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Author : Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams (Captain.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Red Desert written by Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Red Desert written by Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : RUPERT STANLEY. GWATKIN-WILLIAMS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033306413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book PRISONERS OF THE RED DESERT written by RUPERT STANLEY. GWATKIN-WILLIAMS and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266292050
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Red Desert written by Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prisoners of the Red Desert: Being a Full and True History of the Men of the 'Tara' I hold a Philosophy which, briefly expressed, is this - that in all human affairs that which happens is always for the best. This is no fatalism, no blind belief in the inevitableness of predestined events; it is, on the contrary, a practical working faith in the Providence which directs our ends. The ways and methods of Providence may not often be Visible in their unfold' ing, but to those who know how to wait and to work, the final result is always sure. Man is no mere sense less tool - he is a Workmanmand Circumstances; whether good or ill, ' are the tools with which he must work. And He who made the Workman knows also how to direct the work, and to supply those tools which are necessary, so that they shall not fail the Workman at his need. But, for his part, the Workman must needs work according to the immutable laws of his trade, lest his tools be broken and his labour vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : R. S. Gwatkin-Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846774560
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Red Desert written by R. S. Gwatkin-Williams and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible adventure from the Great War This is a unique and riveting book. The steamer Tara and her crew spent the early part of WW1 patrolling the Northern Channel between England and Ireland before a transfer to coastal duties off Egypt and Libya. There she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat operating from a secret base on the Libyan coast. To ensure no intelligence of it's presence leaked to the British, the Germans towed the survivors-including this book's author, the Tara's captain, into captivity at the hands of the Senussi-religious zealots in league with the Ottoman Turkish forces. Then began a tortuous ordeal for the crew who suffered abuse, starvation and in some cases death at the hands of their gaolers. Abortive escape attempts across the relentless 'Red Desert' followed before rescue finally came in the form of a dramatic hunt and final assault by the forty armoured cars of the Duke of Westminster's squadron. An absolutely essential and gripping read which will be a delight to all those interested in the fortunes of British seamen, the war in the Middle East and well told accounts of true adventure.
Author : Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351856413
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Landscapes and Voices of the Great War written by Angela K. Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Real and Imagined Spaces -- 1 "Funny Men and Charming Girls": Revue and the Theatrical Landscape of 1914-1918 -- 2 "When Words Are Not Enough": The Aural Landscape of Britain's Modern Memory of 1914-18 -- 3 Maisons de Tolérance : The Real and Imagined Sexual Landscapes of the Western Front -- 4 "The Delightful Sense of Personal Contact That Your Letter Aroused": Letters and Intimate Lives in the First World War -- PART II Voices -- 5 "A Certain Poetess": Recuperating Jessie Pope (1868-1941) -- 6 Ventriloquizing Voices in World War I: Scribe, Poetess, Philosopher -- 7 Pacifist Writer, Propagandist Publisher: Rose Macaulay and Hodder & Stoughton -- 8 From Collusion to Condemnation: The Evolving Voice of "Woodbine Willie"--PART III Landscapes -- 9 First World War Nursing Narratives in the Middle East -- 10 Cars in the Desert: Claud H. Williams, S.C. Rolls and the Anglo-Sanusi War -- 11 Murmurs of War: Grace Fallow Norton and "The Red Road"--12 Landscapes of Memory in Centenary Fiction -- Contributors -- Index
Author : Sarah Paterson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783376589
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors written by Sarah Paterson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of civilian internees and British prisoners of war in German and Turkish hands during the First World War is one of the least well-known and least researched aspects of the history of the conflict. The same applies to prisoners of war and internees held in the UK. Yet, as Sarah Paterson shows in this authoritative handbook, a wide-range of detailed and revealing information is available if you know where to look for it.Briefly she outlines the course of the campaigns in which British servicemen were captured, and she describes how they were treated and the conditions they endured. She locates the camps they were taken to and explains how they were run. She also shows how this emotive and neglected subject can be researched - how archives and records can be used to track down individual prisoners and uncover something of the lives they led in captivity.Her work will be an essential introduction for readers who are keen to get an insight into the experience of a POW or an internee during the First World War, and it will be an invaluable guide for anyone who is trying to trace an ancestor who was captured.
Author : Captain Claud Williams
Publisher : Silphium Press
ISBN 13 : 1900971151
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Light Car Patrols 1916-19 written by Captain Claud Williams and published by Silphium Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Claud WilliamsÕ memoir tells, firsthand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirkÕs commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme. Lavishly illustrated with original photographs from Light Car officers, this combined memoir and history provides a fascinating and informative picture of an unsung hero of the desert Ð the Model T Ford.
Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742622
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Red Desert written by Annie Proulx and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America’s last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author. A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North America's largest untapped reservoirs of natural gas, the Red Desert is a magnet for energy producers who are damaging its complex and fragile ecosystem in a headlong race to open a new domestic source of energy and reap the profits. To capture and preserve what makes the Red Desert both valuable and scientifically and historically interesting, writer Annie Proulx and photographer Martin Stupich enlisted a team of scientists and scholars to join them in exploring the Red Desert through many disciplines: geology, hydrology, paleontology, ornithology, zoology, entomology, botany, climatology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and history. Their essays reveal many fascinating, often previously unknown facts about the Red Desert—everything from the rich pocket habitats that support an amazing diversity of life to engrossing stories of the transcontinental migrations that began in prehistory and continue today on I-80—which bisects the Red Desert. Complemented by Martin Stupich’s photo-essay, which portrays both the beauty and the devastation that characterize the region today, Red Desert bears eloquent witness to a unique landscape in its final years as a wild place./
Author : Rupert Wieloch
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240836
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Liberating Libya written by Rupert Wieloch and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Libya! was the chant heard throughout Libya during the Arab Spring revolution that ended with the death of Colonel Gadaffi in October 2011. The story is about British involvement in Libya since the first treaty signed with the rulers in Tripoli in January 1692. The book is divided into four eras. The first covers the period up to the Italian invasion in 1911; the second covers the First World War and Italian pacification; the third covers the Western Desert Campaign; and the final part brings the reader up to date with recent events. In the words of the Foreign Secretary, Edward Grey, the 1911 Italian invasion of Libya “led straight to the catastrophe of 1914”. Using memoirs of politicians and correspondents from both sides of the conflict, the author pieces together British involvement, shedding new light on the Senussi Campaign and the Duke of Westminster’s rescue of 100 British PoWs at Bir Hakkeim, as well as the story of Colonel Milo Talbot, who did as much as TE Lawrence to establish British influence with Arab leadership, but was never rewarded for his work. Even though hundreds of books have been written about the Western Desert Campaign, this book includes much unpublished material in addressing the contentious issues and explains why General Brian Horrocks wrote: “Command in the desert was regarded as an almost certain prelude to a bowler hat”. The final part of the book begins with Britain’s operations to establish Libya as an independent kingdom and the rise of nationalism that led to Gadaffi’s coup in 1969. The story of the tense relationship with the Brotherly Leader during the “Line of Death” era and subsequent rapprochement precedes an authoritative account of the 2011 revolution. The final chapter, brings the reader up to date with the current conflict as well as the migration crisis and the Manchester Arena bombers.
Author : John Wright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000647315
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Libya written by John Wright and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Libya: A Modern History traces the history of Libya from 1900 to 1980, showing how its first monarchic constitution was modelled by the UN Commission, and survived precariously until the military coup of 1969. The author traces both internal and foreign policy in detail, devoting over half the book to the rule of Colonel Gadafi, in one of the few independent accounts of the Jamahiriyah. He demonstrates the roots of Gadafi’s ideology in ancient Libyan traditions while defining the unique elements of his regime with its militarism and unorthodox diplomacy. He analyses the roots of Jamahiriyah’s strength in the oil of the desert and provides statistics on population and economy. It is a comprehensive treatment of a nation that is sui generis among the Arab countries. This is an important read for students and scholars of international relations, African studies, African history, and Geopolitics.
Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Tattered Flag
ISBN 13 : 0957689276
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (576 download)
Download or read book A Box of Sand written by Charles Stephenson and published by Tattered Flag. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the English language to offer an analysis of a conflict that, in so many ways, raised the curtain on the Great War. In September 1911, Italy declared war on the once mighty, transcontinental Ottoman Empire _ but it was an Empire in decline. The ambitious Italy decided to add to her growing African empire by attacking Ottoman-ruled Tripolitania (Libya). The Italian action began the rapid fall of the Ottoman Empire, which would end with its disintegration at the end of the First World War. The day after Ottoman Turkey made peace with Italy in October 1912, the Balkan League attacked in the First Balkan War. The Italo-Ottoman War, as a prelude to the unprecedented hostilities that would follow, has so many firsts and pointers to the awful future: the first three-dimensional war with aerial reconnaissance and bombing, and the first use of armored vehicles, operating in concert with conventional ground and naval forces; war fever whipped up by the Italian press; military incompetence and stalemate; lessons in how not to fight a guerrilla war; mass death from disease and 10,000 more from reprisals and executions. Thirty thousand men would die in a struggle for what may described as little more than a scatolone di sabbia _ a box of sand. As acclaimed historian Charles Stephenson portrays in this ground-breaking study, if there is an exemplar of the futility of war, this is it. Apart from the loss of life and the huge cost to Italy (much higher than was originally envisaged), the main outcome was to halve the Libyan population through emigration, famine and casualties. The Italo-Ottoman War was a conflict overshadowed by the Great War _ but one which in many ways presaged the horrors to come. A Box of Sand will be of great interest to students of military history and those with an interest in the history of North Africa and the development of technology in war.
Author : Stuart Hadaway
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958081
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Pyramids and Fleshpots written by Stuart Hadaway and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyramids and Fleshpots tells the true story of the experiences and achievements of British military personnel serving in Egypt in the First World War fighting a determined enemy to protect the Suez Canal – the lifeline of the Empire. The popular impression that the campaigns were merely a sideshow, with troops enjoying a holiday among the pyramids and the 'fleshpots' of Cairo, is far removed from the truth. Troops faced appalling heat, abrasive sand, poor rations and water shortages. In the desolation of the Western Desert they fought the Senussi, an Islamic sect supported by the Ottomans, in a reversal of Lawrence's later work with the Arabs, while in the Sinai Desert they countered German-backed moves to dominate this strategically important area. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy fought to keep the supply lines to Gallipoli open, and keep men and materiel flowing to France from India, Australia and New Zealand. These arduous and hard-fought land, sea and air campaigns in Egypt, Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean are comprehensively covered by Stuart Hadaway in this groundbreaking analysis of an often overlooked theatre of war so vital to Britain's empire.
Author : Claire John Eschelbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Claire John Eschelbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717166147
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War written by Turtle Bunbury and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tragic generals to nuns on the run – the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you've never heard before Based on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes that brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined the generation of Irish men and women lost to the catastrophe of the first great modern war. From the generals and field commanders through to the troopers and nurses on the front lines, from the trenches of the Somme to the beaches of Gallipoli, the Irish served at every turn in the Great War. Popular historian Turtle Bunbury is renowned for uncovering important forgotten stories from our past. Here he reveals many never-before-heard tales of the Irish heroes and heroines whose lives coincided with one of the most brutal conflicts our world has ever known – including nuns, artists, sportsmen, poets, aristocrats, nationalists, nurses, clergymen and film directors. From the dramatic story of the nuns of Ypres and their escape to Ireland to found Kylemore Abbey, to the multiple-escapist who became the one-legged nemesis of Michael Collins, and the five tragic, rugby-loving pals from the same Dublin team massacred at Gallipoli, the stories that Turtle Bunbury unearths about Irish men and women offer a new and timely perspective on Irish participation in the Great War. An important book, by turns poignant, enlightening, whimsical and darkly comic, this is history as it should – free-wheeling and finely tuned to the rhythms of the human heart. Reviews [In The Glorious Madness] Turtle continues the wonderful listening and yarn-spinning he has honed in the Vanishing Ireland series, applying it to veterans of the First World War. The stories he recreates are poignant, whimsical and bleakly funny, bringing back into the light the lives of people who found themselves on the wrong side of history after the struggle for Irish independence. This is my kind of micro-history. John Grenham, The Irish Times A wonderful book packed with great individual stories and pictures which bring the Irish participation in the Great War vividly alive. Sean Farrell, Irish Independent Based on first-hand accounts of the conflict, this collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined Ireland's 'lost generation'. Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic Turtle Bunbury's book about the Great War is a great read, a dramatic confection of remarkable stories about remarkable events and individuals slapped together with great dexterity and professionalism. ... This is military history as entertainment on a scale we have not seen since, well, the First World War ... This is one book that can be judged by its cover. Pádraig Yeates, Dublin Review of Books The impressively versatile Turtle Bunbury is known for his sensitively written, well-observed Vanishing Ireland series of books and his appearance on RTE's Genealogy Roadshow. He also toured this year as one of the lecturers in the Great War Roadshow, headed by Myles Dungan. Now, also marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Bunbury marches into what once would have been a no-man's land for historians. There is much to enjoy here. Bunbury has an eye for irony and pathos and a fluid attractive writing style. It's packed with personalities and stories of courage under fire amid truly unimaginable slaughter, of mind-boggling military incompetence and of individuals emotionally afflicted by reports of courage in another cause at home. Emmanuel Kehoe, Sunday Business Post
Author : Suvendrini Perera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100053104X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Mapping Deathscapes written by Suvendrini Perera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a critical and creative analysis of the innovations of Deathscapes, a transnational digital humanities project that maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres. An international team of authors take a multidisciplinary approach to questions of race, geographies of state violence and countermaps of resistance across North America, Australia and Europe. The book establishes rich lines of dialogic connection between digital and other media by incorporating both traditional scholarly resources and digital archives, databases and social media. Chapters offer a comprehensive mapping of the key attributes through which racial violence is addressed and contested through digital media and articulate, in the process, the distinctive dimensions of the Deathscapes site. This interdisciplinary volume will be an important resource for scholars, students and activists working in the areas of Cultural Studies, Media and Visual Studies, Indigenous Studies, Refugee Studies and Law.
Author : Leslie Dunmore-Leiber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824205898
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by Leslie Dunmore-Leiber and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
