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Books > History > World history > From 1900
Oswald Harcourt-Davis joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1916
to become a despatch rider. He was allocated a Triumph motorcycle
at Abbeville France on 18th July 1916 and was attached to the
ANZACs for the duration of the war which saw him motorcycling
around the Somme and Ypres Salient areas. He won his military medal
at Messines.
I have found that there are many people who do not have any
knowledge of the Great War. But we should remember it, as nearly a
million people died. Their names are written on memorials all over
England, as well as France and Belgium. Do not forget them and the
sacrifice they made.
Paul and Charlotte Bondy were refugees from Hitler caught up in
Churchill's policy of mass internment. Paul was detained at the
Alien Internment Camp at Huyton, near Liverpool, from late June to
early December 1940. During this time his only contact with his
wife and young daughter was by post. As this young married couple
struggled to overcome the vicissitudes of war and exile to maintain
some semblance of family life, they wrote to each other regularly.
The letters, postcards and telegrams reproduced here are a unique
example of a complete WW2 Internment Correspondence.
From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York,
Washington and Tokyo, Victory ’45 tells the story of the extraordinary
summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally
came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.
Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and
the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character
and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end
of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints
of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing
events – from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals
and political leaders.
What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the
terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the
participating countries would take in the years that followed and
ultimately the shape of our current world.
A gripping first hand account of how Soviet Communism impacted on
those who had to live their daily lives under its rule.
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