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Having a Go at the Kaiser
• This a detailed ‘family conversation’ from 1916-18, in circumstances where it is possible to understand most of the references to family members and other individuals. • This book includes evidence which allows us to understand how men who were called upon to serve in the First World War understood their role, their position and their choices. • The letters provide a picture of what the brothers thought and how their ideas evolved on a range of issues as the war was being waged, revealing some of the contemporary norms of Welsh society, and dealing with such issues as identity, masculinity and duty.
Having a Go at the Kaiser
• This a detailed ‘family conversation’ from 1916-18, in circumstances where it is possible to understand most of the references to family members and other individuals. • This book includes evidence which allows us to understand how men who were called upon to serve in the First World War understood their role, their position and their choices. • The letters provide a picture of what the brothers thought and how their ideas evolved on a range of issues as the war was being waged, revealing some of the contemporary norms of Welsh society, and dealing with such issues as identity, masculinity and duty.
The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914
This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century. With over thirty chapters from an international range of contributors, ranging from the UK to the US and Australia, and working across history, art, literature, and media, it offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, and our artistic and cultural responses to it. The handbook is divided into three parts. The first part explores how communities and individuals responded to loss and grief by using art and culture to assimilate the experience as an act of survival and resilience. The second part...
The Richard Burton Diaries
The personal diaries of the renowned actor and glamorous celebrity describe his life from 1939 to 1983, including his struggles with weight, drinking and jealousy when other men looked at the love of his life, Elizabeth Taylor.
STONES IN MY JAR
Emily is the newest recruit to an elite, highly secret, unit formed to target enemies of the realm. It started with Ray Quinn, ex SAS and now retired and now Frank holds the reins. His daughter Emily, already a proven operative, has to investigate multiple murder, arms smuggling and other mysteries. She has a gift; a special gift. She doesn't think in straight lines. But she's not a team player and that causes problems. She also has a terrible illness and has to cope with its effects. To cap it all, she falls in love with Books. He has become a member of the team and their relationship blossoms in the face of adversity.
Having a Go at the Kaiser
Three brothers from Swansea who served in the First World War sent over a hundred letters to their family, providing a picture of what they thought and how their ideas evolved on a range of issues, dealing with such key concerns as identity and duty.
British Religion and the World Wars
Religion did much to shape contemporary British opinion and behaviour during the First and Second World Wars, but it featured rather less in the initial historiography of either conflict. The situation has changed considerably in the past half-century, with a steadily increasing number of academic and popular outputs on the religious aspects of the wars. As key milestones, in connection with the centenary of the First World War and the eightieth anniversary of the Second World War, have occurred or approach, it seems an appropriate time to take bibliographical stock. This volume is the first to offer an in-depth listing of modern literature, in English and other European languages, on Britis...
Dragon Rampant
I never saw any regiment in such order, said Wellington before the Battle of Waterloo, it was the most complete and handsome military body I ever looked at. The object of the Duke's admiration was the 23rd Regiment of Foot the famous Royal Welch Fusiliers and this is their story during the tumultuous and bloody period of the wars with France between 1793 and 1815. Based on rare personal memoirs and correspondence and new research, this compelling book offers fresh insight into the evolution of the British Army. Scorned by even its own countrymen in 1793, it was transformed within a generation into a professional force that triumphed over the greatest general and army of the time. The men of ...
The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths
A woman starved to death. A tech genius with his hands hacked off. The heist of the century. When DC Fiona Griffiths and her colleagues piece together the clues to several grim crimes, they realise they're staring at one of the world's most daring robberies. Fiona is asked to take on her toughest case yet: will she go undercover to penetrate this criminal gang from within? When Fiona says yes, she has to give up her old life entirely. She becomes Fiona Grey, a homeless woman struggling to get her life back together again. When the criminal gang adopt her as one of their own, she's totally alone, vulnerable - and dangerous as hell. Praise for the Fiona Griffiths mystery series: 'With Detectiv...
Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire
Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, fear of Indigenous uprisings spread across the British Empire and nibbled at the edges of settler societies. Publicly admitting to this anxiety, however, would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial superiority. In Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire Kenton Storey opens a window on this time by comparing newspaper coverage in the 1850s and 1860s in the colonies of New Zealand and Vancouver Island. Challenging the idea that there was a decline in the popularity of humanitarianism across the British Empire in the mid-nineteenth century, he demonstrates how government officials and newspaper editors appropriated humanitarian rhetoric as a flexible political language. Whereas humanitarianism had previously been used by Christian evangelists to promote Indigenous rights, during this period it became a popular means to justify the expansion of settlers’ access to land and to promote racial segregation, all while insisting on the “protection” of Indigenous peoples.
