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Sid S War
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Author : Jon Blake
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Release Date : 1998
Sid S War written by Jon Blake and has been published by Franklin Watts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Children's stories categories.
Sid S War
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Author : Maria De Jong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Sid S War written by Maria De Jong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Soldiers categories.
All About Sid
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Author : Sidney George Raggett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
All About Sid written by Sidney George Raggett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Artillerymen categories.
Sparks
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Author : J. Blake
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Release Date : 2001-12-01
Sparks written by J. Blake and has been published by Franklin Watts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-01 with categories.
Sid S War
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Author : Ray Cantan
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Sid S War written by Ray Cantan and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with categories.
Just over a year ago I was given a manuscript which had been written by a soldier of the Great War, 1914 to 1918. Sid Kemp, the author of the manuscript signed up, with his brother Fred, in August 1914 and fought in France until he was invalided out in the early months' of 1917.. Both Sid and his brother survived the war and Sid had a long life working in his beloved Kent. When they signed up in 1914 they enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment and this book relates Sid's experiences. My Grandfather, who was the Commanding Officer of the First Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI), was killed on the 16th April 1916, in a frontline trench on the battlefield at Arras. Visiting his grave last year, I walked around the cemetery and had a look at the names on the gravestones. I wanted to obtain a better picture of those who had lain close to him for the past century. Officers and Privates beside each other. What shook me most was the fact that a lot of those buried there were teenagers, some as young as eighteen years of age. To say that I was upset by what I saw is an understatement. I was horrified and amazed at how this had occurred and how the carnage had been accepted back in England. On reflection, I suppose that the general public wasn't aware of the magnitude of the slaughter. Family members would have known about the death of a loved one when the letters stopped, or they received a telegram, but they wouldn't have known the magnitude of the overall picture. On my last visit, I made a commitment to my Grandfather and to all those young men buried in the Fauberg d'Amiens Military cemetery in Arras that I would find out why it had happened and whether blame could be apportioned for their deaths. Shortly afterwards I was very fortunate to be given the manuscript on which this book is based. It is excellently written and describes, very accurately, what happened in Sid's life after he enlisted, together with his brother, on the 26th. August 1914. He was twenty-two years of age at the time, and his brother was nineteen. He was obviously a very calm, cool, and collected individual as he has written his account without burying the story in emotion. In writing the book, I didn't change his story, but I did add some modern views on what took place, and I have called these comments; 'Reflections.'Things started going wrong for Sid Kemp just after he enlisted. Britain was totally unprepared for war, and there weren't even the facilities in place to train the recruits. Once they got to France, it was still a shambles. Sid's day to day account is fascinating but also amusing in places where he describes the interaction between the people he encounters. As it is his personal account and actually happened, it is all very believable.What comes across, as his story unfolds, is how Sid got more and more disheartened as day after day he lost so many of his friends. In 1914 his Platoon was made up of people he knew from the locality of Kent where he grew. By 1917 they were all strangers to him as the majority of those he knew had been killed or wounded. What upset him the most was the fact that the large number of deaths that occurred during the various offensives like Loos and the Somme, hadn't brought any significant military successes. There were no positive gains to balance the large quantity of deaths.On the title page, Sid Kemp has typed - "This story is written in Remembrance of my friends who served in The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment during the period 1914 to 1918, as I did, and never returned to the England that they loved." This book is also dedicated to Sid Kemp and his brother Fred who both suffered during their lives as a result of their experiences and illnesses in that terrible war.It is a very moving story with a humorous twist. After reading it, the reader will have enough facts to be able to come to their own conclusion as to who whether blame should be apportioned for what happened.
The War
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Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The War written by Geoffrey C. Ward and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with History categories.
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world. From the Hardcover edition.
The Mind Of War
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Author : Sid Gould
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2012-09-26
The Mind Of War written by Sid Gould and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Mind Of War focuses on the psychological impact of military conflict from the real experiences of a soldier who served with the British Army during the first Gulf War. As a young army recruit, the author was sent to the Middle East as a Battle Casualty Replacement at the age of 17 and served with the Army War Graves Service. His work included the recovery and burial of the remains of fallen soldiers, both British and Iraqi, from the desert battlefields. The psychological affects of daily exposure to such carnage are rarely publicised, as very few soldiers are able to talk about the horrific experiences they have encountered during active service. The author is an exception, and his true story offers a disturbing, yet thoroughly absorbing insight into how the human mind is affected by repeated exposure to gruesome battlefield scenes.
The English Dialect Grammar
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Author : J. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1968
The English Dialect Grammar written by J. Wright and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
You Ll Be Sor Ree
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Author : Sid Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-04-03
You Ll Be Sor Ree written by Sid Phillips and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with History categories.
Sid Phillips, a World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO®'s The Pacific, offers up an invaluable firsthand account of the war against Japan. A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese. Some two years later, when he returned home, the island fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester had turned Sid into an "Old Timer" by Marine standards, and more: he left as a boy, but came home a man. These are his memoirs, the humble and candid tales that Sid collected during a Pacific odyssey spanning half the globe, from the grueling boot camp at Parris Island, to the coconut groves of Guadalcanal, to the romantic respite of Australia. Sid recalls his encounters with icons like Chesty Puller, General Vandergrift, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his boyhood friend, Eugene Sledge. He remembers the rain of steel from Japanese bombers and battleships, the brutality of the tropical elements, and the haunting notion of being expendable. This is the story of how Sid stood shoulder to shoulder with his Marine brothers to discover the inner strength and deep faith necessary to survive the dark, early days, of World War II in the Pacific.
The English Dialect Dictionary
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Author : Joseph Wright
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date :
The English Dialect Dictionary written by Joseph Wright and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years. Volume 6. Supplement, A-Y.