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Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Landfall written by Nevil Shute and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667602748
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Landfall: A Channel Story written by Nevil Shute and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landfall is set during World War II and follows the story of a young naval officer named John Franklin, who is given the task of escorting a group of civilian refugees across the English Channel to safety in Scotland. The journey is perilous and Franklin must navigate treacherous waters and avoid German submarines while dealing with the challenges of leading a group of disparate people from different backgrounds and with different needs. Along the way, Franklin falls in love with a young woman named Valerie Russell, who is also one of the refugees. As they make their way north, the group faces many challenges and must rely on each other to survive. "Landfall" is a gripping tale of adventure and survival during wartime, and a poignant story of love and human connection amidst chaos and uncertainty.
Author : Nevil Shute Norway
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Landfall written by Nevil Shute Norway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Landfall" by Nevil Shute Norway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Nevil Shute (pseud. van Nevil Shute Norway.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Landfall written by Nevil Shute (pseud. van Nevil Shute Norway.) and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog staat een jonge RAF-piloot terecht voor het doden van landgenoten. Alleen zijn vriendin gelooft in zijn onschuld.
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474070
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Landfall written by Nevil Shute and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jerry Chambers, a young coastal patrol pilot during World War II, is accused of mistakenly sinking a British submarine he is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far away from the woman he loves. While Jerry risks his life, his sweetheart Mona sets about trying to clear her lover's name before it is too late.
Author : Richard Thorn
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788032578
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Shute: The engineer who became a prince of storytellers written by Richard Thorn and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were frequently looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died in 1960 he was one of the best selling novelists of his day. Today, books such as A Town Like Alice and On the Beach continue to attract new generations of fans. However there was more to Shute than his books, a great deal more. Richard Thorn explores Shute’s personal and professional life, drawing from extensive research carried out using archives and sources in the UK, USA and Australia. Nevil Shute Norway began his professional life as an aeronautical engineer working on the outskirts of London for the newly established de Havilland Aircraft Company. He quickly went on to play a key role in Britain’s ill-fated and final airship programme, before co-founding an aircraft manufacturing company at the height of an economic depression. All the while, using the pseudonym Nevil Shute, he spent his time writing for relaxation in the evenings. After the Second World War, he flew a single-engined aeroplane to Australia and back in search for new material for his novels. Fascinated by the new world that he had seen, the novelist sold up and moved his family to Australia, buying a farm in a small town on the outskirts of Melbourne. For the remainder of his life, Australia was his home and the inspiration for many of his best-loved novels. Shute tells the story of the life and times of an extraordinary man who made a significant contribution to twentieth century popular literature. This book will appeal to fans of Shute’s work, those interested in his background and personal life or to readers interested in the early years of the aviation industry in Britain.
Author : Mark Lardas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472836022
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Battle of the Atlantic 1939–41 written by Mark Lardas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of World War II, few thought the U-boat would be as devastating as it proved to be. But convoys and sonar-equipped escorts proved inadequate to defend the Allies' merchantmen, and the RAF's only offensive weapon was the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. For RAF Coastal Command, the first two years of the war were the hardest. Although starved of resources, operating with outdated aircraft and often useless weaponry, they were still the only force that could take the fight to the U-boats. But in these two years, the RAF learned what it needed to win the Battle of the Atlantic. Gradually developing new tactics and technology, such as airborne radar, signals intelligence, and effective weaponry, the Allies ended 1941 in a position to defeat Dönitz's growing fleet of U-boats. This book, the first of two volumes, explains the fascinating history of how the RAF kept the convoys alive against the odds, and developed the force that would prevail in the climactic battles of 1942 and 1943.
Author : S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350024872
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Bomber Boys on Screen written by S. P. MacKenzie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre worthy of scholarly attention. In this illuminating study, S. P. MacKenzie explores the different ways in which the men of RAF Bomber Command have been represented in dramatic form on the big and small screen from the war years to the present day. Bomber Boys on Screen is the first in-depth study of how and why the screen-drama image of those who flew, those who directed them, and those who provided support for RAF bomber operations has changed over time, sometimes in contested circumstances. Until now dramas that focus on Bomber Command have tended to be mentioned only in passing or studied in isolation, despite the prevalence of surveys of both the British war film genre and of aviation cinema. In Bomber Boys on Screen MacKenzie examines the development, presentation, and reception of significant dramas on a decade-by-decade basis. Titles from the beginning of the war (The Lion Has Wings, 1939) to the start of new century (Bomber's Moon, 2014) are situated in the context of technical possibilities and limitations, evolving social and cultural norms in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and the development of moral and utilitarian controversies surrounding the wartime bomber offensive directed against Nazi Germany. While the focus is on feature films and television plays, reference is also made to documentaries, memorials, veterans' organizations, book titles, war comics, and other representations of the war fought by Bomber Command.
Author : Loyd Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033153
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes written by Loyd Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this volume reevaluates the most enduring literature on basic aspects of the war in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers themes pertaining to societies at war, culture, the arts, and science and technology as well as international relations and the postwar world. Included are not only grand strategy, military and naval campaigns, and matters of diplomacy, but also resistance, collaboration, prisoners of war, and broad topics of the home front, including chapters on gender issues, film, literature, popular culture, and propaganda. This volume and its companion provide the first comprehensive historiographic reference work on the war. Each chapter describes the state of knowledge on the topic, relating each bibliographic reference to the chapter's themes and issues, and concludes with a bibliography. Recent original scholarship is included when it aids new understanding, and older works of enduring value also find a place. The essays in this volume will interest scholars and college teachers as well as advanced students and serious amateurs seeking insight into the history of the war and its literature.
Author : Julian Lovelock
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718895975
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The Business of Reading written by Julian Lovelock and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Business of Reading, Julian Lovelock charts the development of the English novel over the past hundred years. Smuggling in titles from Scotland, Ireland and the Caribbean, he focuses on twenty texts written since the end of the First World War, some well-known but others less so, placing them in their historical context. Novelists represented range from D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, through Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and Iris Murdoch, to such contemporary writers as Ian McEwan, Maggie O'Farrell and Graham Swift. Written in a lucid style that reflects his expertise and enthusiasm, Lovelock's innovative selection, perceptive analysis and lightness of touch will appeal to the general reader, the book club member and the student. He argues that our response as readers is an important part of the creative process, and while he mainly avoids the critical '-isms' that have characterised recent academic debate, he introduces such concepts as intertextuality, metafiction and the role of the often unreliable narrator, showing how an appreciation of the way the language of fiction works can only add to our understanding and enjoyment.
Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570616558
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book More Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re searching for the perfect read for yourself or for a friend, More Book Lust offer eclectic recommendations unlike those in any other reading guide available. In this followup to the bestselling Book Lust, popular librarian, Nancy Pearl, offers a fresh collection of 1,000 reading recommendations in more than 120 thematic, intelligent and wholly entertaining reading lists. For the friend wanting to leave her job: "Living Your Dream" offers good armchair dreaming books about people who have left stodgy jobs to do what they love. Are you a budding chef? "Fiction For Foodies" includes books that sneak in a recipe or two along with a tantalizing plot. For the James Bond wannabe: "Crime is a Globetrotter" features crime novels set in various locations around the world such as Tibet, Sweden, and Sicily. In the book’s introduction, Pearl jokes, “If we were at a twelve-step meeting together, I would have to stand up and say, ‘Hi, I’m Nancy P., and I’m a readaholic.” Booklist magazine plays off this obsession while echoing a sentiment of Nancy Pearl’s fans everywhere: “A self-confessed ‘readaholic,’ Pearl lets us benefit from her addiction. May she never seek recovery.” Indeed.
Author : Marie Diamond
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646930037
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Writers, 1800 to the Present written by Marie Diamond and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, schools have started introducing more inclusive syllabi emphasizing the works and ideas of previously overlooked or underrepresented writers. Readers of all ages can now explore the rich contributions of writers from around the world. These writers have various backgrounds, and unlike most writers from the U.S. or the United Kingdom, information on them in English can be difficult to find. Encyclopedia of World Writers: 1800 to the Present covers the most important writers outside of the U.S., Britain, and Ireland since 1800. More than 330 insightful, A-to-Z entries profile novelists, poets, dramatists, and short-story writers whose works are anthologized in textbooks or assigned in high school English classes. Entries range in length from 200 to 1,000 words each and include a biographical sketch, synopses of major works, and a brief bibliography. Dozens of entries are new to this edition and many existing entries have been updated and significantly expanded with new "Critical Analysis" sections. Coverage includes: Chinua Achebe Margaret Atwood Roberto Bolaño Albert Camus Khalid Hosseini Victor Hugo Mohammad Iqbal Franz Kafka Stieg Larsson Mario Vargas Llosa Naghib Mahfouz Gabriel García Márquez Kenzaburo Oe Marcel Proust Leo Tolstoy Emile Zola and more.
Author : Julie Hensley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814252697
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Landfall written by Julie Hensley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ring of connected short stories, grounded in the fictional town of Conrad's Fork, Kentucky, everyone is staging some sort of escape. A woman harboring the dark truth about her youngest daughter's birth, a new teacher suddenly under suspicion after a student's disappearance, a young girl witnessing her older sister's sexual awakening: all the people in this Appalachian community suffer a paralyzed desire in response to the stagnancy and exposure they experience in their small town. Landfall: A Ring of Stories weaves together the voices of two generations of mountain families in which secrets are carefully guarded--even from closest kin. One by one, those who leave confront the pull of the land and the people they've left behind. Perhaps Conrad's Fork will save them, or, perhaps, in the wake of urban encroachment and shifting family systems, they will save it.
Author : Paul J. Yoder
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 164802937X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Hollywood or History? written by Paul J. Yoder and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumagenic events—episodes that have caused or are likely to cause trauma—color the experiences of K-12 students and the social studies curriculum they encounter in U.S. schools. At the same time that the global COVID-19 pandemic has heightened educators’ awareness of collective trauma, the racial reckoning of 2020 has drawn important attention to historical and transgenerational trauma. At a time when social studies educators can simply no longer ignore “difficult” knowledge, instruction that acknowledges trauma in social studies classrooms is essential. Through employing relational pedagogies and foregrounding voices that are too often silenced, the lessons in Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Acknowledge Trauma in Social Studies engage students in examining the role of traumatic or traumagenic events in social studies curriculum. The 20 Hollywood or History? lessons are organized by themes such as political trauma and war and genocide. Each lesson presents film clips, instructional strategies, and primary and secondary sources targeted to the identified K-12 grade levels. As a collection, they provide ready-to-teach resources that are perfect for teachers who are committed to acknowledging trauma in their social studies instruction.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Landfall written by Nevil Shute and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British air reconnaissance officer pursues a pub waitress, Mona, only to have his life thrown into chaos when he accidentally bombs a British U-boat. A relationship that begins as a romantic fling is suddenly tested as Mona fights to make the Navy listen to the evidence she has discovered about this tragedy.
Author : Jennifer Berne
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452123810
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Manfish written by Jennifer Berne and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorfully illustrated biography of a little French boy who would become an internationally known oceanographer and champion of the seas. Once upon a time in France, a baby was born under the summer sun. His parents named him Jacques. As he grew, Jacques fell in love with the sea. He dreamed of breathing beneath the waves and swimming as gracefully as a fish. In fact, he longed to become a manfish. Jacques Cousteau grew up to become a champion of the seas and one of the best-known oceanographers in the world. In this lovely biography, poetic text and gorgeous paintings come together to create a portrait of Cousteau that is as magical as it is inspiring. Praise for Manfish “Berne offers a luminous picture-book biography about Jacques Cousteau . . . . Puybaret’s smooth-looking acrylic paintings extend the words’ elegant simplicity and beautifully convey the sense of infinite, underwater space.” —Booklist (starred review) “This moving tribute to the great nautical observer and filmmaker is shot through with an authentically childlike sense of adventure and the thrill of discovery . . . . This poetic profile of a doer and a dreamer is certain to inspire fresh interest in discovering, and in caring for, our world’s wonders.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A new generation of children is introduced to the pioneering oceanographer and filmmaker. Beginning with Cousteau’s childhood in France where he marveled at the sea and dreamed of breathing underwater, Berne reveals the unique mix of curiosity, ingenuity, and passion that drove Cousteau to make underwater exploration possible.” —School Library Journal
