20th Century
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Gilbert, Martin [Gilbert, Martin]

24 The Moment of Truth Throughout the autumn of 1934 Churchill had been preparing a major Parliamentary appeal for accelerated Air Force expansion. On November 25, three days before the ...
( Category: 20th Century September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Stephen Bates [Bates, Stephen]

CHAPTER TWELVE ‘She was very anxious to get better.’ Nurse Eve Allen The third day of the trial, Wednesday 5th April, brought the first key witnesses, Nurse Eve Allen and, ...
( Category: 20th Century September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-30 | Author:Stephen Wynn [Wynn, Stephen]

7th Canadian Hospital, Etaples. He was admitted to the 1st London City of London, General Hospital on 12 October 1918 and was treated there until 9 November 1918. On 5 ...
( Category: 20th Century August 25,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:Gordon Corera [Corera, Gordon]

12 Capture THE MORNING OF May 6, 1942, in Brussels promised a beautiful spring day, one which Henri Michelli expected to prove busy. He had three meetings. In the morning, ...
( Category: 20th Century July 31,2022 )
epub |eng | 1987-06-01 | Author:Alfred Draper [Draper, Alfred]

Although Eve Curie was fulsome in her praise of the fighting soldiers she met on the front, she had little respect for the civilians she met in Rangoon: “I felt, ...
( Category: 20th Century July 14,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-07 | Author:Jana Petken [Petken, Jana]

Chapter Thirty-Six Heat rushed out of John’s black Citroën Traction Avant as he opened the passenger door and bent down to retrieve the large envelope lying on the floor. “I ...
( Category: 20th Century May 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-27 | Author:E. Sylvia Pankhurst [Pankhurst, E. Sylvia]

Christabel Pankhurst Iinviting the public to "rush" the House of Commons at a meeting in Trafalgar Square, Sunday, October 11th, 1908 The country was now overwhelmed by one of those ...
( Category: 20th Century May 18,2022 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-10-06 | Author:Kirsty Bennett & Imogen Middleton & Michael Page & Juliet Warren

Members of the Chertsey Women’s War Work Association outside its headquarters at the end of the war (SHC P2/7/1-22) A list of ‘comforts’ produced by the Chertsey Women’s War Work ...
( Category: 20th Century April 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:John Grehan, Martin Mace [John Grehan, Martin Mace]

General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD. Prior to the First World War, Hamilton had seen much military service. He was wounded in the wrist in the ...
( Category: 20th Century April 18,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Carole McEntee-Taylor [McEntee-Taylor, Carole]

Chapter 12 ‘Don’t let this bloke get away!’ 1968 – 1970 Rod Rodway, ex 3rd Royal Green Jackets: ‘It must have been in the late 1960s when I had the ...
( Category: 20th Century April 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Susan Chambers [Chambers, Susan]

A 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment sergeant looks over the ‘breast-works’, temporary fortifications in Belgium 1916. (Cheshire Military Museum) David Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer had ensured that drastic ...
( Category: 20th Century April 14,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-30 | Author:Craig Armstrong

Mr Corballis also asked for the cooperation of all officers in assisting him in strengthening the movement in Newcastle. ‘He was desirous of having the movement placed on a firm ...
( Category: 20th Century April 14,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-23 | Author:Allister Vale & John Scadding [Vale, Allister & Scadding, John]

30 June 1955–15 August 1955: Visit of Dr AL Rowse and Further Assessments by Lord Moran On 30 June 1955 Churchill wrote to Macmillan, ‘AMB [Montague Browne] is a great ...
( Category: 20th Century April 14,2022 )