Author: Laura Rose
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496975952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Poppys with Honour is about an originally wealthy family living from 1762 1960, who are ancestors to the Author. There are ten individuals with their own chapters, achievements and struggles as they project their own way though their social, economic, and political times. Included is the history of an Astronomer who had the courage to pursue her goal regardless of her female gender. Others demonstrate births, deaths, ignorance of diseases. High mortality rates, invention of baby ` Murder bottles`. Limited medical knowledge. Lives shown through the changes during the Industrial revolution. The First World War, introduction of Gas Masks, and new vicious weapons used. Medals won. Men lost. The fun twenties. The Depression, the Means test. The effects on many during the Second world War. Home Front, Air-raid Shelters, Civil Defence, Nurses work , Dunkirk, D. Day. Penicillin introduction, the first Blood Transfusion Donations. Aftermath of the Wars. Rehabilitation in the 1950`s and the effect on the Author as she lives her way through her childhood with her Mum struggling as a single parent. This is a book about the true lives in the history of how life was. With its prompts of interesting information you will read as you travel through the book. I hope you enjoy the journey.
Poppy’S with Honour
Author: Laura Rose
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496975952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Poppys with Honour is about an originally wealthy family living from 1762 1960, who are ancestors to the Author. There are ten individuals with their own chapters, achievements and struggles as they project their own way though their social, economic, and political times. Included is the history of an Astronomer who had the courage to pursue her goal regardless of her female gender. Others demonstrate births, deaths, ignorance of diseases. High mortality rates, invention of baby ` Murder bottles`. Limited medical knowledge. Lives shown through the changes during the Industrial revolution. The First World War, introduction of Gas Masks, and new vicious weapons used. Medals won. Men lost. The fun twenties. The Depression, the Means test. The effects on many during the Second world War. Home Front, Air-raid Shelters, Civil Defence, Nurses work , Dunkirk, D. Day. Penicillin introduction, the first Blood Transfusion Donations. Aftermath of the Wars. Rehabilitation in the 1950`s and the effect on the Author as she lives her way through her childhood with her Mum struggling as a single parent. This is a book about the true lives in the history of how life was. With its prompts of interesting information you will read as you travel through the book. I hope you enjoy the journey.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496975952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Poppys with Honour is about an originally wealthy family living from 1762 1960, who are ancestors to the Author. There are ten individuals with their own chapters, achievements and struggles as they project their own way though their social, economic, and political times. Included is the history of an Astronomer who had the courage to pursue her goal regardless of her female gender. Others demonstrate births, deaths, ignorance of diseases. High mortality rates, invention of baby ` Murder bottles`. Limited medical knowledge. Lives shown through the changes during the Industrial revolution. The First World War, introduction of Gas Masks, and new vicious weapons used. Medals won. Men lost. The fun twenties. The Depression, the Means test. The effects on many during the Second world War. Home Front, Air-raid Shelters, Civil Defence, Nurses work , Dunkirk, D. Day. Penicillin introduction, the first Blood Transfusion Donations. Aftermath of the Wars. Rehabilitation in the 1950`s and the effect on the Author as she lives her way through her childhood with her Mum struggling as a single parent. This is a book about the true lives in the history of how life was. With its prompts of interesting information you will read as you travel through the book. I hope you enjoy the journey.
A Poppy Is to Remember
Author: Heather Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545999816
Category : Poppies
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
How did the bright red poppy that we all wear in November become Canada's symbol of honouring those who fought for our freedom on Remembrance Day? Moving text coupled with stunning illustrations by Governor General's Award-winning artist Ron Lightburn explain the symbolism behind the poppy. A bonus for teachers is the five-page spread all about the poem, "In Flanders Fields," Canada's wartime and peacekeeping endeavours, and the adoption of the poppy as our Remembrance Day emblem.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545999816
Category : Poppies
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
How did the bright red poppy that we all wear in November become Canada's symbol of honouring those who fought for our freedom on Remembrance Day? Moving text coupled with stunning illustrations by Governor General's Award-winning artist Ron Lightburn explain the symbolism behind the poppy. A bonus for teachers is the five-page spread all about the poem, "In Flanders Fields," Canada's wartime and peacekeeping endeavours, and the adoption of the poppy as our Remembrance Day emblem.
The Poppy Lady
Author: Barbara E. Walsh
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635924367
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Here is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a symbol that honors the service and sacrifices of our veterans. When American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, knew she had to act. Some of the soldiers were her students and friends. Almost single-handedly, Moina worked to establish the red poppy as the symbol to honor and remember soldiers. And she devoted the rest of her life to making sure the symbol would last forever. Thanks to her hard work, that symbol remains strong today. Author Barbara Elizabeth Walsh and artist Layne Johnson worked with experts, primary documents, and Moina's great-nieces to better understand Moina's determination to honor the war veterans. A portion of the book's proceeds will support the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple®, which benefits children of the US Military.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635924367
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Here is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a symbol that honors the service and sacrifices of our veterans. When American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, knew she had to act. Some of the soldiers were her students and friends. Almost single-handedly, Moina worked to establish the red poppy as the symbol to honor and remember soldiers. And she devoted the rest of her life to making sure the symbol would last forever. Thanks to her hard work, that symbol remains strong today. Author Barbara Elizabeth Walsh and artist Layne Johnson worked with experts, primary documents, and Moina's great-nieces to better understand Moina's determination to honor the war veterans. A portion of the book's proceeds will support the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple®, which benefits children of the US Military.
The Red Poppy
Author: David Hill
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN: 9781775430704
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Jim, a soldier on the Western Front in World War 1, is wounded while charging through No Man's Land. He stumbles into a shell crater for shelter and finds a badly wounded German soldier. The two men try to help each other, but it's Nipper, the messenger dog, whose gallantry gives them a chance for survival.
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN: 9781775430704
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Jim, a soldier on the Western Front in World War 1, is wounded while charging through No Man's Land. He stumbles into a shell crater for shelter and finds a badly wounded German soldier. The two men try to help each other, but it's Nipper, the messenger dog, whose gallantry gives them a chance for survival.
Honor Among Thieves
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006257101X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Meet your new favorite kickass heroine in this daring YA series by New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre, a thrilling yet romantic futuristic adventure perfect for fans of Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You. Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan—a race of sentient alien ships—to explore the outer reaches of the universe as their passengers. Zara seizes the chance to flee Earth’s dangers, but when she meets Nadim, the alien ship she’s assigned, Zara starts to feel at home for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the dark, ominous truths that lurk behind the alluring glitter of starlight.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006257101X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Meet your new favorite kickass heroine in this daring YA series by New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre, a thrilling yet romantic futuristic adventure perfect for fans of Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You. Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan—a race of sentient alien ships—to explore the outer reaches of the universe as their passengers. Zara seizes the chance to flee Earth’s dangers, but when she meets Nadim, the alien ship she’s assigned, Zara starts to feel at home for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the dark, ominous truths that lurk behind the alluring glitter of starlight.
The Poppy
Author: Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780741855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae’s moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired Romantic opium dreams or the grim reality of morphine drips. This is a story spanning three thousand years, from the ancient Egyptian fights over prized medicinal potions to the addicted veterans returning home from the American Civil War, from the British political machinations during the Opium Wars with China to the struggle to end Afghanistan’s tribal narcotics trade. Through it all, there stands the transformative poppy. Nicholas J. Saunders brings us the definitive history of this ever-enduring but humble flower of the fields, a story that is at turns tragic, eye-opening and, most essentially, life-affirming – a gift to us all.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780741855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae’s moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired Romantic opium dreams or the grim reality of morphine drips. This is a story spanning three thousand years, from the ancient Egyptian fights over prized medicinal potions to the addicted veterans returning home from the American Civil War, from the British political machinations during the Opium Wars with China to the struggle to end Afghanistan’s tribal narcotics trade. Through it all, there stands the transformative poppy. Nicholas J. Saunders brings us the definitive history of this ever-enduring but humble flower of the fields, a story that is at turns tragic, eye-opening and, most essentially, life-affirming – a gift to us all.
Poppy
Author: Mary Hooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408829827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Poppy is young, beautiful and clever – and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family's country house. Society, it seems, has already carved out her destiny. But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically off course. The first reason is love – with someone forbidden, who could never, ever marry a girl like her. The second reason is war. As the lists of the dead and wounded grow longer, Poppy must do whatever she can to help the injured soldiers, knowing all the while that her own soldier may never return home . . .
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408829827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Poppy is young, beautiful and clever – and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family's country house. Society, it seems, has already carved out her destiny. But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically off course. The first reason is love – with someone forbidden, who could never, ever marry a girl like her. The second reason is war. As the lists of the dead and wounded grow longer, Poppy must do whatever she can to help the injured soldiers, knowing all the while that her own soldier may never return home . . .
Black Poppies
Author: Stephen Bourne
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the 'mother country' when the First World War broke out. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army, men managed to join all branches of the forces, while black communities contributed to the war effort on the home front. By 1918 it is estimated that Britain's black population had trebled to 30,000, as many black servicemen who had fought for Britain decided to make it their home. It was far from a happy ending, however, as they and their families often came under attack from white ex-servicemen and civilians increasingly resentful of their presence. With first-hand accounts and original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military and civilian wartime experiences of black men and women, from the trenches to the music halls. It is intended as a companion to Stephen Bourne's previous books published by The History Press: Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939–45 and The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen and Women 1939–45.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the 'mother country' when the First World War broke out. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army, men managed to join all branches of the forces, while black communities contributed to the war effort on the home front. By 1918 it is estimated that Britain's black population had trebled to 30,000, as many black servicemen who had fought for Britain decided to make it their home. It was far from a happy ending, however, as they and their families often came under attack from white ex-servicemen and civilians increasingly resentful of their presence. With first-hand accounts and original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military and civilian wartime experiences of black men and women, from the trenches to the music halls. It is intended as a companion to Stephen Bourne's previous books published by The History Press: Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939–45 and The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen and Women 1939–45.
Poppy Pickle
Author: Emma Yarlett
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763689114
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Sent to clean her room as punishment, Poppy instead spends her time letting her imagination literally come to life and run amok, leaving her with an even bigger mess to clean up.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763689114
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Sent to clean her room as punishment, Poppy instead spends her time letting her imagination literally come to life and run amok, leaving her with an even bigger mess to clean up.
Poppy's Easter Holidays: a Story for Children
Author: Poppy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description