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An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945

Author : Stanley Christopherson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448127491
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945 written by Stanley Christopherson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An astonishing record...There is no other wartime diary that can match the scope of these diaries’ James Holland ‘An outstanding contribution to the literature of the Second World War’Professor Gary Sheffield From the outbreak of war in September 1939 to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day and the crossing of the Rhine, An Englishman at War is a unique first-person account of the Second World War. Stanley Christopherson’s regiment, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, went to war as amateurs and ended up one of the most experienced, highly trained and most valued armoured units in the British Army. A junior officer at the beginning of the war, Christopherson became the commanding officer of the regiment soon after the D-Day landings. What he and his regiment witnessed presents a unique overview of one of the most cataclysmic events in world history and gives an extraordinary insight, through tragedy and triumph, into what it felt like to be part of the push for victory.

Warrior Race

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429975822
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Warrior Race written by Lawrence James and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Britain is a nation shaped by wars. The boundaries of its separate parts are the outcome of conquest and resistance. The essence of its identity are the warrior heroes, both real and imagined, who still capture the national imagination: from Boadicea to King Arthur, Rob Roy to Henry V, the Duke of Wellington to Winston Churchill. It is a sense of identity that grew under careful cultivation during the global struggles of the eighteenth century, and found its most powerful expression during the world wars of the twentieth. In Warrior Race, Lawrence James investigates the role played by war in the making of Britain. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological research, as well as numerous unfamiliar and untapped resources, he charts the full reach of British military history: the physical and psychological impact of Roman military occupation; the monarchy's struggle for mastery of the British Isles; the civil wars of the seventeenth century; the "total war" experience of twentieth-century conflict. But Warrior Race is more than just a compelling historical narrative. Lawrence James skillfully pulls together the momentous themes of his subject. He discusses how war has continually been a catalyst for social and political change, the rise, survival, and reinvention of chivalry, the literary quest for a British epic, the concept of birth and breeding as the qualifications for command in war, and the issues of patriotism and Britain's antiwar tradition. Warrior Race is popular history at its very best: incisive, informative, and accessible; immaculately researched and hugely readable. Balancing the broad sweep of history with an acute attention to detail, Lawrence James never loses sight of this most fascinating and enduring of subjects: the question of British national identity and character.

War Letters of Fallen Englishmen

Author : Laurence Housman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218152
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book War Letters of Fallen Englishmen written by Laurence Housman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown—brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.

An Englishman in the Seminole War: A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose

Author : Randal J. Agostini
Publisher : Florida Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9781949810097
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book An Englishman in the Seminole War: A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose written by Randal J. Agostini and published by Florida Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bemrose came to America from England as an unaccompanied 16-year-old in 1831. He served in the US Army as a dedicated hospital steward during the Second Seminole War. This exciting memoir, available to the public for the first time, provides valuable new insights into Florida history and culture from An Englishman in the Seminole War.

The Last Englishmen

Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979947
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Last Englishmen written by Deborah Baker and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.

The Englishman's Daughter

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0385336799
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Daughter written by Ben Macintyre and published by Delta. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pass as Picard peasants. The Englishman’s Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret. Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as “The Englishman’s Daughter,” and in an act of unspeakable betrayal, a tragic legacy that would haunt the village for generations to come. Through the testimonies of the villagers and the last letters of the soldiers, acclaimed journalist Ben Macintyre has pieced together a harrowing account of how life was lived behind enemy lines during the Great War, and offers a compelling solution to a gripping mystery that reverberates to this day.

Renegades

Author : Adrian Weale
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473521505
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Renegades written by Adrian Weale and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Second World War, nearly 200 British citizens were under investigation for assisting Nazi Germany. Some have remained notorious, such as William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) and John Amery who went to the gallows for High Treason, but as this meticulously researched study shows, men like Joyce and Amery are only the visible part of a much larger and more intriguing story below the surface. Renegades is drawn entirely from original documentary material, eyewitness accounts and intelligence files. Adrian Weale traces the course of treason in the Second World War from its roots in Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, through the war and subsequent investigations by MI5, up to the trial, imprisonment and in some cases execution of the traitors. Since Renegades was first published in 1994, many files previously restricted by privileged access have been released into the Public Records Office, and a number of other files, including several from MI5, have become available. Adrian Weale has revised his book, incorporating this new material, making Renegades a more comprehensive and authoritative study. Much here will be new to historians, including the first complete account of the British Free Corps - the Waffen-SS unit composed entirely of British subjects - and the identity of all its members, some of whom have been interviewed for this book. Also revealed is the extraordinary career of the conman who joined the Special Air Service and who, after capture by the Germans, informed on his POW camp comrades before volunteering to fight with the Waffen-SS on the Russian front; and in France, the story of the middle-aged British spinster who joined the Gestapo. Though regarded as highly dangerous at the time, German efforts to cultivate traitors in British ranks were for the most part stunningly unsuccessful - not least, as this book reveals, because much of that effort was entrusted to a British Fascist turned double agent at work in the heart of the Third Reich.

The British Dream

Author : David Goodhart
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 0857899759
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The British Dream written by David Goodhart and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of postwar immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over the country and a wealth of statistical evidence, he paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by immigration and examines the progress of its ethnic minorities—projected to be around 25 per cent of the population by the early 2020s. Britain today is a more open society for minorities than ever before, but it is also a more fragmented one. Goodhart argues that an overzealous multiculturalism has exacerbated this problem by reinforcing difference instead of promoting a common life. The multi-ethnic success of Team GB at the 2012 Olympics and a taste for chicken tikka masala are not, he suggests, sufficient to forge common bonds; Britain needs a political culture of integration. Goodhart concludes that if Britain is to avoid a narrowing of the public realm and sharply segregated cities, as in many parts of the U.S., its politicians and opinion leaders must do two things. Firstly, as advocated by the center right, they need to bring immigration down to more moderate and sustainable levels. Secondly, as advocated by the center left, they need to shape a progressive national story about openness and opportunity, one that captures how people of different traditions are coming together to make the British dream.

The Fatal Englishman

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307523608
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Fatal Englishman written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young. Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist. Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three. Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time. Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.

The Englishman

Author : David Gilman
Publisher : Raglan
ISBN 13 : 9781838931391
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman written by David Gilman and published by Raglan. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The pulse-pounding pace just never lets up' PETER MAY, bestsellling author of LOCKDOWN. Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country's most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellholeof deathand retribution. And that's exactly why the Englishmanis there. Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legionengaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured. His war was over, but the deadly aftermathof that day has echoed around the world ever since: the assassinationof four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murderon the suburban streets of West London; the fatalcompromise of a long-running MI6 operation. Raglan can't avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it - and it ends in Russia's most notorious penal colony. But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere? More importantly, how do you get out?

A Confederate Englishman

Author : Henry Wemyss Feilden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611171358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book A Confederate Englishman written by Henry Wemyss Feilden and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wartime correspondence of a British officer turned Confederate captain under P. G. T. Beauregard

Englishman at War

Author : Stanley Christopherson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593068378
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Englishman at War written by Stanley Christopherson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From summer camp in Yorkshire in August 1939 to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day and Nijmegen, 'An Englishman at War' is a unique first-person account of one man's war.

The Englishman

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament

Author : George V. Wigram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament written by George V. Wigram and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Library

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based on the unpubl. work of W. De Burgh, ed. by G.V. Wigram.].

Author : George Vicesimus Wigram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based on the unpubl. work of W. De Burgh, ed. by G.V. Wigram.]. written by George Vicesimus Wigram and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: