Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Heroes of Britain in Peace and War
Author: Edwin HodderHeroes of Britain in Peace and War
Author: Edwin HodderHeroes of Britain in Peace and War
Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heroes of Britain in Peace and War
Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Heroes of Britain in Peace and War. Illustrated
Author: Edwin HODDERHeroes of Britain in Peace and War, by Edwin Hodder
Author: Edwin HodderRogue Heroes
Author: Ben MacintyrePublisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101904178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now a limited series on Epix! “Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read.”—Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year) Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Defying his superiors’ conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.
Disasters and Heroes
Author: Angus CalderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Images of war and its commemoration are an everyday presence in contemporary culture, from the embedded reporter in the field to the Last Post at the Menin Gate. Disasters and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation revisits campaigns from the plains of Troy to recent events in the Balkans, examining how wars are represented and remembered. Angus Calder shows how the 'facts'of war are transformed into myths that condition later responses to war, and how the construction of memory begins with wartime events themselves. Beginning with a section devoted to war memorials and the public remembrance of war, such as D-Day commemorations, the essays collected in Disasters and Heroes then look at the lived experience of war for 'ordinary' people, while the final section deals with literary representation of war, from The Iliad to T.E. Lawrence and on to Christa Wolf's Cassandra. Disasters and Heroes is a thought-provoking collection dealing with issues of major significance which recent events have made painfully topical.
Heroes of Peace and War
Author: 1919 - a Land Fit for Heroes
Author: Mike HuttonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781445679112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a brief period of celebration, reality began to sink in. Britain was exhausted and consumed by grief. There was a growing fear of revolution.