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Fellowship of Dust
I began this project for personal reasons: my uncle had made an enormous personal sacrifice for his family and his country; yet, because of his silence, no one in my family ever fully knew what he endured. As the last living relative who knew him, I felt a responsibility to rescue his story from the shadows before it disappeared forever and to preserve it as a source of pride for my family and me. But a second reason for telling my uncle’s story materialized as I assembled the details of his journey. I came to realize that while many GIs experienced extensive combat operations or the trials of being held in a POW camp, very few men survived the amount of combat my uncle experienced and six...
Ma Shaw's War
Ma Shaw's Wars...and after the king's speech, the blitz kidzA colourful, incident-packed story of one of the very limited generation of women whose lives were dragged into two world wars, whose menfolk were treated like cannon fodder...fighting, and sometimes dying, in the merciless action of both 20th century conflicts with Germany. And two young sons, the author and his brother, reared during the ferocity of the Birmingham blitz during the Battle of Britain.Ma Shaw's Wars is not a work of fiction. With its roots in poverty-torn Ireland, all of the inspirational story of battling against sometimes unbelievable odds, is as accurate as the writer could make it, as a social document describing...
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The Playwright and the Pirate
A more incongruous friendship than the one reflected in this correspondence is hard to imagine. Shaw is now remembered as the leading playwright of his time, and one of era's most memorable wits; Harris has become notorious for his near-pornographic My Life and Loves, and for a humorless (and disintegrating) sense of self-importance. At one time, Harris had been one of the later nineteenth century's most visible literary figures, a friend of such dissimilar people as Lord Randolph Churchill and Oscar Wilde, an editor of the London Evening News at 29, then editor of the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review, whose theater critic Shaw became. Never quite respectable, Harris had been toler...
We Remember the Home Guard
"I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood, expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky. What was I going to do with the block of wood? I never knew." --Leonard Jackson On June 22, 1940, France surrendered to Germany and the invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility. The Home Guard was formed to defend our villages and towns. Members came from reserved occupations, those who had failed their medicals, the elderly and the young, with miners and farmers training alongside former majors. Their weapons and ammunition were negligible at first, but slowly these amateur soldiers began to produce professional results. In this unique book of reminiscences, we see these men as they practise with pitchforks and fall into ditches after a pint or two of ale on the job. But we also see them learning how to fire grenades after a day studying engineering and undertaking night watches after exhausting factory shifts--knowing they could be the last stop between the enemy and their families and homes.
Signals of Transcendence
Growing up in church, there was no tobacco or alcohol. There was plenty of fishing, peach pie, watermelon and homemade ice cream and God - all mixed with New Orleans' life and music, confusion over Vietnam, the deaths of MLK and RFK, and Richard Nixon's disgrace, along with sports, sex, drinking and drugs. This is one man's quest to understand his relationship with God - even when alcoholism devoured his mind, body and family. Reading like a 21st century version of the once-controversial novel, 'The Catcher in the Rye' - complete with teenage angst and alienation, this is a look through the gauze of a family's history and it's impact on how it all came together for him to survive.
