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Author : Luton News
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871199499
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Luton at War written by Luton News and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Adams
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445666332
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Secret Luton written by Paul Adams and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Luton's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author : John Pateman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291024611
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Seven Steps to Glory: Private Pateman Goes to War written by John Pateman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Walter Pateman, a Gypsy who was born at Leg of Mutton Common, Farnborough, Kent in 1886 and who died in action during the Great War near Leg of Mutton Wood, Bouchavesnes, France in 1917.
Author : A. Winton Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Burke's Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire written by A. Winton Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Thompson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860205521
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Forging War written by Mark Thompson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A fascinating study of the manipulation of the media in the former Yugoslavia."" -- The New York Times This study of the political manipulation of the media in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina before and during the war argues that political struggles for media control are early warnings of war and a form of preparation for it.
Author : David Beddall
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526755610
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Luton's Transport written by David Beddall and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the Chiltern Hills, Luton has a rich transport history, being home to London Luton Airport and Vauxhall Motors. This south Bedfordshire town has also had an interesting public transport history, most notable being Luton Corporation Transport, Eastern National, United Counties and London Transport. The towns of Luton and Dunstable are linked by one of the longest guided busways in the world. Luton’s Transport takes a look at the development of Luton’s tramway, along with the development of bus and coach services in the Luton, Dunstable and Houghton Regis areas of Bedfordshire.
Author : Manchester (England). City Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by Manchester (England). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings for 1903/04-1950/51 accompanied by separately paged volumes with title "Appendix to Council minutes, containing reports, etc., brought before the Council" (varies).
Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602397058
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Rockets written by Norman Longmate and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British intelligence skillfully pieced together often contradictory evidence as it sought to establish the true nature of the threat. Finally he recalls in detail the feel and fears of the time from the viewpoint of those who suffered, and those who were all too conscious tat they were the target.
Author : Geoff Mills
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1069 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK During the Second World War written by Geoff Mills and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. During a seven year period 500 airfields were constructed to serve the needs first of the RAF and later the USAAF as they carried the war to German-occupied Europe. The airfields that were constructed took many different forms from training airfields and Advanced Landing Grounds to grass fighter airstrips and vast complexes used to accommodate heavy bombers. This book charts the history of each Second World War airfield in and around the UK providing a unique insight in to the construction, operational life and post-war history of each airfield. Alongside detailing the history of each airfield, this work comprehensively records the details of each unit that operated from airfields around the UK. The information provided in this meticulously researched book is supported by a wealth of 690 photographs providing an illustration into the life of each wartime station.
Author : David Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009340298
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Politics of the Past written by David Cowan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period – between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub – shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
Author : Brian Bond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434098
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Unquiet Western Front written by Brian Bond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey's End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are at last permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective.
Author : Tal Samuel-Azran
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433108648
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Al-Jazeera and US War Coverage written by Tal Samuel-Azran and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ever since its launch over a decade ago, Al-Jazeera has influenced broadcast journalism globally and transformed the Arab television news sphere. Its coverage of wars and conflicts in the region has earned the pan-Arabic news network many admirers and a few powerful adversaries, as Tal Samuel-Azran's book ably demonstrates. This is an empirically strong contribution to the literature on the politics of global news."---Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, University of Westminster, London --Book Jacket.
Author : Brad Beaven
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060274
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Leisure, Citizenship and Working-class Men in Britain, 1850-1945 written by Brad Beaven and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in governance perceived that 'good' leisure and citizenship could fend off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry. Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826478979
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (789 download)
Download or read book British Cinema and the Second World War written by Robert Murphy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides a decade-by-decade analysis of every film ever made in Britain about World War II. It provides a comprehensive account of how Britain has portrayed the war through films.
Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750987480
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book A Hard Local War written by William Sheehan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hands of the IRA in 1919 signalled the outbreak of war in Ireland. The Irish War of Independence raged until a truce between the British Army and the IRA in 1921, historical consensus being that the conflict ended in military stalemate. In A Hard Local War, William Sheeham sets out to prove that no such stalemate existed, and that both sides were continually innovative and adaptive. Using new research and previously unpublished archive material, he traces the experience of the British rank and file, their opinion of their opponents, the special forces created to fight in the Irish countryside, RAF involvement and the evolution of IRA reliance on IEDs and terrorism.
Author : Jon Diamond
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473845580
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Malaya and Singapore written by Jon Diamond and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita. British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and tactical superiority. Morale was badly affected by the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse to Japanese aircraft on 19 December as they sought out enemy shipping. Panic set in as military and civilians withdrew south to Singapore. Thought to be an impregnable fortress, its defences against land attacks were shockingly deficient. General Percival's leadership was at best uninspired and at worst incompetent. Once the Allied troops withdrew to Singapore it was only a matter of time before surrender became inevitable. To make matters worse reinforcements arrived but only in time to be made POWs. The whole catastrophe is brilliantly described in this highly illustrated book.
