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Pontefract Castleford In The Great War
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Book Synopsis Pontefract & Castleford in the Great War by : Timothy Lynch
Download or read book Pontefract & Castleford in the Great War written by Timothy Lynch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of 1914, 15,000 Yorkshire miners had volunteered for the army, with around 1,000 from a single Castleford pit. Over the next four years these courageous men would write home from the killing fields of France, Gallipoli, Italy, Mesopotamia and Africa. As the men marched away, the families they left behind were about to experience a war that reached into every home, touching every man, woman and child in the country. This was total war.Local women some still teenage girls faced the gruelling hardships and dangers of munitions work. Some would die for their country. Former male pupils at the Quaker school struggled with their consciences. Some would fight, some would serve in the front lines as ambulance men and others would go to prison for their beliefs. Using original material, diaries, letters and newspaper reports, this enthralling book tells the fascinating and largely forgotten story of the Great War at home. Covering the terror of Zeppelin raids and anti-German rioting, foreign refugees, a story of true love among the gentry, the vexed question of whether bookies were essential war workers and tales of heroism at the front, here is the war as experienced by the dedicated people of Pontefract and Castleford.
Book Synopsis Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Pontefract and Castleford by : Keith Henson
Download or read book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Pontefract and Castleford written by Keith Henson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Book Synopsis Wakefield in the Great War by : Timothy Lynch
Download or read book Wakefield in the Great War written by Timothy Lynch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War saw thousands of Wakefield men enlist in the armed forces, serving in every arm of the services. Wakefield in the Great War tells the story of the men who fought and the families they left behind.This was total war. Volunteers worked tirelessly as nurses in local auxiliary hospitals, cared for Belgian refugees, sent food parcels to prisoners of war, fed soldiers during their long waits at railway stations and stitched sandbags to send to the Front. At nearby country estates, the 'Gorgeous Wrecks' practiced maneuvers at weekend camps.Wakefields engineering firms set the model for war production from shells to backpacks. Children gathered chestnuts and moss to help the war effort and stood patiently for hours in long queues to feed their families. The prison became home to conscientious objectors and the target for running battles in the street outside so that men had to find ways of sneaking over the walls to get back into jail.Wakefield in the Great War is the untold story of a time that would change the city forever.
Book Synopsis Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War by : David Littlewood
Download or read book Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War written by David Littlewood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a plethora of studies have discussed why so many men decided to volunteer for the army during the Great War, the experiences of those who were called up under conscription have received relatively little scrutiny. Even when the implementation of the respective Military Service Acts has been investigated, scholars have usually focused on only the distinct minority of those eligible who expressed conscientious objections. It is rare to see equal significance placed on the fact that substantial numbers of men appealed, or were appealed for, on the grounds that their domestic, business, or occupational circumstances meant they should not be expected to serve. David Littlewood analyses the processes undergone by these men, and the workings of the bodies charged with assessing their cases, through a sustained transnational comparison of the British and New Zealand contexts.
Download or read book The Citizen written by Andrew Brown and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the state's duty to its citizens? As always, a good deal. This bold and timely new book brings political theorists and historians together to examine the role of, and need for, a critical, global and active civil society.
Download or read book Yorkshire's War written by Tim Lynch and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the experiences of the people of Yorkshire in the First World War in their own words, from prisoners of war to life on the Home Front
Book Synopsis Doncaster in the Great War by : Symeon Mark Waller
Download or read book Doncaster in the Great War written by Symeon Mark Waller and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Doncaster were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. During the early part of the 20th century, Doncaster was really beginning to thrive, making a great name for itself in locomotive manufacture, and forging a fine reputation for coal mining on the edge of the Barnsley seam. This book documents daily life in all its grit and grandeur immediately before, during, and after the greatest war that mankind had ever known. It is the story of families' torn apart, mines and factories depleted and orphaned children running amuck. This detailed work allows us to experience all the emotion, devastation, and pride that each and every inhabitant felt in Doncaster during the Great War.As seen in the Yorkshire Post and Bradway Bugle.
Download or read book Major Sanderson's War written by P R Hill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919 the diary of a parliamentary cavalry officer, written on an interleaved copy of William Lilly's Merlini Anglici Ephemeris, was exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was discovered to be that of Major John Sanderson for the year 1648, an officer in Colonel Robert Lilburne's regiment of horse. This was an extremely rare find, as while Civil War memoirs were common, daily accounts were not. Spanning from 11th January to 30th December, Sanderson's diary contained 270 entries that not only recalled well-known events, but also depicted the minutiae of patrol and skirmish. Major Sanderson's War is not merely a transcript of the diary, but an analysis of the role of cavalry and the northern campaign of the Second Civil War. No other book will provide the enthusiast with such a unique glimpse into the life of one of Cromwell's officers.
Book Synopsis The Birth of the Royal Air Force by : Ian Philpott
Download or read book The Birth of the Royal Air Force written by Ian Philpott and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Philpott presents us here with a compendium of facts, operational histories and photo illustrations, combined to create a comprehensive account of the early years of the Royal Air Force. Illustrated throughout, it features details of all military operations from 1914 to 1918 which impacted upon the organisation. Also included are operational details of the Independent Bomber Force throughout 1918, a supplementary historical strand that is sure to appeal to Aviation enthusiasts with a taste for features of niche focus. Details of the airfields, landing grounds, seaplane bases and various other landmarks of this era are given, and readers are encouraged to use the work as a reference book, being as it is a weighty tome of encyclopedic scope. ??Sure to make a welcome addition to any aviation enthusiasts library, this well-researched piece of work has been a long time in the making. Philpott brings his typical flare to the project, leaving no stone unturned when it comes to this dynamic, defining period of Royal Air Force history.??As featured in the East Kent Mercury and Essence Magazine.
Book Synopsis Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes by :
Download or read book Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hospitals & Health Services Year Book and Directory of Hospital Suppliers by :
Download or read book The Hospitals & Health Services Year Book and Directory of Hospital Suppliers written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hospitals Year Book and Directory of Hospital Suppliers by :
Download or read book Hospitals Year Book and Directory of Hospital Suppliers written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Hospitals Year Book and Directory of Hospital Suppliers written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry by : Bernard Burke
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 2164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by : Sir Bernard Burke
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain written by Sir Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shape of Battle by : Allan Mallinson
Download or read book The Shape of Battle written by Allan Mallinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished military historian tells the dramatic story of six defining battles in world history. Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context—the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with spears and swords or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all, an intensely human affair; human nature doesn't change. So why were certain battles fought as they were? What gave them their shape? Why did they go as they did: victory for one side, defeat for the other? In exploring six significant feats of arms—the war and campaign in which they each occurred, and the factors that determined their precise form and course—The Shape of Battle answers these fundamental questions about the waging of war. Eschewing polemics, The Shape of Battle doesn't try to argue a case. It lets the narratives—the battles—speak for themselves.
