Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum
Author: Christina Rex
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1445608758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWartime Britain through the eyes of children who were there.
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I Glanced Out the Window and Saw the Edge of the World
Author: Catherine Halsall
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1725258994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about WAR—not the causes and results, not the planning and the campaigns, not the artillery and the bombs. It is about the heinous crimes committed by the combatants, the horrifying experiences of civilians, the devastation of cities and villages, the killing and the dying, the glory leading to revulsion and guilt, and the assimilation of suffering that either ends in death or in the triumph of the soul. It looks at the struggle of the church to remain faithful and the servants of the church who seek to bring sense and solace to the victims. It discusses antisemitism, racism, and war itself from biblical perspectives. It reveals the unjustifiable reasons for engaging in war and how this brings catastrophic results for all peoples—the mental instability of the survivors and the loss and grief of those on the home front. In war, how can men and women carry out the actions that they do? As Viktor Frankl writes: “After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
Leeds at War, 1939–45
Author: Stephen Wade
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2017-09-30
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1473867797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeeds at War 1939-1945 is a comprehensive account of the city's experience of the war, covering in expert detail life on the Home Front set against the background of the wider theaters of war.The narrative of that global conflict is given with a focus on the trials and ordeals that faced the people of Leeds as they cheered their men and women fighters off to war, were bombed and saw their children evacuated to rural areas.Rare insights into the life of war-torn Leeds are included, along with untold stories from the footnotes of that history, from the air-raid shelters to the internment issues. The book incorporates the unique human record of that struggle from memoirs and memories, so that the reader sees the war bottom up from the ordinary people, although the military experiences of Leeds' citizens are not ignored.More controversial topics are also touched upon, such as anti-Semitism, labor troubles and crime, to give a full and fascinating picture of a great city facing profound trials of endurance, courage, and that true Yorkshire grit that has been the hallmark of the city's rise to prominence in Britain.
Practice-Based Research in Children's Play
Author: Wendy Russell
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2018-03-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1447330048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been a growing awareness in recent years of the importance of play in children's learning and development--but that awareness has not been accompanied by sufficient scholarly attention, outside of conceptual studies and how-to textbooks. This collection fills that gap by bringing together scholars from a range of fields and methodological approaches to look at play from a practice-based perspective. Moving beyond the dominant voice of developmental psychology, the book offers a number of new ways of approaching children's play and the roles of adults in supporting it; as a result, it will be valuable to anyone working with or studying children at play.
The Murder of the Romanovs
Author: Andrew Cook
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1445607964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on exclusive access to newly discovered Russian documents, the last word on the fate of the Romanov family.
Nursing Churchill
Author: Jill Rose
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-06-15
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1445677350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh perspective on Churchill and life in wartime by the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister.
Blitzed
Author: Robert Swindells
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-09-30
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1446498824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge is fascinated by World War Two. Bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when a school trip to a World War Two museum leads to a timeslip - and George is in London at the time of the Blitz! He joins up with a group of other homeless children, struggling to survive. And then they suspect someone they know of being a German spy...
Building a Billion
Author: Charlie Berridge
Publisher: Harriman House Limited
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0857191179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK EXAMINES THE LIFE OF A UK-BASED BUSINESSMAN AND COMPANY** John McCarthy MBE, of McCarthy and Stone, is a self-made multimillionaire. He and his family have been long-term members of The Times Rich List. One of the best examples of the self-made man, John started working life at fifteen as a "chippy". Every venture he has embarked on, he has achieved with drive and success. His legendary reputation is as the most successful builder of retirement homes across Europe. He has also built and skippered winning ocean-racing yachts. He has owned and run a top polo team. He became a big game hunter and avid game bird shooter, underwater diver, skier and squash player. He makes other septuagenarians look really old. In this book John McCarthy recounts his fascinating life story so far. But these are not just the interesting memoirs of a successful man. John's tussles with bankers and lawyers, planners and politicians, Government red tape and political autocracy, competitors and recalcitrant employees tell a story that has real relevance to all aspiring entrepreneurs in whatever field of endeavour. John McCarthy's rules of engagement and how to build a billion pound company are as topical now as they were when he did it.
A Wartime Childhood
Author: Rebecca Hunter
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780237529017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily Scrapbook features the memories and photographs of real life grannies. Lively narrative text is supported by a wide range of photographs which feature anything from contemporary adverts to pictures of the grandma's with their own parents and grandparents. A Wartime Childhood tells us what it was like to be an evacuee during the Second World War.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Author: James Agee
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic. 64 pages of photos.
