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Book Synopsis Preston in the First World War by : David Huggonson
Download or read book Preston in the First World War written by David Huggonson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War for the people of Preston. Publication ties in with the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War.
Book Synopsis Preston in the First World War by : David Huggonson
Download or read book Preston in the First World War written by David Huggonson and published by Amberley Pub Plc. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 August 1914 the people of Preston received news that war had been declared. Local newspapers printed explosive headlines stating this fact, and four years of hardship, uncertainty and loss followed. From recruitment and the Pals, to women joining the war effort in munitions factories, news from the Front, rationing, and eventually demobilization, this book provides a valuable insight into the city's experience of one of the greatest events of the twentieth century. This book has been designed to inform you, the reader, of how the city coped with the war by presenting firsthand accounts. You will read letters from those who served at the Front, interviews with local people who spoke of their childhood memories and extracts from local newspapers.
Book Synopsis A Higher Form of Killing by : Diana Preston
Download or read book A Higher Form of Killing written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907. Though Germany's attempts to quickly win the war failed, the psychological damage caused by these attacks far outweighed the casualties. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, celebrated historian Diana Preston links them for the first time, revealing the dramatic stories behind each through the eyes of those who were there, whether making the decisions or experiencing their effect. She places the attacks in the context of the centuries-old debate over what constitutes “just war,” and shows how, in their aftermath, the other combatants felt the necessity to develop extreme weapons of their own. In our current time of terror, when weapons of mass destruction-imagined or real-are once again vilified, the story of their birth is of great relevance.
Download or read book St Mary's Men written by David Casserly and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 the Museum of Lancashire was invited to take part in a programme of Heritage Lottery Funded activity under the banner of "Preston Remembers" which centred on the refurbishment of the Cenotaph in Preston city centre.A marble tablet mounted on the wall of St Mary's Church, now Lancashire Conservation Studios behind the museum, gave us the perfect opportunity to explore local stories from the community on our doorstep. The tablet contained 80 names of soldiers killed during the First World War, but nothing more, no ranks, regiments or indication of date of death. The lives of these men were a complete mystery.A team of 17 volunteers from the local area were recruited in 2014, many of whom continued to be actively involved throughout the project. A training programme was provided to develop the volunteers' skills in historical research and exhibition development. From the outset the volunteers were incredibly dedicated, enthusiastic and quickly developed a bond with the soldiers that they were researching. We all feel incredibly proud to have been part of this project and the tireless work of the volunteers has been truly inspiring. Every soldier was identified, something that we thought may not be possible, and their stories represent the full course of the First World War from 1914 to the Armistice, including all major battles fought. The research illustrates just how the men from this small Preston community played their part on the world stage and thanks to the research; we can fully appreciate the lives and deaths of our fallen heroes.
Book Synopsis Battleships of World War I by : Antony Preston
Download or read book Battleships of World War I written by Antony Preston and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Long Preston and the Great War by : Long Preston Heritage Group
Download or read book Long Preston and the Great War written by Long Preston Heritage Group and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the First World War. Extensive research into old newspapers & documents, together with information from the family archives of many residents of Long Preston; has resulted in a book containing a fascinating record of the lives of those who fought in the war. and of those who stayed behind to keep the farms and businesses still running.One chapters describes the Recruiting Process and provides information about those who went to fightand those who were lost. Other chapters cover the making and supply of Home Comforts for the soldiers and Letters from the Front, village affairs and food.
Book Synopsis Preston's Military Heritage by : Keith Johnson
Download or read book Preston's Military Heritage written by Keith Johnson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military heritage of Preston, from Roman occupation to the present day through its historic sites, personalities, monuments and memorials.
Download or read book Battleships written by Antony Preston and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated text describes the development of the battleship and its role in naval history.
Book Synopsis The United States and Venezuela during the First World War by : H. Micheal Tarver
Download or read book The United States and Venezuela during the First World War written by H. Micheal Tarver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela during a pivotal time in world history. Through the utilization of archival materials and newspaper accounts, the author highlights the words of the major participants to demonstrate how the two nations worked together – sometimes hand-in-hand, sometimes face-to-face – to prevent the European War from spreading to the Western Hemisphere. Despite several efforts to develop hemispheric unity during the War, Venezuelan leaders perceived the policy of neutrality to be in the best interest of the country's national sovereignty. This book explores the personalities of the chief executives and selected diplomats to illustrate how both personnel and personalities molded their nation’s foreign relations. In the end, while perceived as two very different individuals who pursued different paths during the global conflict, the leadership styles of President Woodrow Wilson and General Juan Vicente Gómez were more alike than they realized. The overall cordial relations between the two nations during the period under review helped establish the foundation for the petroleum bonanza that United States companies would enjoy in the following years.
Book Synopsis Britain's Railways in the First World War by : Michael Foley
Download or read book Britain's Railways in the First World War written by Michael Foley and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is easy to believe that the only part that Britain’s railways played in the First World War was to carry the soldiers to the ships that would take them to France. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Without the help from the railways it is unlikely that the war would have been over as quickly as it was. In Britain’s Railways in the First World War Michael Foley examines how the railway system and its workers proved to be a vital part of the war effort, one contemporary writer even commenting that he thought they were as significant as the navy. The book describes how the enlistment of railway troops for the Royal Engineers to meet the increasing transport demands of the military was to bleed the civilian system dry as skilled railwaymen were sent to work at the front. In addition, the military commandeered thousands of Britain’s railway vehicles, sending them to each of the theatres of war, and turned the already stressed railway workshops away from maintaining what remained of the country’s railways and rolling stock so they could produce armaments for the forces instead. The book also reveals how the British were so far behind their enemies and allies in the use of railway support to the front lines that they had to plead for help from Canada.
Book Synopsis Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith by : Andrew Preston
Download or read book Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith written by Andrew Preston and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world. Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans’ role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor—liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist—that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln’s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s strategy to bring the United States into World War II. From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one of America’s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When, just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as “a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace,” or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the “just war and the imperatives of a just peace” in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston traces this echo back to its source. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith is an unprecedented achievement: no one has yet attempted such a bold synthesis of American history. It is also a remarkable work of balance and fair-mindedness about one of the most fraught subjects in America.
Book Synopsis Battering the Boche by : Preston Gibson
Download or read book Battering the Boche written by Preston Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, dramatic, thrilling account of fighting on the West Front by a young American dramatist who was in the midst of it, and who was decorated by the French government for his 'fearlessness and devotion on many occasions before St. Quentin and the Aisne'"--Jacket flap.
Book Synopsis Why Would Anyone Want to Swing a Cat? by : Andy Simpson
Download or read book Why Would Anyone Want to Swing a Cat? written by Andy Simpson and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is bureaucracy known as red, not yellow or blue tape? What is haywire and why do we go it? Why is a yawn infection? Who was Parker and why is he so Nosy? These are just some of the burning issues that have been exercising the minds of Daily Mail readers in recent years, and 1001 of the most entertaining have been reproduced in this bumper collection. Not all of the questions featured will have been nagging away at you for years - the scrap metal value of the Eiffel Tower, for example; and some of the answers throw up intriguing alternatives (does the expression "peg out" have its origins in the game of cribbage or in grave digging practices?); but for those who are inveterate devourers of trivia teasers and fascinating facts, The Daily Mail's Answers to Correspondents is a veritable feast.
Book Synopsis Life in Victorian Preston by : David John Hindle
Download or read book Life in Victorian Preston written by David John Hindle and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the social and cultural history of Preston.
Book Synopsis Summary of Diana Preston's Eight Days at Yalta by : Everest Media,
Download or read book Summary of Diana Preston's Eight Days at Yalta written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-16T22:59:00Z with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The three leaders who would at Yalta decide the end of the war and the shape of the future peace shared only a single common goal: the speedy defeat of Nazi Germany. They were all in poor health, with Roosevelt being the poorest. #2 Churchill was a habitual alcoholic. He enjoyed whisky, which he always drank without ice but with enough soda or water for one of his private secretaries to describe it as really a mouthwash. He loved champagne and brandy. #3 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were all heavy smokers. Their appearances were also different. Roosevelt was tall and thin, with dark rings under his eyes. Churchill was short and round, with no hair on his head. Stalin was tall and thin, with light blue eyes. #4 The theatricality of the three leaders was different. Roosevelt worked office hours, Churchill was night owl, and Stalin was a night owl. They all had different habits and approaches to government, but they all had a sense of humor.
Download or read book In Love and War written by Alex Preston and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a sweeping portrait of a city at war. The novel is told through the eyes, letters and journals of Esmond Lowndes, who comes to Italy a lost and lonely young man in the shadow of his politician father. Through his friendships with a striking cast of contemporary characters, from the poet Ezra Pound to Alice Keppel, a former royal mistress, Esmond begins to leave his early disappointments behind him. On the cobbles of Florence's many-storied streets, he deepens his appreciation of art and literature, and falls in love.With the coming of war, Esmond finds himself stranded in a city of enemies, hunted by the malevolent Mario Carità, head of the Fascist secret police. He retreats into the hills above Florence, taking with him a painting that has come to assert a profound hold over him. When the Nazis arrive, Esmond is drawn into Giustizia e Libertà, the Resistance movement, and is soon helping to spirit refugees to safety, to hide the city's Jews. With his lover, Ada, at his side, he is at the centre of assassination plots, shoot-outs and car chases, culminating in a final mission of extraordinary daring.In Love and War is a novel that will take you deep into the secret heart of history, meticulously researched and full of period detail. It is a novel of art and letters, of bawdy raconteurs and dashing spies. With Esmond Lowndes you will see the beauty of Florence as never before, and feel the horror of war as it sweeps over the city's terracotta rooftops. Inspired by a host of real-life stories, In Love and War is both epic and intimate, harrowing and heartwarming.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Flying Achievements of Preston Watson by : Blair
Download or read book Pioneer Flying Achievements of Preston Watson written by Blair and published by Strident Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, what was to become the aviation industry was the preserve of a few enthusiastic amateurs whose ambition to be the first fly like the birds bordered on obsession. The Wright brothers in America, Otto Lillienthal, Percy Pilcher and others had brought matters to the cusp of success. Preston Watson was born in Dundee in 1881 and from an early age showed an innovative interest in developing a flying machine which could take off and land under its own power. While records are incomplete, many believe that Watson beat the Wright brothers into the air by a margin of months in 1903. His unique rocking-wing aircraft was launched, with the engine at full power, by a simple catapult device. His subsequent two machines aimed to improve this performance. He is credited with inventing the joystick - the idea is still in use in every aircraft today. Determining who was first to fly is not the objective of this book. Rather, it records the hitherto unsung efforts of this son of Dundee whose short life - he died at the age of thirty-four - had a significant influence on the history of aviation.
