The Backroom Boy
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A Backroom Boy A True Story
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Author : Arthur Stanley Megaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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The Backroom Boy
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Author : Mandla Mathebula
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
The Backroom Boy written by Mandla Mathebula and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Backroom Boy opens dramatically in China, 1962. Andrew Mlangeni is one of a small select group undergoing military training there. The unannounced visitor is Mao Tse-Tung or Chairman Mao as he was known, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Mlangeni was selected as one of the first-ever six members who received military training in China before the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. He seems to have been chosen because he was a dedicated, intelligent and dependable operative, rather than a leader. Even after his release after 25 years on Robben Island, Mlangeni was not given a senior position in the post-apartheid democratic government. ‘I was always the backroom boy,’ says Andrew Mlangeni about himself. Andrew Mlangeni, is a struggle stalwart, Rivonia Trialist, and Robben Island prisoner 467/64 who was next door inmate to Nelson Mandela’s acclaimed 466/64 prison number. Released after 26 years of incarceration, he served as Member of Parliament, and is Chairman of the ANC’s Integrity Commission and Founder of the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation. With the passing of Ahmed Kathrada (March 2017), Mlangeni (91) is one of only two Rivonia Trialist still alive with Denis Goldberg. While still at school, Andrew Mlangeni joined the Communist Party of South Africa and also the ANC Youth League. These were the organisations that shaped his values. Decades of resourceful activism were to lead to his arrest and life sentence in the Rivonia trial. Mlangeni’s lifelong commitment to the struggle for liberation reverberates with other biographies and memoirs of leading figures, such as Rusty Bernstein’s Memory Against Forgetting and Albie Sachs’ We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge. This story of an ANC elder is a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal refl ections which intersect with the political narrative. Above all, it is one man’s story, set in the maelstrom of the liberation struggle. This biographical project has been developed for, and published in conjunction with, the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation.
Backroom Boy
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Author : Marika Ray
language : en
Publisher: Marika Ray Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-02
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The Backroom Boy
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Author : Mandla Mathebula
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
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Star Of The Backroom Boys
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Author : MR David Anthony Heath-Hadfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-17
Star Of The Backroom Boys written by MR David Anthony Heath-Hadfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-17 with categories.
This book relates to my work as a 'Backroom Boy' in the music industry where I worked with some 100 acts, such as Cliff Richard, David Bowie, Peter Frampton, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones and so on;both in the audio and television world over some 40 years. There are both heart breaking and amusing moments. The first volume takes you up to 1974...when I had my recording studio stolen from me...there are 4 suicides and a murder involved along the way. So if you like music this book is a must-read for you, join me on my adventure. There are some 650+ pictures/images for you to see...it will bring back memories for you!!!
The Backroom Boys
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Author : Graeme Sligo
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-10-05
The Backroom Boys written by Graeme Sligo and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-05 with History categories.
The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia’s most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.
The Backroom Boys
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1973
The Backroom Boys written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Backroom Boys
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Author : Francis Spufford
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-11-25
Backroom Boys written by Francis Spufford and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others. Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, 'Backroom Boys' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars. 'Backroom Boys' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
Nobby Clarke
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Author : Bernard O'Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-08-23
Nobby Clarke written by Bernard O'Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-23 with History categories.
'Nobby' Clarke, after leaving Greenwich Hospital School, fought in France and Italy during the First World War, winning a Military Cross. Settling in Bedford, he set up the Low Loading Company in the 1920s. His inventive skills came to the attention of Stuart Macrae, entrusted by the War Office at the beginning of the Second World War in manufacturing explosives. Nobby went on to command a special training school at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, where secret agents destined for occupied Europe learned some deadly skills. His son John, who attended Bedford School, described life in wartime Bedford and provided a detailed insight into his father's activities. Using these, Macrae's autobiography and other contemporary sources, Bernard O'Connor sheds light on one of Bedford's lesser known wartime heroes.
Don T You Know There S A War On
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Author : Nigel Rees
language : en
Publisher: Batsford Books
Release Date : 2014-12-08
Don T You Know There S A War On written by Nigel Rees and has been published by Batsford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-08 with History categories.
Nigel Rees presents a nostalgic and witty guide to wartime catchphrases, from the now ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' to lesser-known gems such as 'lions led by donkeys'. Following his hugely popular survey of domestic sayings, More Tea Vicar?, Rees returns with a witty and fascinating examination of the catchphrases that saw us through wartime Britain and are still relevant in times of crisis today. Including domestic phrases of the time, propaganda, and slang developed by soldiers abroad, the book describes the provenance and development of these intriguing, quirky and sometimes crude phrases that were born out of times of conflict and have in many cases become part of our language.