A small girlâ??s fascination with a battered old box of letters and photographs from a pioneer family in Queensland leads to the discovery of a tale of industrial unrest in the mining communities of County Durham in the 1880s.
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“A tremendous read, interweaving military, social and family history…beautifully written and unbearably moving.” Over 55,000 young Bomber Command airmen made the ultimate sacrifice; thousands more of their comrades survived one of the bloodiest and most controversial campaigns of the Second World War, but never spoke about their experiences after the end of hostilities. Above Us The Stars tells the story of one of those men, 20-year-old wireless operator Jack Clyde. Through contemporary documents, Jack’s own notes, Squadron records, family testimony, interviews with Bomber Command veterans and German civilians, the author pieces together not only the story of Jack and his 10 Squadron Halifax crew, but also that of the family he left behind in the Durham mining town of Seaham Harbour. Why did so many men like Jack remain silent? Why were they unwilling or unable to tell their stories? How did the families of the “Bomber Boys” cope? How did these young men deal with the death and destruction they wrought upon German civilians, and the loss of so many of their comrades? The author explores the answers to these questions and more, and casts a new perspective on the RAF bombing campaign, in this vivid account of wartime in North East England, and of the experiences of the “Silent Heroes” of Bomber Command.
Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command was a vital part of the Allied war effort - claiming far more tonnage of Axis shipping destroyed than direct attack by either Coastal or Bomber Command itself. Minelaying operations commenced in April 1940 and expanded dramatically as the war progressed, yet today this vital campaign and its wide-ranging achievements against Axis merchant vessels, Kriegsmarine ships and U-boats are virtually unknown.Invisible Campaigns, based on Air Ministry and Admiralty archival material, together with squadron records, veteran accounts and logbooks as well as contemporary publications and press releases, provides the most detailed account of Bomber Command's minelaying operations and their effects ever written.Historian Jane Gulliford Lowes looks at the aims of the campaign and how it was implemented, together with the measure of its success and how it compared against the mining operations implemented by the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. The role of Arthur 'Bomber' Harris in overseeing minelaying operations is assessed and the experiences of the men who delivered the campaign, particularly the hazards they faced, are explored.Invisible Campaigns sheds new light on a little-discussed but important and ultimately highly successful aspect of Bomber Command and is a must-read for anyone interested the RAF's in wartime bombing operations.
An Epistle from Lady Jane Gray to Lord Guilford Dudley. Supposed to Have Been Written in the Tower, a Few Days Before They Suffered.
George Keate
Gale Ecco, Print Editions
2010
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An Epistle From Lady Jane Gray to Lord Guilford Dudley. Supposed to Have Been Written in the Tower, a few Days Before They Suffered
George Keate
Gale Ecco, Print Editions
2018
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT032811Dedication signed: G. Keate. With a half-title.London: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762. viii,19, 1]p.; 4
An Annotated Digest of Will Book a Guilford County, North Carolina, 1771-May Court 1816
Jane Smith Hill
Heritage Books
2009
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Photographed throughout 2018, Theo Wenner documents his seventy-year-old mother in her house in Amagansett, New York, where she has finally found solace following the most difficult years of her life. In this intimate study, Wenner paints an emotional portrait of his mother, her surroundings, her dogs, and the friends and family that come and go, as the seasons change and the house shifts from summer to winter.
L'histoire se passe en 1812. Un jeune lieutenant, Elim Melosor, second bord du bateau russe Le Vladimir l' poque des guerres napol oniennes, assiste au naufrage d'un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagn de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistr s. Ils ne peuvent y arriver; leur chaloupe est d truite et les marins sont rejet s sur les c tes de Hollande. Ils se r fugient dans un moulin, juste au bon moment pour sauver les occupants, attaqu s par des bandits. Les Van Naarvaersen, cette famille de riches commer ants hollandais qui, reconnaissante, recueille les naufrag s, sont heureusement amis de la Russie. On d cide de cacher les marins et de pr senter le lieutenant comme un neveu venu d'Allemagne, jusqu' ce que l'on trouve un moyen de leur permettre de retourner bord de leur bateau. Les sympathiques parents ont une jeune fille de 16 ans, Jane. Le beau lieutenant en devient amoureux et les jours s' coulent rapidement, emplis de promesses ternelles...
Jane who's five years old is in a bad predicament, her parents are unfit. They leave Jane to take care of herself and baby brother more often then not. But when they move to Mason Mississippi to the rundown Mason Apartment Complex the kids soon encounter a very caring next door neighbor who secretly helps them. Until one afternoon the parents find out and then everything turns bad quickly.
"Fantastically dark, twisted, and experimental . . ."Rupert Dreyfus, author of The Rebel's Sketchbook."Messy, sticky, and wickedly fun . . ."Rebecca Gransden, author of anemogram.Sex, drugs, and gangster rap come together in this deliciously transgressive novel to show you a side of crazy you never knew you wanted to see.When twenty-five-year-old Jane moves back to her hometown in order to care for her schizophrenic aunt, miscarriage and an unfaithful fianc fresh in her mind, the seeds are ripe for her mother's cruel words to come true: "You're going to end up just like your aunt. You're going to end up in a mental hospital someday."
1812. Le lieutenant russe Elim Melosor, second a bord du Vladimir, assiste au naufrage d un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagne de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistres. Mais leur chaloupe est detruite et les naufrages sont rejetes sur les cotes. Ils se refugient dans un moulin, a temps pour sauver les occupants attaques par des bandits.Des commercants cachent les naufrages et font passer le lieutenant pour un neveu venu d Allemagne, en attendant qu ils puissent reembarquer. Entretemps, le beau lieutenant est tombe amoureux de Jane, la fille de ses protecteurs Le jour prevu pour le depart secret des Russes, Melosor demande la main de Jane. Mais le pere de trouve l union trop dangereuse. L odieux capitaine Montane, douanier en chef, en profite pour tenter sa chance. Devant le nouveau refus du pere, il decide de se venger et de denoncer les marins caches Dans leur fuite precipitee, ceux-ci emmenent Jane, qui les a alertes Or seule les femmes mariees sont tolerees a bord du Vladimir Ecrit en marge des Trois Mousquetaires et paru en 1844 sous le titre LaRobe de noces, Cecile conte le destin d une famille d emigres francais, de 1792 a 1805."
Jane Eyre Meets the 21st Century When Jane St. John gets a plum summer job as the nanny for a family in St. Barths, she hopes her troubled past is far behind. But from the first ill-fated flight, to the prickly housekeeper, abrasive employer and a stalker who may or may not be trying to kill her, Jane's hopes for happy summer days are fading fast. When noises and ghostly visitations trouble her nights, she suspects more than just the past is haunting her. Could other more terrifying family secrets be hiding in the old house? This retelling of the classic Charlotte Bront Gothic novel, Jane Eyre, includes everything you loved about the original, respun for the 21st Century. Closely following the original's plot lines and character development, Jane starts with ten year old Jane St. John, this one living in a brownstone in Brooklyn, falling afoul of her stepmother and abusive cousins, and getting shipped off to Lowood, a school for troubled girls. More like a prison than a boarding school, Lowood is where the abandoned, abused, and poor girls of New York State are left in the care of an ambitious psychiatrist who pronounces them all mentally ill and pursues a course of institutional abuse as a self-styled cure. Despite humiliations and deprivations, Jane makes friends with another resident and the two of them provide emotional support through harrowing run-ins with the headmaster, lack of food and warm clothes, and a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. Though many girls do not survive Lowood, our Jane does and eight years on is a teacher at the same school, yearning to escape dreary upstate New York and start her "real life." She applies for-and gets-a summer job as nanny for a rich family in St. Barthes. Thinking she's finally earned some good luck, Jane arrives at the island paradise ready to take up her new duties in a Gothic mansion built by Corsaires for a notorious island family. Just like in Jane Eyre, there's a prickly housekeeper, an abrasive employer, and strange noises and visitations during the night that keep the story moving along at a clip. Madwoman in the attic? This one's on the roof. There's also a romance in there someplace, but not the Cinderella variety. Jane doubts her own emotional capacity to love or trust anyone and suspects her romantic partner of lies and betrayal. Suspicions that turn out to be true. Jane explores the inner turmoil of an independent woman who is often insecure and angry with the world and her place in it. Somehow, through it all, she learns to confront her demons, both those in the old house and those she's carried along from her past, and finds a way to live with herself and forgive others. More than a modern Gothic romance, Jane is the coming-of-age story of a 21st century feminist and an engrossing read for anyone that likes Gothic romances and feminist ideas.