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Author : Roger Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857042279
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Western Kennet Valley in the Great War written by Roger Day and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Wadsworth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473838665
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Bristol in the Great War written by Jacqueline Wadsworth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war was declared in 1914 the people of Bristol erupted in patriotic excitement - but what was it like when the cheering died down?This book tells the city's unique story during those grinding years, when women risked their lives filling shells with mustard gas, factories turned out chocolate and cigarettes for the troops, Shirehampton's fields were full of war horses, and Filton's nascent aeroplane industry took off. Also described are the lives of the women who waited at home for news of their men at the Front, the long shop queues and blackouts, the bone-shaking military vehicles that rumbled past their homes, and the kindness shown to the traumatized refugees from Belgium.Jacqueline Wadsworth's extensive research brings Bristol's story to life using contemporary accounts and high-quality photographs, many of which have never been published before.As seen in The Bristol Post, Western Daily Press and Gazette Series.
Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191570419
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The World's First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
Author : Helmut Brandl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Geschichte Der Kleinprivatwaldwirtschaft, Geschichte Der Bauernwaldes written by Helmut Brandl and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher L. Scott
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844688526
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Battles of Newbury written by Christopher L. Scott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1643 and again in 1644 the forces of King Charles I and Parliament clashed at Newbury in a bloody fight. Each time the fate of the country hung in the balance. Chris Scott retells the story of these two complex and exciting battles and provides a fascinating guided tour of the surviving battlefields.
Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841629197
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Britain from the Rails written by Benedict Le Vay and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Including the nation's best-kept-secret railways"--Cover.
Author : Margaret Wharton
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595365914
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Talk of Many Things written by Margaret Wharton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fourth book of memoirs, Margaret Wharton continues her G.I. bride reminiscences as she paints a picture of life in England before, during, and after World War II. Emphasizing the years from her arrival in the United States until her retirement in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she tells of her initial homesickness as she is assimilated into a new way of life and describes her years as a housewife in a small suburban town as she raises two sons and resumes her teaching career. She relates the many travels that she and her husband made together, the accounts taken from the detailed journals she assiduously kept of the trips. She also tells something of the Southern family she married into and goes on to talk of the retirement life she and her husband lead in Chapel Hill. Her book is a highly polished piece of work comprising an ingenious blend of people, places, history, geography, and literature. Mrs. Wharton has a vast knowledge of history and excellent control of language along with a vivid descriptive flair. She reproduces her experiences with clarity and conviction. Talk of Many Things offers a colorful, informative, and individual account of a unique experience shared by a number of young women, not only from England, but from many other countries, in the immediate post war years.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Pictorial History of the World's Greatest War and New International Atlas of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Cooper King
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736417020
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Story of the British Army written by C. Cooper King and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have endeavoured in the space at my disposal to show how the British Army has grown up. I have tried merely to tell a "story," and therefore omitted much that might have been said regarding the noble work the Queen's Army has done. As regards the opinions advanced, I have always, as far as possible, given the reasons for my views and the authorities which induced me to form them. I have adhered to the principle of using the old regimental numbers, for the sake of continuity; though, after the date when these were altered, I have, in most cases, added their present territorial titles. I wish to express my great appreciation of the courtesy of the Colonel and the Officers of the Lancashire Fusiliers (20th), South Wales Borderers (24th), and the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment (14th), in allowing me to sketch the uniforms of their men from the interesting histories of their respective regiments, and to E. C. Brett, Esq., for permitting me to copy the suits of armour that I have chosen as types from his father's magnificent volume on Arms and Armour. Kingsclear, Camberley, March 1897.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Vaughan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494287
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Great Western's Last Year written by Adrian Vaughan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being one of the best-known and admired rail companies in the country, by 1947 the GWR was at the lowest ebb of its entire history. Worn out by war, there had been no maintenance for six years and the government couldn't supply the steel it needed for repair. The latter half of the 1940s presented a multitude of challenges to overcome, some due to the recent war and others individual to the GWR: the staff coped with rationing, a desperately cold winter and a blazing hot summer, and dealt with floods, collisions, broken rails and failing locomotives. The incredible strength of character and can-do attitude of GWR workers kept the railway running through it all. This history, taken from GWR papers and illustrated from them throughout, reveals the details of every day, as well as the problems and difficulties the staff faced. Above all, it shows how well they overcame their problems with only muscle power and a steam crane to help – and, of course, no health and safety regulations and arguments to slow them down. Adrian Vaughan's unique history of this famous rail company shows just how special the GWR was right through to the end of its very last year.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134981511X
Total Pages : 1075 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79 written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Official Index to the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Author : Denis Smith
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727728760
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Civil Engineering Heritage written by Denis Smith and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the civil engineering heritage of the capital and Thames Valley. The development of London has attracted the design and construction skills of a range of eminent civil engineers and contractors. The work of Sir Marc and I K Brunel, the Rennie family, Robert Stephenson, William Cubitt, Sir Joseph Bazelgette, and many others is included. The books in this series have all been designed specifically as guide books for exploring these landmarks, and provide the reader with a ticket into Britain's engineering history.
Author : Nora E. MacMunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Upper Thames Country and the Severn-Avon Plain written by Nora E. MacMunn and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Wanklyn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473813921
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Decisive Battles of the English Civil War written by Malcolm Wanklyn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles ofthe English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury I, Cheriton, Marston Moor, Newbury II, Naseby, and Preston - he looks critically at contemporary accounts and at historians' narratives, explores the surviving battlegrounds and retells the story of each battle from a new perspective. His lucid, closely argued analysis questions traditional assumptions about each battle and the course of the war itself.
Author : Walter Money
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First and Second Battles of Newbury and the Siege of Donnington Castle During the Civil War, 1643-6 written by Walter Money and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
