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Ray Ellis in Retrospect
"With vibrant, color-infused images and an insightful text by a noted American art specialist, the dazzlingly beautiful book reveals the full breadth of Ray Ellis's remarkable career. While most renowned for his oils and watercolors of Martha's Vineyard and the Lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina, this celebrated American artist's oeuvre also includes marine and travel paintings, cityscapes, and still lifes. In this retrospective volume - the first ever published - the finest examples of Ellis's work are presented spanning several decades from the late 1940s through his most recent paintings."--BOOK JACKET.
Ray G. Ellis
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Lowcountry
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Ray Ellis' Savannah & the Lowcountry
Images of the marshes, waterways, buildings and streets of Savannah and its surrounding Lowcountry captured on watercolor and oil paintings.
Once a Hussar
This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery and a daring escape from an Italian POW camp. When the Second World War broke out, Ray Ellis was a patriotic teenager eager to serve his country. Once a Hussar is Ellis’s gripping account of his wartime experiences. A gunner for the 107th RHA, South Notts Hussars, he fought in the Western Desert Campaign and distinguished himself as the last soldier to fire on advancing German troops in the devastating Battle of Knightsbridge. Captured by the Italian Royal Army, Ellis suffered harrowing deprivation as a prisoner-of-war before executing a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Apennine Mountains. Told with self-deprecating humor and a keen eye for detail, Ellis’s story honestly depicts the horror of war, but also reveals the triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship.
Once a Hussar
Once a Hussar is a true account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of World War II and began a journey which would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, an Italian prisoner of war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Apennines. His story is an honest and moving memoir of the unimaginable horrors of warfare but also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis's self-deprecating humour skilfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives.
Poems by Ray
Poetry based on the author's observations of people and the events that happened in his life. -- Winston-Derek Publishers Group.
Always a Hussar
Always a Hussar continues the chronicle of Ray Ellis's life. His previous book, Once a Hussar, describes his exploits during the Second World War. He picks up his story again at the end of his overseas service. After his years of fighting in the western desert and the deprivation suffered during his time as a prisoner of war, he is suddenly returned to an England that is unfamiliar to him. This happened in the days before Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome was a recognised condition and restorative treatment, such as rehabilitation, was not yet an available option. Ellis leads us, unsparingly, through the harrowing personal breakdown of his selfhood and documents the painful results of his disturbing behaviour. However, this is not merely a story of bitterness and regret. Instead, it charts his journey through his darkest days, his self-generated recovery and his eventual arrival at a state of contentment and peace of mind. Always a Hussar is a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit.
