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When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for
duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a
journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever
imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that
notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn.
A century later, Derek Lundy, author of the bestselling
"Godforsaken Sea" and an accomplished amateur seaman himself, set
out to recount his forebear's journey. "The Way of a Ship" is a
mesmerizing account of life on board a square-rigger, a remarkable
reconstruction of a harrowing voyage through the most dangerous
waters. Derek Lundy's masterful account evokes the excitement,
romance, and brutality of a bygone era -- "a fantastic ride through
one of the greatest moments in the history of adventure" ("Seattle
Times").
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.
Presents a program designed for English learners to introduce and
reinforce social studies terms and skills. In this title, each
lesson presents material with a globally and culturally relevant
format though beautiful images and engaging content, such as
Primary Source documents and graphic organizers.
'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand
'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan "My hope is that this book will
inspire as I have been inspired. It's a love letter to the
importance of history and about how, without knowing where we come
from - truthfully and entirely - we cannot know who we are."
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of
unheard and under-heard women's history. Within these pages you'll
meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from
the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar;
warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their
lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage
who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung
heroes of stage, screen and stadium. It is global, travelling the
world and spanning all periods of time. It is also an intensely
moving detective story of the author's own family history as Kate
Mosse pieces together the forgotten life of her great-grandmother,
Lily Watson, a famous and highly-successful novelist in her day who
has all but disappeared from the record . . . Warrior Queens &
Quiet Revolutionaries is accessible, ambitious in its scope and
fascinating in its detail. A beautifully illustrated dictionary of
women, it is a love letter to family history and a personal memoir
about the nature of women's struggles to be heard and their
achievements acknowledged. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, it is
a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made.
With an introduction by author Anne Enright. Shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's
unbreakable bond. How you see a country depends on whether you are
driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on
whether or not you can leave it, if you have to. As the daughter of
white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller
remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun
as a satchel. This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic
battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond
with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Alexandra Fuller's
classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter
and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but
always enchanting, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story
of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.
In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill
approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the
most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating
the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and
inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil
and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely
because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful. In this
bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his
incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently
declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony
collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that
spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the
developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist
system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal
extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of
Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.
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.
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as
one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is
traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders
attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in
September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading
the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford
Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and comprehensive
assessment of the current state of our knowledge, takes a
refreshingly different view. It shows that the Viking expansion
began generations before the Lindisfarne raid, and traces
Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people
came to be who they were. The narrative ranges across the whole of
the Viking diaspora, from Vinland on the eastern American seaboard
to Constantinople and Uzbekistan, with contacts as far away as
China. Based on the latest archaeology, it explores the complex
origins of the Viking phenomenon and traces the seismic shifts in
Scandinavian society that resulted from an economy geared to
maritime war. Some of its most striking discoveries include the
central role of slavery in Viking life and trade, and the
previously unsuspected pirate communities and family migrations
that were part of the Viking 'armies' - not least in England.
Especially, Neil Price takes us inside the Norse mind and
spirit-world, and across their borders of identity and gender, to
reveal startlingly different Vikings to the barbarian marauders of
stereotype. He cuts through centuries of received wisdom to try to
see the Vikings as they saw themselves - descendants of the first
human couple, the Children of Ash and Elm. Healso reminds us of the
simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past, of how much
we cannot know, alongside the discoveries that change the landscape
of our understanding. This is an eye-opening and surprisingly
moving book.
A gripping first hand account of how Soviet Communism impacted on
those who had to live their daily lives under its rule.
Two days after Christmas 1944, during the harshest winter in living
memory, 33 SAS troops parachuted into the valley of Rossano,
Northern Italy. Carried out in broad daylight, the parachute drop
was intended to deceive observing enemy forces into believing that
a full parachute brigade of 400 men had landed behind them. Drawing
on post-op reports and memoirs, this book is a fictionalised
account written from the perspective of one of the rank and file
parachutists who took part in the operation: the author's father.
Scrupulously researched and richly illustrated, Hann's personal
narrative brings to life the co-ordinated attemptsof the SAS and
local partisans to engage and evade the enemy. For the first time,
Hann provides a detailed account of some of the devastating
setbacks and triumphs of Operation Galia: one of the hardest fought
and most successful operations of the Second World War.
This work explores the value of the motorcycle to communications,
and how the despatch rider helped prevent German victory.
A Chronological History of the British Civil Wars, in England,
Scotland and Ireland. Covering all of the battles, events of the
first Civil War leading up to the Regicide of King Charles I, the
Second Civil War, the Third Civil War, the Wars of the Three
Kingdoms, the Irish Confederate War. The Establishment of the
Commonwealth and the Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell as Lord
Protector. The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland, the first Anglo-
Dutch war, the Anglo Spanish War, the colonizing of the New World,
and the death of Oliver Cromwell and the events that lead to the
Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. . This book endeavors to
provide you with something refreshing and new. An easy to use
interactive ready reference covering the turbulent period between
1639 -1661 all in chronological order. . Twenty Two Turbulent Years
1639-1661. The turning point that changed Britain forever,
detailing all the events ( over130 battles with the Commanders)
during the Bishops War 1639-40, The Irish Rebellions, 1641-49. The
First English Civil War, 1642-46. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms,
1644-51, The Second English Civil War,1647-48, Events leading to
the Regicide of King Charles I on January 30th. 1649. The Third
English Civil War, 1648-51. The Scottish Civil War 1649-51. Oliver
Cromwell's Conquest of Ireland, 1649-51. The establishment of The
Commonwealth 1649-53, and the Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell.
1653-58. after Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658, succeeded by his
son Richard Cromwell, as Lord Protector and his subsequent removal
nine months later, leaving the way clear for the restoration of
King Charles II in 1660. Expansion of the English Navy, with the
First Anglo Dutch War 1652-54. The Anglo Spanish War and conquest
of the Caribbean colonies 1654-60. English Commonwealth Navy in the
Caribbean. ( Barbados). The Americas: June 9th.1650 The Harvard
Corporation. Colony of Maryland and the English Civil War. Colony
of Massachusetts. Rhode Island passes the first law in North
America making slavery illegal. May 18th. 1652. New Haven Colony,
Connecticut. Virginia Colony ( 1653). Influence on the American
constitution. The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman
Corsairs or Barbary Pirates. Civil War Commanders.
Parliamentarians. Civil War Commanders. Royalists. Commanders Irish
and Covenanters.
This manual lists the different types of fuzes fitted to both
British and German artillery and trench mortar projectiles and
details how 'safe' they are to handle.
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