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On to Civvy Street

Author : Peter Neary
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773586598
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis On to Civvy Street by : Peter Neary

Download or read book On to Civvy Street written by Peter Neary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events responsible for developing the orders and statutes that came to be known as the Veterans Charter, creating the Department of Veterans Affairs, and establishing sweeping new benefits for servicemen and women. Comparing rehabilitation programs after the Second World War with those after the First World War, Neary reveals the lasting importance of the country's new way of expressing its obligations to veterans. He shows that the measures developed to reintegrate them into civilian society became essential building blocks for the Canadian welfare state and helped pave the way for the unprecedented prosperity of the 1950s. A comprehensive study of a fundamental change in the relationship between government and citizens, On to Civvy Street is also a timely reminder of the debt the country owes its veterans.

Civvy Street

Author : Fiona Field
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781857776
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Civvy Street written by Fiona Field and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Collins's world has fallen apart. Her husband, Mike, has been made redundant from the army. But worse is to come when Susie learns that the family finances are much rockier than she realised. Their rebellious twin daughters can't stay at their fee-paying school and there's almost no money left to buy a decent house. These are desperate times and Susie knows she must find a job quickly. But Mike is being difficult about her plans and the girls impossible. How are they all going to cope? Life is tough for newcomers on civvy street.

Operation Civvy Street

Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0957067402
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Operation Civvy Street written by Peter Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Civvy Street is for anyone planning on leaving the Armed Forces. Full of hints, tips and advice to make the most of your transition from the military to the civilian world. Written by Peter Lewis, a soldier for 20 years, it contains techniques that will allow you to create a fantastic new life beyond the military. Written in clear, no nonsense style, this book outlines the necessary steps you need to take to fulfil your true potential. Using the principles described, Peter has created a highly successful training business from scratch; despite having little idea what he could do when he started planning! Each chapter contains mini-tactics that you can implement straight away in your daily routine in order to develop your confidence, gain clarity on what you want to do and design the new life that you are capable of. It doesn't matter if you have little or no idea about what you could do in civilian life - this book will help you get clear and moving towards a great future!

Civvy Street

Author : Fiona Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750544092
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Civvy Street written by Fiona Field and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Collins¿s world falls apart when her husband, Mike, is made redundant from the army. But worse is to come when Susie learns that the family finances are in a much rockier state than she realised. Their rebellious twin daughters can't stay at their fee-paying school and there'll be almost no money left to buy a decent house. These are desperate times and Susie knows she must find a job quickly. Will the regiment accept her back as a mess manager? What will their friends think, and how will the family cope? Life is tough for newcomers on Civvy Street.

Signposts for Civvy Street

Author : Karen Castle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914195518
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Signposts for Civvy Street written by Karen Castle and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a member of the UK Military is often compared to being part of a large extended family where there is a sense of shared purpose, humour, discipline, comradeship and team spirit. Or at least that is what we were told when talking to military veterans about their resettlement experiences whilst gathering information for this book. But, sadly we were also told that when people leave the armed forces, there is also a feeling of being "fobbed off", of being "no use to society", of "not knowing where" they fit in and this in turn led to "real despair", "severe anxiety", "frustration" and "lack of identity". What an incredibly sad situation. We train people in techniques to support us in times of threat, crisis and war, when most of the population runs away from danger, these brave souls run into the danger. Yet, when their work is done, they feel they are entering into a society in which they no longer belong. We felt compelled to put together this guide to help UK military leavers to find help and support. People coming out of the military need help to do things that many of us take for granted. For example, registering for a GP, renting a home, buying a house and applying for jobs are just a few tasks that veterans are likely to find challenging. So, Signposts for Civvy Street provides some direction in offering suggestions for carrying out some of these tasks, and provides information of many agencies and charities that can offer specific and targeted help. We acknowledge that the military provides some information and support for military leavers, but we also understand that this is, at times disparate and difficult to access. Our hope is that this book helps veterans to understand some of the challenges, but also, offers suggestions for getting further advice and support.

Civvy Street

Author : Clive Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781795591676
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Civvy Street written by Clive Ward and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as a sitcom, Civvy Street is a story of success and failure, the haves and the have nots. Two veterans who once served together leave the military and go in two very different directions. Ex Sergeant Major Charles Fanshaw and Private Barry Gibson later meet again in Civvy street, that's when this crazy story begins. Barry Gibson or Baz as he likes to be called, left the army six years ago and had served in the same unit as Charles, but spent most of his twenty-two years in the stores, blanket stacking. Mad Elvis fan, Baz has been working for Charles for the last six months, after a drunken Charles took pity on him one night down the local British Legion, when he found out he was unemployed. That was one of Charles' weak spots, get him drunk and he'll promise you the world! Being in work for six months is a record for Baz, apart from being in the army. Baz likes to do as little as possible, if he can get away with it, "skive to survive" that's his motto. Charles Fanshaw had left the army with a pension and a healthy amount in his savings account. One day he met a man on the golf course who was selling his business due to retirement. The business was a toilet roll manufacturing company. For the first few years the business was doing well, then it started to fail around the same time he was reluctantly reunited with his soon to be nemesis, Barry Gibson.

Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada

Author : Peter Neary
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773516786
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada written by Peter Neary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part history and part social commentary, this book examines the repatriation of Canada's WWII veterans with a collection of essays by 11 historians. Topics include the administration of the return of Canadian soldiers from Europe after VE--Day, the philosophy and benefits of the Veterans Charter, veterans' rights, educational opportunities for returning vets, and the rehabilitation of veterans with disabilities. Includes bandw photographs. Appends the complete text of Back to Civil Life, a 1946 repatriation manual. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Civvy Street

Author : Heather Davidson
Publisher : Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civvy Street written by Heather Davidson and published by Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civvy Street

Author : Judy Hinz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646399928
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Civvy Street written by Judy Hinz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drop Zone Burma

Author : Roger Annett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844157504
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Drop Zone Burma written by Roger Annett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air-dropped supplies were a vital part of the Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. The transportation of munitions, food and medical supplies was undertaken in the most difficult situations, both on the land where the air bases were often situated in remote tropical jungle terrain and in the air when hazardous flying conditions were met in the steamy airs above the carpet of forest treetops. This book is based upon the memories of nine veterans of the campaign: John Hart, an air-dispatcher with 194 Squadron; Peter Bray, a Dakota pilot with 31 Squadron; Arthur Watts, a fitter with both 31 and 194 Squadrons; Colin Lynch an Observer on 31 Squadron; Norman Currell, a Dakota pilot with 31 Squadron; George Hufflett, 1st Queens Infantry; Ken Brown, Royal Signals; Eric Knowles, the Buffs and Dame Vera Lynn who was with ENSA during the campaign. It describes how they arrived in Burma and their previous wartime experiences and then explains there parts in the famous actions such as The Defence of Arakan, The Sieges of Imphal and Kohima, the Allied Counterattack, the Advance to Mandalay and the Race to Rangoon. The author explains the background to this theater of war and then puts the veterans memories into context as the campaign progresses.

Always a Marine

Author : Steven Preece
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780571305
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Always a Marine written by Steven Preece and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Amongst the Marines, Steven Preece vividly depicted his excessive, violent lifestyle as an elite Royal Marine Commando. Now Always a Marine covers the author's struggle to leave that lifestyle behind following his departure from the service. Back on civvy street for the first time in over seven years, Preece finds it extremely difficult to adapt and struggles to shake off the belligerent mentality he developed while in the Marines. Despite these difficulties, he marries and starts a family, but this positive change is not enough to turn his life around. Preece soon discovers that his tendency towards violence will not be tolerated in the civilian workplace and, after finding himself blacklisted by many companies in his area, he is forced to look for employment abroad. This quest for work takes Preece to France, where he is caught up in a hotel fire; Germany, where he is double-crossed out of his job and later teams up with an ex-SAS trooper; Morocco, where an incident lands him in jail and he is later shot at by border police; and Thailand, where he fights in a boxing ring with a former French Legionnaire and gets caught up in a business scam. Having settled back in the UK, Preece's behaviour remains excessive. He severely injures his head and suffers minor brain damage after a heavy-drinking session. Upon recovering, he looks for something else to believe in and begins training in ninjutsu, the martial art of the ninjas, who view aggression as a sign of weakness. This, combined with the love of his family, finally enables him to put his past behind him. Always a Marine is the action-packed, often shocking account of one ex-Marine's 13-year struggle to control the aggression he learnt as a serviceman in order to become a respectable civilian.

Dictionary of Military Terms

Author : Richard Bowyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135946051
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Military Terms written by Richard Bowyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive ready-reference of military terms. With clear definitions of more than 7,000 terms, Dictionary of Military Terms covers both British and American terms as well as international terms, and includes: military personnel; maneuvers; equipment; vehicles; weapons; tactics; and commands.

From Soldier To Civvy

Author : Richard (Ernie) Okrainec
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525529242
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book From Soldier To Civvy written by Richard (Ernie) Okrainec and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle is real for those who leave the military and try to reintegrate back to civilian life. After living through this conversion and seeing the constant struggles many soldiers have, Richard provides his first hand experience of the challenges he faced in his 30-years back in civilian life, while maintaining a military discipline through it all. This book describes some of the hardships soldiers face while serving, with a strong dose of humor, stories and no excuses. It's a journey of his life in the military and how it shaped him, both good and bad, with the hope it may help those trying to find their way back in civilian life. No soldier should be left behind.

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134963653
Total Pages : 1426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.

Prosthetic Agency

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009081616
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Prosthetic Agency written by Gill Plain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography. In particular, the book explores how technology was imagined as a new space of masculine becoming and how disability was written, represented and assimilated. Through a focus on popular narrative, this book explores the modes of masculinity promoted as ideally suited to national reconstruction and tries to make sense of a culture of rehabilitation that could not name or know itself as such.

Hidden Wounds

Author : Alistair Renwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Wounds written by Alistair Renwick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing study looks at the issues of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the effect that this condition has had on ex-soldiers returning from Northern Ireland. Although the MoD and successive British governments have offered little help to these veterans, there is increasing evidence that their experiences have made it difficult for them to adjust to normal life with, for example, around one quarter of the single homeless in London being ex-service, many of whom end up in prison.

The Journey to a Little White House

Author : Lynda M. Buckman
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039182666
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Journey to a Little White House written by Lynda M. Buckman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Permanent Married Quarters of a naval base to the little white house at the end of the road, Lynda M. Buckman and her family have lived a life of fun, adventure, and great love. Military service in their young adulthood and early marriage gave the author and her husband the tools they needed to facilitate strong communication throughout their now five-decades’ long partnership, including in their roles as parents, entrepreneurs, homesteaders, and hobby farmers. In four parts, each encompassing a different home, the author recounts her tales of lessons learned in short anecdotes that are at once comfortingly universal and delightfully original. Told with humour and a lot of heart, The Journey to a Little White House is the story of a wistful dream that became a beautiful reality.