When Dorothy & her little dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they & their Kansas
farmhouse are suddenly transported to Oz, where
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When Dorothy & her little dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they & their Kansas
farmhouse are suddenly transported to Oz, where
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In 1909 the millionaire French banker & philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, & for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist & an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new Autochrome process, the world ...

Using the Imperial War Museum's vast archive of personal diaries, this remarkable anthology examines the stories of ordinary men & women who fought, & in some cases died, on the front line & home front during the Second World War.

The Words of War features diverse first-hand accounts from individuals who took part in the key campaigns of the war. From the young officer facing defeat & capture at Dunkirk; the pilot officer losing friends & comrades during the Battle of Britain; the Land Girl dealing with a new life in the countryside; the Royal Naval seaman fighting the weather in the Russian convoys; the infantryman about to hit the beaches on D-Day; the bomb aimer aboard an Avro Lancaster as it heads towards another German target; to the war in the Far East against the Japanese, this unique publication vividly documents the harsh realities of day-to-day life during the conflict.

With each diary entry placed in context within a historical narrative that weaves together the complete story for the reader, The Words of War provides a poignant & emotional insight into the human cost of war, whilst shedding new light on this unforgettable period in history.



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Using the Imperial War Museum's vast archive of personal diaries, this remarkable anthology examines the stories of ordinary men & women who fought, & in some cases died, on the front line & home front during the Second World War.

The Words of War features diverse first-hand accounts from individuals who took part in the key campaigns of the war. In the words of the young officer facing defeat & capture at Dunkirk, the pilot officer losing friends & comrades during the Battle of Britain, the Land Girl dealing with a new life in the countryside, the Royal Naval seaman fighting the weather in the Russian convoys, the infantryman about to hit the beaches on D-Day, the bomb aimer aboard an Avro Lancaster as it heads towards another German target, the soldier fighting in the Far East against the Japanese, & many others, this unique publication vividly documents the harsh realities of day-to-day life during the conflict.

With each diary entry placed in context within a historical narrative that weaves together the complete story for the reader, The Words of War provides a poignant & emotional insight into the human cost of war, whilst shedding new light on this unforgettable period in history.



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Everyone has heard of the workhouse. But what exactly was it? Who went there? & how did an institution so universally hated come to be set up? Surprisingly, no full-scale history of the workhouse has ever been written. This book fills the gap & tells the full story from its first beginnings in Elizabethan times until the final reluctant demise of 'the union' in the 1940s. The book concentrates, however, on the Victorian workhouse in the years of its tarnished glory. It describes the combination of circumstances which in the 1830s led to the opening of 600 new workhouses, against astonishingly little effective opposition, & it explains why radicals like Francis Place & humane reformers like Lord Brougham supported the New Poor Law, while a handful of Tories like Disraeli & arch-reactionaries like Colonel Sibthorpe fought against it. It records the riots, the protests, the pleadings, with which the poor challenged their virtual enslavement, & the misery of their daily life when they were finally incarcerated within the workhouse walls. What did gruel taste like? Why was workhouse uniform so uncomfortable to wear? How did it feel to pound bones all day, or grind corn, or scrub floors? How was Christmas Day in the workhouse celebrated in reality? Norman Longmate has, by exhaustive research into long-neglected sources, managed to answer all these & many more questions, in the words of those who experienced the workhouse regime. All the essential facts
- of legislation passed & numbers admitted
- are here, presented in a concise & lucid form which will make this book valuable to the serious student, but they are illustrated throughout by a wealth of anecdote, which reveals in human terms the meaning of the laws & regulations which previous historians of the Poor Law have so often merely catalogued.

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' Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis', wrote the Chicago Sun Times when Garp was first published in 1978. It is a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers.

Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, &, above all, make you think.

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