Download or read book Beaches Fields Streets and Hills written by William Foot and published by Council for British Archaeology(GB). This book was released on 2005 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the results of a two-year project to examine the 1940/41 anti-invasion landscapes of England. Combining extensive documentary research with fieldwork, 67 defence areas are examined in detail, establishing strategy and coherence of the original defence and analysing this in relation to the surviving structures.
Download or read book In Search of the Real Dad s Army written by Stephen Cullen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the Home Guard? Who were the men and women who served in it? And what can be said of their real role and significance once the popular myths have been stripped away? Despite the fame of the Home Guard of Dads Army the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected. The myths obscure the reality. Stephen Cullens aim in this thoroughgoing new study is to cut through the misunderstandings in order to reassess the Home Guard and its contribution to Britains war effort and to deepen our understanding of the men and women who were members of it. He sets the Home Guard in the long historical context of domestic defense planning, then focuses on the preparations made before the outbreak of the Second World War. In detail he traces the changing role of the Home Guard during its wartime existence as it adapted to meet the multitude of challenges it faced from civil defense and intelligence gathering to training for guerrilla warfare. Using vivid eyewitness testimony and oral history, he takes a grassroots look at the men - and women from all ages and social backgrounds who made up this national defense force. The equipment, uniforms, weapons and vehicles they used and the field defenses they manned are described as their role developed over the course of the war. He also examines the evolution of popular views of the Home Guard from wartime days to the present the notion of the Peoples Army, the thinking of early Home Guard commentators like George Orwell, and the writings of more recent historians who have sought to explain an organization that retains such an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination.
Download or read book The Broadview Guide to Writing Seventh Canadian Edition written by Corey Frost and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the seventh edition, The Broadview Guide to Writing has been reorganized into three broad sections (writing processes, writing mechanics, and writing contexts). The material on argument has been expanded and revised; two new sample essays in MLA style have been added; and the material on researching and writing academic essays has been fully rewritten. Coverage of informal and personal writing is included for the first time. Features • Extensive treatment of research methods, and of argument • In-depth coverage of MLA and other citation styles • Wide-ranging treatment of writing styles in different academic disciplines • Focused coverage of issues specific to those whose native language is not English • A full chapter on language issues relating to gender, race, class, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc. • Companion website featuring a wide range of interactive exercises
Download or read book The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English Fifth Edition written by Don LePan and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English offers full coverage of such common mistakes as commas splices, sentence fragments, words frequently confused, words frequently misspelled, mixed metaphors, and subject-verb agreement errors. In each case the problem is clearly explained, with examples illustrating both the nature of the trouble and how to put it right. Unlike many guides to grammar and usage, The Broadview Book refrains from dogmatism; it treats correctness in English not as an unchanging objective standard laden with moral overtones, but rather as a code of convenience that is extraordinarily useful in helping humans to communicate effectively and even elegantly. It thus retains an openness to the inevitable process of change in the English language, and recognizes that change does not imply debasement. The fifth edition has been updated throughout, and includes new material on capitalization; on the connections between clear writing and clear arguments; on academic citation systems; on business writing; and on particular difficulties experienced by those whose first language is not English.
Download or read book The Broadview Guide to Writing Sixth Edition written by Don LePan and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors. For the sixth edition the coverage of MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of documentation has been substantially expanded as well as updated. Also expanded is coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; of writing about literature, of paragraphing; of how to integrate quoted material into one’s own work; of balance and parallelism; and of issues of gender, race, religion etc. in writing. The chapter “Seeing and Meaning: Reading (and Writing About) Visual Images” is entirely new. The online materials—including the selection of interactive exercises—have also been revised considerably.
Download or read book Explorer s Guide To North Carolina s Outer Banks and Crystal Coa written by Renee Wright and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let this guide show you why the Outer Banks is one of the most unique and interesting places in the U.S. to visit. The Outer Banks preserves history and traditions lost to more urban areas of the eastern U.S. Whether it’s wild Banker ponies, historic Kitty Hawk, or hidden beaches that visitors would otherwise never find, author Renee Wright leads you to her Wright Choices.”
Download or read book Explorer s Guide North Carolina s Outer Banks Crystal Coast A Great Destination Second Edition written by Renee Wright and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let this guide show you why the Outer Banks is one of the most unique and interesting places in the U.S. to visit. The Outer Banks preserves history and traditions lost to more urban areas of the eastern U.S. Whether it’s wild Banker ponies, historic Kitty Hawk, or hidden beaches that visitors would otherwise never find, author Renee Wright leads you to her Wright Choices.”
Download or read book ALL YOU NEED written by Alan Cooper and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel can be described as a story of physical survival and emotional growth set at the time of the Dunkirk evacuation. The perspective shifts continually between five central characters and between east London and wartime France as past traumas and relationships unfold in the context of a dangerous present. "It's a bright morning. Although it's still before eight o'clock the sun has already risen quite high in the sky across to the east. He can hear skylarks twittering, and in the sky above. Swifts soar and swoop catching whatever insects they can... after all these months of what he knows the newspapers are calling the 'phoney war', it's hard to believe there's a war on, and that not far away the Germans are racing in their direction..."
Download or read book Winston Churchill written by Christopher Catherwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a legendary man of strength-but no man is without his weaknesses. Revered for his strength of character when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill is painted as one of World War II's most heroic figures-a characterization that overshadows his faults, which have had their own devastating legacy. This book examines the decisions and policies of Churchill between June 1940 and December 1941 that actually hindered the Allied cause, extended the conflict, and even destabilized several regions that remain in chaos to this day. With profound insight into Churchill's early colonial experiences as well as his first tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty, Christopher Catherwood offers an honest appraisal of Churchill's strategies in a unique and fascinating perspective that separates the myth from the man.
Download or read book His Finest Hour written by Christopher Catherwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man. Yet it is Churchill’s record in war, which has recently been questioned, that confirms his genius as a military commander and national leader—someone who understood the dangers of Nazi Germany before 1939 and someone uniquely capable to lead the empire through the turmoil of the Second World War. Christopher Catherwood argues that it was Churchill’s stand in 1940-41 that saved Britain and that only he was able to bring together the allies that eventually defeated Hitler in 1945. Catherwood has produced a challenging yet lively reassessment of the life and career of Winston Churchill, lion of British history and flawed hero.
Download or read book Churchill s D Day written by Allen Packwood and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, twenty thousand men may have been killed?" —Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 From the world's greatest collection of Winston Churchill's personal papers comes the genesis, execution, and aftermath of D-Day through the eyes of the British Bulldog. On June 6, 1944, the landings from the greatest armada of ships ever assembled began at 0630hrs. Overnight, paratroopers from the British 6th Airborne Division had secured the eastern flank of the landing zone with the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Division securing the western flank to reduce the risk of German counterattacks. The Allied battle, codenamed "Operation Overlord," had begun. In Churchill's D-Day, Richard Dannatt former leader of the British Army, and Allen Packwood, one of the world's foremost Churchill experts, capture the British Bulldog's emotional turmoil and epic decision-making before, during, and after the world-defining action of D-Day. Culled from the official Churchill Papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, this book features historical documents, photographs, letters, and more, for a documentary Churchillian experience of D-Day leadership, military strategy, and humanity. As the people of Great Britain awake to the news of the landings on their radios, the burden of making a formal statement to the House of Commons falls on the shoulders of their prime minister. While Churchill is aware of the huge responsibility he bears for the British soldiers and French civilians, knowing his political opponents will question his leadership, no one else in the world is aware of the conversations, innermost thoughts, and deliberations leading up to the decisions he's made and will continue to make on this day. Everything hangs in the balance. Churchill's D-Day is history come alive--the Invasion of Normandy as the British Bulldog experienced it himself.
Download or read book Primary Source Fluency Activities The 20th Century written by Wendy Conklin and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make difficult primary source materials accessible to today's students. This book provides a wide variety of primary sources from 20th century events with activities that teach important fluency strategies and cover key events and people of the time period. Included with each text is a history connection, a vocabulary connection, and extension ideas. A ZIP file is included containing the primary source photographs shown throughout the book. 192pp.
Download or read book The Churchill Quiz Book written by Kieran Whitworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think you know everything there is to know about Churchill? Have you seen every film and read every book ever produced about this great British statesman? Then delve into The Churchill Quiz Book to find 800 fascinating questions on every aspect of his heroic, colourful and controversial life! With multiple-choice questions, anagrams, truth or fiction sections to baffle and intrigue, picture quizzes and much more, you will find there is still something new to learn about the compelling icon who led Great Britain to ultimate victory in World War II. Published in association with Imperial War Museums, this quiz book covers all aspects of the extraordinary life of Sir Winston Churchill.
Download or read book Dialogues Dramas and Emotions written by Robert Perinbanayagam and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing ideas from the works of George Herbert Mead, Mikhail Bakhtin, Kenneth Burke, and the American pragmatic philosophers, Dialogues, Dramas, and Emotions: Essays in Interactionist Sociology argues that the verbal interactions of human agents are characterized by addresses and rejoinders, which Bakhtin called dialogues. These moves conform to what Burke called dramatism. Robert Perinbanayagam uses examples both from dramatic literature and everyday conversations to demonstrate how everyday interactions are inescapably dramas, conducted through the use of dialogues in order to promote mutual understanding. Along with analyzing the dialogues themselves, the author also examines what comes to play in these interactions and shows the various consequences of these emotionalities in ongoing human relationships.
Download or read book How to Make an IMPACT written by Jon Moon and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fractured Landscape of Modernity written by J. Wilkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash.
Download or read book Best Little Stories from the Life and Times of Winston Churchill written by C. Brian Kelly and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill's life was certainly eventful, and this book presents many of the most fascinating incidents from it, including his teenage prediction that he would one day become defender of England in a horrible future war, his capture and escape from the Boers, his secret heart attack, and many more.
