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Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morris Beckman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075247278X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Flying the Red Duster written by Morris Beckman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940, Britain was at her most vulnerable. France had capitulated and the Germans had control of ports from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. Nazi U-boats were at Britain's doorstep, and in that year alone they sunk 204 ships, a gross tonnage of 2,435,667. Britain stood alone against Germany and a vital lifeline was the supplies carried by the civilian Merchant Navy, defended only by the thinly stretched Royal Navy. Winston Churchill conceded that his greatest fear was the slaughter of merchant seaman, who worked in harsh conditions, were often poorly fed, and were always at the mercy of the Kriegsmarine. In Flying the Red Duster, Morris Beckman tells the story of his experiences as a merchant seaman during the Battle of the Atlantic, part of the civilian force which enabled Britain to avoid capitulation to Nazi Germany. Based on his wartime diary - the unique document now held at the Imperial War Museum - this work allows the reader unique access to a time which is fast slipping from living memory.
Author : Andy Millar
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147387808X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima written by Andy Millar and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britains 8th Army in North Africa. Five of Willesdens crew were killed in the attack. Among the survivors was Second Mate David Millar, who along with his crewmen was rescued by the Germans and interned on a succession of prison ships, before being handed over to the Japanese. Badly wounded, David spent the rest of the war as a POW in a camp at Fukushima, north of Tokyo.The Thor was also responsible for sinking two other steamers, the SS Kirkpool and SS Nankin. Their survivors, including 38 women and children, were dispatched to the same POW camp.What is remarkable about this story, apart from its inherent drama, is that these civilian POWs numbering more than 130 in all were officially listed as Missing at Sea: their presence in the camp remained a closely guarded secret. This meant that it was many months in some cases, years before the fog of mystery surrounding their disappearance lifted, and family and friends knew whether their loved ones were dead or alive. Lost at Sea tells the little-known story of these survivors. It is a tale of honour between enemy naval commanders; of suffering, courage and endurance, as months of imprisonment turned to years; and of the powerful relationships that form when people are forced together in life-threatening circumstances. Greatly enhancing the poignancy of this story is the fact that David Millar was the authors father.
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Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The Best Poems of ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. D. Rocca
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035802376
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Memories of the Way We Were written by D. D. Rocca and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I stood in front of the headstone which read ‘Rita Rocca Nee Tomlin (15/6/1942 - 21/10/2020)’ and thought, ‘Is this all there is? Her name on a headstone with mine to follow.’ I remembered a warm May Day in 1948, when we both kneeled at the same altar waiting for a priest to give us our first taste of Jesus. She, in her white dress, was wondering if the day would yield enough for a new doll and pram, while I wondered if mine would yield enough for roller skates and maybe a new football. I recalled the honeymoon in Jersey in 1963, Miss World at the Royal Albert Hall in 1980, and the ball that followed at the Savoy Hotel. I said, “Sorry girl, I can’t give you a Taj Mahal, but I will write a book, which will hopefully make us more than just names on a tombstone.”
Author : Jeff Dawson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780224885
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Dead Reckoning written by Jeff Dawson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin Star November 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by twenty-one fare-paying civilians escaping the Blitz for the colonies, all forced to take the long haul round the Cape. As an unescorted merchantman sailing U-boat infested waters, Dunedin Star's passage was, at best, a risky undertaking. But her eventual fate was to defy all expectation. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast - five hundred miles of raging surf and burning desert, the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three men, women and children were to defy mountainous waves and unfathomable odds to reach land . . . but their struggle for survival had only just begun. From interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony, historical resources and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the Dunedin Star's doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions. From the grim waters of the North Atlantic to the blistering African wastes, he narrates a classic tale of pluck, set against the backdrop of World War II.
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Total Pages : 1316 pages
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Download or read book Records & Briefs New York State Appellate DIvision written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774803625
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry written by Malcolm Lowry and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry's poetry currently exists. Increasing critical interest in all aspects of Lowry's life and work prompted the preparation of this complete edition of his poetry, in which the poems are located, identified, dated, arranged, collated, annotated, and explicated by biographical, critical, and textual introductions.
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315446588
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book A People's History of Classics written by Edith Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
Author : W. G. Burn Murdoch
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Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book From Edinburgh to the Antartic written by W. G. Burn Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844689778
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Wolf Packs Gather written by Bernard Edwards and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdads secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn of 1940. Admiral Donetz, aware of the movements of the Allied convoys, marshaled as many of his U-boats as possible. The first convoy, SC2, consisting of 53 merchant men was attacked in early September by four U-boats. Due to poor weather only five ships were lost. Shortly after HX72, with 41 ships, sailing from Nova Scotia, lost eleven ships to five Type VIIC U-boats. Top Aces Otto Kretschremer and Joachim Schepke, who penetrated inside the columns, accounted for nine. No less than nine U-boats attacked SC7 in October 1940. Of 35 merchant men a staggering 20 were lost. HX79 also fared terribly despite being a fast convoy with ten escorts, losing twelve ships. In total forty-eight merchant men were sunk and seven more damaged without any U-boat losses at all. The Wolf Packs Gather is an authoritative account of the darkest hours of the War in the Atlantic. It describes not only the German tactics but the inadequacies of what few escorts there were and the heartbreaking loss of defenseless life.
Author : Christopher Morley
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
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Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Essays written by Christopher Morley and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1927 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Basil Lubbock
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Deep Sea Warriors written by Basil Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Massimi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329735587
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)
Download or read book A Memoir - Robert Francis Massimi written by Robert Massimi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an historical memoir of Robert Massimi. The book tells the story of his life at sea in the United States Merchant Marine and the United States Navy. It covers history from the Great Depression of his youth, to his experiences in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and even Desert Shield in the Gulf War. Besides stories of his seamanship, he explains the military, political and social ramifications of many major historical events.
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1928-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1939-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
