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This book is a radical exploration of the mystical teachings in the
Gospel of John. It helps the reader to experience these spiritual
truths for themselves, and go beyond the everyday mind which is
dominated by the ego and realize their eternal Being, which Johns
Gospel calls Logos. By approaching the teachings in a meditative
state, the symbolism contained within the Greek text opens out and
comes alive in the present moment. The Gospel is not a historical
document; it speaks directly to each person now and the states of
consciousness represented in the stories are accessible now. The
book contains guided meditations to help bring this to life for the
reader. This awakening concerns our relationship with the whole of
life. Spiritual consciousness means that we are aware of the
sacredness of our connections to each other as fellow human beings,
and to the creatures of the natural world. Christ and the Logos
contain both masculine and feminine in balance; at this critical
time, our well-being and that of our fellow creatures is dependent
on this realization.
This remarkable new book reveals the hitherto unknown story of the
soldiers who took the first tanks into action on the Somme
battlefield in September 1916. Drawing on official records,
contemporary newspaper reports and family memories, Stephen Pope
provides a fascinating insight into the lives of First Tank
Crewmen, covering their recruitment, scant training, rapid
deployment and their premature use in battle. He then traces their
inter-connected lives over the next two years as tanks played a key
role in the defeat of the Germany Army in 1918. He reveals the
story of their return to civilian life and their often difficult
struggle to build a family life. Sadly many of the First Tank Crew
died young, some due to injuries or illnesses developed as a result
of their wartime service. Many of their marriages failed, some as a
direct result of the stresses of the battlefield. Many were
childless and few lived to see their grandchildren grow up. Amongst
the stories revealed are those of the grandson of the social
reformer Joseph Rowntree, the champion rose grower Bill Harkness;
the Scottish chemist Stuart Hastie who introduced science into the
whisky distilling process and the Liverpool school teacher Graham
Nixon who tried to teach John Lennon mathematics. None of those who
fought in the tanks achieved great fame for their actions and few
revealed their wartime secrets to their families. However, many
became pillars of their local communities, giving a life of service
to those around them. This book tells the previously untold stories
of bravery, determination and dedication by a group of unsung
heroes. The author has used his contacts with more than fifty
relatives of those who fought at the First Tank Action and used
their input to provide a detailed description of their lives after
the war. He has also gathered together many, previously unpublished
pictures including many of the tankmen in France, and has revealed
the backstory to several well known photographs. Above all, he has
linked individual lives together to create a fascinating story of
ordinary men who took part in extra-ordinary events. The story of
The First Tank Crews is one well worth reading.
This is the first volume of a new six volume history of the Tank
Corps during the First World War. The first history was written
shortly after the end of the Great War by Lt Col JFC Fuller in
1919. This, and the subsequent version written by Sir Basil Liddell
Hart in 1959, provided a broad overview of the origins of the Tank
Corps but did not undertake detailed analysis of the tank actions
and the changes introduced in the organisation or operation of tank
units as a result of the lessons learned. This new history seeks to
overcome these shortcomings. The first volume, which covers the
period November 1914 to November 1916, gives an introduction to the
initial design and development of the first battle tanks. It
provides details of the selection and training of crewmen and the
tactical and logistic challenges associated with bringing a new
weapon system into combat within one year after acceptance of the
prototype. The impact of armoured vehicles in the initial actions
in 1916 was limited. However, as the British C-in-C Douglas Haig
determined within two days of their debut on the Somme, tanks would
soon become a key element in the all-arms battle. The battle
chapters of this initial and subsequent volumes analyses the part
played by tanks in success or failure of the British Army until the
summer of 1918, after which the tanks took the lead as American,
Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand forces drove back the
Germans during a 100 day advance which culminated in the defeat of
the German Army in the field. Each volume is illustrated by
contemporary photographs and tables showing the order of battle of
tank units in each battle, as well the formations they supported,
and the opposing forces. It also includes a separate map book which
enables the readers to follow the course of the battle. Whilst
designed for readers with a passion for detail of the development
of the British Army during the last two years of the First World
War, this new history aims to enable those with a general interest
to gain an understanding of the part played by the tanks, their
crew and their commanders in the destruction of the Germans' will
to win, some six months before the planned start of the 1919
offensive. The tanks had successfully fought through the mud and
the blood, to the green fields beyond.
Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" (1998) "Nationalism and
amateurism. While countless scholars have written on one or the
other of these two important concepts, S.W. Pope has undertaken to
explore the relationship between them. His subtle analysis on this
relationship is but one of many highlights in this wonderfully
insightful and multi-faceted book." -Allen Guttmann, Amherst
College "Pope has done a masterful job of combining his reading
from secondary sources with his own original research to give us a
definitive account of the time when sports and national identity
came to be connected. The clarity and specificity of language made
this book a pleasure to read. Those in the development of American
sports should read this book, as should anyone curious about how
the rhetoric of nationalism became dependent upon its connection to
the rhetoric of athletics." -The International Journal of the
History of Sport "The strength of the text lies in the rich
contextual detail that Pope has assembled to illustrate the fusion
of national ideology and sport in the American context. This is
especially the case when he draws upon the primary sources . . .
The result is a series of carefully rendered studies tracing
ideological contestation in various spheres of sporting discourse."
-International Review of the Sociology of Sport "Patriotic Games is
gracefully written and explores more fully and satisfactorily than
any previous book the relationship between nationalism and American
sports in the years between the American centennial in 1876 and the
sesquicentennial in 1926."-Journal of American History "The
documentation of sources is exceptionally well done and
exhaustively detailed. This thoroughly readable work is highly
recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty
collections." -Choice "[Patriotic Games] challenges sport
historians to look more closely at the ways in which sports
rhetoric weaves national, social, and personal agendas into tightly
knit fabric. In so doing, it offers a provocative perspective on
the ideological function of sports that will help to advance this
growin area of sports scholarship."-Journal of Sport History
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