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Argyll Street: One Man's Journey from the Pit to the Front Line
ARGYLL STREET is a historical novel based on the life of William Gregory who was born in Aspull, Lancashire, in 1879. He followed his Father and Brother to work in the coal mine at the age of ten. In 1906 William emigrated to Canada and was joined by his wife Elizabeth and two children a year later. They lived at 38 Argyll Street, Sydney, Glace Bay NS. Following the outbreak of WW1 in 1916 he returned to the UK serving with the 25th Battalion Nova Scotia Rifles (Cape Breton Highlanders). In August 1917 the unit was part of the 5th Infantry Brigade which distinguished itself at the Battle of Hill 70, a northern suburb of Lens. William was killed in action on the 16th August and is buried in the Aix Noulette Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Journey of Ashes
Journey of Ashes: A Boyhood in the Holocaust traverses a fine line between humor and tragedy, and presents a fascinating, lively memoir of a young boy (eventually a Schindler Jew) growing up in Krakow surrounded by the German occupation. It also depicts his family's striving for normalcy in the face of the unimaginable. Many people, especially children, in the context of being terrorized by the Nazi regime, still maintained a strong semblance of what it meant to be ordinarily human. They laughed, argued, loved and feasted, and nurtured each other, even as their world was eroding. For most Holocaust survivors, memory is a shifting force, hammered and reshaped by the healing mechanisms of time...
Congo Unravelled
Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan- Africanism, Belgium's continued economic interests in the country's mineral wealth, and the strategic perceptions of other southern African states all conspired to wrack Africa's second largest country with uprisings, rebellions and military interventions for almost a decade.Congo Unravelled solves the intractable complexity of this violent period by dispassionately outlining the sequence of political and military events that took place in the troubled country. The reader is systematically taken through the first military attempts to stabili...
Argyll Street: One Man's Journey from the Pit to the Front Line
ARGYLL STREET is a historical novel based on the life of William Gregory who was born in Aspull, Lancashire, in 1879. He followed his Father and Brother to work in the coal mine at the age of ten. In 1906 William emigrated to Canada and was joined by his wife Elizabeth and two children a year later. They lived at 38 Argyll Street, Sydney, Glace Bay NS. Following the outbreak of WW1 in 1916 he returned to the UK serving with the 25th Battalion Nova Scotia Rifles (Cape Breton Highlanders). In August 1917 the unit was part of the 5th Infantry Brigade which distinguished itself at the Battle of Hill 70, a northern suburb of Lens. William was killed in action on the 16th August and is buried in the Aix Noulette Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
The Gregory Journal
William Gregory was born at Aspull near Wigan, Lancashire, in 1879. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1907 and returned to UK in 1916 as a private in the Nova Scotia Regiment Canadian Infantry. He took part in the Battles for Messines Ridge and Hill 70. This diary gives a fascinating insight into William's experiences in the War to end all Wars.
