Author: Richard Doherty Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1844684725 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal Navy, including a Fleet Air Arm pilot, four soldiers, including a member of the Australian forces, and two RAF pilots. The author looks at the seven Irish regiments in campaigns across the globe, at Irish soldiers across the Army, at Irish sailors from the Battle of the River Plate to the final actions against Japan, and at Irish airmen from the first bombing raids of the war to the closing days of war. Included are outstanding personalities such as the Chavasse brothers, who earned three DSOs, three DSCs and two MiDs, Bala Bredin, Corran Purden, Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, Blair Mayne and Roy Farran, the latter pair highly-decorated SAS officers. There are also Irish generals, such as Paddy Warren who died while commanding 5th Indian Division in Burma and Frederick Loftus Tottenham, who commanded 81st (West African) Division, not to mention giants such as Alexander, Auchinleck, Montgomery and McCreery. Irish women are not forgotten in the book which also takes a brief look at the Irish in other Allied forces, including a most unusual volunteer for the US Navy whose application to serve had to be approved by President Roosevelt. He was William Patrick Hitler, a nephew of Germany's führer.
Author: Alan Leek Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1922488151 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 280
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Australia was a grim place during the Great Depression. Bettiing was inexpensive entertainment for the masses, but outlawed, police were forced to pit themselves against their public who flouted the law. Mendelssohn Bartholdy Miller was a young office called to this duty, but discovered a world of .corruption. He was ostracised, shunned and considered a ''rat'' for refusing to take part. This is a story of one man's battle against the odds to hold to the truth he knew about police corruption in an era of SP betting suppression that led to three Royal Commissions that rocked the State. It is also a tale of opportunites seized by gangsters, murderers and thugs in an era where crime flourished.
Author: Kim Hyesoon Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811227359 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 128
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Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent) *Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death, Kim’s most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death—how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm,” a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.
Author: Lawrence Paul Belitsky Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462857272 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
A FUNNY, HISTORIC, INSPIRATIONAL, SELF HELP AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT CLIMAXES WITH THE AUTHOR'S DEATH. -- OR IS IT REALLY JUST THE BEGININNING? AFTER HIS DEATH AND SUBSEQUENT RECOVERY, THE AUTHOR LOOKS BACK ON HIS WORLD-WIDE LIFE'S ADVENTURE IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE, ONLY TO RECOGNIZE THE UNSEEN FORCE THAT HAS ALWAYS GUIDED HIM. THESE AMAZING MEMIORS HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE - EVEN THE MOST JADED OF READERS---ADVENTURE, MURDER, FOREIGN INTRIGUE, A TOUCH OF MYSTERY ALONG WITH A DASH OF ESPIONAGE, A LOVE STORY, AND EVEN A GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE LORD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!!! IT'S ALL PRESENTED IN A WITTY, ENTERTAINING UNIQUE STYLE WORTHY OF HOLLYWOOD'S FINEST FICTION. BUT IT'S NOT---IT'S ALL TRUE!! GUARANTEED TO BE NOTHING LESS THAN THOUGHT PROVOKING AS WELL AS AN ENJOYABLE READ.
Author: Augustus Meyers Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army" by Augustus Meyers. 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.
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