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Author :Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission. Working Party on Museums of the Armed Services Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :60 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (42 download)
Book Synopsis The Museums of the Armed Services by : Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission. Working Party on Museums of the Armed Services
Download or read book The Museums of the Armed Services written by Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission. Working Party on Museums of the Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an insight into the collections of 200 armed services museums throughout the UK. It includes sections on the organization and funding of such institutions, as well as information on how they fit into the wider museum context.
Book Synopsis The AMOT Guide to Military Museums in the UK by : The Ogilby Trust
Download or read book The AMOT Guide to Military Museums in the UK written by The Ogilby Trust and published by Third Millennium Information. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest edition of this popular guidebook published in association with the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Military Museums in the UK includes comprehensive region-by-region details on over 140 regimental and service-related museums throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In addition to clearly presented information on collections, facilities, opening hours and directions, there is a separate section covering the principal Service Museums and prestigious national collections, as well as a guide to the succession of regimental titles. The paperback edition is designed for easy reference and is the essential guide for museum visitors and military historians. Trade customers should contact us direct on 02073360144, or order via our distributor, Marston Book Services: see our contact page for details. Specifications: softback, 210 x 248 mm, 104 pages, ISBN: 9781903942611, publication: October 2010, published price: £9.99
Book Synopsis The Greatest Raid by : Giles Whittell
Download or read book The Greatest Raid written by Giles Whittell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times 'Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants shines out from the narrative' Patrick Bishop, Sunday Telegraph _________________________________ FROM THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE OF SPIES: A dramatic and colourful new account of the most daring British commando raid of World War Two In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertook "the greatest raid of all", turning an old destroyer into a live bomb and using it to ram the gates of a Nazi stronghold. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded -- more than in any similar operation. Drawing on official documents, interviews, unknown accounts and the astonished reactions of French civilians and German forces, The Greatest Raid recreates in cinematic detail the hours in which the "Charioteers" fought and died, from Lt Gerard Brett, the curator at the V & A, to "Bertie" Burtinshaw, who went into battle humming There'll Always be an England, and from Lt Stuart Chant, who set the fuses with 90 seconds to escape, to the epic solo reconnaissance of the legendary Times journalist Capt Micky Burn. Unearthing the untold human stories of Operation Chariot, Bridge of Spies author Giles Whittell reveals it to be a fundamentally misconceived raid whose impact and legacy was secured by astonishing bravery. _________________________________ 'Enthralling . . . the heroism on display that night was unsurpassed, and Whittell is right to call his book The Greatest Raid' Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday 'A compelling page-turner, the work of a master storyteller. The drama of the March 1942 operation is cinematic in its sweep and detail -- and Whittell's detective work on the real reasons for the raid is extraordinary. Beautifully written' Matthew d'Ancona
Book Synopsis Military Museums in the UK by : Army Museums Ogilby Trust (Salisbury, GB).
Download or read book Military Museums in the UK written by Army Museums Ogilby Trust (Salisbury, GB). and published by Third Millenium Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part 1 of the guide, 136 regimental and corps museums are listed alphabetically, by location in 13 regional sections, each with its own accompanying map. Part 2 contains details of the principal national museums of military interest. The final section provides information about the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, its founder, objectives and activities in support of regimental and corps museums
Book Synopsis Local War Museums by : Cecil Reginald Grundy
Download or read book Local War Museums written by Cecil Reginald Grundy and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to Military Museum by : Terence Wise
Download or read book A Guide to Military Museum written by Terence Wise and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military museums in the British Isles.
Book Synopsis Thames: Sacred River by : Peter Ackroyd
Download or read book Thames: Sacred River written by Peter Ackroyd and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces. Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details, and for writing about them in the most magisterial prose; the result is a wonderfully readable and captivating guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it.
Book Synopsis The Next War in the Air by : Brett Holman
Download or read book The Next War in the Air written by Brett Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth. But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.
Book Synopsis H M S Belfast by : Imperial War Museum
Download or read book H M S Belfast written by Imperial War Museum and published by HP Trade. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holocaust written by Imperial War Museum and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of the narrative of genocide. Personal stories help audiences consider the cause, course, and consequences of this seminal period in world history. In Holocaust, historian James Bulgin presents a wealth of archival material--including emotive objects, newly commissioned photography, and previously unpublished personal testimony from those who were there--to examine the role of ideology and individual decision-making in the course of World War II and the Holocaust. The book is published to coincide with the opening of Imperial War Museums's groundbreaking new Second World War and Holocaust Galleries.
Book Synopsis Museums, Modernity and Conflict by : Kate Hill
Download or read book Museums, Modernity and Conflict written by Kate Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded to and been shaped by war and conflicts of various sorts. Written by a mixture of museum professionals and academics and ranging across Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines the many ways in which museums were affected by major conflicts such as the World Wars, considers how and why they attempted to contribute to the war effort, analyses how wartime collecting shaped the nature of the objects held by a variety of museums, and demonstrates how museums of war and of the military came into existence during this period. Closely focused around conflicts which had the most wide-ranging impact on museums, this collection includes reflections on museums such as the Louvre, the Stedelijk in the Netherlands, the Canadian War Museum and the State Art Collections Dresden. Museums, Modernity and Conflict will be of interest to academics and students worldwide, particularly those engaged in the study of museums, war and history. Showing how the past continues to shape contemporary museum work in a variety of different and sometimes unexpected ways, the book will also be of interest to museum practitioners.
Book Synopsis A Museum at War by : Karolyn Shindler
Download or read book A Museum at War written by Karolyn Shindler and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Natural History Museum - as with so many other organisations - the Great War brought unimagined change. Sixty-one members of staff serve in the military. Thirteen of them die. Routine work is suspended as, over the fouryears of the war, 14 government departments - from the Admiralty and the War Office to the Home Office and the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries - turn to the Museum for its scientific expertise and innovation.Its scientists are consulted on a huge range of issues from airship construction, how protective coloration in nature can be applied to war - we know it now as camouflage - to the roles of whales and seagulls in anti-bmarine warfare, and how to protect soldiers from the potentially deadly dangers of mosquitoes, flies and lice. The scientists' work is recorded month by month in their reports to the Museum Trustees. Through this remarkable archive, a diary of extraordinary endeavour and perseverance, Karolyn Shindler reveals how, for four years, the Natural History Museum played an unexpected and significant role in Britain's war effort.
Book Synopsis Military Museums in England by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Military Museums in England written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 85. Chapters: Bletchley Park, Battle Abbey, Chester Castle, Imperial War Museum, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Westgate, Canterbury, Imperial War Museum North, RAF Digby, National Army Museum, Dover Castle, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, Southsea Castle, Bovington Tank Museum, Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Upnor Castle, Tilbury Fort, RAF Twinwood Farm, Coalhouse Fort, Segedunum, Pendennis Castle, Crownhill Fort, Royal Armouries Museum, Deal Castle, The Needles Battery, Fort Nelson, Hampshire, RAF Davidstow Moor, Western Approaches Command, Muckleburgh Collection, Eastbourne Redoubt, Bawdsey Manor, Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker, Hurst Castle, RAF Henlow, Fort Amherst, RAF Holmpton, Portland Castle, Harwich Redoubt, Eden Camp Museum, Somerset Military Museum, Birmingham Proof House, York Cold War Bunker, Stratfield Saye House, Landguard Fort, Royal Engineers Museum, Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, Arbeia, Heugh Battery, Loughborough Carillon, Fort Paull, Dartmouth Castle, Southwick House, RAF Millom Museum, Newhaven Fort, Stratford Armouries, Lunt Roman Fort, Yarmouth Castle, Magnis, Nothe Fort, Fort Brockhurst, Cheshire Military Museum, King's House, Winchester, Quebec House, Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Army Medical Services Museum, The Second World War Experience Centre, Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience, Castle of St. John, The Museum of Technology, D-Day Museum, Museum of Lancashire, New Tavern Fort, Museum of Army Transport. Excerpt: Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire. Today the museum gives its...
Book Synopsis Military and War Museums in England by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Military and War Museums in England written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 97. Chapters: Arbeia, Army Medical Services Museum, Battle Abbey, Bawdsey Manor, Birmingham Proof House, Bletchley Park, Castle of St. John, Cheshire Military Museum, Chester Castle, Coalhouse Fort, Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, Crownhill Fort, D-Day Museum, Dartmouth Castle, Deal Castle, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Dover Castle, Eastbourne Redoubt, Eden Camp Museum, Fort Amherst, Fort Brockhurst, Fort Nelson, Hampshire, Fort Paull, Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, Harwich Redoubt, Heugh Battery, Hurst Castle, Imperial War Museum, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Imperial War Museum North, Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker, Kent Battle of Britain Museum, King's House, Winchester, Landguard Fort, Loughborough Carillon, Lunt Roman Fort, Magnis (Carvoran), Muckleburgh Collection, Museum of Army Transport, Museum of Lancashire, Newhaven Fort, New Tavern Fort, Nothe Fort, Pendennis Castle, Portland Castle, Quebec House, RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, RAF Davidstow Moor, RAF Digby, RAF Henlow, RAF Holmpton, RAF Millom Museum, RAF Twinwood Farm, Royal Armouries Museum, Royal Engineers Museum, Segedunum, Somerset Military Museum, Southsea Castle, Southwick House, Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Stratfield Saye House, Stratford Armouries, The Museum of Technology, The Needles Battery, The Second World War Experience Centre, The Tank Museum, Tilbury Fort, Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Upnor Castle, Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, Westgate, Canterbury, Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience, Yarmouth Castle, York Cold War Bunker. Excerpt: Branches of the Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to...
Book Synopsis D-Day and Normandy by : Anthony Richards
Download or read book D-Day and Normandy written by Anthony Richards and published by Imperial War Museums. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, an unprecedented assemblage of men, weapons, and machines swung into action. The long-awaited, highly secret D-Day invasion had begun. By the end of the day, the mission to liberate Europe had made its most crucial advance. This book marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day through a richly illustrated account of the invasion and its aftermath. Drawing on the unparalleled collections of IWM, it reconstructs the historic landings and the subsequent battle for a foothold in Normandy through images of artifacts, documents, period photographs, and art. Interviews, firsthand accounts, and film stills put the reader right into the action, reminding us that even with all the careful planning and firepower the Allies were able to muster, the outcome of the invasion was far from certain. Re-creating the drama and danger of D-Day, this book will be the perfect commemoration of a day that truly changed the world.
Download or read book The King's War written by Peter Conradi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939—which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speech—was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic, Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side.The King's War follows that relationship through the dangerous days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945—and beyond. Like the first book, it is written by Peter Conradi, a London Sunday Times journalist, and Mark Logue (Lionel's grandson), and again draws on exclusive material from the Logue Archive—the collection of diaries, letters, and other documents left by Lionel and his feisty wife, Myrtle. This gripping narrative provides a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families—the Windsors and the Logues—as they together face the greatest challenge in Britain's history.
Book Synopsis Does War Belong in Museums? by : Wolfgang Muchitsch
Download or read book Does War Belong in Museums? written by Wolfgang Muchitsch and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights? What images of shock or identification does one generate - and what images would be desirable?
