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  Second World War Lives - A Guide...

  James Goulty

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  The Second World War was a momentous event in twentieth-century history and it is a fascinating period for family historians to explore. Numerous records are available to researchers whose relatives served in the war, and James Goultys book is an accessible guide on how to locate and understand these sources - and get the most out of them.Using evidence gleaned from a range of sources  archives, official records, books, libraries, oral history and the internet  he reconstructs the wartime records of a revealing and representative group of ordinary men and women: a signaler, an infantryman, a doctor, an artillery officer, a woman serving with anti aircraft units, a commando, a Royal Navy bomb disposal officer, RAF fighter and bomber pilots, and others. He describes their wartime careers and experiences and demonstrates how they fitted into contemporary military organizations and operations. He looks at their backgrounds, their wartime training and duties, their front line service, and the conditions they endured. In each case he shows how the research was conducted and explains how the lives of such individuals can be explored  highlighting methods that can be used and sources that can be consulted. James Goultys informative book will be essential reading and reference for anyone who wants to find out about the Second World War and is keen to understand the part an ancestor played in it.

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  Winston Churchill - Portrait of...

  Andre Norman

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  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War Two. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the second person to be recognized as an Honorary Citizen of the United States. During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War One, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. At the forefront of the political scene for almost fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. After losing the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition. In 1951 he again became Prime Minister, before finally retiring in 1955. Upon his death, the Queen granted him the honor of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of statesmen in the world.This unique images title contains many rare and unpublished photographs of Churchill throughout his military and political career.

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  The Very Worst Missionary - A...

  Jamie Wright

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  After finding Jesus at a suburban megachurch, young Jamie Wright trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with her husband, kids, and the family cat, she intends to serve God and make converts. But she soon loses faith and falls into a funk of cynicism and despair. Fortunately, Knives the cat is there, looking on with just enough disinterest to make her laugh...and dare her to try another way. That other way turns out to be telling the truth. She launches a renegade blog, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary, which against all odds soon wins a large and passionate following around the world. Slowly, she begins to see that being a bad missionary-awkward, doubtful, skeptical-can mean that you're just the kind of person someone else might be willing to hear...and that loving others is just as much about changing yourself as it is about converting them.

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  Dethroned - Ukranian born...

  I N Potapenko

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  Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko was born on 30th December 1856 in the village of Fyodorovka in the Kherson Governorate of what was then the Russian Empire. 
   
  After an education that included studying at the Odessa University and the St Petersburg Conservatory Potapenko began his literary career, at first in tales detailing the lives of those Ukrainians all around him. 
   
  His undoubted talent soon took his canon beyond short stories to include both novels and plays.  
   
  I N Potapenko died on 17th May 1929 in Leningrad.  He was 72.

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  21st Precinct The - The Wreck &...

  Stanley Niss

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  Cop shows have been a staple of the media almost from the beginning. These fictional accounts created the easy to understand formula of ‘’diabolical crime plus brilliant detective equals the sometimes not-so-obvious solution’’. 
   
  But in the early years of the 1950s something radically different came along. 
   
  21st precinct was a very dramatic police drama and based on the workings of a true life Police Department, described in the programme as ‘’just lines on a map of the city of New York, most of the 173,000 people wedged into the nine-tenths of a square mile between 5th Ave and the East River wouldn't know if you ask them they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their persons, their homes, and their property is the job of the men of the 21st.’’ 
   
  From the opening phone call the listener is right in the middle of the drama. Privy to the actual workings from start to conclusion. 
   
  The 21st’s manpower was made up of 160 patrolmen, eleven sergeants, and four lieutenants, under the command of one captain - Frank Kennelly, played by Everett Sloane, who was also the show’s narrator.  
   
  He’s about to take that call….

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  Last Words - Vivain Stanshall 3495

  Vrnda Devi

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  The interview 1. On rice putting. 2. Vivian’s art (painting and drawing). 3. The book The Beatles: A Celebration.4. How are the Bonzos doing? On Rodney, Roger, Larry and Neil. 5. On friend and author Geoffrey Giuliano. 6. Vivian has no interest in the past. 7. Stanshall’s thoughts on the music of the 1990s. 8. On Vivian’s writing. 9. On punk and rap. Vivian’s ultimate disappointment with these emerging art forms. 10. Vivian respects people who simply “do it”. 11. Rupert enjoys listening to Cream. There was depth to the group. 12. Vivian listens to Link Wray and Dan Beefheart. 13 Vivian’s surprise at the continual rereleasing of the Bonzo dog band’s catalog. 14. Vivian’s worries concerning formula music. 15. Vrnda: “the Bonzos were different and very special.” 16. A brief discussion on the B-52s. 17. On Pete Brown, the inventive lyricist for Cream.  18. Vrnda on Ginger Baker finally cleaning up from drugs. 19. Vrnda meeting Jack Bruce for an interview at the Savoy in London. 20. The tragic death of Conor Clapton. 21. Vivian’s relationship with Cream. Tales from a 1966 gig. Ginger is a terrifying man. Roger Ruskin Spear accidentally blows up Ginger’s kit.  22. Riding in Cream’s car when a half-naked Ginger attacked a lorry driver. 23. The Bonzos playing with Cream. 24. Many groups did not enjoy following the Bonzos. 25. Eric Clapton would often decorate various shirts in the dressing room with fabric pens. 26. Cream was “dreaming” together on stage. 27. Vivian was closer to Clapton than the rest of the group. 28. Teach yourself Swahili. Vivian and Ginger discuss Africa. 29. On Keith Moon and other drummers. 30. Ginger was in reality an abstract drummer. 31. Art cannot really be translated into words. 32. Vivian is not really interested in synthetic music. 33. On Vivian’s personal drug problems. He never took LSD or heroin on the advice of Steve Winwood. He comments on his addiction to Valium.

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