epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Richard Woodman

Chief Yeoman of Signals Burton found he rather approved of his captain. Scuttlebutt revealed Lieutenant Commander Martin had trained as a regular officer before being chopped out of the Navy ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-04 | Author:Martin W. Bowman [Bowman, Martin W.]

Sixteen of the 17 Lancasters on 463 Squadron that had set out for Stuttgart returned over England and began letting down for landing back at Waddington. Pilot Officer William Alexander ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-28 | Author:Frances Bingham

And Valentine questioned, of the two women present at the awakening, ‘On whom did his eyes first dwell / When the cloth was wound from his head?’ 23 She saw ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Unknown

On Thursday, 6 March 1684 Nevison was finally caught at an alehouse near Sandal Magna, south-east of Wakefield, when he was ambushed by Captain William Hardcastle. It is likely that ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:The Countess of Carnarvon [Carnarvon, The Countess of]

4 From Honeymoon to Highclere On Christmas Day 1922, Porchey and Catherine sailed for India from Tilbury Docks, arriving in Bombay some ten days later. They had spent five months ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Dermot Turing

The four huts The autumn of 1939 was the period of the ‘Phoney War’, where nothing much was happening, at least as far as the war on land and in ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-30 | Author:Dilip Sarkar

So ended Buck Casson’s war. During his career as an operational fighter pilot, Buck had destroyed 3½ enemy aircraft, probably destroyed four, and damaged four more. His DFC was gazetted ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:John Nichol [NICHOL, JOHN]

Don Cheney reunited with his family Although the fighting in Europe continued, Don Cheney’s personal war was over, and he returned to Canada on Thanksgiving Day, 9 October 1944, two ...

epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Engel

15 DOWN WITH SKOOLS IN 1957, JOHN CLARKE, THE SON OF A RAILWAY CLERK, SAT AN exam at Brackley Junior School in Northamptonshire. This was the 11-plus, the test that ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-30 | Author:Harold Liberty

The Americans seem to have signed in early March, not without some concerns about the view of their superiors.5 As the above shows, Tiltman was uncertain about how even-handed the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Edwards, Amy;

BUY! BUY! BUY! Of course, only a very small number of people ended up with a job as a trader on the stock exchange floor. In this sense the yuppie-trader ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Melanie Winterton [Winterton, Melanie]

Chapter 8 Trench-art Propeller Grave Markers and the Stories they Tell The following quotation is evocative of early aviation: A mechanic swung the propeller and the engine coughed, fired and ...

pdf | | 2020-03-05 | Author:Alex M Spencer

epub |eng | 2020-06-23 | Author:Lawrence Paterson [Paterson, Lawrence]

My section was commanded by a grand little Scots Canadian, Second Lieutenant Jowett. That first night’s travel was something to remember. Although we kept on for over three hours, we ...

epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Bell

By ‘third party’, Clifford meant Britain, which he thus exonerated from responsibility for the nineteenth- and twentieth-century divisions in Ireland. Thus, it was ‘the different stages of capitalist development in ...