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Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Three-star Blitz written by Charles Whiting and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Kemp
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780764218309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Facing the Blitz written by Jeff Kemp and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Speaker Reveals That Every Trial Is an Opportunity A football blitz is an attack to force the quarterback into a mistake and create mayhem. But a blitz also creates an opportunity for the quarterback, as it leaves holes in the defense. What looks like the worst play can become the best play. During a life blitz--financially, relationally, spiritually, or physically--by taking initiative you can do more than just survive. You can grow, succeed, and advance. Jeff shares lessons learned through all kinds of blitzes. He teaches how life is about transformation and being others-oriented, and how having the right mind-set can turn fear and misery into courage, growth, and joy. Includes end-of-chapter questions. Now in paper.
Author : Neil R. Storey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144567016X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Home Front in World War Two written by Neil R. Storey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War was fought not only in the skies above Kent, but also in the streets and front rooms of the nation. Air Raid Wardens, Land Girls and members of the WI formed just a part of the Home Front that would help bring Britain victory.
Author : Jan Gore
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526745143
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Terror Raids of 1942 written by Jan Gore and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulous research provides the fullest insight yet into the impact of this bombing campaign on Britain’s home front during the Second World War. “We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide,” the German Foreign Office announced in April 1942 as the Luftwaffe attacked Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York and Canterbury. Over a thousand people died. These raids were direct retaliation for RAF raids on equally historic German cities. Hitler had ordered that “Preference is to be given . . . where attacks are likely to have the greatest possible effect on civilian life,” and in this narrow aim—as Jan Gore shows in the first full history of the raids to be published for over twenty years—they certainly succeeded. She explains the Luftwaffe’s tactics, the types of bombs that were used—high explosive, parachute mines and incendiaries—and records the devastating damage they caused. Her main focus is on the effect of the bombing on the ground. In graphic detail she describes the air raid precautions, the role of the various civil defense organizations and the direct experience of the civilians. Their recollections—many of which have not been published before—as well as newspaper articles and official reports give us a vivid impression of the raids themselves and their immediate aftermath. “One can never understand what either side hoped to achieve by destroying historic cities and killing and maiming their citizens during a conflict such as the second world war. Jan Gore attempts to explain the thinking behind it, and the awful consequences . . . A terrific account.” —Books Monthly
Author : Winston G. Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blitz Then and Now written by Winston G. Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 1990 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere, yet the increasing attacks on Germany by the Royal Air Foce provoked a response in the form of the so-called Baedeker offensive of 1942. And it is against this background of the hammer blows dealt out to German towns and cities that the Blitz on Britain during 1942 - 1944 period must be viewed.
Author : Neil R. Storey
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399001612
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945 written by Neil R. Storey and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faces of the Home Front presents a fascinating insight into the people, wartime organisations, events, life and work on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an array of previously unpublished rare photographs, illustrations and ephemera. If you have wondered how Air Raid Wardens, Ambulance crews, Home Guard, Firemen, Special Constables, Women's Voluntary Service and the Women's Land Army were recruited and trained, how they were uniformed and what their duties entailed in wartime were, this is the book for you. Drawing on the authors’ own extensive archives of original photographs, training manuals, documents, decades of research and interviews with those who were there, there are stories of well-known events such as the Blitz on London and many other often lesser known events and incidents around the country, some deeply moving, some harrowing and some that show how the kindness and selfless bravery of people that helped get Britain through its darkest hours. The combination of images and stories vividly bring to life the experiences of people in cities, towns and countryside in wartime as they experienced evacuation, rationing, the black-out and air raids touched the lives of everyone. This volume is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any family historian, collector, re-enactor.
Author : Lucia Allais
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652261X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Designs of Destruction written by Lucia Allais and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How historical preservation efforts to protect architectural monuments arose in the twentieth century. The twentieth century was highly destructive, but from its landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect architectural monuments in large numbers, and regardless of style, hoping not only to keep them safe from future conflicts but also to make them worthy of protection from more quotidian forms of destruction. An evolving group—including architects, intellectuals, art historians, archaeologists, curators, and lawyers—grew out of the new diplomacy of the League of Nations. During and after World War II, it became affiliated with the Allied Military Government and was eventually absorbed by the UN as UNESCO. By the 1970s, this organization had begun granting World Heritage status to a global register of significant sites—from buildings to bridges, shrines to city centers, ruins to colossi. Examining key episodes in the history of this preservation effort—including projects for the Parthenon, the Cathedral of St-Lô, the temples of Abu Simbel, and the Bamyian Buddahs —Lucia Allais demonstrates how the group deployed the notion of culture to shape architectural sites, and how architecture in turn shaped the very idea of global culture. Designs of Destruction emphasizes how the technical project of ensuring various buildings’ longevity jolted preservation into establishing a transnational set of codes, values, and practices. At the same time, this paradoxically helped integrate technologies of destruction—from bombs to bulldozers—into cultural governance. Designs of Destruction not only offers a fascinating narrative of cultural diplomacy, based on extensive archival findings; it also contributes an important new chapter in the intellectual history of modernity by showing the manifold ways architectural form is charged with concretizing abstract ideas and ideals, even in its destruction.
Author : Neil R Storey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752482459
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Little Book of Great Britain written by Neil R Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little gem of a book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about Britain and all the things that have made it great. Within this volume are such themes as myths and legends, traditions and customs, great Britons and great British places, while not forgotten is a celebration of the best of British music, food, entertainment and sport and a host of topics that explore the more eccentric and eclectic people and things that contribute to and define Great Britain. Despite being a relatively small collection of islands, there is always something new, fascinating, frivolous or even bizarre to discover about Great Britain – you will find much of it here. Did You Know? There is no location in Britain which is more than 741⁄2 miles from the sea. The first person in Britain to be convicted of speeding was Walter Arnold of Kent, who in 1896 was fined 1s plus costs for driving at a breakneck 8mph. Britain has some thoroughly unusual pub names, including: The Bucket of Blood in Phillack, Cornwall, The Honest Lawyer in Folkestone and The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn in Stalybridge – which also enjoys the honour of having Britain's longest pub name. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is a well-known corgi fan. She has owned no fewer than 30 during her reign, the first being Susan, who was given to her in 1944.
Author : Neil R Storey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750964421
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Little Book of Norwich written by Neil R Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Norwich is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events in the city, from its earliest origins to the present day. Here you can read about entertainment, sport, industries, military history, transport, death and religion, crime and punishment, the coast, rivers and waterways. Also included are some of the great men and women, the eccentrics and the scoundrels with which the city’s history is littered. Those curious enough to open this book will be entertained and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance a conversation or quiz! Dip in at random or sit back and enjoy, there are no rules.
Author : John Emsley
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620459434
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The 13th Element written by John Emsley and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible "glowing" history of the "Devil's element "phosphorus Discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by ninth-century industrialists, and abused by twentieth-century combatants, the chemical element phosphorus has fascinated us for more than three centuries. It may even be the cause of will-o'-the wisps and spontaneous human combustion! Now John Emsley has written an enthralling account of this eerily luminescent element. Shining with wonderful nuggets-from murders-by-phosphorus to a match factory strike; from the firebombing of Hamburg to the deadly compounds derived from phosphorus today-The 13th Element weaves together a rich tableau of brilliant and oddball characters, social upheavals, and bizarre events.
Author : Gregory J. Ashworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134939167
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book War and the City written by Gregory J. Ashworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack to the modern demands of internal violence. This book analyses the role of the cities in war and the effects of war on cities.
Author : Jack Dixon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844685780
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Dowding & Churchill written by Jack Dixon and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh later Lord Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century. He created Fighter Command with its unique early warning system (radar) from nothing in 1936 to the efficient defensive force it became in 1940. In consequence Fighter Command was the only arm that was properly prepared for battle when war was declared against Germany. Hugh Dowding led Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain, and was victorious. The campaign, although a series of defensive engagements, was one of the decisive battles of Western Civilization.The strategic importance of the Battle of Britain was recognized at the time, yet, the moment it was won Dowding was summarily relieved of his command and shuffled into retirement without recognition, reward or promotion. This book reveals that this was the result of a shabby conspiracy by fellow officers. The Air Ministry published a brief account of the Battle in March 1941 and in it there was no mention of Dowding.Churchill was furiously indignant. But in November 1940 he had acquiesced in Dowdings removal. Why? And what are the factors that led to Dowdings dismissal in the first place? In this thought-provoking and authoritative book Jack Dixon answers these questions and explains Dowdings true greatness.
Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330477404
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Star of Kazan written by Eva Ibbotson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .
Author : Nick Payne
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571283969
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book One Day When We Were Young written by Nick Payne and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that you won't be here. That you will have left. Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last. It's 1942 and, in a hotel room in Bath, they dream of their future while preparing for Leonard's departure to the war. But the bombs begin to fall and their world will never be the same again. In the year 2002, the couple look back at what might have been. Examining the impact of the Second World War on two ordinary lives and a love that spans more than sixty years, Nick Payne's One Day When We Were Young premiered at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, in October 2011 in a Paines Plough production.
Author : Neil R Storey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750999799
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Norwich in the Second World War written by Neil R Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid shelters in 1938 through to VE Day in 1945 and the return of Far Eastern prisoners of war in 1946. Featuring first-hand accounts of what happened when enemy bombers raided the city, notably during the notorious Baedeker Blitz of 1942, rare photographs and documents make this book a must for anyone who knows and loves the city of Norwich.
Download or read book Popular Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yoram Dinstein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423117
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 27 (1997) written by Yoram Dinstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israel Yearbook on Human Rights - an annual published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University since 1971 - is devoted to publishing studies by distinguished scholars in Israel and other countries on human rights in peace and war, with particular emphasis on problems relevant to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The Yearbook also incorporates documentary materials, relating to Israel and the Administered Areas, which are not otherwise available in English (including summaries of judicial decisions, compilations of legislative enactments and military proclamations). Volume 27 contains, amongst others, articles on The Laws of Air, Missile and Nuclear Warfare; The Protection of Civilians from Air Warfare; The Protection of Medical Aircraft in International Law; Missile Warfare and Exclusion Zones in Naval Warfare; Missiles with Non-Conventional Warheads and International Law.
