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Anthony Barne started his diary in August 1939 as a young, recently married captain in the Royal Dragoons stationed in Palestine. He wrote an entry for every day of the war, often with great difficulty, sometimes when dog-tired or under fire, sometimes when things looked dark and desperate, but more often in sunshine and optimism-"surrounded by good fellows who kept one cheerful and helped one through the sad and difficult times." His diary ends in...
6002) Appendices & References
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2022 is the 80th Anniversary of the Lidice Shall Live campaign and Lidice Lives, and we thought we would lay things out for you.
In addition to a full bibliography and sources section, the Appendices and References volume of this series contains a wider selection of additional material the reader will find interesting
The full transcript of US Navy Secretary, Frank Knox's speech-given at the United Nations Rally at Boston Gardens on Sunday 14th...
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The history of Black people in Britain is centuries long. Although integral to, and indivisible from 'British history', it is usually treated as a footnote - or forgotten altogether. But with the flourishing of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, and fierce debates around the legacies of colonialism, has come a renewed hunger for the recovery of this history.
Many Struggles answers this call. Edited by one of the field's leading specialists, Hakim...
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What happens when a child dies? How does society treat parents after they have lost a child?
Was death any different in the Victorian era than in today's world? This thoughtful analysis examines child death in Victorian Scotland.
Questions around money, child safety, class prejudices, and societal shortcomings are examined here in depth, focusing on wide-ranging historical and literary primary sources such as Scottish folktales, children's...
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A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the present day
We usually assume that Arab nationalism brought about the end of the British Empire in the Middle East--that Gamal Abdel Nasser and other Arab leaders led popular uprisings against colonial rule that forced the overstretched British from the region.
In Lords of the Desert, historian James Barr...
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A history of the twentieth-century Royal Air Force training programme as told by the men who lived it.
The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air Force, it took the "traditional" idea of an apprenticeship and interpreted it in a novel way. It allowed teenage boys from any social background or geography to learn a technical trade that would equip...
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Have you ever wondered about St Leonard's Forest as you pass it by on your bicycle, in your car, or on the bus? Maybe you have walked its footpaths, with or without a dog. Was it a royal forest? Who owned it? What about its dragon? Wasn't there something about a saint and the white and pink spring flowers, lily-of-the-valley? Wonder no more.
This is the first in depth study of St Leonard's Forest and it is clear from reading this thoroughly researched...
6009) The Gathering Storm
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This book is the first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint of a British prime minister, it is also the story of one nation's heroic role in the fight against tyranny.
Having learned a lesson at Munich they would never forget, the British refused to make peace with Hitler, defying him even after France...
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Beating the Nazi Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and "Fifth Columnist" saboteurs in Britain, and the extensive top-secret countermeasures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940.
The author's research describes the Nazi Party organization in Britain and reveals the existence of the Gestapo headquarters in central London. The reader gains vivid insights into Nazi agents and...
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Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen. But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their country The Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, aged 19, killed in the First World War a week before...
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King Richard the Lionheart was famous for his crusading spirit. He took with him to the Holy Land many young warriors and one of these was William Fitz Osbert. This man Fitz Osbert came from a good family had some legal training, yet he had dreadful character defects. He was constantly after money, plaguing his own brother also called Richard. Eventually Fitz Osbert, on his return from the Crusades, became the focus of immense public dissatisfaction...
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This innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth century and concluding with women's late twentieth-century anti-nuclear activism, the contributors show how gender has been constructed, represented, performed and experienced by men and women at different times and places throughout Wales's modern past. Using a variety of approaches, the collection...
6014) Saint Joan
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The great Irish playwright's impassioned dramatization of the life and trial of Joan of Arc.
Three years after Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920, George Bernard Shaw brought to the stage a more complex and human portrayal of the fifteenth-century French martyr, creating one of the theater's most memorable and enduring female roles. Already renowned for plays such as Pygmalion, The Arms and the Man, and Major Barbara, Shaw presented Saint Joan as...
6015) To sir, with love
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[1999]
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1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.
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c2008
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4 videodiscs (542 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child...
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"Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America" Nicholas McDowell is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The English Radical Imagination and Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Milton.
A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization
John...
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Prince Henry of Wales has emerged as the unexpected jewel in the crown of the modern British monarchy. Despite his unruly antics, for which he's made headlines all over the world, Harry's popularity rivals that of the Queen herself. Heartthrob and loveable rogue, he has won the public's heart Duncan Larcombe's insightful and highly entertaining biography of the rebellious royal recalls Harry's Eton days, his military career and his tempestuous love...
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There is something strangely compelling about the waterways. Isolated places on the edge of society, they have always had their own distinctive way of life and a certain shady reputation. Ever since the earliest days, canals have attracted crime, with sinister figures lurking in the shadows and bodies found floating in the water. When a brutal murder in 1839 created a national outcry, it seemed to confirm all the worst fears about boatmen – a tough...
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Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost universally known as GCHQ, is several times larger than the two smaller, but more familiar, organizations, MI5 and MI6. Because of its extreme sensitivity, and the ease with which its methods can be compromised, GCHQ's activities remain...
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