War On Wheels
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War On Wheels
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Author : Justin McCurry
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2021-06-24
War On Wheels written by Justin McCurry and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with Sports & Recreation categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 'Cycling Book of the Year' 2022 The strange and thrilling world of Japanese track racing - a cycling and betting culture unlike anything else on earth The Olympic cycling sport of keirin was invented in Japan more than 70 years ago to raise money to rebuild the country after World War II. Now, fans bet billions of dollars a year on races, with the top riders earning huge sums. In each race, a pacemaker leads nine riders around huge concrete velodromes, then leaves the track with around a lap and a half to go - the cue for a frantic finish as the competitors reach speeds of up to 70 kph. Along the way they block and shove each other, clash heads and occasionally crash (the two Japanese characters used to write keirin mean 'battle' and 'wheel'). To prevent race fixing, the cyclists spend meets living in dorms, with no access to online technology. Their lives are ruled by ritual and fierce competition, from their rookie days at the Japan Keirin School near Mount Fuji to the annual Grand Prix final, whose winner takes home prize money of almost one million dollars. A small number of foreign riders are invited to compete in Japan every year and some, like Shane Perkins, have overcome culture shock to prosper in the home of keirin. Justin McCurry, the Guardian's Japan and Korea correspondent, explores a blue-collar Japan we rarely see and a uniquely fascinating sporting culture.
War On Wheels
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Author : Philip Hamlyn Williams
language : en
Publisher: History Press
Release Date : 2016
War On Wheels written by Philip Hamlyn Williams and has been published by History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Mechanization, Military categories.
During World War II, the British Army underwent a complete transformation as the number of vehicles grew from 40,000 to 1.5 million, ranging from tanks and giant tank transporters to jeeps, mobile baths and offices, and scout cars. At the same time the way in which the Army was provided with all it needed was transformed, arms and ammunition, radio, clothing, and places to sleep and wash. War on Wheels follows the people who mechanized the British Army from early days at Chilwell factory near Nottingham, through the near disaster of the BEF, desert war and Italian invasion, Ordinance assistance from the US, and preparations for D-Day and war in Japan.
War On Wheels
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Author : JUSTIN MCCURRY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-02
War On Wheels written by JUSTIN MCCURRY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with categories.
War On Wheels The Evolution Of An Idea Revised English Edition
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Author : Charles Randolph KUTZ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
War On Wheels The Evolution Of An Idea Revised English Edition written by Charles Randolph KUTZ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
Circus Boy War On Wheels
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Author : Dorothea J. Snow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Circus Boy War On Wheels written by Dorothea J. Snow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with categories.
Two Wheels To War
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Author : Martin Shelley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Two Wheels To War written by Martin Shelley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Adventures of a despatch rider' originally published: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1915.
Wheels Of War
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Author : Sally Prue
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009
Wheels Of War written by Sally Prue and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Children's stories categories.
Will works at the big house, and nothing there ever changes very much. But then one day George announces that he's going away to be a soldier in the war that's springing up around them. Will is jealous, but knows he is too young - and too simple - to join him. The glory of war is not for thelikes of him. Then soldiers come and take the rest of the men from the house to join the fighting, too. Will is left behind, with the womenfolk, those too old to fight - and the frail, insane Master, of course. Now everything is different, and Will and his friends start to realize that although theyhave not gone to join the war, they may not be able to stop the war coming to join them. It's time to head for safety-but in a country ravaged by war, where will really be safe? Who will look after them all now the menfolk have all gone away? And how do they know who they can really trust?
War On Wheels
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Author : Charles Randolph Kutz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
War On Wheels written by Charles Randolph Kutz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with Motorization, Military categories.
To War On Two Wheels
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Author : Ron Pope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
To War On Two Wheels written by Ron Pope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The War Of The Wheels
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Author : Jeremy Withers
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-13
The War Of The Wheels written by Jeremy Withers and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells’s texts abound with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells’s personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and complex themes. Withers traces Wells’s ambivalent relationship with the bicycle throughout his writing. While he celebrated it as a singular and astonishing piece of technology, and continued to do so long after his contemporaries abandoned their enthusiasm for the bicycle, he was not an unwavering promoter of this machine. Wells acknowledged the complex nature of cycling, its contribution to a growing dependence on and fetishization of technology, and its role in humanity’s increasing sense of superiority. Moving into the twenty-first century, Withers reflects on how the works of H. G. Wells can serve as a valuable locus for thinking through many of our current issues and problems related to transportation, mobility, and sustainability.