Last Post

Author : Alwyn W. Turner
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1781313199
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Post written by Alwyn W. Turner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the military bugle call, its use at the end of World War I on Armistice Day, and its effect in today’s culture. At eleven o’clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire came to a halt to remember the dead of the Great War. During that first two-minute silence all transport stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in the streets. The only human sound to be heard was the desolate weeping of those overcome by grief. Then the moment was brought to an end by the playing of the Last Post. A century on, that lone bugle call remains the most emotionally charged piece of music in public life. In an increasingly secular society, it is the closest thing we have to a sacred anthem. Yet along with the poppy, the Cenotaph and the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, its power is profoundly modern. It is a response to the trauma of war that could only have evolved in a democratic age. In this moving exploration of the Last Post’s history, Alwyn W. Turner considers the call’s humble origins and shows how its mournful simplicity reached beyond class, beyond religion, beyond patriotism to speak directly to peoples around the world. Along the way he contemplates the relationship between history and remembrance, and seeks out the legacy of the First World War in today’s culture.

Author : Robert Barnard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416560475
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Post written by Robert Barnard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious envelope arrives on Eve McNabb's doorstep soon after she has buried her mother, a woman who kept many secrets. The puzzling letter inside this envelope hints at an illicit passion between the letter writer and Eve's mother, May McNabb. Even when she was a child, Eve sensed that there were parts of May's life she would never understand. She would never know the details of her parents' marriage or why her father suddenly disappeared from her life. While Eve has always believed that her father was dead, she begins to wonder whether her mother's life as a widow had been a ruse. Will she have to question everything her mother has told her? Could her father be alive and well? The letter writer may have some answers, but how can Eve find him or her? With only a blurred postmark for a clue, Eve sets out to locate the writer and journey into her own past. What she never suspected was that questions can be dangerous, perhaps even deadly... Filled with piercing wit and illuminating insight into the human condition, Robert Barnard's Last Post proves yet again that he is one of the great masters of mystery.

Author : Max Arthur
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780228767
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Post written by Max Arthur and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final time. LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the First World War has been broken. Max Arthur, a skilled interviewer, took the very last chance we had to ask questions of those who were there. Now updated to include a new introduction by the author for the centenary of the First World War.

Author : Simon Shaw-Miller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719036095
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Post written by Simon Shaw-Miller and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renée Carlino
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1501189646
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Post written by Renée Carlino and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative and poignant novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Blind Kiss and Wish You Were Here, a young widow in the midst of grieving her late husband through Facebook posts learns to heal and fall in love again. “See you on the other side.” Laya Marston’s husband, Cameron, a daredevil enthusiast, always said this before heading off on his next adventure. He was the complete opposite of her, ready and willing to dive off a cliff-face, or parachute across a canyon—and Laya loved him for it. But she was different: pragmatic, regimented, devoted to her career and to supporting Cameron from the sidelines of his death-defying feats. Opposites attract, right? But when Cameron dies suddenly and tragically, all the stages of grief go out the window. Laya becomes lost in denial, living in the delusion that Cameron will come back to her. She begins posting on his Facebook page, reminiscing about their life together, and imagining new adventures for the two of them. Micah Evans, a young and handsome architect at Laya’s father’s firm, is also stuck––paralyzed by the banal details of his career, his friendships, and his love life. He doesn’t know what he’s looking for, only that there is someone out there who can bring energy and spirit to the humdrum of his life. When Micah discovers Laya’s tragic and bizarre Facebook posts, he’s determined to show Laya her life is still worth living. Leaving her anonymous gifts and notes, trying to recreate the sense of adventure she once shared with her late husband, Micah finds a new passion watching Laya come out of the darkness. And Laya finds a new joy in the experiences Micah has created for her. But for Laya, letting another man in still feels like a betrayal to her late husband. Even though Micah may be everything she could wish for, she wonders if she deserves to find happiness again. Written with Renée Carlino’s signature “tender and satisfying” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Maybe in Another Life) prose, this warm and compassionate novel shows us how powerful the courage to love and live again truly is.

Author : Rajasingam Thambipillay
Publisher : Dato' R. Thambipillay
ISBN 13 : 9834134010
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Post written by Rajasingam Thambipillay and published by Dato' R. Thambipillay. This book was released on 2011 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a retired police superintendent with experience of the Malayan Emergency, sets down a mainly factual record of the period in the state of Perak.

Author : Rhys Ryan Evans
Publisher : Rhys Ryan Evans
ISBN 13 : 1506101690
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The last post written by Rhys Ryan Evans and published by Rhys Ryan Evans. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhys Evans an ex-British soldier who was still classed as absent without leave after many years, Now hiding in a farm in Northern Ireland close to the coast with two good friends and a young girl, The farm was owned by an old man who owed Rhys a big favour for saving his son’s life a while ago on another adventure, The other people hiding at the farm with Rhys was: Duncan and Moose, close palls to Rhys. 1 They all served together in the Special Forces, with multiple operations in hostile environments, The girl was the girlfriend of Duncan who was rescued from the Amazon jungle in Brazil, She was a lot younger than Dunc but was a good girl, They all respected her from what she had been through getting them of the jungle and escaping across Peru to cross the seas and get to Ireland, There should have been another girl, Rhys’s girl, Carmem. There was an accident whilst they were all crossing the Atlantic ocean in the boat they had high jacked from a group of people who were going to double cross them and take the emeralds that Rhys and his pals had found in the Amazon Jungle, 2 The boat had stalled for some reason in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean at night in bad weather, They were being thrown around in very large waves and heavy winds, everyone on board was working hard to sort things out, when there was a scream. Carmem disappeared into the water into the night, There was nothing they could do, They were all lucky to survive that bad night. Rhys was devastated and heart broken, he blamed himself for not making sure Carmem was wearing a life jacket. He hit the bottle for a few days and just stayed in his cabin, It was a long journey to the coast of Ireland, Rhys sorted himself out and came to terms with the loss of his Carmem. 3 Rhys called his old friend called: Dan in Ireland, he used a secure line and arranged to hide the boat in a hidden cove. Rhys told Dan what they had been through, he was the only person he could trust. They would hide on Dan’s farm that was well out of the way from prying eyes. Old Dan was a good friend to Rhys with a long past, Dan was a commander in the IRA long time ago, His son was murdered in Bosnia by a sniper, Dan knew Rhys had saved his son’s life on many occasions when his son was serving in the Irish rangers unit. The old man knew ways to get rid of the emeralds, he had black market connections, Old Dan had dodgy connections that were linked with the IRA, the Irish republican army, He was the IRA, a long time ago.

Author : Benjamin Zachariah
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110643405
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Last Post written by Benjamin Zachariah and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the production and consumption of history, themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's attempts to disavow its own authority with the ascendancy of postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. Several parallel themes crosscut the book’s central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of ‘nation’, ‘community’ or state through a memorialisation process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have been made to perform in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes. The book addresses a discomfort with postcolonial theories in and as history. Following are essays that examine the state of the discipline, the art of reading and using archives, practices of tracking the history of ideas, and the themes of history, memory and identity.

Author : Cecil Lowry
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526736926
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Post over the River Kwai written by Cecil Lowry and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described as Britains worst ever military disaster.The next three and a half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors, whether in Singapore, on the Death Railway, Malaya or Japan itself, as wells as on hellships. Many died but remarkably the majority survived to tell their story. Their prolonged captivity with unbelievable hardship, deprivation and cruelty makes for distressing but inspiring reading.

Author : Semahagn Gashu Abebe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317026314
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation written by Semahagn Gashu Abebe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former USSR and Yugoslavia, it has widely been assumed that socialist federations have become a thing of the past. Ethiopia’s ethnic federal system however is essentially a socialist federal system based on the notion of the ’right to self-determination of nationalities’ and a Marxist-Leninist organization of the state and party. This book assesses the Ethiopian ethnic federal system from the perspective of the principles of socialist federations and other Marxist oriented policies pursued by the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Exploring how the application of these ideological principles has impacted on the structure and function of the Ethiopian federal system, the research examines the ways in which these ideological policies of the ruling party affect national consensus, protection of human rights, the rights of minority groups, separation of power principles and the relationship between the federal and regional governments. It also explores the extent to which ideological principles have had an impact on the democratization process, rule of law and in building up institutions such as parliamentary democracy, the judiciary, the media and civil society organizations in the country. Approaching the Ethiopian federal system from the perspective of the fundamental ideological principles of the party in power allows a deeper insight into the structure and function of the ethnic federal system.