Download or read book Evacuee Lottery written by Kathy McKay and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about children in a world war who are sent away from homes likely to be in danger areas. Probably the first time they had been away from parents, and life that they knew. Exciting, frightening, bewildering. It was a dreadful time for the parents, sending their children to strangers, and for the foster parents who took the children into their homes. Some children could be unruly, dirty and uncouth. A time of learning for everyone; children trying to fit in with strangers who sometimes didn't want them.

Download or read book Women and Evacuation in the Second World War written by Maggie Andrews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood. Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the 20th century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women's war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.

Download or read book School Improvement Through Drama written by Patrice Baldwin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrice Baldwin gives an overview of the way drama links to learning, teaching and the curriculum. It will help those who need to connect with the rationale for drama in and across the curriculum and who need to plan for it and explain it to others in terms of its necessity and impact. The book offers guidance that will facilitate schools' work on self-evaluation, preparing for Ofsted, drawing up school development plans and drama policies. With exemplar lessons for each of the year groups across KS1-KS3, this is a highly practical book that has something to offer all who work in or with primary and secondary schools.

Download or read book Black Wave written by Daniel P. Aldrich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tohoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tohoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding.

Download or read book The Trillionist written by Sagan Jeffries and published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book, The Trillionist, author Sagan Jeffries exposes the 'who, what, when, where and why' of a boy- genius, turned madman, turned savior. Spurred on by a darkness residing within his brilliant mind, Sage Rogan, boy-genius and inventor, is relentlessly driven to bring modern advancements to his people. In fearing for his own sanity, he eventually discovers a part of his mind is, in fact, a shadowy ancient spirit with ulterior motives of its own. Realizing that the inventions he’s been coerced into creating could destroy his world, Sage yearns to make things right; clashing with the powerful entity to save his world from annihilation. The Trillionist is a futuristic science fiction novel by Sagan Jeffries.

Download or read book Bitter Seeds written by Ian Tregillis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The launch of a dark epic of magic and world war in a very different twentieth century

Download or read book Tempting the Tempest written by Nikki Wood and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Bull OMalley is an intense, focused businessman. His latest project, a cable news channel, is launching just as a hurricane bears down on the Gulf Coast. He needs just the right reporter to cover the story. One who can be professional, yet captivating. One reporter stands out above the rest--Maddy McGehee. Maddy McGehee is an aspiring reporter. Her waitressing job that paid the bills also offered a huge story, launching her into the spotlight. With job offers galore, she is intrigued by just one, covering a hurricane heading for her childhood home. Would the secrets she left there come back to haunt her at the worst possible moment? Could she and her crew along with her new boss survive the serious hurricane? Would love rise up out of the ruins, or would destruction rule the day? These questions will be answered as they attempt to tempt the tempest.

Download or read book Live For Today written by Tony Irwin and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford University students, Syrian national Ali, a devout Muslim and English-borne Atheist Margaret, succumb to a passionate romance. Issues regarding religion and Ali's eventual return to Syria are dismissed as they realise a love live theirs only happens once in a lifetime, if ever. They vow to 'live for today', hoping the parting day never comes. Through their joint detective work, they discover a connection with Pembroke and beautiful Barafundle Bay, which holds the secrets of Margaret's deceased mother's past. Which leads them to solve the mystery of Margaret's father, which has dogged her since childhood. Margaret moves to Syria to be with Ali and her newfound father. Their lives are idyllic; they make new friends, and 'live for today' has a different meaning. Then the Syrian Civil War erupts. Unlike most of their friends that flee from the war, Ali and Margaret decide to stay and help those in need. Margaret volunteers at the hospital and Ali joins the 'White Helmets'. They witness the horrific destruction of Aleppo and the terrorising of trapped citizens during the indiscriminate bombing by its own government and allies. 'Live For Today' is all they can do.

Download or read book Savage World written by Jennifer Slusher and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth is no more. Escaping the premature nova of Sol, humanity's last survivors flee their doomed home using an experimental drive that takes them to the far side of the galaxy. With ten thousand survivors, dwindling resources and rapidly diminishing hope, the fleet is on the verge of breaking point. Gaia, their new home, offers one last chance of survival for the human race. But when Major Tom Merrick and Captain Juliana Curran lead the expedition to explore this new frontier, they learn that Gaia is a world fraught with peril and deadly secrets.

Download or read book Community Based Reconstruction of Society written by Akihiko Hokugo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an academic proposal, developed by a joint research group of leading scholars in the social and natural sciences from universities affected by global-scale mega disasters occurring in Asia in recent decades. These include Kobe University, which experienced the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake; Tohoku University and Iwate University, both at the center of post-disaster reconstruction following the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami; Syiah Kuala University in Aceh, Indonesia, which was hard-hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami; and Sichuan University, which took a leading role in post-disaster recovery following the 2004 Sichuan Earthquake. Presenting a comparative analysis focused on lessons learned from the recovery phase following the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the book addresses in detail the questions of what should be done to enable truly community-based town planning, and what roles should be played by universities in order to achieve those goals.

Download or read book The Scarlet Splendour written by Helen Burton and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Liz Courtney uncovers the remains of a Spitfire in Haggard's Copse, her discovery triggers a chain of supernatural events which evoke the summer of 1940 when Fitzdeverall Field was a fighter station and the Battle of Britain a few short weeks away. Liz finds herself drawn compulsively towards the men and women of Fitzdeverall whose poignant story is played out against the perilous backdrop of England's war-torn skies. Their lives are changed irrevocably by the fateful posting of the young South African pilot, Joel de Vries, from the bleak moors of Cornwall to the sunlit apple orchards of Kent.

Download or read book Blitz Boy written by Alf Townsend and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blitz Boy is a fascinating recollection of life in the Blitz and of evacuation to Cornwall. Charismatic author Alf Townsend tells the harrowing and touching tale of what it was like for a young inner-city child to suffer the trials of war at first hand. The mass exodus of kids from Britain's major cities in 1940 was unique and the government's hasty organisation programmes left a lot to be desired. It must have been a shock to rural communities to take in frightened, scruffy, poverty-stricken cases from the poorest areas of Britain's cities. Many of the foster parents who took in these children did so purely for the cash (8s 3d per week). The family which took in Alf and his siblings did not treat them well. There were beatings and other punishments from the foster-mother, who thought nothing of mistreating a six-year-old child. This only ended when the author's real mother turned up on the doorstep to reclaim her children. The author and his siblings remained in Cornwall with their mother until the end of the war to evade the danger of being bombed-out back in London. Eventually, though, they did return to the capital. The sight that greeted them on their return came as a shock. Rows of houses had been destroyed and huge areas had been totally flattened. Although life was tough back in London, at least the Townsend children were back in the fold of their loving family. Alf recalls this time with much fondness, going into the details of day-to-day life back home.

Download or read book The Milkweed Triptych written by Ian Tregillis and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major talent" (George R. R. Martin), Ian Tregillis presents a thrilling science fiction World War II adventure trilogy featuring British spies and warlocks working to defeat Hitler's ubermensch...and one mad seer who would destroy timelines and most of humanity to save herself. The Milkweed Triptych discounted ebundle includes: Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War, Necessary Evil Bitter Seeds: It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the WWII, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him. The Coldest War: Warlocks and spies contend in a very different Cold War. As former spy Raybould Marsh strives to defend Queen and country, he must confront his nation's darkest secrets from World War 2 in this direct sequel to Bitter Seeds. Necessary Evil: Raybould Marsh, one of "our" Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already destroyed Marsh's timeline, in this stunning conclusion to the series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Blitz Families written by Penny Starns and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. But over fifty per cent of children were not evacuated during the War, and it is these young people who offer an unrivalled view of what life was like during the bombing raids in Britain's cities. In Blitz Families Penny Starns takes a new look at the children whose parents refused to bow to official pressure and kept their beloved children with them throughout the War. As she documents family after family which made this difficult decision, she uncovers tales of the deprivation, criminality and disease of life in the city and, conversely, the surprising relative emotional and physical wellbeing of those who lived through the Blitz compared to their evacuee counterparts. Because of their unique position at the heart of the action, these forgotten children offer us a priceless insight into the true grit and reality of the Blitz.

Download or read book The Shetland Eagle written by Anne Taylor and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia 1918. A mother dies in childbirth whispering a final message to her husband. He escapes from the turmoil of the Revolution, leaving his position as submarine Commander behind and takes the baby girl to live on Shetland. The emergence of the Second World War finds him returning to his homeland on a secret and dangerous mission helped by the Norwegian resistance and partisans. Here he begins to piece together the mystery surrounding his wife's last words and discovers the shocking betrayal by a priest all those years ago. A desperate search now begins.

Download or read book Wolf on the Mountain written by Anthony Paul and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1943 the Germans attack a partisan camp in the Abruzzo mountains behind Cassino. One man, a British prisoner-of-war, escapes. Robert Johnson can only survive by becoming Roberto DiGiovanni, an Italian peasant who can move freely in the snowbound mountains and German-garrisoned villages, protected by the communist underground. Together they have to endure manhunts, informers, political manoeuvring between communists and fascists, bombing raids and growing famine. It is not only Robert who has to change: the families, communist and fascist, who protect him, the daughter of the fascist family who falls in love with him, the doctor, the priest and the peasants with whom he reforms the partisan band all have to adapt their loyalties in order to survive.

Download or read book The Evacuee War written by Katie King and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from home, hope will keep them together. The plucky evacuees must come together in this heart-warming saga set in the Second World War for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin...