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Monuments to Courage: 1917-1982
Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War
Author: Richard Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1317002407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital. Radicalised ex-servicemen have, thus far, been considered a rather continental phenomenon historiographically. And whilst attitudes to Hitler and Mussolini form part of this analysis, the study also explores why there were fewer such types in Britain. The Conservative Party, it will be shown, played a crucial part in such a process - with British politics serving as a contested space for survivors' interpretations of what the war should mean.
Croatians in Australia
Author: Ilija Šutalo
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781862546516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ilija Sutalo has given us a detailed and fascinating insight into Croatian settlers from the 1800s to the present, the likes of which has never before been attempted. Yet Croatians have been here for 150 years, and, by the 1930s, were well organised and conscious of their heritage. A people without whom Australia could not have developed and grown.
No Holier Spot of Ground
Author: Kristina Dunn Johnson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-04-06
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1614232822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning. Kristina Dunn Johnson, curator of history with the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, shares with us the powerful stories of memory and acceptance that are the legacy of the Confederacy, as varied as those who lie beneath the Southern soil.
Monuments
Author: Judith Dupré
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.
VCS Somme 1916
Author: Gerald Gliddon
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0752487469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the death toll from the armies of Britain, France and Germany had risen to over a million. This book tells the stories of fifty-one soldiers from the Commonwealth and Empire armies whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour – men like Private Billy McFadzean, who was blown up by two grenades which he smothered in order to save the lives of his comrades, and Private ‘Todger’ Jones, who single-handedly rounded up 102 German soldiers. Not only do we learn of heroic endeavours of these men at the height of battle, but we also read of their lives before 1914, ranging from the backstreets of Glasgow to a country house in Cheshire, and of what life was like after the war for the thirty-three survivors.
Forgotten Heroes
Author: William Wilbanks
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Battle of Gettysburg Close Up
Author: Rob Morris
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1499461623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legendary Battle of Gettysburg still resonates in American history. Readers are guided through Gettysburg's tranquil beginnings as a Pennsylvania crossroads to the action-packed battle that is known as one of the most crucial in the country's storied past. This resource takes the reader step by step through the days leading up to the battle, with first-person accounts of experiences on and off the battlefield, original photographs, and informative maps. These primary sources tell an exciting story fraught with tension and conflict that readers are unlikely to forget.
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Author: Gavin Stamp
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-08-06
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1847650600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This brilliant study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the origin of the memorial in the context of commemorating the war dead; it considers the giant classical brick arch in architectural terms, and also explores its wider historical significance and its resonances today. So much of the meaning of the twentieth century is concentrated here; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing casts a shadow into the future, a shadow which extends beyond the dead of the Holocaust, to the Gulag, to the 'disappeared' of South America and of Tianenmen. Reissued in a beautiful and striking new edition for the centenary of the Somme.
