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Book The Great War  Memory and Ritual

Download or read book The Great War Memory and Ritual written by Mark Connelly and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work concentrates on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials and then goes on to show how those memorials became a focus for a continuing need to remember, particularly each year on Armistice Day."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Post

Download or read book The Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Society's list of officers, members, and associates.

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes supplements.

Book A Century of Remembrance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Boorman
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2006-03-19
  • ISBN : 1781597138
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book A Century of Remembrance written by Derek Boorman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Century of Remembrance is a study of one hundred outstanding United Kingdom war memorials which commemorate 20th century conflicts from the Boer War to the Falklands and Gulf wars. The first described is a Boer War memorial unveiled on 5 November 1904, and the last is the Animals in War memorial unveiled in London on 24 November 2004.The memorials chosen are listed as near as possible in chronological order and represent different wars, different artists, different areas of the country, and a variety of types of memorial. In category they range from individual to national memorials and include memorials in schools, churches and places of work, and examples representing communities and the armed services. In form they are from statues and stained glass windows to arches, obelisks and cenotaphs, and from cloisters and chapels to art galleries and gardens and even a carillon.

Book Dorking in the Great War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Atherton
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2015-02-28
  • ISBN : 1473825520
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Dorking in the Great War written by Kathryn Atherton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Zeppelin raids to housing refugees and evacuees or from men volunteering to fight or women working in the local Gunpowder factory, Dorking in the Great War looks at how the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Dorking were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. ??The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Meanwhile, men serving in the armed forces were scattered far and wide. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER IN THE USO POSTER

Download or read book THE UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER IN THE USO POSTER written by RICHARD & BETTY COATE and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The horrors of WWII were still fresh in our minds when the Korean War broke out. June 25, 1950, when the North Korean Communists crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel to invade South Korea, changed the course of my life. Betty, her roommate Marian Ott, Richard's old Trenton buddy and roommate Harvey Seeman, and Richard were driving to "Old Man's Cave" which is about a hundred miles southwest of Columbus. It was a day made for poets and we couldn't have been in a more festive mood. The radio was tuned to the classical music station on WOSU when the program was interrupted with the news that the North Korean Communist troops had crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel to invade South Korea. Korea? Where's that? Richard flunked his physical for induction into WWII but would pass muster to fight in what was tragically mislabeled as a mere "police action" Richard had proposed marriage to Betty earlier that spring, with plans for a wedding the following December of '50. Little over eight months since their trip to Old Man's Cave, Richard was among the first draftees to enter the war. The title of this book is apt. Had I been identified, it could never have been used as a symbol of American fighting forces throughout the globe. Since it was used as a symbol at the peak of the Cold War, the advertising executive who handled the USO account had no way of knowing that I was not one of the 36,0000 who were KIA in the war. And he also presumed that if I survived the war I could never prove it to be me. The AP release stated the photograph was taken by a man with the initials JM. An elderly woman in the World Wide AP photo department said, "Why, that's Jimmy Martenhofff."--

Book Proceedings   Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Download or read book Proceedings Institution of Mechanical Engineers written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bunker Hill Monument Orations

Download or read book The Bunker Hill Monument Orations written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

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  • Author : Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Journal written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Granite

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 758 pages

Download or read book Granite written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sphere

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book The Sphere written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers

Download or read book Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers

Download or read book Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers written by Institution of Electrical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1970-79 include an annual special issue called IEE reviews.

Book Whitehaven in the Great War

Download or read book Whitehaven in the Great War written by Ruth Mansergh and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitehaven in the Great War covers Whitehaven's immense contribution to the Great War effort; it is thought that 625 Whitehaven men – from a town that, in 1901, had a population of around 21,000 – lost their lives fighting in the war. Meanwhile, on the home front, military service deprived many businesses of their established male workers, and women went to work in what had previously been exclusively male areas of employment. Notable people written about include recipient of the Victoria Cross Abraham Acton, an Orangeman in Whitehaven; local hero Robert Curwen Richmond Blair DSO, EM; and close friend to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Lord Lonsdale, the famous Yellow Earl who formed his own Pals battalion, the Lonsdales (11th Battalion, Border Regiment), to fight the Germans. It was often said, 'No bombing Zeppelin or Gothe ever attacked our peaceful backwater during hostilities.' However, on 16 August 1915 a U-boat, U-24, shelled the Harrington Coke works at nearby Lowca. This unexpected attack caught the community off-guard, and during the hour-long bombardment fifty-five shells rained down on the factory and the surrounding area – not one single shot was fired in return. War memorials to those killed in the Great War have been moved following church closures, however this book acts an practical reference guide to where these memorials stand today. Interesting stories come to light, like that of Baden Powell Thornthwaite, whose name was inscribed on a local grammar school war memorial, who had not died after all, but most likely deserted.

Book The Silence of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian Gregory
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-03-04
  • ISBN : 1847881807
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Silence of Memory written by Adrian Gregory and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on and around 11 November which dominated the public memory of the war in the inter-war years. This book aims to remedy the deficiency by showing the pre-eminence of Armistice Day, both in reflecting what people felt about the war and in shaping their memories of it. It shows that this memory was complex rather than simple and that it was continually contested. Finally it seeks to examine the impact of the Second World War on the memory of the First and to show how difficult it is to recapture the idealistic assumptions of a world that believed it had experienced 'the war to end all wars'.