Автор: Wynter Rebecca Название: A Quaker Conscientious Objector: Wilfrid Littleboy`s Prison Letters, 1917-1919 ISBN: 1912766272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912766277 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20220.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In 1914 Wilfrid Littleboy (1895-1986) was a Quaker living in Birmingham. By 1918, he had served time in Wormwood Scrubs and in Dorchester Prison. Published for the first time, this private collection of his letters tells the story of how this middle-class accountant came to be imprisoned, and what happened to him inside.
Автор: Klekowski Ed, Klekowski Libby Название: Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 ISBN: 1476667462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476667461 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 55440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By 1915, the Western Front was a 450 mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers. Remarkably, the Allied command gave two American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on what they saw. Their travels are reconstructed from their own published accounts, Rinehart`s day-by-day notes, and the writings of other journalists.
Автор: Alan D. Gaff, Donald H. Gaff Название: Amid the Ruins: Damon Runyon: World War I Reports from the American Trenches and Occupied Europe, October 1918aMarch 1919, with a Selection of His Wartime Poetry ISBN: 0764357859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764357855 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 33870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Despite Damon Runyon’s iconic status as a fiction writer and reporter, one particular chapter of his extraordinary career has been completely overlooked. During World War I he was an accredited war correspondent—writing a series of dispatches from Europe, he followed the American Doughboys through France, into Germany, and back home. This period marked a monumental transition not only in America’s view of itself and its role in the world, but of Runyon’s own style and how we could come to portray America. Along with his collected dispatches, this volume also includes his wartime poetry. Biographical and literary introductions and exhaustive notes provide additional information about the people, places, and events that made up his writing. A vital bridge from his earlier regional writing to his later Broadway works, these stories of civilians thrust into military uniforms provide a rare behind-the-scenes look at World War I and the formation of Runyonesque style itself.
Ben Champion was raised in Wahroonga in New South Wales. When the news of the Anzac landing at Galipoli in 1915 came through to Sydney with the huge A.I.F. casualty list which soon followed, Ben Champion's Father reluctantly gave his permission for 18 year old Ben to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). He joined the 7th Reinforcements of the 1st Battalion AIF and embarked for Gallipoli.
Ben began his letters and diaries as soon as he enlisted, writing of so many of his mates throughout the years 1915 - 1920 as he served at Gallipoli and in France, and rose through the ranks to become a Lieutenant. He had photos of many who did not return.
He loved history and appreciated what he saw around him. Ben writes of the seasons, flowers, crops and trees. He writes of the songs they were singing and the books he was reading in the trenches. He wrote too of the changing perceptions he had of the enemy, how homesick he was, of his family and friends back home and how desperate he was for their letters.
On 1 April 1918, in France, Ben was hit in the leg by an exploding shell and his leg was amputated. Ben returned to Australian in August 1918.
Ben studied dentistry and eventually was one of the earliest members of the International College of Dentists. He wrote a History of Newcastle Hospital and many articles about the people and estates of Newcastle and environs for the Australian Society of Genealogists and the Newcastle Historical Society.
Penny Ferguson, Ben Champion's granddaughter, has presented Ben's letters, diaries and photographs to create a comprehensive and moving account of a young man thrust into war. Penny includes over 250 photographs, some never before published, and records over 200 officers and soldiers in Ben's story.
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