soil during the Second World War. Seen as a centre of British armaments production, the German high command wished to inflict terror and panic on the British public, a plan that had paid dividends during their relentless conquest of France that year. Attacking over two nights in November, 1940 they systematically bombed and destroyed the bulk of the city, making thousands homeless, and killing over 400 men, women and children. Such was the devastation, panic and disorder it wrought, that Winston Churchill ordered a news blackout for three weeks in order to quell the unease and morale-sapping effect that the raid had. But people at the time acted with great bravery to save those trapped in bombed out and burning buildings, as well as caring for those badly injured (of which there were thousands), and fighting the Nazi planes coming in to attack the city itself. Now, for the very first time we interview those veterans who survived the raid and helped fight the flames and bombs to tell the story of this iconic event. Such was the effect it had on the country that when Bomber Command began night time raids against German cities — Hamburg, Cologne and most famously, Dresden — the call 'Remember Coventry!' went up.

Coventry's Blitz

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445650002
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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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 201 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.

The Story of Coventry

Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956631
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Coventry written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry's heritage through records, architectural developments and anecdotes, it reveals a fascinating and much misunderstood city, whose history is often overshadowed by its bombing during the Second World War. Peter Walters, well known for his numerous newspaper features and active role in local heritage, shows that there is a great deal more to the history of Coventry than first meets the eye. This beautifully illustrated text will delight both residents and visitors alike.

Dresden

Author : Frederick Taylor
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061908177
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Dresden written by Frederick Taylor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the bombing, this dramatic and controversial account completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany’s ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England. Now, Frederick Taylor’s groundbreaking research offers a completely new examination of the facts, and reveals that Dresden was a highly-militarized city actively involved in the production of military armaments and communications concealed beneath the cultural elegance for which the city was famous. Incorporating first-hand accounts, contemporaneous press material and memoirs, and never-before-seen government records, Taylor documents unequivocally the very real military threat Dresden posed, and thus altering forever our view of that attack.

Britain and Victory in the Great War

Author : Peter Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473891639
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Britain and Victory in the Great War written by Peter Liddle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking collection of original essays on the outcome of the war and its aftermath is of such value.It completes the trilogy of ground-breaking volumes conceived and edited by Peter Liddle which presents the latest scholarly thinking about the Great War from an international perspective. The first two volumes Britain Goes to War and Britain and the Widening War made this stimulating new writing accessible to a broad readership and this final volume has the same aim.A group of over twenty expert contributors reconsider the military reasons for the outcome of the fighting and look at the consequences for the principal nations involved. They explore the way the war and the peace settlement shaped the twentieth century and had an enduring impact within Europe and beyond.

The Little History of Coventry

Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992816
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Little History of Coventry written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little History Of Coventry packs into its pages the colour and incident of a thousand years, telling the story of a city that has perhaps been overlooked by mainstream historians, but has often been at the heart of this country's great events. From the testing ground of the saintly Godiva to fourteenth-century boom town, from Second World War Blitz victim to the next UK City of Culture, Coventry has always been an inventive place with an unerring ability to bounce back from misfortune and make its mark. This is a truly eye-opening journey through the events and characters that have shaped its story and made the city one of England's hidden jewels.

Four Weeks in May

Author : David Hart Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407410029
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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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.

Coventry's Military Heritage

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445692546
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Coventry's Military Heritage written by David McGrory and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the military heritage of Coventry from medieval times to the present day, in this illustrated guide.

Science and the Great War

Author : Edward Bagnall Poulton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Science and the Great War written by Edward Bagnall Poulton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our diplomacy and the state of our preparations equally show that we intended no aggressive war, while, as for defense, we were ready to do everything that had been put down as our reasonable share. No one of the allied nations had realized or could realize the deadly meaning of the organized effort and preparation carried on by Germany for a generation. No one supposed that we should be required to hold the seas and also to raise an army on the continental scale. What we set out to do was done with extraordinary speed and success. We held the seas and dispatched an expeditionary force of moderate size, which forthwith proved itself to be of the very highest efficiency.

Sheffield's Great War and Beyond

Author : Peter Warr
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473827868
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Sheffield's Great War and Beyond written by Peter Warr and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is out of the ordinary. As well as describing the many changes in Sheffield between 1914 and 1918, it tells about the troubling events in following years as poverty and riots took hold. It is also special in identifying hundreds of small as well as large Sheffield companies that worked to provide the necessities of war. With many previously-hidden facts, the book describes the city's 'national factories', the new Ministry of Munitions, the government's control of companies, arguments about the employment of women, an increased emphasis on workers' welfare, the impact of the Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War, and the special contributions of the Cutlers' Company. Compulsory call-up, conscientious objectors and the work of the Sheffield Military Tribunal are also brought to life, as are problems caused by a shortage of food and the eventual imposition of rationing. The city's German prisoners of war are introduced, as are the ravages of influenza and the terrible poverty and conflict that soon afflicted the city. These local changes are presented against a background of important national events and with more than 100 original photographs.

Liverpool Territorials in the Great War

Author : Paul Knight
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473884500
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Liverpool Territorials in the Great War written by Paul Knight and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Territorial Force is the forgotten army of the First World War. Between the pre-war Regular Army, which attempted to stem the German advance in 1914, and the New Armies who took to the field with such disastrous consequences on the Somme in 1916, stood the Territorial Army. Liverpool's Territorials could be found on the Western Front before the famous Christmas truce of 1914, fighting in Gallipoli, and supporting the Canadians. Throughout 1916 and 1917, they succeeded and failed in some of the most brutal battles of the war. During the German 1918 Spring Offensive, Liverpool Territorials in the 55th (West Lancashire) Division halted the German advance, effectively ending Germany's final bid to win the war.Amazingly, the Territorials were never intended, trained, or equipped for overseas service; their role was to defend the UK mainland against invasion. Yet men across Liverpool's diverse communities volunteered for the Territorials in the thousands, forming the core of two divisions during the war.Formed in 1908, but building on the Volunteer tradition of the 1850s, the Territorials remain in Liverpool to this day. Renamed the Army Reserve, they are still training and volunteering for operations.Offering a fresh, integrated perspective on the Territorial Army during the First World War, this is the remarkable story of the Liverpool Territorials.