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Devon at War 1939-45

Author : Derek Tait
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473855755
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Devon at War 1939-45 written by Derek Tait and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war was declared on 1 September 1939, the people of Devon pulled together in a way that they hadn't done since the Great War of 1914-18. This book covers the people of Devon's contribution to the war effort, from the commencement of the conflict in September 1939, to its end in September 1945. It features many forgotten news stories of the day and looks at the changes to civilian's everyday lives, entertainment, spies and the internment of aliens living within the area. Devon became vital as a base for troops and as a dispatch point for the many men who left to fight in Europe. Several RAF bases were also established within the county to repel German attacks. Air raid shelters were erected in gardens and at public places and many children living in larger cities were swiftly evacuated to the countryside, as Plymouth and Exeter both suffered greatly from German bombing, with much of Plymouth being obliterated. Carrying a gas mask, rationing, the make-do-and-mend culture and the collection of scrap metal all became a generic way of life. Many of the jobs left open by men fighting abroad were taken up by women on the Home Front. The Women's Voluntary Service assisted with the evacuation of mothers and children to the country, carried out civil defense duties and provided food and clothing for the many refugees from occupied Europe. During the buildup to D Day, American troops were trained and stationed within the county before leaving for the beaches of Normandy. Slapton Sands, Dartmoor and Woolacombe were all used as training grounds with tragic loss of life at Slapton. Devon played a truly vital role in the war and its people contributed greatly to bringing the world changing conflict to an end.

Little Wonder

Author : Sasha Abramsky
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758264
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Little Wonder written by Sasha Abramsky and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterfully captures the life of this little-known sportswoman, a versatile female athlete comparable to Babe Didrikson Zaharias.” —Booklist (starred review) Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British ladies’ golf champion, and an Olympic silver medalist in archery. In her time, Dod had a huge following, but her years of distinction occurred just before the rise of broadcast media. By the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Paving the way for the likes of Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and other top female athletes of today, Dod accepted no limits, no glass ceilings, and always refused to compromise. “Eighty-five years before Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs fought the ‘battle of the sexes,’ a Victorian teenager showed what women could do . . . [Abramsky] celebrates her as a brave and talented and determined original.” —The Atlantic

Devon and the Slave Trade

Author : Todd Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903356753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Devon and the Slave Trade written by Todd Gray and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research

Author : Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jefferson's War

Author : Joseph Wheelan
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 0786714042
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's War written by Joseph Wheelan and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheelan captures the story of America's first war against terror and the nations that supported it. With telling illustrations, "Jefferson's War" traces the events surrounding the evolution of the third president's resolute belief that peace with the Barbary States, and respect from Europe, could be achieved only through the "medium of war."

Devon at War Through Time

Author : Henry Buckton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624478
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Devon at War Through Time written by Henry Buckton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring in full colour the history of Devon in the Second World War and what remains today.

The English Civil War

Author : Nick Lipscombe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472847164
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The English Civil War written by Nick Lipscombe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty... this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in particular will quickly become the benchmark for all future civil war maps.' -- Professor Martyn Bennett, Department of History, Languages and Global Studies, Nottingham Trent University The English Civil Wars (1638–51) comprised the deadliest conflict ever fought on British soil, in which brother took up arms against brother, father fought against son, and towns, cities and villages fortified themselves in the cause of Royalists or Parliamentarians. Although much historical attention has focused on the events in England and the key battles of Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby, this was a conflict that engulfed the entirety of the Three Kingdoms and led to a trial and execution that profoundly shaped the British monarchy and Parliament. This beautifully presented atlas tells the whole story of Britain's revolutionary civil war, from the earliest skirmishes of the Bishops' Wars in 1639–40 through to 1651, when Charles II's defeat at Worcester crushed the Royalist cause, leading to a decade of Stuart exile. Each map is supported by a detailed text, providing a complete explanation of the complex and fluctuating conflict that ultimately meant that the Crown would always be answerable to Parliament.

Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945

Author : Neil Storey
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399001590
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Faces of the Home Front, 1939–1945 written by Neil Storey and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 336 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.

Bloody British History: Plymouth

Author : Laura Quigley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481916
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Plymouth written by Laura Quigley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth's Napoleonic prison ships! 'A very daughter of Hell!' In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock – but was she innocent of the crime? Find out inside! Death aboard the Titanic! Blitz, bombs and Plymouth men's battles on Omaha Beach! Plymouth has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. Beginning with the discovery of the bones of cave men and rushing through French attacks, outbreaks of leprosy and the plague, Civil War sieges and deadly Spanish ships, disasters, demolitions and the enormous death tolls of the Plymouth Blitz, it will change the way you see the city forever!

Disaster Before D-Day

Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526735121
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Disaster Before D-Day written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An eye-opening exposé of the Pre-D-Day disaster and incident of friendly fire tragedy and cover up that was the Slapton Sands.” —WorldWars.com This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named “Operation Tiger,” on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of whether the attacking E-Boats of the German Kriegsmarine had fully grasped the importance of what they had stumbled across. Because of the time scale between the operation and the actual D-Day landings, secrecy surrounding the tragedy had to be stringently adhered to, and even after the invasion of Normandy, only scant information about the incident and those who were killed was ever released. The other factor that was of major concern, was if the Germans had understood the significance of the vessels they had attacked, then the intended Allied invasion of Europe was in grave danger of having to be postponed for an indefinite period of time. In late 1943, as part of the buildup to the D-day landings at Normandy, the British government had set up a training ground at Slapton Sands in Devon, to be used by the American forces tasked with landing on Utah Beach in Normandy. Coordination and communication problems between British and American forces, resulted in friendly fire deaths during the exercise, making a bad situation even worse. The story was then lost to history until Devon resident, Ken Small, discovered evidence of the aftermath washed up on the shore at Slapton Sands in the early 1970s.

An American Uprising in Second World War England

Author : Kate Werran
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526759551
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book An American Uprising in Second World War England written by Kate Werran and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking story of a WWII shootout between black and white GIs in a quiet Cornish town that put the British-US “special relationship” on trial. On September 26, 1943, racial tensions between American soldiers stationed in Cornwall erupted in gunfire. Labelled a ‘wild west’ mutiny by the tabloids, it became front page news in Great Britain and the USA. For Americans, it bolstered a fast-accelerating civil rights movement, while in the UK, it exposed unsettling truths about Anglo-American relations. With new archival research, journalist Kate Werran pieces together the shocking drama that authorities tried to hush up. Her narrative examines everything from the controversy of American segregation on British soil to the shocking event itself and the resulting court martial. Extracted from wartime cabinet documents, secret government surveys, opinion polls, diaries, letters and newspapers as well as testimony from those who remember it, this story offers a rare window into a little-known dark side of the ‘American Invasion.’

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but uninvested with heritable honours

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Author : John Burke (Genealogist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but uninvested with heritable honours written by John Burke (Genealogist.) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Maritime History of Devon: From the late eighteenth century to the present day

Author : Michael Duffy
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Maritime History of Devon: From the late eighteenth century to the present day by : Michael Duffy

Download or read book The New Maritime History of Devon: From the late eighteenth century to the present day written by Michael Duffy and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Roads of My Relations

Author : Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520411
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Roads of My Relations written by Devon Abbott Mihesuah and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the lives of several generations of a close-knit Choctaw family as they are forced from their traditional homeland in nineteenth-century Mississippi and endure unspeakable sorrows during their journey before settling in southeastern Oklahoma.

The History of the Drake Family and the Times They Lived

Author : Terry W. Drake
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479789879
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Drake Family and the Times They Lived written by Terry W. Drake and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history takes factual information provided by encyclopedias and other historical documents. Other reference material includes birth certificates, death certificates and census data which support the factual basis of this history. The war records and military history of individuals and their family members were also used in the determination of their contributions to the society in which they lived. Other research material included Wikipedia, Ancetry.com, wikitree.com, genealogy.com family bibles and my many brothers and sisters. Two directions of ancestry history were investigated to gain the most effective approach to the design of this history. First the genealogy of Amye Grenville was traced to her origin of Charlemagne. Her marriage to John Drake VI allowed further investigation into his ancestry. Both were thoroughly pursued with vigor to determine their origins over the last 1300 years. The investigation provided by Earl Drake combined with my efforts has provided this history for your enjoyment.

History of Westchester County, New York

Author : Alvah P. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book History of Westchester County, New York written by Alvah P. French and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Freedom Bound

Author : Christopher Tomlins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490931
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Bound written by Christopher Tomlins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound.