Author: Adrian Crisp
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788036816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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It is May 1964. Devastated by the death of his small son, James Butland returns to the 1940 battlefields in France where he served as an 18 year old in the defence of Calais protecting the western flank of the Dunkirk beaches. There he reviews his life, the conflicts of growing up in the interwar years and the approach of war in 1939. On the threshold of going up to Oxford University, war is declared and James is plunged, not unwillingly, into the role of a soldier. Wounded in the defence of Calais in May 1940, he is hidden from the Germans by a French medical student, Agnes, and following a brief affair, she helps him to escape to England in a small boat. James is posted to the bitter campaign in Tunisia where he is again wounded and is discharged from active service. He resolves to replace killing with saving lives and, influenced by Agnes’s example, he chooses to study medicine. James’s career flourishes in London and later in Cambridge. However his family’s new life is shattered by the death of his 9 year old son in a road accident. On a whim during his return to the 1940 battlefields in 1964, James traces Agnes. Their reunion against the background of despair creates new conflicts of conscience but also some prospect of recovery and hope. Colonel Belchamp’s Battlefield Tour is a poignant and moving tale that will appeal to those with an interest in the human impact of war and its aftermath. "This story of love and death pivots on the sacrificial defence of Calais in 1940, ordered by Churchill to demonstrate Britain’s will to fight. Written with personal passion, historical vision and clinical insight, it is by turns moving, exciting and illuminating. A novel about one young man’s experience that rivets your attention to its dramatic end.” – Piers Brendon “A novel built on sustained historical research, and all the stronger for it. A wonderful blend of fact and fiction.” – Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
Author: Adrian Crisp
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788038223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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It is May 1964. Devastated by the recent death of his small son, James Butland joins a tour of the 1940 battlefields in France where he served as an 18-year-old in the defence of Calais. There he reviews his own life, the conflicts of growing up in the interwar years and the approach of war in 1939.
Author: Allister Vale
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526789507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 697
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This in-depth account of the legendary leader’s ailments and their effects is a “tremendously important contribution to Churchillian studies” (Claremont Review of Books). Prominent physicians Allister Vale and John Scadding have written a meticulously researched and definitive account documenting all of Winston Churchill’s major illnesses, from an episode of childhood pneumonia in 1886 until his death in 1965. They have adopted a thorough approach in gaining access to numerous sources of medical information and have cited extensively from the clinical records of the distinguished physicians and surgeons invited to consult on Churchill during his many episodes of illness. These include not only objective clinical data, but also personal reflections by Churchill’s family, friends and political colleagues, resulting in a unique and fascinating study.
Author: Sir Henry Spelman
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Languages : en
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Author: John Charles Cox
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Thomas Dugdale
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society
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Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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List of members included in each volume except v. 1.
Author: John Stevens
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750962186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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The words of Unknown Warriors resonate as powerfully today as when first written. The book offers a very personal glimpse into the hidden world of the military field hospital where patients struggled with pain and trauma, and nurses fought to save lives and preserve emotional integrity.The book’s author was one of a select number of fully trained military nurses who worked in hospital trains and casualty clearing stations during the First World War, coming as close to the front as a woman could. Kate Luard was already a war veteran when she arrived in France in 1914, aged 42, having served in the Second Boer War. At the height of the Battle of Passchendaele, she was in charge of a casualty clearing station with a staff of forty nurses and nearly 100 nursing orderlies.She was awarded the RRC and Bar (a rare distinction) and was Mentioned in Despatches for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Through her letters home she conveyed a vivid and honest portrait of war. It is also a portrait of close family affection and trust in a world of conflict. In publishing some of these letters in Unknown Warriors her intention was to bear witness to the suffering of the ordinary soldier.
Author: Jere Clemens King
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Author: Joseph Foster
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Index ecclesiasticus; or, Alphabetical lists of all ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales since the reformation. Containing 150,000 hitherto unpublished entries from the bishops' certificates of institutions to livings, etc., now deposited in the Public record office, and including those names which appear in Le Neve's 'Fasti.'
