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Author : Henry Roy Pratt Boorman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Hell's Corner, 1940 written by Henry Roy Pratt Boorman and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Hylton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147381572X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Kent and Sussex 1940 written by Stuart Hylton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1940, Britain's front line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel, Hitler's forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk. Occupation of these islands was nearer than for almost nine hundred years. Kent and Sussex 1940, tells the story of the communities that found themselves in the front line, placing their experience within the context of huge historic events.
Author : Tim Luckhurst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350149519
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Reporting the Second World War written by Tim Luckhurst and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decisive role of Britain's wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the existing historiography has framed Britain's newspapers as mouthpieces of state propaganda, readily conforming to the wishes of the wartime coalition. Tim Luckhurst challenges this through an analysis of illuminating and largely forgotten controversies which underscore the function the press held as guardians of democracy and propagators of dissenting opinion in British politics and society - from the overseas evacuation of children to the Allies' carpet bombing of German cities. Reporting the Second World War is a timely and important intervention that duly recognises the place of national, regional and specialist titles in speaking truth to power in a democracy at war.
Author : G. Campion
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230291643
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Good Fight written by G. Campion and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propaganda during the Battle of Britain contributed to high national morale and optimism, with 'The 'Few's' prowess and valour projected through Air Ministry communiqués and daily claims 'scores'. The media was a willing partner in portraying their heroism, also later consolidated in wartime publications, films and historiography.
Author : Helen Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719072901
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (729 download)
Download or read book British Civilians in the Front Line written by Helen Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By drawing on a range of sources, including secret government documents, newspapers, national and local records, feature films, as well as interviews with those who worked during air raids, this book provides an analysis of private meanings and public media representations of civilians 'in the front line'. It will be enjoyed by historians of the Second World War and those seeking to understand better ways in which civilians have experienced war in the twentieth century."--Jacket.
Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815907
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Few written by Alex Kershaw and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes "a rousing tale of little-known heroes" (Booklist). The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940-over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." These daring Americans were the few among the "few." Now, with the narrative drive and human drama that made The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter national bestsellers, Alex Kershaw tells their story for the first time.
Author : Richard Collier
Publisher : Canelo + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1800325886
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Eagle Day written by Richard Collier and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history. Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, this is a compelling story of history in the making through an intensely fought battle, taking the reader into the heart of the action as told by those who fought and experienced it. The book not only captures the often savage reality of the air battles over the Channel and southern England, but it also traces the true course of the Battle of Britain as it unfolded between August 6th and September 15th, 1940 as the German and British Commanders made their fateful decisions, and Spitfires and Messerschmitts whirled and fought in the skies. It was in these six weeks that the fate of the war, and Britain, were to be decided. A classic account of one of the Second World War’s most iconic battles, perfect for readers of Max Hastings or James Holland.
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953314
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Front-Line Kent written by Michael Foley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent has been on England's first line of defence. In all major conflicts many people in the county have lived closer to the enemy in Europe than they did to London. Much of the county's coastline has been the site of training and weapon development, which adds to the interest of military sites in this area. Michael Foley's new book delves into the long history of military Kent, from Roman forts to Martello towers, built to keep Napoleon out, from the ambitious Royal Military Canal, which cost an equivalent of GBP10 million in today's money but was abandoned after seventy years, to wartime airfields and underground Cold War installations. Illustrated with a wide range of photographs, maps, drawings, engravings and paintings, Front-Line Kent also includes location and access details for the sites that are illustrated and described. This lively and informative book will appeal to anyone interested in Kent's history, whether or not a military specialist.
Author : Lt. Hilary St. George Saunders
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786258099
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Green Beret: The Story Of The Commandos, 1940-1945 written by Lt. Hilary St. George Saunders and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am not worried about the fighting. I know you’re fairly bloody-minded. But I want to speak of discipline during the battle.” “You must get ashore, if you have to swim, and I hope some of you will return as you’ll be very useful for the next show.” The words of a Commando officer to his men before they stormed the beaches of Sicily under heavy machine-gun fire sum up the swashbuckling, devil-may-care spirit of the toughest fighting men produced—the Commandos. For their raids and battles far behind enemy lines in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Burma the men in the Green Beret have become a legend. This book shows how this legend was forged.
Author : William A. Lomax
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782225102
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Habit and Other Tales written by William A. Lomax and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in the series of intriguing and curiously absorbing short stories: a little bit more of the unexpected.
Author : Karen Garner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526157284
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Friends and enemies written by Karen Garner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland’s neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised, and gendered politics that underlay policymaking and alliance relations. Friends and enemies combines the methodologies of diplomatic history through its close reliance on archival documentation with attention to new theoretical understandings regarding the roles played by personal friendships and enmities and competing masculine ideologies among national leaders. Including, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Eamon de Valera, and their close foreign policy advisers in London, Washington DC and Dublin, as they constructed national identities and defined their nations’ special relationships in time of war.
Author : Judith Mackrell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385547692
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Correspondents written by Judith Mackrell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II—from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. "Thrilling from the first page to the last." —Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women "Just as women are so often written out of war, so it seems are the female correspondents. Mackrell corrects this omission admirably with stories of six of the best…Mackrell has done us all a great service by assembling their own fascinating stories." —New York Times Book Review On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. The Correspondents follows six remarkable women as their lives and careers intertwined: Martha Gellhorn, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship; Lee Miller, who went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine’s official war correspondent; Sigrid Schultz, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime; Virginia Cowles, a “society girl columnist” turned combat reporter; Clare Hollingworth, the first English journalist to break the news of World War II; and Helen Kirkpatrick, the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. From chasing down sources and narrowly dodging gunfire to conducting tumultuous love affairs and socializing with luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, and Man Ray, these six women are captured in all their complexity. With her gripping, intimate, and nuanced portrait, Judith Mackrell celebrates these courageous reporters who risked their lives for the scoop.
Author : Roger Parkinson
Publisher : David McKay Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Summer, 1940 written by Roger Parkinson and published by David McKay Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the four tense months of 1940 leading to the battle of Britain.
Author : William Sydney Shears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book This England written by William Sydney Shears and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Connelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317869834
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book We Can Take It! written by Mark Connelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete inventions) have combined to make a new history. The vision is mostly cosy and suits the way in which the Britons conceive of themselves: dogged, good humoured, occasionally bumbling, unified and enjoying diversity. In fact Britons load their memory towards the early part of the war (Dunkirk, Blitz, Battle of Britain) rather than when we were successful in the air or against Italy and Germany with invasions. This suits our love of being the underdog, fighting against the odds, and being in a crisis. Conversely, the periods of the war during which Britain was in the ascendant are, perversely, far more hazy in the public memory.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Organization Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Atlantic Union Resolutions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Organization Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. Con. Res. 64, to establish an Atlantic Union Delegation, and S. Res. 128, to establish a Commission for a Stronger Atlantic Union.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
