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Author : Jeremy Strong
Publisher : Puffin HC
ISBN 13 : 9780140323108
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Air-raid Shelter written by Jeremy Strong and published by Puffin HC. This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Communal Air Raid Shelters written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessica Francis Kane
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970109
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Report written by Jessica Francis Kane and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disaster On a March night in 1943, on the steps of London's Bethnal Green tube station, 173 people die in a crowd seeking shelter from what seemed to be another air raid. When the devastated neighborhood demands an inquiry, the job falls to magistrate Laurence Dunne. In this beautifully crafted novel, Jessica Francis Kane paints a vivid portrait of London at war. As Dunne investigates, he finds the truth to be precarious, even damaging. When he is forced to reflect on his report several decades later, he must consider whether the course he chose was the right one. The Report is a provocative commentary on the way all tragedies are remembered and endured.
Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307433846
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
Author : Robert Capa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893817060
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Running for Shelter During Air Raid written by Robert Capa and published by . This book was released on 1939-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numbered, gelatin-silver print of Robert Capa's powerful image bears the authorizing seal of the estate of Robert Capa.
Author : Marcus Sutter
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062844040
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Soldier Dogs #1: Air Raid Search and Rescue written by Marcus Sutter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paw-biting start to a thrilling new adventure series perfect for fans of Max and the I Survived books, inspired by the brave military dogs who helped our troops win World War II. When Matt’s older brother enlisted in the army, he left Matt his German Shepherd, Chief, a retired fire dog and the best pet EVER. So Matt isn’t happy when Chief starts paying attention to his foster sister Rachel instead of him. But when Nazi planes begin bombing the city, Matt finds himself in an impossible situation. Can he be a hero to his sister when it matters most? And when they get caught outside during the air raid, will Chief be there to save the day?
Author : Victor Gregg
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144821145X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Dresden written by Victor Gregg and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing. This is his true eyewitness account of that week in February 1945. Already a seasoned soldier with the Rifle Brigade, Gregg joined the 10th Parachute Regiment in 1944. He was captured at Arnhem where he volunteered to be sent to a work camp rather than become another faceless number in the huge POW camps. With two failed escape attempts under his belt, Gregg was eventually caught sabotaging a factory and sent to Dresden for execution. Before Gregg could be executed, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden in four air raids over two days in February 1945. The resulting firestorm destroyed six square miles of the city centre. 25,000 people, mostly civilians, were estimated to have been killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral questions of the Second World War. In Gregg's first-hand narrative, personal and punchy, he describes the trauma and carnage of the Dresden bombing. After the raid, he spent five days helping to recover a city of innocent civilians, thousands of whom had died in the fire storm, trapped underground in human ovens. As order was restored, his life was once more in danger and he escaped to the east, spending the last weeks of the war with the Russians.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141957050
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid written by Virginia Woolf and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound - far more than prayers and anthems - that should compel one to think about peace. Unless we can think peace into existence we - not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born - will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle overhead.' Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author : Christian Jennings
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803990694
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Syndrome K written by Christian Jennings and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italy's Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of their fellow countrymen, the Allies and even some Germans. From claiming sanctuary in the Vatican to pitched battles by partisans, and even inventing a highly contagious 'Jewish disease', it was an ingenious, covert and complicated effort – and one that saved the lives of thousands of people. Drawing on original archive material from Italy, Germany, the Vatican City, Switzerland, the UK and US, acclaimed historian Christian Jennings tells the whole story in English for the first time.
Author : Brian Ladd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781900639286
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)
Download or read book The Companion Guide to Berlin written by Brian Ladd and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin's traumatic past and vibrant present explored and explained in a guide to the culture, buildings and society of the city. Most people do not think of Berlin as a beautiful city, but it is filled with stunning sights, sounds and textures, all the more astonishing when the stories behind them are revealed. Today's Berlin is new and vibrant, but historyhas left its scars. A look in the right place is rewarded with glimpses of the glories of old Prussia as well as the abominations of Hitler's Third Reich and of the outer bulwark of the Soviet empire. Brian Ladd, a historian whohas been returning to Berlin for twenty-five years, pays homage to the familiar landmarks, but he also penetrates into obscure corners of the city and brings them alive with his shrewd and informed comment. He explains what the sights of Berlin have meant to Berliners who coped under kings and dictators, and who toiled, suffered and celebrated as their city was destroyed and rebuilt. This book invites you to share their passions as it draws you into the dynamic new capital that has risen from wreckage of post-war German history. BRIAN LADD is at the State University of New York at Albany. He has been a constant visitor to Berlin over a quarter of a century.
Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447497333
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book A.R.P - Air Raid Precautions written by J. B. S. Haldane and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, this fascinating book was 'intended for the ordinary citizen, the sort of man or woman who is going to be killed if Britain is raided again from the air'. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include : The Technique of Mass Murder The History of Air Bombing Keeping Bombers Away The Government's Precautionary Measures Further Government Schemes Protection Against High Explosive Bombs Evacuation An A.R.P. Scheme Giving Complete Protection The Political Aspect of A.R.P Summary Appendices Poisonous Gases and Smokes Gas Masks and Gas Proof Bags For Babies Calculations Regarding Leakage Into and Out of Rooms Gas Proof Boxes Bibliography Recent Developments
Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848843275
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Air-Raid Shelters of World War II written by Stephen Wade and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people's gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed, using original designs and primary material. The nostalgia/social history of the book covers people's experiences of staying in the air raid shelters. These are divided into topics, including getting to the shelters (how they reacted to the sirens or whether they just moved into the shelters, especially those in gardens, long-term), facilities, health issues, morale and safety, both real and perceived. In recent years, air raid shelters have been converted into different uses, including homes, and the book will finish with a brief chapter concerning the future and preservation of these once vital buildings.REVIEWS "...reminds us of the families that slept in them every night and even owed their lives to them...."Best of British Magazine, 06/2011
Author : Julian Andrews
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book London's War written by Julian Andrews and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in World War II, Henry Moore had to give up working on sculpture when his Hampstead studio was bombed. He began drawing and creating a monumental series of works showing the plight of people sheltering in the London underground. This text considers his visual documentation of the shelters.
Author : Jules Feiffer
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822202479
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Crawling Arnold written by Jules Feiffer and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1963 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Barry and Grace Enterprise, a couple in their seventies, have two sons; one a thriving two-year-old and the other Arnold, a young man in his thirties who crawls on all fours, insists on a lemon peel in his martini, and is forever misplacing his coloring book. The Enterprises also have a lavish air raid shelter complete with a library of old Our Gang movies and four years' worth of Readers Digest back copies; plus a rather snippy black maid whose feelings have been ruffled by their offer of a separate-but-equal shelter for her. As for Arnold, the Enterprises' concern about him has led to a consultation with Miss Sympathy, a pert, young psychiatric social worker who comes by to do what she can to help straighten him out-and up. She and Arnold are hitting it off rather well when the alert sounds for an air raid drill, and it's down to the shelter for everyone-except that Millie, the maid, has already locked herself in, and the white imperialists out. So Miss Sympathy joins Arnold on the floor (an accepted crisis position) and their increasingly intimate confessions continue to an off-stage obligato by the senior Enterprises. Arnold admits that he has rediscovered the forgotten value of being naughty, and Miss Sympathy concedes that she finds him overpoweringly attractive but what if the all-clear should sound? But it won't. It's broken. That's what Arnold did that was naughty today.
Author : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245793
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Hidden London written by David Bownes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author : Joshua Levine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471131033
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Blitz written by Joshua Levine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blitz of 1940-41 is one of the most iconic periods in modern British history - and one of the most misunderstood. The 'Blitz Spirit' is often celebrated, whereas others dismiss it as a myth. Joshua Levine's thrilling biography rejects the tired arguments and reveals the human truth: the Blitz was a time of extremes of experience and behaviour. People werepulling together and helping strangers, but they were also breaking rules and exploiting each other. Life during wartime, the author reveals, was complex and messy and real. From the first page readers will discover a different story to the one they thought they knew - from the sacrifices made by ordinary people to a sudden surge in the popularity of nightclubs; from secret criminal trials at the Old Bailey to a Columbine-style murder in an Oxford College. There were new working opportunities for women and clandestine homosexual relationships conducted in the shadows. The Blitz also allowed for a melting pot of cultures: whilst prayers were offered up in a south London mosque, Jamaican sailors crossed the country. Unlikely friendships were fostered and surprising sexualities explored - these years saw a boom in prostitution and even the emergence of a popular weekly magazine for fetishists. On the darker side, racketeers and spivs made money out of the chaos, and looters prowled the night to prey on bomb victims. From the lack of cheese to the increased suicide rate, this astonishing and entertaining book takes the true pulse of a 'blitzed nation'. And it shows how social change during this time led to political change - which in turn has built the Britain we know today.
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Day the War Broke Out written by Peter Haining and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
