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Author: Henry Buckton
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-04-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1445624559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Somerset has changed and developed since the war
Author: GORDON. RENDELL
Publisher:
Published: 2022-02-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781906551407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of life in this Somerset village in the 1940s might have been lost forever if its events had not been stamped on the mind of an enquiring little boy who, eighty years later, has brought the characters back to tell their own eccentric stories in the rhythmic dialect of Somerset. The stories are not only a history - they are great fun!
Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1445676990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will be of interest to all those who would like to know more about Somerset’s remarkable military history.
Author: David Underdown
Publisher: Newton Abbot [Eng.] : David & Charles
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen Somerset
Publisher: War College Series
Published: 2015-02-23
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781296473501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
Author: Helen Somerset
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2019-02-22
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780469246560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: David Dawson
Publisher: Sanhs
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780902152236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the outbreak of the Second World War, it became increasingly obvious that Somerset was in a key location to ensure the forward and coastal defence of the Bristol Channel and its associated ports and industries. This book gives a unique overview of the naval and maritime activities on the waterway andexplains their significance to the national war effort. In this volume, the three authors, all members of the Society, have for the first time brought together not only the archaeological interpretations of the surviving infrastructure but have blended it with the documentary evidence of the perceived threats, the organisations, plans and procedures that were implemented, many of which were secret, and added both technical and military expertise to explain in simple terms with pictures, maps, diagrams and glossary just how much Somerset contributed to defending the Bristol Channel in the Second World War.
Author: William A. Schleicher
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738500812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the Watchung Mountains to the north and the Sourland Mountains to the west lies the fertile valley of the Raritan River. Stout Dutch, Huguenot, German, Scottish, and English settlers began to cultivate family farms here as early as the 1680s. For almost a hundred years, the tramp of soldiers' feet and sounds of cannons had been unknown, but that was about to change. With its location astride two major routes between New York and Philadelphia, it is little wonder that Somerset County became the "Crossroads of the Revolution." A friendly populace and the protection of the mountains made this a safe haven for General Washington's army. His soldiers camped for three winters, including the harshest winter of the Revolution, in Somerset and in the adjacent areas of central New Jersey. Washington spent more time here than any other place during the War for Independence. It was in this historically significant county that the first military academy in the nation was built, the 13-star flag was first flown over American troops after its adoption by Congress, and the "Regulations for the Infantry of the United States" was written by General von Steuben.
Author: Allan Bunyan
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-04-16
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1838594086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRather than a chronology of events this volume looks at the lives, morals and beliefs of people and how they were affected by events that were largely out of their control. Rather than re hash the old stories about the main characters, there are portraits of the forgotten figures from that era, both heroes and villains. People like Peter Easton one of the most successful pirates of that or any other age, Lawrence Chislett, the unsung hero of the first siege of Taunton. John Sheppard, the renegade royalist who had to return to the small settlement of Kilton, in post-Civil war Somerset, and live among those whose lives he had made a misery Otherwise unremarkable people are featured, like Thomas Sesse, whose act of Christian charity spectacularly back fired on him. Then there was the mass hysteria at the “discovery of a Hellish knot of witches”, in Eat Somerset in the 1660's Eye witness accounts are used throughout from a wealth of original documents to try and recreate the sounds sights and experience of not only a county, and a country in a state of turmoil.
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0091903874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes portions of the diaries of: Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Tilly Rice, Eileen Potter, and Maggie Joy Blunt.
