Download or read book Secret Barrow in Furness written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the secret history of Barrow-in-Furness through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Download or read book Barrow in Furness Through Time written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Barrow-in-Furness has changed and developed over the last one hundred and fifty years.
Download or read book Lost Barrow in Furness written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and evocative look back in time at this Cumbrian town, its people and their way of life.
Download or read book Barrow in Furness Reflections written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of merged historic and modern images that reflect the changes in Barrow-in-Furness through the decades.
Download or read book Barrow in Furness in 50 Buildings written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of Barrow-in-Furness through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Download or read book Barrow in Furness at Work written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the working life of Barrow-in-Furness over the last century and more through its people and industries.
Download or read book Lake Windermere Grasmere Coniston Water Through Time written by Gill Jepson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs shows how the southern part of the Lake District has changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book The Hidden Victims written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The two world wars were undoubtedly two of the most catastrophic events in human history, not just for those who actually fought in them, but for untold millions of civilians. And even though the wars' superlativeness is unquestioned, our understanding of exactly how bad the civilian costs were is limited. Although the numbers are better for the two wars than for most earlier wars, gaps and uncertainties remain. States went to great lengths to record military casualties, but civilian fatalities often went uncounted, and figures were often deliberately obscured. In this book, renowned economic historian Cormac O Grada aims to set the record straight, establishing a figure for civilian fatalities that reveals much about the nature of modern war. The book builds on earlier estimates of casualties from a range of causes, some reliable, some approximate at best, and warns against spurious precision when approximations are impossible. For example, while the human toll of the Jewish Holocaust is generally agreed to have been about 6 million, the tolls of two other war genocides, those of the Armenian community in Turkey during World War I and of the European Roma community during World War II, cannot be determined with any precision. (Scholarly estimates of these range from 0.6 to 1.2 million, and from "at least 130,000" to "between 250,000 and 500,000.") During World War II Chinese civilians faced both a civil war and Japanese occupation, and no estimate of the resulting civilian deaths, which range from an implausibly low 2.5 million to 20 million, is reliable. The book shows that the single biggest cause of civilian deaths during the two wars were famines, some of which are familiar and well-documented, while others have attracted research only recently, and a few await systematic analysis. The book covers these as well as genocides, particularly the Jewish Holocaust, and deaths from aerial bombing, and shows how in each of these categories the numbers have been controversial and contested. Most of the book deals with death, but it contains accounts too of the tens of millions of displaced persons and refugees and forced labourers, of civilian trauma, and of sexual violence and other atrocities. In the end O Grada argues that the two world wars cost at least 45 to 50 million civilian lives, almost double the cost in military lives. Addressing the uncertainties and inaccuracies in civilian casualties, the book shows the failings of international law and gives a vital and harrowing understanding of the true cost of war"--
Download or read book The Spirit of the Blitz written by Paul Addison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Blitz, the morale of the British people was clandestinely monitored by Home Intelligence, a unit of the Ministry of Information that kept watch on the behaviour and opinions of the public and eavesdropped on their conversations. Drawing on a wide range of intelligence sources from every region of the United Kingdom, a small team of officials based at the Senate House of the University of London compiled secret reports on the state of popular morale as the Luftwaffe attacked Britain's major towns and cities between September 1940 and May 1941. Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, who tell the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history. Not only do they include in-depth reports on the effects of the bombing, including special reports on Coventry, Clydebank, Hull, Barrow-in-Furness, Plymouth, Merseyside and Portsmouth, but also insights into almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain as well as the response of the public to the shifting military fortunes of the war. Reading like the collective diary of a nation, the reports strip away the nostalgia that has grown up around the period, reminding us instead of the sufferings and sacrifices, the many frustrations and difficulties of daily life, the administrative bungling, the grumbling and petty jealousies, and the determination of the overwhelming majority to put up with it all for the sake of beating Hitler.
Download or read book Secrets and Shadows written by Giles Ekins and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three crime mysteries by Giles Ekins, now available in one volume! Dead Girl Found: When Janet hears her deceased daughter's voice accusing her husband of abuse during a spiritualist meeting, it sets off a chain of events that leads to the deaths of both parents. DCI Grace Swan is called in to investigate, but she's still reeling from the loss of her partner and struggling with her superiors. Told from alternating viewpoints, Dead Girl Found is a thrilling murder mystery that keeps you guessing which side holds the truth. Gallows Walk: As DI Christopher Yarrow delves deeper into the investigation of the bungled bank robbery in West Garside, the small town becomes more and more tense. The killer, who has already taken two lives, is still at large and seems to be taunting Yarrow and his team at every turn. With the pressure mounting, Yarrow must race against the clock to catch the killer before he strikes again. But as he uncovers more about the killer's identity, he begins to realize that this case may be more complicated than he ever imagined. Will he be able to solve the case before it's too late? Murder By Illusion: Stage illusionist Charlie Chilton's career is going nowhere until the mysterious Asmodeus Tchort offers him a deal to become the most famous illusionist in the world. Charlie's success quickly follows, but soon he finds himself haunted by nightmares and plagued by gruesome murders as he tours his new act around the country. As the bodies pile up, Charlie begins to wonder if he has become a killer himself, and the true identity of his benefactor becomes more and more unclear.
Download or read book Printmakers Secrets written by Anthony Dyson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind the scenes look at the way that individual printmakers work: inspirations, strategies, techniques and problem solving.
Download or read book The Secret Child written by David Thomas Kay and published by David Thomas Kay and Ocean Reeve Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous International awards for the series: Circles of Time: Book One - The Sword of Saint Isidores. IRDA Best Fantasy 2022. Book Two - The Ring of Mann. Readers' Favorite. Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy. THE SECRET CHILD: Bool 3 in the series Circles of Time. Life in the District is not as it seems. An intriguing family saga of Reincarnation, the Supernatural, Gypsy folklore, fantasy, mystery, and romance. 1740 AD. Mary Atkinson’s life is fading, and the ghost of the white wolf waits patiently as the frail lady re-lives the vision of Freydis, the Viking warrior of revenge. But the saga is ongoing, and the pulse of Freydis, intensifies as the inheritors of the runic ruing are entrapped. 1921 AD. Appleby Castle is awash with scandal, and Annie Burton flees to Bengal. She returns twenty years later with Amelia Atkinson, and the truth slowly unfolds. Helena, a psychic, and Pali, a Gypsy fortune-teller are reincarnate and share inconceivable visions of an ancient past. A white wolf, a full moon, and a mysterious floating island are ingredients that will shape their destiny. Thomas Johnson, a young miner with ancestral links to Helena and Pali, gains possession of the runic ring and suffers misfortune. Life in the district is not as it seems. The novel is set in the English Lake District, Whitehaven collieries, and London during the early reign of Queen Victoria and Albert and the winding down of the East India Company.
Download or read book The Hidden Places of England written by Peter Long and published by Travel Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's landscape is as diverse as its culture. It is a country with magnificent landscapes. This guide looks at the more established places of interest throughout the country, but it also focuses on the more secluded and little known visitor attractions and places to stay, eat and drink.
Download or read book A History of Dalton in Furness written by James E. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undersea Warriors written by Iain Ballantyne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undersea Warrior: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.This will follow the careers of four daring British submarine captains who risked their lives to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits consigned to the shadows until now. Their experiences encompass the span of the Cold War, from voyages in WW2-era submarines under Arctic ice to nuclear-powered espionage missions in Soviet-dominated seas. There are dangerous encounters with Russian spy ships in British waters and finally, as the communist facade begins to crack, they hold the line against the Kremlin's oceanic might, playing a leading role in bringing down the Berlin Wall. It is the first time they have spoken out about their covert lives in the submarine service.This is the dramatic untold story of Britain's most-secret service.
Download or read book The Hidden Places of the Lake District and Cumbria written by Peter Long and published by Travel Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 6th edition of Hidden Places exploring one of the U.K's most popular regions for visitors and will be printed in full colour The Lake District is famous for its grand, austere mountain scenery intersected by fast flowing rivers and languid lakes but it also offers visitors much more - isolated hamlets and picturesque villages, quiet lanes and a deep literary and industrial heritage. The ideal subject for the Hidden Places, the book is packed with information and coloured photographs on the more secluded and little known venues for food, accommodation and places of interest as well as the more enduring attractions of the region. This edition incorporates the redesigned covers for regional titles and features eye-catching photographs of the Whislatter Pass, Whitehaven and Wastwater.
Download or read book Guy the Grumpy Gargoyle written by Gill Jepson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy is a gargoyle at Furness Abbey. He enjoys watching the monks go about their business, and at night, when the moon is up, he is able to fly with his many brothers. Then the abbey is destroyed by soldiers. Everything changes and Guy looks on folornly as his brothers are lost. Some are carted away or broken and others go into hiding. He becomes very sad and grumpy and won’t talk to anyone. This goes on for many years until a little shrew decides to cheer him up… She makes him laugh and then he finds he can fly again and makes new friends. The friends then decide to help him find his brothers. They fly from place to place, meeting different animals along the way. They finally find the remaining gargoyle safe and sound at the Abbey Mill Café. Guy the Gumpy Gargoyle is a fantasy picture story about friends and feelings that uses the traditions of storytelling to encourage sharing stories. The beautiful, full-colour illustrations provide a stimulus for discussion and will inspire kids to speak and listen. The journey the characters take is descriptive and enables children to join in and predict the text. By turns funny and sad, it will appeal to young readers aged 3-7, who will be able to relate to Guy’s feelings and emotions and empathise with them. Gill has been inspired by a variety of authors, including Alan Garner, C.J. Sansom and Barbara Erskine.
