Kitchener's Last Volunteer - 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 Kitchener's Last Volunteer write by Dennis Goodwin. This book was released on 2011-01-31. Kitchener's Last Volunteer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War and is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitchener's Last Volunteer, he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era and how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War, and by the subsequent coming of the modern age. Henry is unique in that he saw action on land, sea and in the air with the British Naval Air Service. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 with the British Grand Fleet and went on to serve on the Western Front. He befriended several of the young pilots who would lose their lives, and he himself suffered the privations of the front line under fire. In recent years, Henry was given the opportunity to tell his remarkable story to a wider audience through a BBC documentary, and he has since become a hero to many, meeting royalty and having many honours bestowed upon him. This is the touching story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life - one who has outlived six monarchs and twenty-one prime ministers, and who represents a last link to a vital point in our nation's history.
Publishers, Readers and the Great War
Publishers, Readers 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 Publishers, Readers and the Great War write by Vincent Trott. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Publishers, Readers and the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.
Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World
Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World - 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 Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World write by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 2018-11-03. Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Story of Lord Kitchener
The Story of Lord Kitchener - 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 The Story of Lord Kitchener write by Harold Felix Baker Wheeler. This book was released on 1916. The Story of Lord Kitchener available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The North Riding of Yorkshire Volunteers, 1914-1919
The North Riding of Yorkshire Volunteers, 1914-1919 - 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 The North Riding of Yorkshire Volunteers, 1914-1919 write by Sir James Digby Legard. This book was released on 1919. The North Riding of Yorkshire Volunteers, 1914-1919 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
