Download or read book The Story of the Birkenhead written by Albert Christopher Addison and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Deathless Story Or The Birkenhead and Its Heroes written by A C Addison and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping book tells the story of the HMS Birkenhead, which wrecked off the coast of South Africa in 1852. The authors highlight the heroism of the soldiers who stayed on board the sinking ship, allowing women and children to board the lifeboats first. Addison and Matthews explore the myths and facts surrounding the event, painting a vivid picture of the bravery and tragedy that unfolded. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Story of Birkenhead written by Margaret McClure and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birkenhead Drill written by Douglas W. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1852, the British H.M. troopship Birkenhead foundered. More than 400 men chose to drown or be eaten alive by sharks rather than allow one woman or child to suffer. This is the story of the bravery and heroism that has come to be known as the Birkenhead drill. - Cover. The British H.M. Troopship Birkenhead was the crowning glory of her generation. The first iron-hulled vessel of war, she was believed to be unusually resilient and seaworthy. On the night of February 26, 1852, she was sailing for the coast of South Africa with about 638 men, women, and children aboard, including a large contingent of military reinforcements for the troops engaged in the Kaffir Wars. At about 2:00 a.m., the vessel struck a ledge off Cape Danger. Twenty minutes later, she was submerged. Before she sank, an important decision was made. The men would sacrifice their lives for the women and children. They would willingly die rather than even possibly capsize the overloaded boats on which the women and children sought refuge. Over the next few hours, wives and children watched as their loved ones drowned or were consumed by man-eating sharks engaged in a wild feeding frenzy. The heroism of these men not only established the maritime principle of "women and children first," but served to inspire generations of men and women to stand by the ancient Christian principles of heroic manhood
Download or read book The Story of the Birkenhead written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and published by . This book was released on 186? with total page 3 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 The Story of the Sea written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Birkenhead by A Christopher Addison written by A. christopher Addison and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Deathless Story Or the Birkenhead and Its Heroes written by A. C. (Albert Christopher) Addison and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Story of the Birkenhead Settlement 1914 1924 written by Horace Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book DEATHLESS STORY OR THE BIRKENH written by W. Matthews and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Torpedoed written by Deborah Heiligman and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.
Download or read book Birkenhead written by Ralph T. Brocklebank and published by Breedon Books Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Birkenhead is vividly retold in this lively new history of the town, illustrated by over 200 maps, engravings and photographs from the superb archive at Birkenhead library.Ralph T. Brocklebank recalls Birkenhead's origins as a tiny fishing community in a sheltered cove on the Cheshire coast, its medieval importance as a Benedictine priory and crossing point on the Mersey, and its swift, troubled development as a commercial and industrial rival to Liverpool during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Larger-than-life characters like industrial entrepreneur William Laird, architect Joseph Paxton, and philanthropist Charles Thompson all feature in the story, as do famous residents like the poet Wilfred Owen.
Download or read book The Story of the Highland Regiments written by Frederick Watson and published by Tulip City Publishing. This book was released on 1925 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Highland Regiments is not merely a narrative of regimental gallantry—it is also the story of our Empire for nearly two hundred years, the story of strange lands and peoples, of heroism and endurance, of the open sea and the frontier. It is even more than that—it is the story of self-sacrifice, of courage, of patriotism.
Download or read book Salvage of the Birkenhead written by Allan Kayle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account on the salvaging of the HMS Birkenhead. She sunk in 1852 near Gansbaai, South Africa. Less then half of the passengers survived. This event led to the naval tradition of "women and children first."
