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Download or read book Birkenhead Yesterday and Today With Illustrations written by William Robert Stratton MACINTYRE and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gonville written by Peter Birkenhead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presence who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a popular economics professor and a wife-swapping nudist, a leftist and a lifelong fan of the British Empire who would occasionally don an authentic pith helmet and imitate Michael Caine’s performance as the heroic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in the bloody war film Zulu, he was a man who could knock his young son down the stairs one day and the next cry about putting the family’s aged dog to sleep. Such is the contradictory figure at the center of this astonishingly candid and shocking memoir. As a young adult, Birkenhead reacted to his volatile childhood by forgetting its worst moments. He adopted all the trappings of normalcy, threw himself into a career as an actor, landing parts in Broadway plays like Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, both by Neil Simon, and found himself often playing characters who were angry at their fathers. Yet he discovered that he was sleepwalking through life, on occasion falling into rages that reminded him of his father. Then at thirty-one, eleven years after his parents’ divorce, Birkenhead told his mother about his recurring dream of flying down the stairs of their house as a young boy. She revealed that it wasn’t a dream, but a memory from his early childhood of being carried rapidly down the stairs by his mom after his father had pointed a gun at them. The revelation about the dream sparked the painful yet necessary process of examining his childhood and of ultimately moving beyond it, forcing Birkenhead to finally confront his father in a way that released him and his family from this complicated legacy. Combining the terror and wit of Running with Scissors, the poignancy and sense of place of The Tender Bar, with the sparkling prose of Oh the Glory of It All, Gonville is light on its feet even as it deals in the darkest of family tales. A harrowing and often humorous story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charming, cruel, generous, and violent father.
Download or read book Wirral at War written by Mike Royden and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wirral at War is a tribute to the wartime record of the people of the Wirral in the two World Wars.
Download or read book Landscape History Discoveries in the North West written by Sharon M. Varey and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales.
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Download or read book Journals of the House of Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
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