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Book Synopsis The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins by : James Milne
Download or read book The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins written by James Milne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins,' James Milne provides a gripping collection of firsthand accounts of war experiences from the perspective of a British soldier. Written in a raw and unfiltered style, the book delves into the harsh realities of combat, offering a vivid portrayal of the emotional and psychological toll of war. Milne's use of descriptive language and attention to detail immerses readers in the chaotic and often brutal world of warfare, making this a compelling read for those interested in military history and personal narratives. Set against the backdrop of major conflicts, the book provides valuable insights into the human side of war, shedding light on the sacrifices and struggles faced by soldiers on the front lines. James Milne, a veteran himself, draws on his own experiences and those of fellow soldiers to craft a poignant and authentic account of war. His background in the military lends credibility and depth to the narratives presented in the book, offering readers a unique perspective on the challenges faced by soldiers in combat situations. Milne's dedication to preserving the stories of these unsung heroes shines through in this powerful collection, making it a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the realities of war from those who lived it. I highly recommend 'The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins' to readers looking to gain a deeper understanding of the human experience of war. Milne's poignant storytelling and intimate portrayals of soldier life make this book a captivating and thought-provoking read that will resonate long after the final page is turned.
Book Synopsis Private Thomas Atkins by : Douglas Gordon Browne
Download or read book Private Thomas Atkins written by Douglas Gordon Browne and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tommy Atkins written by John Laffin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Atkins is the English soldier, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth across Indis, who kept his six-rounds-to-the-minute at Mons, and who died in the mud at Passchendaele, the sands of the Western Desert, and the jungles of Burma. If his name has been eclipsed by his more illustrious commanders - Cromwell, Marlborough, Moore, Wolfe, Wellington, Allenby, Slim - they at least will accord him his rightful place beside them. They knew his worth. Tommy Atkins is his story - the story of this most versatile, most adaptable, most un-military soldier.
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Book Synopsis Storm over South Africa by : Michael G. Bergen
Download or read book Storm over South Africa written by Michael G. Bergen and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm over South Africa follows the lives and tribulations of a diverse group of characters through the 2nd Anglo-Boer War from 1899-1902 in South Africa. They belonged to different levels of the opposing societies and the story follows their actual life and death experiences in this conflict. The characters include the seventeen-year-old son of a Boer president; a young shipbuilding dock worker and his military nurse girlfriend from the industrial north-east of England, and a young Canadian soldier who volunteered for Canada’s first campaign outside its borders. Involved too are such illustrious British participants as Winston Churchill, Field Marshals Frederick Roberts and Herbert Kitchener, Generals Ian Hamilton and Robert Baden-Powell among others. Boer leaders involved include Generals Christiaan de Wet, Louis Botha, Koos de la Rey and Jan Smuts. The reader is guided through the various twists and turns of the first major British conflict of the 20th century from its beginning through to its end. The naivety and excitement of combatants in the lead up to and beginning of the Second Anglo-Boer War was contagious. It pulled many naïve young men into the maelstrom of combat. It began as another glorious Victorian war. But the successes and failures, sufferings and disillusionment soon emerge. It is a tale of imperial arrogance and determination, of stubbornness, innocence, love and loss experienced in a rugged and alluring land far from the heart of the British Empire.
Book Synopsis Song of the Season by : Thomas Hischak
Download or read book Song of the Season written by Thomas Hischak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What links the popular songs "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Send in the Clowns", "Memory" and "I Am What I Am"? They all originated in Broadway musicals. Song of the Season is for those who believe that the score is at the heart of a musical and is the essential building block on which the rest of a show is built. Through a systematic historical survey from 1891 to 2023 it argues that the best musicals survive because of their songs, from early 20th century classics such as Show Boat and Oklahoma! through to the contemporary sound of Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton. looking at outstanding songs from each Broadway season, the development and history of the musical is illustrated with a fresh perspective. As song styles and popular music tastes changed throughout the decades this structure charts the progress of American showtunes alongside popular music forms as songs evolved from the waltz and ragtime to jazz, rock, rap and hip-hop. Factual analysis and historical context combine to offer a rich picture of the American songbook from Irving Berlin to Elton John. Song of the Season paints a fresh picture for musical theatre students and fans alike, illustrating significant changes in the form through the music. Analyzed in an accessible and engaging way that doesn't rely on music theory knowledge, and including a link to playlist where all the 'songs of the seasons' can be listened to, it is a must-have for those looking to expand their knowledge of the form and trace the social history of the American showtune.
Book Synopsis The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record by :
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis F'Queen N' H'Empire by : Basil Riccomini
Download or read book F'Queen N' H'Empire written by Basil Riccomini and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was not planned it just happened. When it occurred to me that I could write a poem describing the charge of the 24th Regiment of Foot of Chilianwala, just how was I to do it? I decided to write it as being related by a soldier who had participated int he charge against the Sikh guns. He speaks in the 'lingo' of some of the soldiers of my acquantance during my colour service in the British Army. I wrote the other poems in a similar style, with the exception of the recruiting serjeant in The Queen's Shilling, who speaks with the 'Midlands' dialect. During Queen Victoria's long sixty-four year reign, there were constant military expeditions, campaigns and conflicts. Many caused the expansion of the empire, and many as result of that expansion. By European standards Great Britain had a very small standing army, but The Royal Navy was the world's largest. Britannia ruled the waves. Rather like the Roman legionaryies, the 'Tommies' of the period were professional and reliable. On many occasions they defeated the enemy although heavily outnumbered. Perhaps that explains why a relatively small regular army was so successful.
Book Synopsis Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) by : Rudyard Kipling
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 8531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling is a paramount literary figure, having created an impressive corpus of work as varied as treasured children’s classics, compelling novels, accomplished poetry and critical war writings. This comprehensive eBook presents Kipling’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 5) Features: * illustrated with many images relating to Kipling’s life, works, places and film adaptations * annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other works * images of how the novels first appeared, giving your Kindle a taste of the original texts * ALL the novels and each with their own contents table * THE JUNGLE BOOK and other popular collections are fully illustrated * all of the short stories, with excellent formatting, and contents tables * rare short story collections like ABAFT THE FUNNEL – first time in digital print * includes all of Kipling’s non-fiction war writings – spend hours exploring Kipling’s studies of World War I – many available in no other collection * EVEN includes Kipling’s poetry with special contents table – find that special poem quickly! * the rare history textbook Kipling contributed to for schools * the fully illustrated war text THE GRAVES OF THE FALLEN which Kipling was commissioned to write by the British Government * boasts a special criticism section, with works by writers such as G.K. Chesterton, Orwell and Gallienne, examining Kipling’s contribution to literature * SPECIAL BONUS text of Kipling’s autobiography - explore the author’s interesting life! * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Kipling’s immense oeuvre * features critical works, including THE LESS FAMILIAR KIPLING AND KIPLINGANA by G. F. Monkshood * UPDATED with improvements, corrections and a detailed NCX toc for navigation Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see a full list and browse our other titles CONTENTS: The Novels THE LIGHT THAT FAILED THE NAULAHKA, A STORY OF WEST AND EAST CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS KIM The Shorter Fiction THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT QUARTETTE PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS SOLDIERS THREE AND OTHER STORIES UNDER THE DEODARS THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW AND OTHER EERIE TALES WEE WILLIE WINKIE AND OTHER CHILD STORIES LIFE'S HANDICAP MANY INVENTIONS THE JUNGLE BOOK THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK THE DAY'S WORK STALKY & CO. JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN and many more... The Short Stories CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES The Travel Writing FROM SEA TO SEA – LETTERS OF TRAVEL: 1887-1889 AMERICAN NOTES and more The Poetry LIST OF THE COMPLETE POETRY The Non-Fiction A FLEET IN BEING A HISTORY OF ENGLAND THE NEW ARMY IN TRAINING FRANCE AT WAR and many more The Speeches THE BOOK OF WORDS The Criticism LIVING MASTERS—RUDYARD KIPLING BY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY RUDYARD KIPLING - A CRITICISM BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE RUDYARD KIPLING BY JOHN PALMER ON MR. RUDYARD KIPLING AND MAKING THE WORLD SMALL BY G.K. CHESTERTON RUDYARD KIPLING BY GEORGE ORWELL The Autobiography SOMETHING OF MYSELF Visit www.delphiclassics.com to see a full list of titles
Download or read book The New Pulp written by Simon Spurrier and published by Abaddon Books. This book was released on 2013-02-03 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULP IS DEAD... Or so we're told. Those dusty, cheaply printed paperbacks you knew and loved of old have lost their relevance. People don't want fast-paced adventure! They want dreary ten-volume collections of thousand-page tomes recounting the lives of the introspective and self-doubting. And yet a quick glance at the shelves today shows the spirit of action and heroism is alive and well in the modern imagination. Abaddon presents three of their best stories of derring-do, relentless violence and sheer pluck. In Simon Spurrier's The Culled, a special ops soldier murders his way across a post-apocalyptic continent to find the one he loves. In Al Ewing's El Sombra, a maddened poet, left for dead in the desert, returns as a laughing angel of vengeance to destroy the Ultimate Reich. And in Pat Kelleher's Black Hand Gang, a "pal's batallion" of WWI Tommies is plucked from the Somme and dropped in a world of ghastly aliens and sudden death.
Book Synopsis No Man's World Omnibus by : Pat Kelleher
Download or read book No Man's World Omnibus written by Pat Kelleher and published by Abaddon Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thomas ‘Only’ Atkins signed up to fight for King and Country, half the boys he grew up with ended up fighting alongside him.The 13th Battalion of the Pennine Fusiliers were a ‘Pal’s Brigade,’ a whole town transposed to the Somme together to feed the Front’s relentless need for warm bodies. They also disappeared from the face of the Earth, on the 1st November 1916, along with nearly half a mile of mud and trenches, a Sopwith and a tank.Finding themselves on a terrifying alien world, Tommy and his mates have to contend with man-eating plants, ravening beasts and the eerie, insectile Chatts—to say nothing of a sinister, arcane threat from within their own ranks...No Man’s World presents all three novels from this series—Black Hand Gang, The Ironclad Prophecy and The Alleyman—along with a new introduction and extensive new content.
Download or read book War Is War written by A. M. Burrage and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a different view point to Tommy Atkins as he put it, the officers were only with us, not of us, and they cannot get inside our skins. In this account, written of necessity under a pseudonym, he covers the wide canvas of war, from off duty moments in grubby estaminets and brothels, to life in shell torn trenches, going over the top with equally terrified yet resigned comrades, being a casualty, to periods of numbing boredom.War is War is superbly crafted and phrased and will be revelation to even the most informed student of The Great War. Private X writes with complete honesty and avoids sentimentality. How fortunate that he at least survived his ordeal to share with us nearly 100 years later his thoughts, fears and experiences.
Book Synopsis Guide to promotion for militia officers by : William Harry P. Plomer
Download or read book Guide to promotion for militia officers written by William Harry P. Plomer and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King of Illustrated Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 by : John Bremer
Download or read book C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 written by John Bremer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a realistic account of the early years of C.S. Lewis as revealed in "Spirits in Bondage" and its surrounding events. It calls for a reappraisal of Lewis himself, not as a "soldier-poet" but as a young, ruthless and ambitious would-be academic, using others--his father, his university, his mistress--to further his own ends.
Download or read book The Straits Chinese Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memorialising Shakespeare by : Edmund G. C. King
Download or read book Memorialising Shakespeare written by Edmund G. C. King and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Chapter authors discuss a broad range of commemorative activities—from pageants, dance, dramatic performances, and sculpture, to conferences, exhibitions, and more private acts of engagement, such as reading and diary writing. Themes covered include Shakespeare’s role in the formation of cultural memory and national and global identities, as well as Shakespeare’s relationship to decolonisation and race. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of chapters from organisers of recent Shakespeare commemoration events, reflecting on their own practice. Together, the chapters in Memorialising Shakespeare show what has been at stake when communities, identity groups, and institutions have come together to commemorate Shakespeare.
