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At its height during the Second World War, the RAF totalled 185,000
personnel. Men and women, from home and overseas, served alongside
members of Dominion Air Forces, and those members of the air forces
of occupied Europe who had escaped to fight on. All are covered in
the RAF casualty files. The heaviest losses were suffered by the
aircrews; in Bomber Command alone some 75,000 were killed, wounded
or captured. All information concerning casualties was carefully
complied at the Air Ministry and now, from these the official
records, those covering operational losses (in the air and on the
ground), and flying accidents are being made available to the
public through The National Archives. This huge collection of
casualty files contains a wealth of contemporary documentation from
a variety of sources including captured German records. The
fascinating insight into the fate of casualties provided by the
Casualty Files includes official documents, examples of which are
given, accounts of searches undertaken to establish the fate of the
missing, places of burial, copies of information received from the
International Red Cross and from sources within enemy occupied
lands, as well as letters from family and friends some of which
reveal dark secrets of bigamy, adultery, illegitimacy, debt and
dishonour. In this ground-breaking book Mary Hudson has used her
expert knowledge to provide an invaluable guide to the
understanding of these records for use by researchers and family
members alike. She takes the reader on a journey through the files,
explaining when and how the RAF Casualty Branch (who opened and
maintained the files) was formed, where the information held in the
records originated, as well as providing an understanding of the
documents themselves and explanation of matters the records refer
to.
A timeless and perennially best-selling illustrated tour of the
most famous landmarks in New York City. Including such iconic sites
as the Statue of Liberty, the Flatiron Building, Rockefeller
Center, the Empire State Building, Times Square, Grand Central
Terminal, and Radio City Music Hall, among others, New York
Landmarks highlights the architectural and historical details of
thirty world-famous landmarks in New York City. Beautiful full-page
and detail duotone photographs are accompanied by descriptive text
highlighting the architects and period styles of each location.
This collection is an indispensable reference for anyone interested
in the architectural gems that define New York City. List of
landmarks included: City Hall, Schemerhorn Row (South Street
Seaport), Federal Hall National Memorial (first U.S. Capitol, 28
Wall Street), Trinity Church, Brooklyn Bridge, St. Patrick's
Cathedral, Dakota Apartments (New York's first luxury apartment
building, 72nd Street and Central Park West), Statue of Liberty,
Central Park, Carnegie Hall, Washington Memorial Arch (Washington
Square Park), Immigrant Receiving Station (Ellis Island), Flatiron
Building, Macy's Department Store*, New York Stock Exchange, Morgan
Library (29 East 36th Street), Times Square*, Plaza Hotel, New York
Public Library, Woolworth Building (233 Broadway), Grand Central
Terminal, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chrysler Building, Empire
State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, United
Nations Building*, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center*,
and World Trade Center**Not registered as a historical landmark.
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Asher (Hardcover)
Marie Hudson U L C Minister
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This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
A GOURMAND AWARD WINNING COOKBOOK filled with quick, easy and
affordable gluten free baking recipes that use everyday
ingredients. With colour photos and simple step-by-step
instructions gluten free baking has never been so stress free and
delicious
All the recipes are made from one of two healthy base flour blends
of only 3-4 commonly found, inexpensive gluten free flours. Many
recipes are also multi-allergy friendly including dairy and egg
free.
This cookbook uses no fancy equipment or costly ingredients, it's
just packed full of good quality, family friendly recipes that
anyone can make and everyone will love to eat. So if you want
gluten free food that tastes fantastic and won't take all day to
prepare then this cookbook is for you.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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everyone!
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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Fable for Another Time (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Mary Hudson; Preface by Henri Godard
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"Fable for Another Time" is one of the most significant and
far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the
tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison
cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on charges
of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war,
the postwar political purges in France, and Louis-Ferdinand
Celine's own dissident politics.
The tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, the
"Fable" follows its character's decline from virulent hatred to
near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the
hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings. In part because
of the story's clear link to his own case--and because of the legal
and political difficulties this presented--Celine was compelled to
push his famously elliptical, brilliantly vitriolic language to new
and extraordinary extremes in "Fable for Another Time." The
resulting linguistic and stylistic innovation make this work stand
out as one of the most original and revealing literary undertakings
of its time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French writer and
physician best known for the novels "Journey to the End of the
Night" (1932) and "Death on the Installment Plan" (1936). Celine
was accused of collaboration during World War II and fled France in
1944 to live first in Germany, then in Denmark, where he was
imprisoned for over a year; an amnesty in 1951 allowed him to
return to France. Celine remains anathema to a large segment of
French society for his antisemitic writings; at the same time his
novels are enormously admired by each new generation.
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