In The Ranks Of Death

Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844684725
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Ranks of Death written by Richard Doherty and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal Navy, including a Fleet Air Arm pilot, four soldiers, including a member of the Australian forces, and two RAF pilots. The author looks at the seven Irish regiments in campaigns across the globe, at Irish soldiers across the Army, at Irish sailors from the Battle of the River Plate to the final actions against Japan, and at Irish airmen from the first bombing raids of the war to the closing days of war. Included are outstanding personalities such as the Chavasse brothers, who earned three DSOs, three DSCs and two MiDs, Bala Bredin, Corran Purden, Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, Blair Mayne and Roy Farran, the latter pair highly-decorated SAS officers. There are also Irish generals, such as Paddy Warren who died while commanding 5th Indian Division in Burma and Frederick Loftus Tottenham, who commanded 81st (West African) Division, not to mention giants such as Alexander, Auchinleck, Montgomery and McCreery. Irish women are not forgotten in the book which also takes a brief look at the Irish in other Allied forces, including a most unusual volunteer for the US Navy whose application to serve had to be approved by President Roosevelt. He was William Patrick Hitler, a nephew of Germany's führer.

Author : Alan Leek
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922488151
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rat in the Ranks written by Alan Leek and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia was a grim place during the Great Depression. Bettiing was inexpensive entertainment for the masses, but outlawed, police were forced to pit themselves against their public who flouted the law. Mendelssohn Bartholdy Miller was a young office called to this duty, but discovered a world of .corruption. He was ostracised, shunned and considered a ''rat'' for refusing to take part. This is a story of one man's battle against the odds to hold to the truth he knew about police corruption in an era of SP betting suppression that led to three Royal Commissions that rocked the State. It is also a tale of opportunites seized by gangsters, murderers and thugs in an era where crime flourished.

Author : Percy Moreau Ashburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258768362
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ranks of Death written by Percy Moreau Ashburn and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Owen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1773561499
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Death in the Death of Christ written by John Owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. E McBride
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752413611
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Ranks written by R. E McBride and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In the Ranks by R. E McBride

Author : United States. National Office of Vital Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Summaries written by United States. National Office of Vital Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kim Hyesoon
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227359
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of Death written by Kim Hyesoon and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent) *Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death, Kim’s most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death—how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm,” a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.

Author : Percy Moreau Ashburn
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3942382288
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ranks of Death written by Percy Moreau Ashburn and published by SEVERUS Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H. Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805316
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors written by William H. Newell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence Paul Belitsky
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462857272
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Stinks, Dead's Worse written by Lawrence Paul Belitsky and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FUNNY, HISTORIC, INSPIRATIONAL, SELF HELP AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT CLIMAXES WITH THE AUTHOR'S DEATH. -- OR IS IT REALLY JUST THE BEGININNING? AFTER HIS DEATH AND SUBSEQUENT RECOVERY, THE AUTHOR LOOKS BACK ON HIS WORLD-WIDE LIFE'S ADVENTURE IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE, ONLY TO RECOGNIZE THE UNSEEN FORCE THAT HAS ALWAYS GUIDED HIM. THESE AMAZING MEMIORS HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE - EVEN THE MOST JADED OF READERS---ADVENTURE, MURDER, FOREIGN INTRIGUE, A TOUCH OF MYSTERY ALONG WITH A DASH OF ESPIONAGE, A LOVE STORY, AND EVEN A GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE LORD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!!! IT'S ALL PRESENTED IN A WITTY, ENTERTAINING UNIQUE STYLE WORTHY OF HOLLYWOOD'S FINEST FICTION. BUT IT'S NOT---IT'S ALL TRUE!! GUARANTEED TO BE NOTHING LESS THAN THOUGHT PROVOKING AS WELL AS AN ENJOYABLE READ.