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From Doodlebugs to Devon

Author : Sarah O Shaw
Publisher : Sarah Shaw
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book From Doodlebugs to Devon written by Sarah O Shaw and published by Sarah Shaw. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1944. Housewife Yvonne Shaw's life on the Home Front is shattered when Hitler's terror weapons, the 'doodlebugs' or flying bombs, bombard south London. After several fearful weeks she escapes to Devon, but even there her troubles are not over. In letters written to her husband, an army officer in Scotland, she describes her experiences, from trying to buy a decent joint of meat to witnessing the devastation in her suburb. They raise questions: Was Croydon deliberately placed in the doodlebugs' firing line? Why was its MP arrested for breaking the law? Why couldn't she escape to Scotland? Historical evidence provides answers, placing her account in context and revealing surprising stories about the government, secret services and social attitudes which confirm and challenge assumptions about this period. Yvonne's is a unique voice: brave, honest and witty. Hers is the story of a wife, husband and son who long for the war to be over so they can be a family together.

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum

Author : Christina Rex
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445608758
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum written by Christina Rex and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime Britain through the eyes of children who were there.

I Wonder What I’m Thinking About?

Author : Moose Allain
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783523697
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book I Wonder What I’m Thinking About? written by Moose Allain and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Wonder What I’m Thinking About brings artist and illustrator Moose Allain’s best creations together in one place, in a colourful, amusing and sometimes confusing collector’s item. Moose draws cartoons, comic strips, book illustrations, doodles, diagrams, maps and guides. He uses Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine and Photoshop. He makes photographs, captions, logos, web graphics, animations and films. He paints and he draws and he doodles. He writes short stories, puns, riddles, essays, todo lists and to-don’t lists. He draws ducks, bees, Vikings, eggs, sheep, umbrellas and flowers. If you’ve ever wondered what he’s thinking about... this is it. This book is filled to the brim with the best of his work, and at the heart of it Moose tries to work out just what it is that unites his amalgam of unique, funny and distinctly varied work.

The Doodlebugs

Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doodlebugs written by Norman Longmate and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombardementerne over London skildres med dertilhørende skadevirkninger og befolkningens oplevelser og reaktioner. Indkøbskvarterer, skoler og hospitaler sønderbombes.

The Silent Day

Author : Max Arthur
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444787519
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book The Silent Day written by Max Arthur and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men would never return. This is the story of that extraordinary 24 hours. Using a wealth of first person testimonies, renowned historian Max Arthur recounts a remarkable new oral history of D-Day, beginning with the two years leading up to the silent day which saw the UK transformed by the arrival of thousands of American and Canadian troops. We also hear the views of the American troops, who quickly formed strong views of both the British military and civilian populations. Then, on that June morning, many Britain people woke up to discover that vast areas of the country, which had throbbed with life only the day before, were now empty and silent. Civilian workers found coffee pots still warm on the stove but not a soul to greet them. Many women - and children - felt bewildered and betrayed. Then, throughout that day and the days that followed, the whole population gathered around wireless sets, waiting for news. There are powerful testimonies from families of who lost loved ones on the beaches of Normandy, and dramatic personal accounts from young widows who had never had the chance to say goodbye. THE SILENT DAY is an original and evocative portrait of a key event in world history, and a poignant reminder of the human cost of D-Day.

Many Blessings

Author : Liliana Fulker
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412021057
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Many Blessings written by Liliana Fulker and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence of memories, life, emotions and experiences of ordinary everyday living through the eyes and feelings of a child, wife and mother.

Evacuation

Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 9780237523060
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Evacuation written by Stewart Ross and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this series uses primary source evidence such as diaries, posters, newspaper cuttings and oral accounts to portray life on the Home Front.

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wartime Summer

Author : Caroline Taggart
Publisher : John Blake
ISBN 13 : 1789461308
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Wartime Summer written by Caroline Taggart and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take summer holidays for granted but, back in the 1940s, the picture was very different. War had gripped Britain. Wave after wave of bombs fell, beaches were closed off, and petrol was rationed by the forbidding question, 'Is your journey really necessary?' But the summer days (with double summer time) seemed to go on forever, war or no war - and British families were determined to make the best of their paralyzed country. For evacuated children, this meant freedom that is unimaginable today: wandering at will, discovering wildlife in fields and ponds, foraging from orchards and hedgerows and swimming in the streams. Elsewhere, country estates were requisitioned for the war efforts, the tennis courts given over for training and the Lord and Lady of the manor sent packing! Dances attracted people from all walks of life - from ballroom dances to the thrill of the arrival of the GIs and the jitterbug. But the shadow of war was never far away; the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and the D-Day Landings in 1944 took place in June - with unreliable summer weather playing a part in both. In this book, Caroline Taggart shows us how Britons succeeded in keeping up spirits in spite of the constant devastation of battle. It is a revealing and entertaining collection of first-hand reminiscences from people who lived through those six long years. Touching, tragic, occasionally hilarious, it shows the British soldiering on as best they could.

A History of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts

Author : Julie Cook
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399003445
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A History of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts written by Julie Cook and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS charts the evolution of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from its early days as a movement started before WW1 right through to the modern day. With real life interviews with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from their 90s down to young children, this book looks at what being a Girl Guide has meant through the ages up to the present day. With dramatic and often emotional stories of what it was like to be an evacuated Brownie in the Second World War, a disabled Girl Guide and with tales of girls' heroism throughout the two great wars both in the UK and the United States, this book extols the Guiding and Scouting movement as one that has evolved with women and girls' rights and its hopes for the future.

The Outsider

Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407121
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book The Outsider written by Frederick Forsyth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don’t know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life. He was the RAF’s youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent—well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that’s just for starters. It is a memoir like no other—and a book of pure delight.

Year Of Victory

Author : Mary Jane Staples
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446488446
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Year Of Victory written by Mary Jane Staples and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly endless war was at last coming to a conclusion. But for the country and for the Adams family, there were still many tribulations to be overcome. Flying bombs - the deadly V1 buzzbombs - appeared over London, causing dreadful destruction, and the struggle continued to overcome the most powerful war machine the world had ever known. But amongst the Cockney community there were lighter moments, too. For Felicity, Eloise and Lizzy Somers there was the happiness of knowing that their menfolk were safe and well. Daniel Adams and his American girlfriend even had a brief meeting with Winston Churchill himself. And as the Third Reich began to show signs of collapse, the scent of victory was in the air.

The Blitz Companion

Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1911534491
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Blitz Companion written by Mark Clapson and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved.

Potato World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potato World written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secrets

Author : Lesley Pearse
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907053
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Secrets written by Lesley Pearse and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1930, and Secrets tells the tale of one girl caught in a family mystery, a struggle against cruelty, and a quest for love . . . This is just one of many captivating novels from the international NO.1 BESTSELLING author Lesley Pearse. Without her mother she is alone in the world . . . Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness. But when trust is betrayed Adele has no choice but to run away . . . Alone and friendless, she heads for Sussex, to seek out the grandmother she has never known. However the journey, without food or shelter, leaves her desperately ill. Surrounded by the beautiful Rye Marshes, Adele is nursed back to health. Can she now dream of a new life? But what will happen when her mother reappears, bearing shocking family secrets? Cathy Kelly and Josephine Cox fans will swiftly fall for Lesley Pearse's mesmerising novels - you'll want to read them again and again . . . 'With characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail 'Utterly riveting, brilliant' Closer 'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella 'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's Weekly

An Emotional Gauntlet

Author : Stuart J. Wright
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147381183X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book An Emotional Gauntlet written by Stuart J. Wright and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving account of the lives of one diverse WWII American aircrew, “filled with humor, chaos, horror, and tragedy” (The Freeport Journal-Standard). In this book, Stuart J Wright tells the gripping story of a World War II American aircrew flying missions from Old Buckenham, England in a B-24 Liberator bomber they nicknamed Corky, based on years of research and correspondence with crew members and their families. Wright adds a dimension rarely explored in other World War II memoirs and narratives, beginning the chronicle during peacetime when the men of the aircrew are introduced as civilians—kids during the 1920s. As they mature through the years of the Great Depression to face a world at war, questions are raised about “just” and “unjust” wars, imperialism and patriotism. Jingoistic sentimentality is resisted in favor of objectivity, as the feelings and motivations of the crew members are explored: the Chinese American air gunner had hoped to serve in the U.S. Army Air Force to fight against the Japanese invaders of his homeland; the Jewish navigator felt compelled to join the battle against Nazi Germany. In recounting the harrowing conditions and horrors of bombing missions over Europe, An Emotional Gauntlet emphasizes the interpersonal relationships within the crew and the spirit these men shared. As pilot Jack Nortridge regularly assured his crew, “If you fly with me, I'm going to bring you home.” This book is a testament to their strength and determination. Includes photographs “Compelling…stands out for its integration of pre-war civilian life with wartime experiences. To me, this is the essence of America's story in the war, and I am glad to find a book that comprehends this and tells the story from this perspective.”—Jerome Klinkowitz, author of Yanks Over Europe: American Flyers in World War II

Secret Weapons

Author : Brian J Ford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472804724
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Secret Weapons written by Brian J Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the bunkers of Nazi Germany, many of the world's top scientists worked to create a new generation of war winning super-weapons. A few of these, such as jet aircraft and the V2 rocket, became realities at the end of the war, others never made it off the drawing-board. Written by noted research scientist, Brian Ford, this exciting book charts the history of secret weapons development by all the major powers during the war, from British radar to Japanese ray-guns, and explains the impact that these developments eventually had on the outcome of World War II. Ford also takes a look at the weapons that never made it to development stage, as well as the more radical plans, such as the idea of turning Hitler into a woman with hormone treatment.