Memoirs Of The Flight Surgeon Of Hms Nabob
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Memoirs Of The Flight Surgeon Of Hms Nabob
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Author : Jr. Herbert Read, Charles
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2018-02-20
Memoirs Of The Flight Surgeon Of Hms Nabob written by Jr. Herbert Read, Charles and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with History categories.
In the evening dusk of August 22, 1944, during an intense battle off the Norwegian coast, the HMS Nabob, one of the two Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers in the Second World War was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible odds to save the lives of his shipmates. These are his memoires.Follow Dr. Read from his first, fresh-faced moments in Halifax as a newly minted Navy Medical Officer to a surprise appointment to be the flight surgeon on the much-lauded Nabob, the aircraft carrier thought of as the sign that Canada's navy had arrived in the big leagues of world sea power. In vivid detail, Read recounts his training (including a hair-raising ride in a fighter jet), his friendships (from Chizy, the affable wine steward, to the legendary fighter pilot Bobby Bradshaw), to his wonder at the beauty of Europe (even in the midst of wartime destruction) to his memorable encounters with those he met along the way (including two beautiful movie stars).Read presents war as he saw it, the gut-wrenching carnage, the endless monotony, the baffling absurdity, and, shamefully, the inevitable tragedies that happen under incompetent command.These memoires present an exciting and never-before-seen view into a ship that has, until this book, been little more than a footnote in history.
Memoirs Of The Flight Surgeon Of Hms Nabob
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Author : Jr. Charles Herbert Read
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07
Memoirs Of The Flight Surgeon Of Hms Nabob written by Jr. Charles Herbert Read and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
HMS Nabob, was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible odds to save the lives of his shipmates. These are his memoires.
Valor And Courage
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Author : Benjamin J. Hruska
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Valor And Courage written by Benjamin J. Hruska and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with History categories.
Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
All Soldiers Run Away
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Author : Andy Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-02
All Soldiers Run Away written by Andy Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with History categories.
The story of Alan Juniper who deserted twice from the British Army during the Second World War.
History Of Paul Jones The Pirate
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Author : John Paul Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1835
History Of Paul Jones The Pirate written by John Paul Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1835 with categories.
The Travels Of Dean Mahomet
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Author : Dean Mahomet
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
The Travels Of Dean Mahomet written by Dean Mahomet and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.
All The Ship S Men Hmcs Athabaskan S Untold Stories
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Author : Sherry J. Pringle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-10
All The Ship S Men Hmcs Athabaskan S Untold Stories written by Sherry J. Pringle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-10 with History categories.
All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada's Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales.
Waterloo Witnesses
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Author : Kristine Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2021-06-09
Waterloo Witnesses written by Kristine Hughes and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-09 with History categories.
The events of Sunday, 18 June, stand as the defining moment of the year 1815, if not of an entire era. The allied victory over Napoleon’s French army at the Battle of Waterloo reshaped governments and boundaries, made or broke fortunes and touched thousands of lives in ways both large and small, and it has been analysed, dissected and refought on paper a hundred times. Perhaps, though, the very best words ever written about that momentous campaign are the first-person accounts recorded as events unfolded. It is these vivid accounts that Kristine Hughes has collected together in order to convey the hopes, fears and aspirations of their authors. They inject the story of the battle with a level of humanity that reclaims it from the realm of legend and restores it to the people who witnessed it. In chronological order her work pieces together a novel view of the battle and events surrounding it as they were experienced by both military men and civilians. The result is a fascinating and varied picture of the individuals involved and the society of the period. Their words make compelling reading.
The East India Company At Home 1757 1857
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Author : Margot Finn
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-02-15
The East India Company At Home 1757 1857 written by Margot Finn and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with History categories.
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Britain S Fleet Air Arm In World War Ii
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Author : Ron Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Release Date : 2004-11-18
Britain S Fleet Air Arm In World War Ii written by Ron Mackay and has been published by Schiffer Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-18 with History categories.
The Air Branch of the Royal Navy that was to carve its name into maritime history as the Fleet Air Arm faced an orphan existence up to 1937 when the Admiralty, having handed over control in 1918 to the RAF, resumed charge of its aviators. The Force was poorly equipped and dangerously short of qualified personnel with which to effectively challenge its Axis adversaries, and suffered accordingly in the initial stages of World War II. The provision of superior carrier aircraft designs (primarily from the U.S. Grumman and Chance-Vought companies), and a similar whole-sale expansion in Fleet and Escort carriers (most of the latter supplied from American shipyards), as well as the personnel with which to operate the warships and aircraft ensured that by 1943 the Fleet Air Arm was an all-round, efficient Force capable of independent combat operations in all the major War Zones right up to VJ-Day.