An Englishman At War
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An Englishman At War The Wartime Diaries Of Stanley Christopherson Dso Mc Bar 1939 1945
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Author : Stanley Christopherson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-04-24
An Englishman At War The Wartime Diaries Of Stanley Christopherson Dso Mc Bar 1939 1945 written by Stanley Christopherson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with History categories.
‘An astonishing record...There is no other wartime diary that can match the scope of these diaries’ James Holland ‘An outstanding contribution to the literature of the Second World War’Professor Gary Sheffield From the outbreak of war in September 1939 to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day and the crossing of the Rhine, An Englishman at War is a unique first-person account of the Second World War. Stanley Christopherson’s regiment, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, went to war as amateurs and ended up one of the most experienced, highly trained and most valued armoured units in the British Army. A junior officer at the beginning of the war, Christopherson became the commanding officer of the regiment soon after the D-Day landings. What he and his regiment witnessed presents a unique overview of one of the most cataclysmic events in world history and gives an extraordinary insight, through tragedy and triumph, into what it felt like to be part of the push for victory.
Englishman At War
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Author : Stanley Christopherson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-08-16
Englishman At War written by Stanley Christopherson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From summer camp in Yorkshire in August 1939 to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day and Nijmegen, 'An Englishman at War' is a unique first-person account of one man's war.
An Englishman At War
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Author : Stanley Christopherson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
An Englishman At War written by Stanley Christopherson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. From summer camp in Yorkshire in August 1939 all the way to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day and Nijmegen, An Englishman at War is a unique first-person account of one man's war. Christopherson's regiment, The Sherwood Rangers, started as amateurs, equipped with courage but very little else, and ended up one of the most experienced, highly trained and highly decorated tank regiments in the British Army. They were not only the first British troops to enter Paris and the first unit to cross into Germany, but also took part in the last cavalry charge undertaken by the British Army in Palestine in 1940. Over the course of the conflict, the regiment amassed an astonishing thirty battle honours. Stanley Christopherson himself was to rise from a junior subaltern to become the commanding officer of the regiment after the Normandy invasion.
War Letters Of Fallen Englishmen
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Author : Laurence Housman
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2002-07-02
War Letters Of Fallen Englishmen written by Laurence Housman and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-02 with History categories.
More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown—brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.
The Englishman S Daughter
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Author : Ben Macintyre
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2002-01-12
The Englishman S Daughter written by Ben Macintyre and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-12 with History categories.
Never before told, Ben Macintyre's The Englishman's Daughter is a harrowing tale of love, duplicity and their tragic consequences, which haunt the people of Villeret eight decades after the Great War. "I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western Front, in a tiny village called Villeret. Just a few miles from the Somme, the village would be permanently inundated with German troops for the next four years, yet the villagers conspired to feed, clothe and protect the fugitives under the very noses of the invaders, absorbing the Englishmen into their homes and lives until they could pass for Picardy peasants. The leader of the band, Robert Digby, was a striking young man who fell in love with Claire Dessenne, the prettiest maid in the village. In November 1915, with the guns clearly audible from the battlefront, Claire gave birth to Digby's child, the jealous whispering began, and the conspiracy that had protected the soldiers for half the war started to unravel.
The Fatal Englishman
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Author : Sebastian Faulks
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-09-07
The Fatal Englishman written by Sebastian Faulks and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Compelling and stunningly written' THE TIMES 'Wildly exciting . . . a classic' SPECTATOR 'Flawless . . . poetic . . . superbly portrayed' DAILY TELEGRAPH Three men. Three short, glittering lives. Young English painter Christopher Wood arrives in Paris in 1921 set on becoming the next great master. By day he studies; by night he attends parties with Picasso and Cocteau before paying too high a price for success. Richard Hilary, a confident if unprincipled Spitfire pilot, is suffering from terrible burns after being shot down. But the operations to restore him haven't deterred him from returning to action. And Jeremy Wolfenden, the cleverest of his set at All Souls College, leaves it all behind to report on the Cold War. But his louche private life makes him a plaything for the intelligent services, taking him on a fateful journey between East and West. The Fatal Englishman is a stunning tale of three short lives that burned brightly from a master storyteller.
William An Englishman
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Author : Cicely Mary Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Andesite Press
Release Date : 2017-08-22
William An Englishman written by Cicely Mary Hamilton and has been published by Andesite Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-22 with History categories.
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The Last Englishmen
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Author : Deborah Baker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-08-02
The Last Englishmen written by Deborah Baker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019 An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers – W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender – achieved literary fame, they vied for a place on an expedition that would finally conquer Everest. To this rivalry was added another: their shared love for a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine each man’s wartime loyalties. From Calcutta to pre-war London to Everest itself, The Last Englishmen tracks a generation obsessed with a romantic ideal. With a cast including writers, artists, political rogues and spies, this is narrative history at its most engaging and illuminating. 'Wholly original... It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that there is something Tolstoyan to Baker's vast project... Remarkable' Neel Mukherjee ‘An exuberant, scene-changing, shapeshifting group biography’ Spectator
An Englishman In The Seminole War A Memoir Based Upon The Letters Of John Bemrose
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Author : Randal J. Agostini
language : en
Publisher: Florida Historical Society Press
Release Date : 2021-08-12
An Englishman In The Seminole War A Memoir Based Upon The Letters Of John Bemrose written by Randal J. Agostini and has been published by Florida Historical Society Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with History categories.
John Bemrose came to America from England as an unaccompanied 16-year-old in 1831. He served in the US Army as a dedicated hospital steward during the Second Seminole War. This exciting memoir, available to the public for the first time, provides valuable new insights into Florida history and culture from An Englishman in the Seminole War.
Empire Made Me
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Author : Robert Bickers
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-06-03
Empire Made Me written by Robert Bickers and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made Me Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs, opium-dens, gambling and murder. Threatened from within by communist workers and from without by Chinese warlords and Japanese troops, and governed by an ever more desperate British-dominated administration, Shanghai was both mesmerising and terrible.Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. It is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photo-albums and letters, that Robert Bickers has uncovered in this remarkable, moving book.