Some Corner of an English Field
Author | : Dannie Abse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Dannie Abse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Frank Beck |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1471671860 |
Buying and living in a weekend home in France. A light-hearted excursion into an English couple's experience of French country life, which has some resemblance to that lived in England a century ago. The author introduces the reader into the details of acquiring and enjoying a home in France and getting to know the neighbours. The environment is not fixed. This way of life is on it's way out in France, too.
Author | : Rupert Brooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781857996562 |
Author | : Janet Kinrade Dethick |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2022-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1398408506 |
“Even after capture, the full horrors of war still persisted. Bombed and strafed by our own planes, and shelled by our own artillery, the words ‘For you the war is over, Tommy,’ had a hollow ring...November 1942, after five months in Suani Ben Adem, we sailed from Tripoli, en route to Naples. We were held in the hold of a coal boat, battened down, with only a few buckets for sanitation purposes. Packed in like sardines, we would have had no chance of survival, had the ship come under attack from the Royal Navy, not an uncommon occurrence.” These are the words of Private Bill Blewitt, 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters, captured near Gazala in the Western Desert. He survived his capture, but over a thousand did not. Laid to rest alongside the battle casualties in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries in Italy are these prisoners of war. They died from neglected wounds or diseases, were accidentally or deliberately shot both inside and outside their camps or were victims of friendly fire incidents. Some lost their lives when trying to cross the mountains to freedom, and some were betrayed by spies. Some had taken up arms again, had fought with the partisans and had died alongside them. Others had been captured whilst on dangerous missions and summarily executed. Many, but not all, have a name.
Author | : Ramachandra Guha |
Publisher | : Random House India |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2016-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9351186938 |
A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large.
Author | : Dannie Abse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Novelists, Welsh |
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Author | : Fiona Waters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780954526788 |
"Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight. And there are poems from an earlier age whose themes and aching beauty exactly matched the mood of a nation as an entire generation was lost to war. Here also are poems inspired by the experience of countless mothers, wives, sweethearts, sisters, and daughters left behind ... The poems are counterpointed by painstakingly restored photographic images-- many seen here for the first time-- which show relentlessly cheerful faces, smiling in the face of darkest adversity. You see comradeship of the most truthful kind. Taken from the unique archives of the Daily Mail, the images capture the small moments of un-named individual people in the cataclysmic catastrophe that was branded 'the war to end all wars'--Dust jacket.
Author | : Rupert Brooke |
Publisher | : London : Sidgwick & Jackson |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Ritva Leppihalme |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781853593734 |
This work focuses on translators and readers as participants in the communicative process, where the use of allusions is one type of problem to be solved. Reader-response tests and interviews with professional translators highlight the difficulty in conveying the function and meaning of allusive passages to readers in another culture. The many examples discussed also provide materials for translation teachers wanting to address the translation of allusions in their courses.
Author | : Ramachandra Guha |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780330491174 |
C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this captivating history of cricket in India, but so too—in arresting and unexpected ways—do Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great English cricketers Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine provide a window into the operations of Empire, while the extraordinary life of India's first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, introduces the still-unfinished struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the extraordinary passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. An important, pioneering work, this is also a beautifully-written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large, and on how sport can influence both social and political history.