Download or read book Merseyside at War 1939 45 written by Michael W. Royden and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merseyside at War written by Anthony Hogan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume documents the impact of the two world wars on the people of Merseyside, using a selection of primary sources and contemporary photographs.
Download or read book Merseyside at War 1939 45 written by Mike Royden and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the port completely out of action. Consequently, Merseyside became the most heavily bombed area outside of the capital. Despite the considerable damage, the campaign failed, and the port continued as a centre of operations for Western Approaches Command, controlling the safe passage of supply convoys into the Mersey, providing an essential lifeline to the success of the war effort. Rare insights into the life of war-torn Merseyside are included, along with untold stories from those who witnessed the events first hand, including the Blitz, the defense of the port, and the grim conditions in one of the largest prisoner of war and internment camps in the country in Huyton. A broad spectrum of life on the Home Front is recounted through memories, newspaper stories and personal memoirs to bear witness to the profound trials of courage and fortitude of ordinary people enduring this desperate struggle to survive the war years. This fraught resilience was not always a united front, and controversial topics are also studied, such as conscientious objectors, racism, strike action, and crime, plus the issue of the Spirit of the Blitz - was it a myth or reality? This book therefore is an attempt to cover the full period of the war on the Home Front, in all its aspects, from the day war was declared, to the wild celebrations on the streets at the cessation of hostilities, plus the immediate post war problems.
Download or read book Merseyside at War written by Rodney Whitworth and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merseyside s War written by Mike Benbough-Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the experiences of the people of Merseyside in the First World War in their own words, from life on the front line to entertainment at home
Download or read book Mist Over The Mersey written by Lyn Andrews and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once war strikes, life can never be the same again... A close-knit community is devastated by the outbreak of World War I in heart-breaking saga, Mist over the Mersey - a tale of families, friendship and romance from bestselling author Lyn Andrews. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee. The Chatterton family is far too posh for the Liverpool slums where they've ended up. Nancy Butterworth and Abbie Kerrigan, lifelong residents of the place, tried to befriend Dee Chatterton, but her mother wants her to have nothing to do with such rough children. The Burgess family looks forward to the arrival of their young cousin Sean from Dublin, and Nancy is not the first to lose her heart to the Irish charmer. In 1914 things are to change dramatically, and the families are to find that money and social position mean nothing when the horrors of the First World War invade their lives and take away their sons... Don't miss Lyn Andrews' sequel to the novel, Mersey Blues. What Amazon readers are saying about Mist Over the Mersey: 'This book grabs you from the first word to the last. As soon as I started to read it, I could see all the characters so clearly, as if I were there with them. It only took me two days to read it, as I could not put it down' 'Lyn Andrews is definitely an author you want to discover time and again. She writes with real clarity, wit and warmth...The characters that Lyn Andrews has written about are people that you feel are truly real'
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 Our War Merseyside s Wartime Children written by Anthony Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Second World War in Merseyside, as witnessed by the city's children.
Download or read book Citizen Soldiers written by Helen B. McCartney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and official sources relating to Liverpool units, Helen McCartney shows how ordinary men were able to retain their civilian outlook and use it to influence their experience in the trenches. These citizen soldiers came to rely on local, civilian loyalties and strong links with home to bolster their morale, whilst their civilian backgrounds helped them challenge those in command if they felt they were being treated unfairly. The book examines the soldier not only in his military context but in terms of his social and cultural life. It will appeal to anyone wishing to understand how the British soldier thought and behaved during the First World War.
Download or read book Merseyside War Years Then Now written by Daniel K Longman and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitler’s most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what was to be the first of over 300 such bombing raids Merseyside sustained that year. Almost 4,000 people perished and many more were seriously injured as the streets and buildings of Liverpool and Wirral were destroyed and their residents left in turmoil. Featuring 45 vistas of bomb-damaged suburbia and city centre carnage alongside 45 photographs of the area as it is today, Merseyside War Years: Then & Now sensitively documents the changes and developments that have taken place in Merseyside since those dark days of war, demonstrating both architectural progress and Britain’s resilience and in the face of adversity.
Download or read book Arthur Johnson s Secret Blitz Diary written by Arthur Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler threw everything he could at Merseyside in the early stages of the Second World War. The region was torn apart and huge areas were flattened, but the one thing the Luftwaffe could not destroy was the spirit of the people. Hitler had ordered that the port, with its vital Atlantic links, should be destroyed and he almost succeeded. The death toll here was twice that of any other British port. In 14 raids on Liverpool and Bootle alone 3,100 tonnes of high explosives were dropped, 3,966 Merseyside civilians were killed between August 1940 and January 1942 and more than 3,000 seriously injured, over the eight days and nights of the May Blitz 100,000 house were destroyed or damaged on the Liverpool side of the river alone, in one week alone 41,000 people in Liverpool had to be found temporary accommodation because their homes had been destroyed. Merseysiders stood side by side throughout this nightmare period and one man, Liverpool Echo Blitz Correspondent Arthur Johnson, ensured that the facts would be preserved forever in a remarkable personal diary that he meticulously kept as he toured war-torn Liverpool night after night. features the entire diary, exactly as it was written, plus many photographs from the unmatchable archive of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. Johnson, then in his early thirties, knew that the newspaper reports he submitted would be subject to the censor and that the truth would almost certainly not appear in the papers. The government policy was that there must be little bad war news for the public. So every time he returned home he would tap out the true story of the terrible massacres and bombings he had seen. He filed his reports in a grey folder entitled Air Raid Records. The folder was kept locked away as it was totally illegal to keep records of this nature. Now the contents of this historic diary can be fully revealed. Arthur Johnson, whose son of the same name would later work for the local media, was a real character. What would he think about his secret diary being published 60 years after his death?
Download or read book Liverpool Women at War written by Countyvise, Limited and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mersey Built Paperback B W Edition written by Robert Thorp and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mersey Built' chronicles the little-known commercial battle that raged between North and South during the American Civil War. The South relied on Europe for its military supplies, which the North tried to stop with a naval blockade of all Southern ports. The South retaliated by destroying Northern merchant ships on the high seas, using war ships, secretly procured from British shipyards and smuggled out of Britain by sympathetic British captains using British crews. The Charleston-based business empire headed by George Trenholm provided a conduit for Confederate finance with its Liverpool branch acting as bankers for the Confederacy's procurement agents. Merseyside, with its extensive docks and numerous shipyards quickly became the epicenter of Confederate operations in Europe. Several British businessmen bought ships specifically to run supplies through the Union blockade, leaving relationships between the United States and Britain strained, close to breaking point. The book relates the history of Trenholm's commercial empire, its pre-war expansion into Liverpool and the pivotal role it played in supporting the Confederate war effort. The involvement of other Liverpool-based entrepreneurs and their successes and failures in blockade-running is described. Background histories of the Merseyside ship builders who constructed warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy are included as well as several mini-biographies of the Liverpool-based captains who smuggled out warships and braved the Union blockade. Details of each ship built on Merseyside for involvement in the Civil War are listed. The role of the United States consular service and its extensive, Liverpool-based, spy ring is described, as are the efforts of the United States ambassador in London to influence British government policy on neutrality. The author, a direct descendant of a Liverpool ship builder, and a blockade-running captain, brings new insights and previously unpublished facts to light in this fascinating chapter of history.
Download or read book Merseyside s Own written by Christine Dawe and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merseyside has been the birthplace or home of literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women over the years.Modern-day noteworthy figures, such as Kim Cattrall, Daniel Craig, Beth Tweddle and Patricia Routledge rub shoulders with the historical great and good, including Sir Thomas Beecham, George Stevenson and Lady Emma Hamilton. Personalities from all eras and walks of life are featured, from politics, art and industry to music and entertainment.In this book Christine Dawe has penned a fascinating selection of mini-biographies of Merseyside’s most famous sons and daughters to make a perfect souvenir for visitors to the area. This is also essential reading for Merseysiders everywhere, and is sure to appeal to those wanting to know more about these people’s contributions to the Merseyside we know today.
Download or read book Mersey Built The Role of Merseyside in the American Civil War written by Robert Thorp and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Mersey Built’ chronicles the little-known commercial battle that raged between North and South during the American Civil War. The South relied on Europe for its military supplies, which the North tried to stop with a naval blockade of all Southern ports. The South retaliated by destroying Northern merchant ships on the high seas, using war ships, secretly procured from British shipyards and smuggled out of Britain by sympathetic British captains using British crews. The Charleston-based business empire headed by George Trenholm provided a conduit for Confederate finance with its Liverpool branch acting as bankers for the Confederacy’s procurement agents. Merseyside, with its extensive docks and numerous shipyards quickly became the epicenter of Confederate operations in Europe. Several British businessmen bought ships specifically to run supplies through the Union blockade, leaving relationships between the United States and Britain strained, close to breaking point. The book relates the history of Trenholm’s commercial empire, its pre-war expansion into Liverpool and the pivotal role it played in supporting the Confederate war effort. The involvement of other Liverpool-based entrepreneurs and their successes and failures in blockade-running is described. Background histories of the Merseyside ship builders who constructed warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy are included as well as several mini-biographies of the Liverpool-based captains who smuggled out warships and braved the Union blockade. Details of each ship built on Merseyside for involvement in the Civil War are listed. The role of the United States consular service and its extensive, Liverpool-based, spy ring is described, as are the efforts of the United States ambassador in London to influence British government policy on neutrality. The author, a direct descendant of a Liverpool ship builder, and a blockade-running captain, brings new insights and previously unpublished facts to light in this fascinating chapter of history.
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bombers Over Merseyside written by Liverpool Daily Post and published by . This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
