Download or read book Just a Pompey Boy written by George East and published by la Puce Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was from this unique Island city that Richard the Lionheart set out on his Crusades and Horatio Nelson sailed to meet his destiny at the Battle of Trafalgar. More recently, Portsmouth played a key part in the D-Day invasion which turned the tide of World War II. In Just a Pompey Boy, we return to a time when bomb sites were adventure playgrounds, the weekly family bath was taken in a tin tub and a foreign holiday meant a week's B&B on the Isle of Wight. Life could be hard, but, as the author says, offered many compensations that seem missing from today's world. Whatever your age and wherever you live, you will find Just a Pompey Boy a funny, moving and rewarding read.
Download or read book Just a Pompey Boy written by GEORGE. EAST and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S the dying days of World War Two, and a boy-child is born during a dramatic air raid that badly damages the family home and destroys the midwife's bicycle. At least, that's what George East's mother told him in later years. But then she also claimed that the painting-by-numbers picture of a bunch of sunflowers in the passageway could be a preparatory sketch for the real thing by Vincent Van Gogh. George's beloved but eccentric mother also claimed royal ancestry and that her ancestor and not Captain Hardy was the sailor Lord Nelson asked for a kiss as he lay dying on board HMS Victory. In Just a Pompey Boy, best-selling author George East recalls growing up in Portsmouth directly after WWII, when fitted carpets, double glazing, central heating and TV celebrities would be seen as far-fetched science fantasy. In a memoir that is funny, sad, heart-warming and always immensely readable, the author recalls a very different time to be young and alive in a characterful if war-battered city which was the Nation's premier naval base. A time when bomb damages were literally adventure playgrounds, food rationing was still in force and post-traumatic stress and even the concept of Health and Safety regulations had yet to be invented.As George remarks at the start of this first volume of his memoirs, the past has been said to be a foreign country; To the young people of today, this tale of a distant but golden childhood may seem to be about life on a very distant planet... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: NOVELIST, travel writer, broadcaster, actor, humourist and man of many other parts George East was conceived and bred if not born in his beloved home city of Portsmouth. In the years immediately after World War Two, he grew up in a very different world which was in many ways closer to the 19th than the 20th Century. After managing to leave school with no qualifications except a swimming certificate, George unintentionally set out on a record-breaking career path that included stints as a welder, plumber, brewer's drayman, Baker's roundsman, night club bouncer and pickled onion manufacturer before finding his niche as the boss at one of the country's first commercial radio stations. An unexpected (and undeserved) windfall meant the Easts could choose between paying off a fraction of their mortgage or buying a newer second-hand car. Instead they went mad and bought a ruined farmhouse and water mill on ten acres of fields, forest, rivers and mud in Normandy.George wrote about their adventures in finding, restoring and moving to live in The Mill of the Flea, and Home & Dry in France became the first in a best-selling series. Nowadays, George and his long-suffering wife Donella are often to be found at their base on the Isle of Wight, which was, as they say, the closest they could get to France while living in the UK. From there, the couple travel around Europe and write about their encounters with interesting people and places. George also uses his wanderings as a basis for his series about an eccentric and very quirky private investigator called jack Mowgley. As Donella says, the central character can be child-like and even childish, illogical yet good-hearted and even loveable as he blunders around foreign lands while solving murder mysteries in his very unconventional way. She adds that Jack Mowgely reminds her of someone she knows very well, but can't quite put a finger on...
Download or read book The Good Bad Boy written by Gerald Brennan and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day to day diary of an eighth-grade boy. Of all of Fr. Brennan's great and popular books, this is the one we have had the most requests to reprint. Grade school and Jr. High boys will love, treasure, guard and re-read this favorite many times. Of course, all young Catholics will enjoy this very special book. Any parent who ever attended the old-style Catholic grade school will have moist-happy eyes throughout the entire book. Everyone will find this edition not only good entertainment but a great teacher of Catholicity. Durable sewn signatures, 60 lb. cream paper, 128 pages, hardcover.
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Download or read book Rolling with the 6 57 Crew The True Story of Pompey s Legendary Football Fans written by Cass Pennant and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portsmouth's 6.57 Crew, named for the time of the train they took to away games, were the most talked-about casual football firm of the 1980s and 1990s. Labelled 'the worst in the land' by the police, this is pompey's true shocking story. For the first time, the firm's insiders reveal the truth behind the tabloid headlines. Cass Pennant is the best-selling author of Want Some Aggro?, Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF, and a hugely successful autobiography, Cass. Rob Silvester tavelled on the 6.57 train many times and became a part of the notorious group of fans. As a no-holds-barred look into a world of turmoil and violence, this is an unsurpassed book. It's required reading not only for football fans, but also those who want to know the amazing facts about a social phenomenon that changed the face of British culture.
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper Rowe s Lucan Grainger s Tibullus Fawkes s Theocritus Apollonuis Rhodius Coluthus Anacreon Sappho Bion Moschus and Musaeus Garth s Ovid Lewis s statius Cooke s Hesiod written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper Rowe s Lucan Grainger s Tibullus Fawkes s Theocritus Apollonius Rhodius Coluthus Anacreon Sappho Bion Moschus and Musaeus Garth s Ovid Lewis s Statius Cooke s Hesiod written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of Cleopatra written by Margaret George and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series. Told in Cleopatra's own voice, The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayal in the ancient Egyptian world, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, and does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death rather than be paraded in triumph through the streets of Rome. Most of all, in its richness and authenticity, it is an irresistible story that reveals why Margaret George's work has been widely acclaimed as "the best kind of historical novel, one the reader can't wait to get lost in." (San Francisco Chronicle).
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper Including the Series Edited with Prefaces Biographical and Critical by Dr Samuel Johnson and the Most Approves Translations The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalm written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caesar Versus Pompey written by Stephen Dando-Collins and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey? Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, historians, soldiers and emperors. Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual enemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorious twenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career was arguably more famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar. Caesar Versus Pompey tells the parallel life stories of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as their lives and loves became intertwined and interdependent, as they grew from rivals to partners, then from joint rulers to warring foes. One strove to preserve the Roman Republic, the other destroyed it.
Download or read book Cosmic written by Patricia JHS and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know what really happened in history and know the true hidden reasons why things are happening as they are, you need to read this book with the rest of the pieces. You have needed your whole life to figure out how you can correct the issues, with information that has not been allowed in your education. If you have always wanted to know why history has been recorded as it was and questioned its veracity. And my desire was to know why my family was left out of history. In other words, the eternal question of why has been probed in this book.
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Download or read book Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, features a new Introduction by Jeremy Lopez.
