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Coventry Then & Now

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : Pitkin
ISBN 13 : 9780752459943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Coventry Then & Now written by David McGrory and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic city of Coventry has a rich heritage, which is uniquely reflected in this fascinating new compilation. Contrasting a selection of eighty archive images alongside full-colour modern photographs, this unique book captures how the city used to be and how it looks today. Accompanied by informative captions, each page captures life in the city as it once was — and is now. Featuring streets and buildings, shops and businesses, and people at work, all aspects of life in the city are covered, providing a fascinating insight into the changing face of the city. As well as delighting the many tourists who visit the city, Coventry Then & Now will provide present occupants with a glimpse of how the city used to be, in addition to awakening nostalgic memories for those who used to live or work here.

Coventry: A Novel

Author : Helen Humphreys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307353X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Coventry: A Novel written by Helen Humphreys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Elegant . . . illuminates the impact of war on ordinary people . . . an elegy and a celebration.”—Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet Marsh stands on the roof of the historic Coventry cathedral and marvels at the frost glittering beneath a full moon. But it is a bomber’s moon, and the Luftwaffe is coming to unleash destruction on the city. For Harriet; for the young fire watcher, Jeremy, standing beside her; and for his artist mother, Maeve, hiding in a cellar, this single night of horror will resonate for the rest of their lives. Coventry is a testament to the power of the human spirit, an honest and ultimately uplifting account of heartache transformed into compassion and love.

Coventry

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717435
Total Pages : 256 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 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.

Bloody British History: Coventry

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494333
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Coventry written by David McGrory and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decapitated Lord: Medieval slaughter at the castle! Yellows vs Blues: Coventry's most violent elections revealed! Kings, rebellions and rioters! Civil war comes to the city! Boiled in beer! Baked in his oven! The most dreadful Christmas calamities in Coventry's history are inside! Coventry has one of the darkest histories on record. With sieges, battles, crimes, riots, disasters, all-out attempts at demolition and some truly dreadful punishments to boot, you'll never see the city in the same way again.

The Galaxy

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Galaxy written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coventry City Miscellany

Author : Michael Keane
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750983825
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Coventry City Miscellany written by Michael Keane and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only trivia book a Sky Blues fan could ever need, packed with facts, stats, anecdotes and history about Coventry City. From cult heroes and extraordinary escapes to FA Cup glory and championships, it’s all here – can you offer not to own a copy? Which City star was once allegedly arrested for espionage? Which star striker has been busy inventing a whole new sound? Which competition are City unbeaten in for nearly a quarter of a century?

Coventry

Author : Frederick Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632861984
Total Pages : 397 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 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.

Coventry

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752493442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by David McGrory and published by History Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * MASSACRED by KING CANUTE! The day the DANES razed Coventry! * BOILED in his OWN BEER! BAKED in his OWN OVEN! The strange and horrible history of Coventry's punishments! * SENT TO COVENTRY! The hideous true story of the Royalist prisoners held in Coventry's dungeons! * Blitz! How HITLER's BOMBERS tried to bring the city to its knees! Coventry has ......

Legendary Locals of Coventry

Author : Andrew D. Boisvert
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467101044
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Locals of Coventry written by Andrew D. Boisvert and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coventry was originally part of the Shawomet Purchase deeded to Samuel Gorton. People like Francis Brayton and Joseph Bucklin petitioned the Rhode Island General Assembly to form the new town. During the Industrial Revolution, John Jenckes Kilton and Searles Capwell played roles in the development of mills and businesses. Today, Coventry boasts many second-generation businesses including Crystal Cleansers, owned by William Marcotte, and Maguire Lace & Warping, run by James Maguire alongside his father, Joseph Maguire. Coventry is home to several independently operated businesses as well, such as All Booked Up, owned by Deana Borges, and Summit General Store, owned by the Skaling family. Educators such as Peter Stetson and Julie Lima Boyle followed in the footsteps of Carrie Ina Shippee and Mary Harvey. Many of Coventry's men and women have answered the call to serve their country, including George Potter and Mary Agnes Delehantey. Not many towns can claim as their own a swimmer of the English Channel, a girl who was an ambassador to Alaska, and a recipient of a Field & Stream award.

The English Reports: House of Lords (1677-1865)

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1644 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Reports: House of Lords (1677-1865) written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coventry

Author : Tim Myers
Publisher : Tim Myers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Tim Myers and published by Tim Myers. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author and Agatha Award Nominee! Abraham Cole is the mayor and handyman for Coventry, North Carolina, a small town in the mountains. When he isn’t fixing doors and painting porches, he spends his days holding the town he loves together. From dealing with a runaway parade float to helping find a missing trash-man sculptor to a boy in town who needs a father-figure in his life, Abraham’s life is always full of surprises

The Galaxy

Author : William Conant Church
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Galaxy written by William Conant Church and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebuilding Coventry

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718159748
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Coventry written by Sue Townsend and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt, from the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series and The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .' When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her next-door neighbour, in a wild attempt to stop him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby and his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . . Praise for Sue Townsend: 'Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy' Sunday Times 'She fills the pages with turmoil, anger, passion, love and big helpings of wit. It's full of colour and glows with life' Independent 'Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour' Women's Weekly

The Revised Reports

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Revised Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The King Cried for Coventry

Author : Mark Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781092816045
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The King Cried for Coventry written by Mark Scott and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The King Cried for Coventry" is a factual account of a "Who do you think you are?"- style family history quest to uncover the story of civilian fireman called Frank Archer. He was killed in April 1941 in the Blitz on Coventry. The investigation started with a tiny and fragile newspaper clipping announcing his death. It was found among the effects of the author's deceased grandmother. The story that unfolds is one of an ordinary young family caught up in an extraordinarily fierce assault on one of Britain's proud cities. Although far from the first such raid (London, in particular, having been repeatedly targeted prior to this), the fury that was unleashed against Coventry during the first Blitz was unprecedented at the time it first occurred. It marked a new type of attack that was overwhelmingly intense. Fireman Frank Archer was killed in the April 1941 Blitz raid on Coventry. But how and where did he die? What happened to his family? Answering these questions provides a window through which one can glimpse the war experience of this representative family, and how they coped. Doing so illustrates the reality of one of the greatest disasters British people have faced, and the way those left behind are affected for decades after.

Coventry

Author : Caroline Gould
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 1848023413
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Caroline Gould and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power of warfare. The medieval city, already undergoing rapid change, was largely destroyed on that night. The destruction was seen as an opportunity by some including the then City Architect, Donald Gibson. The result was the first of the master plans for post-war redevelopment of Britain's bombed city centres. The redevelopment of Coventry city centre to plans by Gibson and his successors provided an intensely urban and civilised centre, embodying new planning principles. Post-war Coventry was hugely influential and Gibson's ideas helped to shape the rebuilding of other city centres, the post-war new towns and developments in Europe. Despite incremental change in the subsequent decades the planning and architecture of Gibson's city centre are still clearly legible. The modern demands of a growing city on its centre are now very different from those of the post-war years. Coventry needs to grow and plan for its future and change will inevitably affect the city centre. This book aims to inform the public and decision makers of the significance of Coventry, and especially its centre, so that change can be managed in ways that will continue the life, use and enjoyment of the best of Coventry's remarkable post-war heritage.

Put Yourself in His Place

Author : Charles Reade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Put Yourself in His Place written by Charles Reade and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: