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Author |
: Peter Doyle |
Publisher |
: The Crowood Press |
Total Pages |
: 557 |
Release |
: 2020-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785007644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785007645 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy's War by : Peter Doyle
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
Author |
: Richard van Emden |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2014-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408844366 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408844362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy's War by : Richard van Emden
Shares excerpts from the personal diaries and photographs of British soldiers to depict the daily life of a Tommy in the trenches between 1914 and 1918.
Author |
: Thomas Cairns Livingstone |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780007285389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0007285388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy's War by : Thomas Cairns Livingstone
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.
Author |
: Thomas Cairns Livingstone |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780007280674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 000728067X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy's War by : Thomas Cairns Livingstone
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.
Author |
: Dalton Trumbo |
Publisher |
: Kensington Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806537603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806537604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Johnny Got His Gun by : Dalton Trumbo
The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review
Author |
: Tommy Cairns Livingstone |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 673 |
Release |
: 2011-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845968595 |
ISBN-13 |
: 184596859X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy's Peace by : Tommy Cairns Livingstone
Thomas Cairns Livingstone began to note his day-to-day experiences in 1913 and continued faithfully for the next 20 years. With each witty and well-observed entry, he recorded events at home and abroad through times of war and peace, joy and sadness. In this follow-up to the acclaimed Tommy's War, the focus is on the post-war years. Alongside engaging, warm-hearted recollections of everyday life with his wide circle of family, neighbours and friends, Thomas documents everything from the lingering effects of the war and post-war politics to cultural and social aspects of the era, including the rise of cinema and radio, the standard of dentists and opticians before the NHS, the partition of Ireland, the General Strike, the division of domestic labour, Clyde coastal holidays and the expansion of Glasgow. Yet, above all, Thomas affectionately chronicles family life with his hard-working wife, Agnes, and writes with pride of his clever young son, Tommy. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white sketches from Thomas' original diaries and various other artefacts from the period, Tommy's Peace is a tremendous document of a bygone era that vividly evokes family life in Glasgow between the wars.
Author |
: Stephen Potts |
Publisher |
: Mammoth Read |
Total Pages |
: 90 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0749739525 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780749739522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy Trouble by : Stephen Potts
Tommy Cameron is illiterate, and excluded from the other children's games. He is befriended by a war veteran, Jack, who teaches him to read using the papers of a Private Tommy Cameron killed in the war, whose name is on the memorial where they met.
Author |
: Richard van Emden |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2014-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408844373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408844370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tommy's War by : Richard van Emden
Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally. Now for the first time, one of Britain's leading military historians, Richard van Emden tells the story of the Great War exclusively through the words and images of soldiers on the ground. In Tommy's War, he gathers some of the very best first-hand material written about the War, some of it published at the time and forgotten, some of it previously unpublished, but all of it wonderfully descriptive and immediate, and often wickedly funny. Tommy humour, frequently very dark, played a vital part in men's mental survival, particularly in times of great stress. Until now its critical role in victory has been overlooked. Richard van Emden restores the balance, giving weight to the soldiers' natural inclination to laugh during their darkest moments. Illustrating these eyewitness accounts with soldiers' own photographs taken on privately owned cameras, often tiny Vest Pocket Kodaks – the smart phones of their day – van Emden has created an entirely new and fresh history of the Great War, giving us a glimpse of 'Tommy Atkins' as he has never been seen before.
Author |
: Sir Martin Farndale |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89055012967 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Western front, 1914-18 by : Sir Martin Farndale
Author |
: Harry Patch |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2008-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780747593362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0747593361 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Fighting Tommy by : Harry Patch
The extraordinary and moving story of a man, now aged 108, whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty Prime Ministers .