Ilkley and The Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ilkley and The Great War write by Caroline Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-15. Ilkley and The Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating selection of photographs documents the impact of the First World War had on Ilkley.
Craven's Part in the Great War
Craven's Part in the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Craven's Part in the Great War write by John T. Clayton. This book was released on 2022-09-04. Craven's Part in the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Craven's Part in the Great War" by John T. Clayton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Memorials of the Great War in Britain
Memorials of the Great War in Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memorials of the Great War in Britain write by Alex King. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Memorials of the Great War in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author argues that this was possible because the interpretation of them as symbols was part of a creative process in which new meanings for traditional forms of memorial were established and circulated. The memorials not only symbolized emotional responses to the war, but also ambitions for the post-war era. Contemporaries adopted new ways of thinking about largely traditional forms of memorial to fit the uncertain social and political climate of the inter-war years.This book represents a significant contribution to the study of material culture and memory, as well as to the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
On Ilkley Moor
On Ilkley Moor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Ilkley Moor write by Tim Binding. This book was released on 2012-01-05. On Ilkley Moor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tim Binding lived in Ilkley, Yorkshire, until he was seven. The place shaped his imagination and has haunted him ever since. On Ilkley Moor is an imaginative history of a great town, a series of explorations partly factual, partly intuitive and partly personal. It is the tale of Victorian optimism - of faith in hydropathy, in manufacturing, in the railways. It is also an examination of Ilkley's place on the faultline between the two great forces which have informed English life and culture- its rural heritage, and the industrial revolution. It is a book about the north, about industry, commerce and medicine, and, above all, it is one small story of the England of the fifties, and the lost dreams of that era. Neither a travel nor a history book, this is a moving return home to the place that made the writer what he is.
Too Brave to Live, Too Young to Die - Teenage Heroes From WWI
Too Brave to Live, Too Young to Die - Teenage Heroes From WWI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Too Brave to Live, Too Young to Die - Teenage Heroes From WWI write by Nigel Cawthorne. This book was released on 2015-11-05. Too Brave to Live, Too Young to Die - Teenage Heroes From WWI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World War I was a slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Nevertheless there was no shortage of young men willing to sacrifice themselves for their country. Some lied about their age to join up, not just at the start of the war when it was seen as a glorious adventure, but even towards the end when the true horror of the mechanized butchery was known to one and all.This book concerns the young men who were not yet twenty when they won the Victoria Cross, the British armed forces highest award for gallantry. Many perished in the action that earned them the VC. Others survived to receive the award, but then went on to die later in the war.One was as young as sixteen. Several were just eighteen, though they were supposed to be nineteen before they were allowed to serve overseas. They were sailors and airmen, as well as soldiers, and they came from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Nepal and India.Each one demonstrated an exceptional nerve and bravery. While some did survive World War I - even going on to serve in World War II - they showed an reckless indifference to death that made them Too Brave to Live, Too Young to Die.World War I has been over for nearly a hundred years now, but the tales of their valour live on. These men and their exploits deserve to be remembered - in the hope that young men will never be called on to do such things again.
