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Author : Audrey Deacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Diary of a Wren, 1940-1945 written by Audrey Deacon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844863387
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Navy written by Brian Lavery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination. Divided into twelve sections, the book delves into the structure of naval power from the Board of Admiralty and shore commands to officers and crews, their recruitment and training, daily life and discipline. The roles of the Reserves, Merchant Navy, Royal Marines and Wrens within this structure are also explained. Developments in ship design and technology, as well as advances in intelligence, sensors and armament are all discussed and set in context. The different divisions are dealt with one by one, including the Submarine Service, Fleet Air Arm, Coastal Forces, and Combined Operations. The text is complemented by over 300 illustrations and the personal accounts of those who served.
Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429574827
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Exploring Grief written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modern society’s routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society’s growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with interests in the emotions and social pathologies.
Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030239101
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture written by Lynne Pearce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks—both literal and figurative— we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy. Working with diaries, journals and literary texts from the mid- to late-twentieth century, the book pursues this thesis through three phases of the lifecourse: courtship (broadly defined), the middle years of long-term relationships and bereavement. Building upon the author’s recent research on automobility, the text’s case studies reveal the crucial role played by many different types of transport—including walking—in defining our most enduring relationships. Conceptually, the book draws upon the writings of the philosopher, Henri Bergson, the anthropologist, Tim Ingold and the geographer, David Seamon, engaging with topical debates in cultural and emotional geography (especially work on landscape, memory and mourning), mobilities studies and critical love studies.
Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Jarrold Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841651545
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Britain at War 1939-1945 written by Brian Williams and published by Jarrold Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a salute to those who fought in the forces and on many fronts, recalling days of hardship and loss, but also the forging of life-long friendships and community spirit for which World War II will always be remembered. Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel, specially more titles in this series. More titles in the History of Britain Series Ancient Britain Invaders in Britian Elizabethan England Kings & Queens Maritime Britain Medieval England Romans in Britain Tudor England Victorian Britain
Author : James Goulty
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1399000748
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Naval Eyewitnesses written by James Goulty and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Goulty tells the story from the perspective of the ordinary sailor or officer who was there."—The Northern Mariner Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War – histories and memoirs in particular – few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty’s vivid survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy experienced a war fought on a massive scale, on every ocean of the world, in a diverse range of vessels, from battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines to merchant ships and fishing boats. Their recollections are as varied as the ships they served in, and they take the reader through the entire maritime war, as it was perceived at the time by those who had direct, personal knowledge of it. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the experience of individuals – their recruitment and training, their expectations and the reality they encountered on active service in many different offensive and defensive roles including convoy duty and coastal de-fence, amphibious operations, hunting U-boats and surface raiders, mine sweeping and manning landing and rescue craft. A particularly graphic section describes, in the words of the sailors themselves, what action against the enemy felt like and the impact of casualties – seamen who were wounded or killed on board or were lost when their ships sank. A fascinating inside view of the maritime warfare emerges which may be less heroic than the image created by some post-war accounts, but it gives readers today a much more realistic impression of the whole gamut of wartime life at sea.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas A. W. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (786 download)
Download or read book A diary during wartime, 1939-1945 written by Thomas A. W. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409087425
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Requiem for a Wren written by Nevil Shute and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family crisis. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet and reliable parlour-maid. A search through her belongings in search of clues leads to heartbreaking revelations about the woman's identity, the death of Alan's brother Bill and, above all, the disappearance of his brother's fiancée, Janet.
Author : Hannah Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786723255
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The WRNS in Wartime written by Hannah Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new insights into a previously little studied British military institution, which celebrates its centenary in 2017. She shows how political and military decision-making within the fluctuating national security situation, coupled with a growing cultural acceptability of women taking on military roles, allowed for the growth of the service in World War II into realms never expected of women. Although it shared a similar pattern in its formation to the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and had a similar ethos to its Air Force counterpart, the WAAF, the WRNS took on a wider-ranging role in the war, in part due to the latitude afforded to the service because of its uniquely independent origins. From 1941 onward the WRNS spread internationally and subverted the combat taboo by adopting semi-combatant roles. Using twenty-one new oral histories and a multitude of archived personal documents, this book demonstrates the pivotal importance of the Women's Royal Naval Service in both the world wars.
Author : Beaujolois Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957031142
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Plotting Room written by Beaujolois Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I W Museum
Publisher : Booksales
ISBN 13 : 9780785802808
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book War Diary, 1938-1945 written by I W Museum and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Winstone
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654630
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Events, Dear Boy, Events written by Ruth Winstone and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of people as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women. Events, Dear Boy, Events reveals Britain's recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping the events of the day. This is living real-time history.
Author : N. K. Beckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524537104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The 1940 Diary written by N. K. Beckley and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written for many of my friends and family especially Renee, Gwen, Bobbie, Susan, Toni, Jane Jean, Aunt Anna, Ruth Dixon, Aunt Manette, Paul, Fred, and especially my parents, Fred and Elizabeth. A large thank-you goes out to all my friends in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, for without your help this book would have never been written. A special thank-you goes out to all my students because you were a large part of this book. Some of the things in this book were actual experiences I had in my classroom, both as a student and as a teacher. The names of the characters in this book have been changed to protect the real people either living or dead. There are two haunted houses?one in Rose Valley and one in Wallingford?but as for William, he is purely fiction. I hope you will enjoy this book as much as I did writing it. I hope my readers have had the time to read my other books: Peggy, The Three-Some: Book 2, The Writer?s Corner: Book 3, The Golden Nugget: Book 4, Emily (book 5), This Is As Good As It Gets (book 6), The 1940 Old Diary (book 7), and Pockets (book 8). Books 5, 6, 7, and 8 should be out very soon. They are all interactive books, and you can learn something from each one.
Author : Clarence Jungwirth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Diary of a National Guardsman in World War II, 1940-1945 written by Clarence Jungwirth and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Self
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351963791
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters written by Robert Self and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters. They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published. From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential account of events covering the quarter of a century during which he stood at the very centre of Conservative and national politics. Beyond the fascination of the historical record of people and events, these letters are extremely valuable for the remarkable light they throw upon the personality and character of the private man lurking behind the austerely forbidding public persona.
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Author : Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251523
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book American Airpower Comes Of Age—General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Vol. II [Illustrated Edition] written by Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.
