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Author : Neil M. C. Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953085903
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Tiger Bay Story written by Neil M. C. Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil M.C. Sinclair
Publisher : Wordcatcher Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781911265214
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Endangered Tiger written by Neil M.C. Sinclair and published by Wordcatcher Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughly 1 square mile in size, Tiger Bay comprises of a rich, diverse, multi-ethnic community that lacks many of the problems often associated with melting-pots such as this. Combining personal and family memories and historical research, Neil M. C. Sinclair delves behind the headlines and offers a view of Cardiff's history not taught in schools.
Author : Duncan Barrett
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780062328052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book GI Brides written by Duncan Barrett and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers enchanted by the bestsellers The Astronaut Wives Club, The Girls of Atomic City, and Summer at Tiffany’s, an absorbing tale of romance and resilience—the true story of four British women who crossed the Atlantic for love, coming to America at the end of World War II to make a new life with the American servicemen they married. The “friendly invasion” of Britain by over a million American G.I.s bewitched a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s easily conquered their hearts, leaving British boys fighting abroad green with envy. But for girls like Sylvia, Margaret, Gwendolyn, and even the skeptical Rae, American soldiers offered something even more tantalizing than chocolate, chewing gum, and nylon stockings: an escape route from Blitz-ravaged Britain, an opportunity for a new life in affluent, modern America. Through the stories of these four women, G.I. Brides illuminates the experiences of war brides who found themselves in a foreign culture thousands of miles away from family and friends, with men they hardly knew. Some struggled with the isolation of life in rural America, or found their soldier less than heroic in civilian life. But most persevered, determined to turn their wartime romance into a lifelong love affair, and prove to those back home that a Hollywood ending of their own was possible. G.I. Brides includes an eight-pages insert that features 45-black-and-white photos.
Author : Trezza Azzopardi
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138590
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Hiding Place written by Trezza Azzopardi and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolores Gauci, the youngest daughter in a family of six, watches as her father gambles away the family's money and eventually their lives.
Author : Nadifa Mohamed
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593534360
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book The Fortune Men written by Nadifa Mohamed and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress). In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer. He is a father of three, secure in his innocence and his belief in British justice. But as the trial draws closer, his prospect for freedom dwindles. Now, Mahmood must stage a terrifying fight for his life, with all the chips stacked against him: a shoddy investigation, an inhumane legal system, and, most evidently, pervasive and deep-rooted racism at every step. Under the shadow of the hangman's noose, Mahmood begins to realize that even the truth may not be enough to save him. A haunting tale of miscarried justice, this book offers a chilling look at the dark corners of our humanity.
Author : TIGER BAY.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Tiger Bay. (Second Edition.). written by TIGER BAY. and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John L. Williams
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623652596
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Miss Shirley Bassey written by John L. Williams and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Hot from Harlem" to "Goldfinger," the story of how a two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff became an immortal icon: In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called "Hot from Harlem." Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest stars in the world. She had sold more records than any other British singer of the day, and was poised to conquer America. Her latest hit, "Goldfinger," was the theme tune to the year's blockbuster film. No longer the two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff, she was by now an international sex siren, as glamorous and unreal as Bond himself. Miss Shirley Bassey explores this remarkable transformation, both of an individual and of the British society and British psyche that made it possible. From the vibrant, multicultural oasis of Tiger Bay in the Cardiff docklands through the club-lands of Soho and Las Vegas to New York's Carnegie Hall, it is a journey from mere mortal to international icon. Along the way she would encounter homosexual husbands, predatory managers, newspaper scandals, and a range of friends and acquaintances from Sammy Davis Jr. to Reggie Kray. John L. Williams draws on original research and interviews to provide a portrait of a young woman on the cusp of stardom, whose rise to fame was in many ways symbolic of a changing world. Brilliantly written non-fiction in the style of David Peace's The Damned Utd or Nick Tosches' Dino, this is the story of a woman who set out to be extraordinary and--against all the odds--succeeded.
Author : Satish Sekar
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1909976520
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Cardiff Five written by Satish Sekar and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh edition of Satish Sekar’s classic work brings events up to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with the collapse of the 2011 trial of police officers and others concerning the original miscarriage of justice in this case and in a new Epilogue calls for a Truth and Justice Commission. The author shows how this extreme miscarriage of justice destroyed families, divided communities and undermined confidence in the criminal justice system. The book takes the reader from the sadistic killing of Lynette White in Cardiff in 1988, via the subsequent investigation and trial to the aftermath of the folding of the 2011 trial over ‘lost’ documents that later materialised. But above all it deals with the hard scientific facts of the first vindication case of the DNA-age.
Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607345439
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Tiger Boy written by Mitali Perkins and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a tiger cub goes missing from the reserve, Neil is determined to find her before the greedy Gupta gets his hands on her to kill her and sell her body parts on the black market. Neil's parents, however, are counting on him to study hard and win a prestigious scholarship to study in Kolkata. Neil doesn't want to leave his family or his island home and he struggles with his familial duty and his desire to maintain the beauty and wildness of his island home in West Bengal's Sunderbans.
Author : Dan O'Neill
Publisher : Breedon Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781859832301
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Tiger Bay and the Docks written by Dan O'Neill and published by Breedon Books Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : anne main
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Scraping the Toast written by anne main and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 Sarah sorts through her late mother's effects and uncovers happy memories and a shocking family secret that has lain hidden for decades . As a child in the sixties Sarah loved visiting her Grandparent's Nelly and Clifford, in their crumbling Victorian house in Alma Road. Seen through a child's eye's Sarah only saw fun and freedoms away from her strict middle class home life in Cardiff. In Alma road the refreshing lack of rules opened up a whole new world for the young girl. Her Gran loved her unconditionally and in Sarah's eyes her Gran was perfect... But was she? Her grumpy disabled grandfather Clifford, who dominates the Smith household is the only cloud on Sarah's horizon during her visits. Sarah soon learns she can escape with Gran and get away from his beady eye. What the eye doesn't see the heart can't grieve over is Gran's motto. Fibs can help hide a multitude of sins.But unbeknown to Sarah beneath this tranquil childhood idyll dark currents are running. Why did her Gran tolerate her grand father's dictatorial behaviour. Why did Gran's sister, the dour plain Aunty Molly visit so often and as her Gran was dying why did she beg Sarah not to judge her too harshly.Sweeping through the harsh times in Cardiff during the 1930's this is a story of love and loss that sends ripples through time.Now Sarah has discovered her mother's secret, it casts everything she thought that she knew into doubt. That's the thing about secrets once you know them what do you choose to do with them?
Author : Michael Sallah
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759515735
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Tiger Force written by Michael Sallah and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so that bombing runs could be accurately targeted. They were to go where no troops had gone, to become one with the jungle, to leave themselves behind and get deep inside the enemy's mind. The experiment went terribly wrong. What happened during the seven months Tiger Force descended into the abyss is the stuff of nightmares. Their crimes were uncountable, their madness beyond imagination-so much so that for almost four decades, the story of Tiger Force was covered up under orders that stretched all the way to the White House. Records were scrubbed, documents were destroyed, men were told to say nothing.But one person didn't follow orders. The product of years of investigative reporting, interviews around the world, and the discovery of an astonishing array of classified information, Tiger Force is a masterpiece of journalism. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for their Tiger Force reporting, Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss have uncovered the last great secret of the Vietnam War.
Author : John L Williams
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857304739
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Bloody Valentine written by John L Williams and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NOTORIOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND THE UK'S BIGGEST-EVER POLICE CORRUPTION TRIAL ** NOW A BBC2 DOCUMENTARY: A KILLING IN TIGER BAY ** Bloody Valentine is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands (aka Tiger Bay) on Valentine's Day 1988. It's also the story of the miscarriage of justice that came after, when three black men, 'the Cardiff Three', were wrongly convicted of her murder. It's a brutally frank tale of racism and police corruption, terrible misogynist violence and the grim realities of sex work. It's a book that got so close to the bone that the author was sued for libel by the police and received death threats from a variety of minor characters. It's an indelible portrait of life in the underbelly of Thatcher's Britain. This new edition includes an introduction and afterword bringing the extraordinary, unhappy saga up to date. 'Bloody Valentine is a bloody good book' - Benjamin Zephaniah 'Complex, emotional and moving. Read it' - David Peace
Author : Wayne Gordon Johnson
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1936183935
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Whitey From Farm Kid to Flying Tiger to Attorney written by Wayne Gordon Johnson and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whitey- - From Farm Kid to Flying Tiger to Attorney, is the fascinating and riveting story of a boy, the 11th of 14 children of Norwegian immigrant parents, who grew up on tenant farms in rural Minnesota during the Great Depression. Johnson describes in graphic detail the harsh conditions under which the family lived and survived. "We were poor but didn't know it." With commendable honesty, Johnson's story illuminates the indiscretions of youth against the backdrop of a rural farm family. His story takes us through the extraordinary journey of one man who has seen more in his life, so far, than most of us could ever imagine. Wayne "Whitey" Johnson enlisted in the Air Corps on 8 December, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Trained as a fighter pilot in the P-40 Warhawk and the P-51 Mustang, Wayne was sent to China to join the famed Flying Tigers. He was stationed in an area of far eastern China referred to as the "pocket," surrounded by Japanese troops less than 50 miles away. He relates the grim realities of war with startling realism, graphically portraying the triumphs and tragedies - and the joys and sorrows - of young men at war. Whitey, as part of a flight of 16 P-51 Mustang fighters, participated in the first fighter strike against Japanese airdromes near Shanghai. Coming in at tree-top level, and catching the enemy by complete surprise, they destroyed 97 Japanese planes - mostly on the ground - without loss of any Americans. After the war, he became a successful attorney, setting a record as the longest-serving City Attorney in the United States, serving two cities for over fifty years. Continuing his activity in Aviation, Johnson was named Mr. Aviation of Minnesota in 1968. He was inducted into the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001. The Silver Bay (MN) airport was renamed the Wayne Johnson Airport in his honor in 2005 - an honor few living airmen enjoy. He has flown over 60 military and civilian aircraft and piloted his own plane into his mid-eighties."--Back cover.
Author : Colleen Houck
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 140279844X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Tiger's Destiny (Book 4 in the Tigers Curse Series) written by Colleen Houck and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With three of the goddess Durgas quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tigers curse. But the trios greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durgas final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Adaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Its a race against time--and the evil sorcerer Lokesh--in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume of the bestselling Tigers Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers true destiny once and for all.
Author : Paul Gilroy
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Britain written by Paul Gilroy and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first photographic history of black people in the British Isles by a distinguished academic.
Author : Rob Maylin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947674144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Tiger Bay written by Rob Maylin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
