The War On Our Doorstep

Download or read book The War on our Doorstep written by Harriet Salisbury and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. In the early 20th century, families crowded into single rooms, children played on the streets and neighbours' doors were never locked in case you needed an escape route from the police... World War 2 changed everything. During the Blitz, men set off for work never to return and rows of houses were reduced to rubble overnight. Yet the East Enders' ability to keep calm and carry on cemented their reputation for cheerful resilience. They say Hitler killed off the bugs but, along with the slums, the Blitz destroyed a way of life. After the war families were scattered - some to estates on the edge of London, others to isolated high-rise blocks. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents themselves, The War on Our Doorstep is an eye-opening, moving and laugh-out-loud depiction of the history of London's East End and what it means to be an East Ender.

Download or read book War on Our Doorstep written by Gabrielle Chan and published by Harwood Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arthur's War written by John Harman and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1940, Arthur Bancroft kissed his sweetheart, Mirla, goodbye and signed up with the Royal Australian Navy to go to war. He was nineteen years old. Arthur's War is the extraordinary story of his ordeal, and his survival. Arthur made a habit of cheating death – on the ill-fated HMAS Perth, which was sunk during the Battle of the Sunda Strait; as a prisoner of war on the notorious Burma–Thailand Railway, where it is said a man died for every sleeper laid; and miraculously surviving a second shipwreck that left him lost at sea, clinging to debris, for six days. While a POW he risked his life to keep a secret diary written on paper scraps with stolen pencils recording the agony and comradeship of life on the railway, which has never before been published. Against all odds Arthur made it back to Australia and to Mirla, who never lost hope for his eventual return all those years he was lost at war. His story is a story for all Australians: a captivating saga of courage, mateship, survival – and love.

Download or read book The Enemy on Our Doorstep written by Steve Neary and published by St. John's, Nfld. : Jesperson Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Official Report, Annual Convention written by National Brick Manufacturers' Association of the United States of America and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War written by Frances Butler Leigh and published by London, Bentley. This book was released on 1883 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: