Author: Cyrus Parkinson Beatty Sarchet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
Author: Cyrus Parkinson Beatty Sarchet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Guernsey Evacuees
Author: Gillian Mawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752470191
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were occupied on 30 June - the only part of British territory that was occupied by Nazi forces during the Second World War. Most evacuees were transported to smoky industrial towns in Northern England - an environment so very different to their rural island. For five years they made new lives in towns where the local accent was often confusing, but for most, the generosity shown to them was astounding. They received assistance from Canada and the USA - one Guernsey school was 'sponsored' by wealthy Americans such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Hollywood stars. From May 1945, the evacuees began to return home, although many decided to remain in England. Wartime bonds were forged between Guernsey and Northern England that were so strong, they still exist today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752470191
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were occupied on 30 June - the only part of British territory that was occupied by Nazi forces during the Second World War. Most evacuees were transported to smoky industrial towns in Northern England - an environment so very different to their rural island. For five years they made new lives in towns where the local accent was often confusing, but for most, the generosity shown to them was astounding. They received assistance from Canada and the USA - one Guernsey school was 'sponsored' by wealthy Americans such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Hollywood stars. From May 1945, the evacuees began to return home, although many decided to remain in England. Wartime bonds were forged between Guernsey and Northern England that were so strong, they still exist today.
The History of Guernsey
Author: Jonathan Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408803313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton 'I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one ... Treat yourself to this book, please – I can't recommend it highly enough' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408803313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton 'I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one ... Treat yourself to this book, please – I can't recommend it highly enough' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.
Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War
Author: Alfred Hudson Guernsey
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517183342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A pictorial history of the Civil War, featuring articles and illustrations that appeared in Harper's Magazine beginning with the events leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter through Reconstruction.
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517183342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A pictorial history of the Civil War, featuring articles and illustrations that appeared in Harper's Magazine beginning with the events leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter through Reconstruction.
The History of Guernsey and Its Bailiwick
Author: Ferdinand Brock Tupper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guernsey
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The history of ... Guernsey, from the remotest period of antiquity to the year 1814, compiled from the collections of H. Budd as well as from authentic documents
Author: William Berry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Guernsey Herd Book
Author: Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Guernsey People
Author: L. James Marr
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Book of Ebenezer le Page
Author: G.B. Edwards
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island. G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island. G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.