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Author : Sam McAughtry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sinking of the Kenbane Head written by Sam McAughtry and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Lane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719023972
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (239 download)
Download or read book The Merchant Seamen's War written by Tony Lane and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192122711
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Author : John Slader
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1876963131
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (769 download)
Download or read book The Fourth Service written by John Slader and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is the true story of the merchant fleet during World War II, the non-fighting service in which 32,000 men died yet whose essential role has never been fully appreciated. The author, himself a member of the service from 1941-47, relates the stories of merchantmen and their crews with unique insight. From the early days of the war to the day of victory on the Rhine, through combined operations in the Mediterranean and at Normandy, the complete operation of the fleet is examined, with vivid accounts of the horrific losses undergone, the heroism of the crews and the sacrifices endured to ensure that Britain received its essential supplies of food, oil, and raw materials. Highly illustrated, this book will be absorbing for the war historian, maritime enthusiast and general reader alike.
Author : J. R. Hill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191543462
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A New History of Ireland Volume VII written by J. R. Hill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume VII covers a period of major significance in Ireland's history. It outlines the division of Ireland and the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic. It provides comprehensive coverage of political developments, north and south, as well as offering chapters on the economy, literature in English and Irish, the Irish language, the visual arts, emigration and immigration, and the history of women. The contributors to this volume, all specialists in their field, provide the most comprehensive treatment of these developments of any single-volume survey of twentieth-century Ireland.
Author : Constance Emmett
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Heroine Of Her Own Life written by Constance Emmett and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 20th century Belfast, working class Meg Preston struggles to accept her own sexuality and yearns for forbidden love. Battling the customs and hardships of their time, Meg pursues a relationship with her childhood friend, Lillian Watson. But soon, tribulations of war, violence, and emigration threaten to tear everything apart. Seeking refuge for herself, her love, and her family, can Meg find the courage to become the heroine of her own life?
Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473879418
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Greatest Fear written by Richard Doherty and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill's term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 September 1939 and ending with the torpedoing of SS Avon Dale on 7 May 1945.This superbly researched work covers all the major aspects of The Battle, balancing the initial advantages of Admiral Doenitz's U-Boat force, the introduction of the convoy system, the role of the opposing surface fleets and air forces, relative strengths and the all important technical developments. Intelligence particularly the Bletchley Park intercepts played an increasingly important part in the final outcome.The author concludes that May 1943 was the moment when the Allies seized the initiative and, despite desperate German efforts, never lost their advantage.Using official records, personal accounts and a wealth of historical research, this work gives the reader a splendidly concise yet broad account of the course of the campaign, the men who fought it on both sides and the critical moments and analysis of the outcome.
Author : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781593760
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Convoy Will Scatter written by Bernard Edwards and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 November, 1940 the eastbound convoy HX 84 of thirty-seven merchant ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, was attacked in mid-Atlantic by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The Jervis Bay, commanded by Captain Edward Fegen, charged at the enemy. Hopelessly out-gunned, she was blown out of the water by the Scheer's 11-inch guns.??Meanwhile, led by HX 84's commodore ship, the Cardiff tramp Cornish City, the merchantmen scattered under the cover of a smoke screen, were picked off one by one by the radar-equipped Admiral Scheer.??Captain Hugh Pettigrew, commanding the highly armed Canadian Pacific cargo liner Beaverford, began a desperate game of hide and seek with the Scheer, which continued until Beaverford was sunk with no survivors. Thanks to this sacrifice, incredibly only four other merchantmen were sunk.??Later the neutral flag Swedish freighter Stureholm, commanded by Captain Olander, picked up survivors from the Jervis Bay. Without this brave and dangerous gesture no one would have lived to tell the tale of the death throes of the Jervis Bay, whose Captain was awarded the VC.??Sadly, the history books only mention the Beaverford and the Stureholm in passing. This thrilling book puts the record straight.
Author : Pat Sweeney
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 185635685X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding written by Pat Sweeney and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all but forgotten history of Dublin's shipbuilding yards.
Author : Guy Woodward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198716850
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War written by Guy Woodward and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War presents a new cultural history of Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, examining the often-neglected period before the onset of the Troubles and exploring work by the generation of artists and writers that preceded Seamus Heaney and his contemporaries.
Author : Bruce A. Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313055645
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Atlantic Convoys and Nazi Raiders written by Bruce A. Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84. The merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, a converted passenger liner that was the convoy's only escort—armed only with antique 6-inch guns—charged the Nazi raider. While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle, her crew's fatalistic bravery inspired awe in all who witnessed the fight. Watson recounts how the Scheer's 11-inch guns turned the ship into a burning hulk in twenty-two minutes, but most of the convoy escaped. In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84. The Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, the only escort and mounting antique 6-inch guns, charged the Nazi raider. While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle, her crew's fatalistic bravery inspired awe in all who witnessed the fight. Watson describes how the Scheer's 11-inch guns turned the converted passenger liner into a burning hulk in twenty-two minutes, but most of the convoy escaped. How did this confrontation come to pass? Both the necessity of arming a passenger liner and pretending it was a warship, and the building of the Admiral Scheer and her sister ships for the express purpose of commerce raiding, find their roots in the events, political decisions, re-armament polices, war plans, naval traditions, and blunders that arose in pre-war Britain and Germany. But this event holds a significance beyond the battle itself. The sinking of the Jervis Bay symbolizes the end of an era in naval warfare. The Armed Merchant Cruisers of the Second World War inherited a long, sometimes noble and sometimes ignoble history. Long employed in blockade or patrol duty, armed merchant cruisers ventured out for the first time to escort convoys, a defensive duty for which they were eminently unsuited, and for which the Jervis Bay paid a fearful price.
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 548 pages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton
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Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne M. Brady
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers written by Anne M. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
