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Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 (Hardcover, New): Steven O'connor Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 (Hardcover, New)
Steven O'connor
R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the last decade there has been a plethora of books about Irish soldiers in the First World War, yet the fact that recruitment to the British forces continued into the interwar period and the Second World War has received comparatively little attention. Steven O'Connor's work addresses this gap by providing a much-needed assessment of officer recruitment to the British military after Irish independence. Based on archival research, oral testimony and a database of 1,000 officers it examines the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission. It explores their subsequent experiences and identity in the forces, and places them within the wider context of Commonwealth recruitment to the British forces. Drawing on evidence from police reports, debates in town councils and local newspapers this volume also offers the first comprehensive account of reactions in independent Ireland to British recruitment and the shared military past.

Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies - From Civil Conflicts to Coalition Wars, 1848-2015 (Hardcover): Steven... Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies - From Civil Conflicts to Coalition Wars, 1848-2015 (Hardcover)
Steven O'connor, Guillaume Piketty
R4,481 Discovery Miles 44 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book showcases new historical research on foreign soldiers, including an overview of the early modern period and numerous case studies which cover the last 175 years and stretch over 5 continents. The last two decades have seen the term 'foreign fighter' enter our everyday vocabulary. The insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Syrian Civil War and the rise and fall of the Islamic State group have sparked public interest in the phenomenon of people choosing to leave their own country and fight in a foreign conflict. Foreign fighters, their origins, motives, activities and potential danger to their home countries have become subjects of debate, attracting contributions from politicians, military personnel, the media, political scientists, legal scholars but to a much lesser extent from historians. The ten essayss in this volume showcase new historical research on foreign military labour. The aim of the volume is to better understand the experiences and challenges faced by both the foreigners and the host country, particularly its armed forces, and to highlight the significance of these trends to the contemporary debate on foreign fighters. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History.

Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Steven O'connor Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Steven O'connor
R2,102 Discovery Miles 21 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection.

Orphan Trains (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor Orphan Trains (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography of Brace with firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here tells of the orphan trains that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited away some 250,000 destitute children to rural homes in every one of the forty-eight contiguous states.
A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphans Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in American history.

Northwest of Boston (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor Northwest of Boston (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Too Many Men on the Ice (Paperback): Steven O'connor Too Many Men on the Ice (Paperback)
Steven O'connor
R304 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This Is No Time to Quit Drinking - Teacher Burnout and the Irish Powers (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor This Is No Time to Quit Drinking - Teacher Burnout and the Irish Powers (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Magnus (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor Magnus (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An epic, adventurous tale of a family of genetically enhanced human beings, with one member deciding on becoming a vigilante in order to combat the rising level of crime in Brisbane City. Steven Lockyer embarks on starting a vigilante crusade with the backing of his aunt Stefani Lockyer. He assumes the identity of Omega Magnus. Along the way he deals with mercenaries, a secret organisation, a benefactor and a outrageous political cult. Along the way, he deals with keeping his family together, and he eventually and unexpectedly finds love. The first Volume in this epic series of Omega Magnus and his family, and their adventures and perils in an action-adventure series.

The Story of Peter Pan (Paperback): Daniel Stephen O'Connor The Story of Peter Pan (Paperback)
Daniel Stephen O'Connor
R197 Discovery Miles 1 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Spy in the City of Books (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor The Spy in the City of Books (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Witch at Rivermouth (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor The Witch at Rivermouth (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Here Comes Another Lesson (Paperback, Original): Stephen O'Connor Here Comes Another Lesson (Paperback, Original)
Stephen O'Connor
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

STEPHEN O'CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In "Here Comes Another Lesson, "O'Connor, whose stories have appeared in "The New Yorker, Conjunctions, "and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic, these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by the realities of love.
The story lines are unforgettable: A son is followed home from work by his dead father. God instructs a professor of atheism to disseminate updated Commandments. The Minotaur is awakened to his own humanity by the computer-game-playing "new girl" who has been brought to him for supper. A recently returned veteran longs for the utterly ordinary life he led as a husband and father before being sent to Iraq. An ornithologist, forewarned by a cormorant of the exact minute of his death, struggles to remain alert to beauty and joy.
As playful as it is lyrical, "Here Comes Another Lesson "celebrates human hopefulness and laments a sane and gentle world that cannot exist.

Will My Name be Shouted out? - Reaching Inner City Students through the Power of Writing (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed):... Will My Name be Shouted out? - Reaching Inner City Students through the Power of Writing (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed)
Stephen O'Connor
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Putting a human face on dire statistics about inner-city schools, Stephen O'Connor describes how his junior high school students--struggling to make sense of lives touched by violence, poverty, and broken families--discovered their own voices by writing and performing two plays.

Smokestack Lightening Stories (Paperback): Stephen O'Connor Smokestack Lightening Stories (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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