The Diehards 1914-16
The Diehards 1914-16

Author: JT Blythe

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 148341678X

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n 1914 the 'Diehards' the 4th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment went to fight on the Western Front in a war that was supposed to be the war to end all wars. The horror of the trenches with lice, rats, mud, cold, gas and flame throwers. Men lying dead and dying in no-man's land some whose bodies would not be recovered until after the war ended. This account gives an insight into the bravery, courage and dedication shown by those men. Although the characters are fictitious the events are real as are the facts and figures. Author JT Blythe puts together a story woven round the actual battles the Battalion took part in over the period 1914-1915 giving an insight not only to the horrors of the Western Front but also to the realities of the Home Front and the efforts made by many patriotic women who kept the country working in the absence of their menfolk.

The Diehards
The Diehards

Author: Gregory D. Phillips

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Don Troiani's Civil War
Don Troiani's Civil War

Author: Don Troiani

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0811727157

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Featuring renowned artist-historian Don Troiani's careful research, painstaking attention to detail, and dramatic style.

Die Hard
Die Hard

Author: Twentieth Century Fox

Publisher: Harper Design

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780062492302

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Experience Die Hard in a fresh and creative way with this authorized tie-in coloring and activity book featuring favorite scenes and quotes from the beloved classic movie. Die Hard diehards can savor their favorite scenes and quotes in this official Die Hard coloring and activity book. Here are some of the movie’s best moments, recreated in detailed black-and-white line drawings, including: Hans Gruber and his posse crash the Christmas party at Nakatomi and take the tower hostage; John McClane’s limo ride with Argyle; The tension-filled crawl through the building vents; John’s morbid message delivery to Hans (written on the corpse of one of Hans’ men); The famous bloody footprints; And of course, John leaping off the Nakatomi tower. With so many memorable scenes to color in, as well as entertaining activities and the most quoted lines from the movie, fans will be shouting "yippee-ki-yay!"

Britannia's Zealots, Volume I
Britannia's Zealots, Volume I

Author: N.C. Fleming

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 147423786X

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Britannia's Zealots, Volume I opens the first longitudinal study to examine the Conservative Right from the late-19th century to the present day. British Conservatism has always contained a significant section fundamentally opposed to progressive reform. A permanent minority in Parliament, dissident right-wing Conservatives nevertheless had allies in the press and sympathy among grassroots party members enabling them to create crises in the media and at party meetings. N.C. Fleming charts the evolution of reactionary politics from its preoccupation with the Protestant constitution to its fixation with the prestige and strength of Britain's global empire. He examines the overlooked ways in which Conservative Right parliamentarians shaped their party's policies and propaganda, in and out of office, and their relationships with the press and ordinary activists. He seeks to demonstrate that this influence could be circumscribing, and on occasion highly disruptive, with consequences which remain relevant for today's Conservative party. Britannia's Zealots, Volume I will be of great interest to academics and students of British history, right-wing politics, imperialism, and 20th-century history.

Imperial Britain
Imperial Britain

Author: Andrew S. Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1317882539

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This new study considers the impact of the empire upon modern British political culture. The economic and cultural legacy of empire have received a great deal of attention, but historians have neglected the effects of empire upon the domestic British political scene. Dr Thompson explores economic, demographic, intellectual and military influences and he shows how parliamentary and party opinion interacted with imperial ideas and interests in the country at large. This is a major new book which explores the ideology of key imperial campaigns, and their popular support. It makes a critical contribution to recent debates -- about the importance of empire to the nature and development of British national identities before and after the First World War.

A Strategy For Terminating A Nuclear War
A Strategy For Terminating A Nuclear War

Author: Clark C Abt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-28

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0429711581

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Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr. Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists' agreeing to exclude their open cities from nuclear targeting and to replace strategic bombardment with retaliatory invasion to create less of a hair[1]trigger deterrent. Critical net assessments by U.S. strategists and the effects of such a strategy on the Soviet Union and on U.S. allies are considered, along with problems implementation might pose. The author contends that both deterrence and the potential for limiting damage are strengthened by pre-war plans for a nuclear ceasefire and stalemate short of holocaust.

Portrait of a Party
Portrait of a Party

Author: Stuart Ball

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0191644838

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The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties, despite its long record of success. Using an original approach and an unparalleled range of sources, Stuart Ball analyses the nature and working of the Conservative Party during one of the most significant and successful periods in its history. The creation of a democratic franchise in 1918 was followed by nearly three decades of Conservative dominance: it was the largest party in the House of Commons and in government for almost 25 years between 1918 and 1945. Stuart Ball explores this remarkable record in a different way, by taking a thematic rather than a chronological approach. He begins with the foundations of Conservative principles, attitudes, and identities, and examines the nature of the party's electoral support. He investigates the Conservative Party as an organism, uncovering the composition, roles, and relationships of every level from the constituency grass-roots, through the party machine and the parliamentary ranks, to the Cabinet Ministers and the Party Leader. Portrait of a Party is based upon a wide range of archives - including the personal papers of all five Party Leaders, nearly 50 Cabinet Ministers and 85 backbench MPs, party officials and others - combined with the rich resources of the national and regional records at the Conservative Party Archive, and a major investigation to locate all the significant collections of local Conservative Association records in England, Scotland, and Wales: a total of 215 constituencies, from Truro to Inverness. These sources shed new light on topics which are essential to an understanding of British history in the inter-war period and the development the Conservative Party to the present day.