Download or read book A Wearside Lad in World War II written by Len Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book LEN GIBSON written by LEN. GIBSON and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Emperor s Irish Slaves written by Robert Widders and published by The History Press Ireland. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undaunted: Stories About the Irish in Australia

Download or read book Forgotten Warrior written by Michael Snape and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, this compelling new biography charts the career of a distinguished but hitherto neglected hero of the British army. Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC commanded the British 18th Division during the catastrophic Fall of Singapore in February 1942. A highly respected and much decorated veteran of the First World War, he was captured along with tens of thousands of other soldiers - British, Indian, Australian, and Malay - who were then held prisoner on Singapore Island. Amidst hunger, disease and widespread despair in Changi, over the next six months he rallied the spirits of his soldiers, created a make - shift university and theatre, and helped to inspire a remarkable renewal of collective church life. At the same time, he improved conditions for hospital patients and encouraged sports and other recreations. While the fate of many of the men he led was to toil, and often die, on the infamous Burma Railway, Beckwith-Smith was exiled to Karenko Camp, Formosa (present-day Taiwan), where, mistreated and malnourished, he died of diphtheria and heart failure on 11 November 1942. Beckwith-Smith, was the most senior British officer to end his life as a prisoner of war in the Far East. Yet until now he has been a strangely forgotten warrior. Based on exclusive access to family archives, and drawing on an array of other eye-witness accounts, Michael Snape's richly detailed biography brings to an end that neglect. The result is a story that offers vivid insights into one man's experience of two world wars, while also revealing why he was so admired by his fellow officers and by the ordinary soldiers who served under him.

Download or read book Celebrating Sunderland written by Marie Gardiner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Sunderland’s rich heritage and identity – its people, significant events and achievements across the centuries.

Download or read book A Home for Maddy written by Elizabeth Gill and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby's Academy comes the third book in the popular Black Family trilogy. Perfect for fans of Catherine King, Katie Flynn and Dilly Court. Maddy Grant is a country girl, living high up on the fells above the small town of Sweet Wells, where her family has lived for hundreds of years. But when her father dies, Maddy learns the land has been sold to businessman Jonas Ward, who evicts Maddy and her mother from the house. As they scrape to make ends meet, Maddy finds herself slowly falling in love with Jonas' handsome nephew, who is also the local solicitor's son. But can she ever truly be with him, knowing how his uncle has treated Maddy's family? Note: this book was previously published under the title Sweet Wells.

Download or read book Ted the Lad written by Ted Cachart and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The World War II Adventures of a Young Lad Named Billy Jim written by William J. Weisner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins written by Walter Dean Myers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

Download or read book The Silent Hero written by George Shea and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young deaf French boy, Pierre, who rescues a British pilot and helps him back across enemy lines during World War II.

Download or read book Projekt 1065 written by Alan Gratz and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough-- but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.

Download or read book Haunted Wearside written by Darren W. Ritson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From eyewitness accounts of unexplained sightings to the search for evidence of ghosts, this book features over fifty chilling tales of ghostly encounters from around Wearside. Featuring the ghostly nuns of Franklin Street, a headless horseman in Newcastle Road, and the phantoms who haunt the Royal Infirmary, Haunted Wearside is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Richly illustrated and drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this collection will delight everyone interested in the paranormal.

Download or read book The War Years written by Stanley O. Shelton and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is never a good thing. Many lives are lost, sometimes all in the same family. This is an account of this Shelton family and their time during the war years. The first six boys served within the first six years of WWII together. Both the Korean and Vietnam periods were included in their history in that the younger two boys served during that period. The fact they all survived is amazing.

Download or read book War Boy written by Michael Foreman and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special new edition of Michael Foreman's award-winning memoirs about his wartime childhood.

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diaries of Corporal Raymond Webster Starr 36th Battalion written by Raymond Webster Starr and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book God a Boy and World War II written by Karl Feucht and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In writing this story, this part of my life, it is NOT for any glory for myself, but to give glory to Him Who made it all possible. If it were not for Him, I wouldn't be writing this—I wouldn't even be here. His love for a lonesome, homesick teenage soldier boy and His patience and longsuffering with the same stubborn teenager is why I am here today and able to tell this story."