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The Story of the "Birkenhead,"

Author: Albert Christopher Addison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birkenhead (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

The Story of the "Birkenhead,"

Author: Albert Christopher Addison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birkenhead (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Gonville

Author: Peter Birkenhead
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439101272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presence who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a popular economics professor and a wife-swapping nudist, a leftist and a lifelong fan of the British Empire who would occasionally don an authentic pith helmet and imitate Michael Caine’s performance as the heroic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in the bloody war film Zulu, he was a man who could knock his young son down the stairs one day and the next cry about putting the family’s aged dog to sleep. Such is the contradictory figure at the center of this astonishingly candid and shocking memoir. As a young adult, Birkenhead reacted to his volatile childhood by forgetting its worst moments. He adopted all the trappings of normalcy, threw himself into a career as an actor, landing parts in Broadway plays like Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, both by Neil Simon, and found himself often playing characters who were angry at their fathers. Yet he discovered that he was sleepwalking through life, on occasion falling into rages that reminded him of his father. Then at thirty-one, eleven years after his parents’ divorce, Birkenhead told his mother about his recurring dream of flying down the stairs of their house as a young boy. She revealed that it wasn’t a dream, but a memory from his early childhood of being carried rapidly down the stairs by his mom after his father had pointed a gun at them. The revelation about the dream sparked the painful yet necessary process of examining his childhood and of ultimately moving beyond it, forcing Birkenhead to finally confront his father in a way that released him and his family from this complicated legacy. Combining the terror and wit of Running with Scissors, the poignancy and sense of place of The Tender Bar, with the sparkling prose of Oh the Glory of It All, Gonville is light on its feet even as it deals in the darkest of family tales. A harrowing and often humorous story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charming, cruel, generous, and violent father.

The History of the Hundred of Wirral

Author: William Williams Mortimer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 540

Book Description

The Story of the Sea

Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Torpedoed

Author: Deborah Heiligman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250187559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

Book Description
From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.

The Story of the Highland Regiments

Author: Frederick Watson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
"The Story of the Highland Regiments" is a historical book on the formation and activity of an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland called Black Watch, also known as Royal Highlanders or Royal Highland Regiment. The book recounts the important part the regiment took in such prominent historical events as the Civil War, Crimean War, Boer War, etc.

The Story of the "Birkenhead," PDF Download

The Story of the "Birkenhead,"

The Story of the "Birkenhead,"

Gonville

The History of the Hundred of Wirral

The Story of the Sea

Torpedoed

The Story of the Highland Regiments

Salvage of the Birkenhead

The Origin, Progress, and Present State of the Birkenhead Docks

Secret Wirral

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER