Merseysides War

Author : Mike Benbough-Jackson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445639335
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merseyside's War written by Mike Benbough-Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the experiences of the people of Merseyside in the First World War in their own words, from life on the front line to entertainment at home

Author : Anthony Hogan
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144563774X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merseyside at War written by Anthony Hogan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume documents the impact of the two world wars on the people of Merseyside, using a selection of primary sources and contemporary photographs.

Author : Robert Thorp
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 162273355X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mersey Built: The Role of Merseyside in the American Civil War written by Robert Thorp and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Mersey Built’ chronicles the little-known commercial battle that raged between North and South during the American Civil War. The South relied on Europe for its military supplies, which the North tried to stop with a naval blockade of all Southern ports. The South retaliated by destroying Northern merchant ships on the high seas, using war ships, secretly procured from British shipyards and smuggled out of Britain by sympathetic British captains using British crews. The Charleston-based business empire headed by George Trenholm provided a conduit for Confederate finance with its Liverpool branch acting as bankers for the Confederacy’s procurement agents. Merseyside, with its extensive docks and numerous shipyards quickly became the epicenter of Confederate operations in Europe. Several British businessmen bought ships specifically to run supplies through the Union blockade, leaving relationships between the United States and Britain strained, close to breaking point. The book relates the history of Trenholm’s commercial empire, its pre-war expansion into Liverpool and the pivotal role it played in supporting the Confederate war effort. The involvement of other Liverpool-based entrepreneurs and their successes and failures in blockade-running is described. Background histories of the Merseyside ship builders who constructed warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy are included as well as several mini-biographies of the Liverpool-based captains who smuggled out warships and braved the Union blockade. Details of each ship built on Merseyside for involvement in the Civil War are listed. The role of the United States consular service and its extensive, Liverpool-based, spy ring is described, as are the efforts of the United States ambassador in London to influence British government policy on neutrality. The author, a direct descendant of a Liverpool ship builder, and a blockade-running captain, brings new insights and previously unpublished facts to light in this fascinating chapter of history.

Author : Pamela Russell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750988185
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great War Britain Liverpool: Remembering 1914-18 written by Pamela Russell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Liverpool offers a detailed insight into this great city and its people facing the challenges of wartime. This highly accessible volume explores the city's regiments, and includes many individual stories of men on the frontline and the vital role of women against the background of the changing face of industry, attitudes to conscientious objectors, hospitals for the wounded and their rehabilitation, peace celebrations, the fallen heroes and how they are commemorated. Liverpool Central Library & Record Office have generously made available illustrative and other material from their extensive archives.

Author : Mike Royden
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781473873339
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merseyside at War 1939-45 written by Mike Royden and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the port completely out of action. Consequently, Merseyside became the most heavily bombed area outside of the capital. Despite the considerable damage, the campaign failed, and the port continued as a centre of operations for Western Approaches Command, controlling the safe passage of supply convoys into the Mersey, providing an essential lifeline to the success of the war effort. Rare insights into the life of war-torn Merseyside are included, along with untold stories from those who witnessed the events first hand, including the Blitz, the defense of the port, and the grim conditions in one of the largest prisoner of war and internment camps in the country in Huyton. A broad spectrum of life on the Home Front is recounted through memories, newspaper stories and personal memoirs to bear witness to the profound trials of courage and fortitude of ordinary people enduring this desperate struggle to survive the war years. This fraught resilience was not always a united front, and controversial topics are also studied, such as conscientious objectors, racism, strike action, and crime, plus the issue of the Spirit of the Blitz - was it a myth or reality? This book therefore is an attempt to cover the full period of the war on the Home Front, in all its aspects, from the day war was declared, to the wild celebrations on the streets at the cessation of hostilities, plus the immediate post war problems.

Author : Theodore Cardwell Barker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714645551
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution written by Theodore Cardwell Barker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Colin Cousins
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991690
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinderella Soldiers written by Colin Cousins and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, Cinderella Soldiers uncovers the experiences of the Liverpool Irish Battalion during the Great War. The ethnic core of the battalion represented more than mere shamrock sentimentality: they had been raised within the Catholic Irish enclaves of the north end of the city, where they had been inculcated and nurtured in Celtic culture, traditions and nationalist politics. Throughout the nineteenth century, the Irish in Liverpool were viewed as a violent, drunken, ill-disciplined and disloyal race. These racial perceptions of the Irish continued through the Home Rule Crisis which brought Ireland to the cusp of civil war in 1914. This book offers a different account of an infantry battalion at war. It is the story of how Liverpool's Irish sons, brothers, fathers and lovers fought on the Western Front and how their families in the slums of Liverpool's north end experienced and endured the war.

Author : Mike Benbough-Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443831255
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merseyside written by Mike Benbough-Jackson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merseyside: Culture and Place demonstrates how Liverpool and Merseyside have a rich, fascinating and sometimes controversial cultural history. The result of a conference held to mark Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008, this interdisciplinary volume contains chapters by scholars working in a variety of fields, including Geography, Art, English, Marketing and History. There are many facets to Merseyside’s cultural history, and the contributors to this publication bring their own perspective to bear on various features of the area’s rich heritage. Taking in examples from the early modern era to the present day, Merseyside: Culture and Place draws attention to often overlooked cultural forms, such as sketches of the Mersey by J. M. W. Turner and the fan culture exhibited on Liverpool FC’s Kop. Each chapter in the book is based on original research and the contributors set their findings in a local, national and, in some cases, an international context. Both academics and general readers will find much of interest in a book that reflects Merseyside’s distinctive and multi-faceted character.

Author : Michael W. Royden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473873346
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merseyside at War 1939-45 written by Michael W. Royden and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Slader
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1876963131
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Service written by John Slader and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is the true story of the merchant fleet during World War II, the non-fighting service in which 32,000 men died yet whose essential role has never been fully appreciated. The author, himself a member of the service from 1941-47, relates the stories of merchantmen and their crews with unique insight. From the early days of the war to the day of victory on the Rhine, through combined operations in the Mediterranean and at Normandy, the complete operation of the fleet is examined, with vivid accounts of the horrific losses undergone, the heroism of the crews and the sacrifices endured to ensure that Britain received its essential supplies of food, oil, and raw materials. Highly illustrated, this book will be absorbing for the war historian, maritime enthusiast and general reader alike.