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Lord Haw Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany
The National Archives UK Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0810847531 |
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Lord Haw Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany tells the story of William Joyce from a new angle: through the eyes of the British intelligence agents who pursued him from his teenage dalliance with fascism in the 1920s to his execution in 1946. TCustomer Reviews:
Lor d Haw Haw.......2003-07-03
Fascinatingly, Martland spends a time describing the problems the British faced in bringing Joyce to the gallows for treason after the war. Did a born American-born man owe allegiance to the Crown in the first place? The tortured legal arguments on whether an alien could owe the King a loyal duty and the weight the security services placed on these worries is brought to the fore in Martland's writings. Without giving the game away, the shear effort a bankrupt British state made in gathering the necessary evidence in order to swat this ultimately pathetic figure strikes the reader.
And of Joyce's early life, the roots of Joyce's fascism beam through. Intellectually formidable, attracted by Mosley's shameless rhetoric, Joyce saw in Nazism an apt refuge for his anti-Semitic beliefs, and the institutionalization of the pub violence that permeated his life. Shunted from New York, to Ireland, to England, this is the tale of a wanderer whose Road to Damascus became a short stroll to a Berlin radio studio.
There are glimpses into the anxiety of the British government during the first couple of years of Joyce's broadcasts. To be sure, many saw him, with that odd, clipped, parvenu accent, as more of a comic than a Josef Goebbels, but nonetheless this was a radioman heard widely over the whole of England ; akin to today, any media coverage was good media coverage.
As the Nazi state crumbled, the sad last months of Joyce's employment in Germany are recorded in detail by Martland. Ever the Hitler believer, a rambling, drunken fool, gabbing into the microphone was what the end of the Reich did to Joyce. I like this part of the narrative, Joyce and precocious wife running from radio studio to radio studio always the transmitting sheep for the fast decaying Germany.
This new series from the National Archives, as the dusty Public Record Office has been rechristened, is formidable in that each title has half a book full of documents from the actual files kept. In Joyce's case the lame points of appeal in his trial for treason are printed ; so too is a spurious note by
some soldiers in liberated Europe on how Joyce accidentally happened to be shot when fleeing after the war.
Odious characters always excite. More so when they are dangerously formidable speakers, even if their crackpot ideas are laughable. More so when as intellectuals they leave democratic nations to find a hoped for comfort in the Berlin of 1939. I left this book with a fecund pity for William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw. The Irish immigrant attempting to be a patrician ; the self-taught masterly student attracted by the Mosley din ; the sneering womanizer charming in person, plain nasty in the airwaves.
Lord Haw-Haw is fantastic reading for those with an interest in betrayers, in espionage, and for those who want a distilled, non-pretentious, crystallized narrative of this complex figure. Refreshing in its clear style, accommodating to the plain curious, as I was, Martland in this project has done a fine job.
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Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Penelope Fitzgerald Manufacturer: Everyman's Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1400041252 Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain (Forgotten Voices)
Joshua Levine Manufacturer: Ebury Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 009191003X |
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Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War in the Words of Those Who Were There
Hugh McManners Manufacturer: Random House UK ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0091908809 Release Date: 2007-04-24 |
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A Remarkable New History of the Falklands War in the Words of Those Who Were There.
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1914-1918 Voices and Images of the Great War
Lyn MacDonald Manufacturer: Michael Joseph ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0718131886 |
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This book uses personal accounts and illustrations, mainly from the author's own archives, to cover all aspects of World War I-from departure of the Old Contemptibles to fight the Kaiser in 1914, young men eagerly enlisting, high hopes of 1915 that fizzled out at Gallipoli, to the bloody fields of Flanders. It runs through the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele to the coming of the Americans, fighting in the closing months of the war, joyous celebrations of Armistice Day and burial of the unknown warrior in the aftermath. The authors have drawn on the experiences of the men who fought, touching on subjects as diverse as propaganda, fear, morale, bravery, bawdiness, filth, and frivolity and the stark contrast between attitudes of civilians at home and the men at the front. Newspapers, magazines, letters, diaries, songs, poems, as well as a wealth of first-hand anecdotes and personal accounts by the soldiers themselves are included in this book.Customer Reviews:
Awesome Photographs.......2005-04-18
MacDonald's "Voices and Images" Speaks Volumes.......2000-12-29
This book is dedicated to the individual soldier and the collective experience. As such, it is not straight history and is all the more compelling for it. If you are looking for something more detailed, this is not the book for you.
What this book does offer is glimpses into the lives and deaths of the soldiers who participated. From heroes who won the Victoria Cross to deserters who were shot at dawn, each tale, snapshot or drawing provides a vivid introduction to the personal aspect of war.
An incomplete oral history.......2000-06-29
First of all it should be noted that despite the ambitious (or ambiguous) title, the scope is rather limited for this work. Except for two Germans and one American liaison officer, one finds here only the words of soldiers from the British Empire - and only on the western front. I have no problem with that per se, but there are alot of voices - French, German, American, civilian - and images left out. Actually, a narrow focus is preferred. Oral histories are nearly impossible to produce on a large scale and are much more effective when they focus on specific battles or campaigns such as D-Day or Iwo Jima. I think to write a book like this also requires more journalistic training than Ms. MacDonald appears to have.
As written, the book moves chronologically through the war and each event is retold sometimes through personal narratives, sometimes through letters. In true military fashion, we are given name, rank and unit of each man, but beyond that we are not introduced. After reading each entry, one often wonders what happened to these letter-writers, whether they survived the war or what they made of their lives after. One isn't rewarded. The images mentioned in the title are present, but there are not very many and they are unlabeled. The result is confusing because you aren't sure whether the photo is the actual image of the writer or merely representative. On infrequent occasions the photos are tilted to one side or the other, lending an air of the scrapbook.
Despite all of this book's shortcomings, the stories are there and they speak with undeniable clarity. If you purchase this book do it for these great men.
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Voices from the Civil War: A Documentary of the Great American Conflict
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Childrens Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0064461246 |
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War (Forgotten Voices/the Great War)
Max Arthur Manufacturer: Ebury ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0091888875 |
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In 1972, a team of academics and archivists from the Imperial War Museum set about the momentous task of tracing ordinary men and women who lived through one of the most harrowing periods in modern history, the First World War.Customer Reviews:
Stuck in the Greatest Idiocy Ever.......2006-09-04
personal reading milestone.......2005-11-24
Fascinating wartime experiences by those who fought it.......2004-07-11
Most of the letters vary in length between one paragraph and one page and are packed with the kind of realistic details that typical narrative histories of the World War I skip over. For example, in Gallipoli (p. 118) one soldier writes, "One of the biggest curses was flies. Millions and millions of flies. ... Immediately you bared any part of your body you were smothered." Short of actually being there, these kind of first person participant narratives deliver the essence of the war - harsh, demanding, brutal, comedic, and ocassionally surreal. The straightforward writing styles and unusual content make this book a true pleasure to read.
I have read over 40 books about the Great War, and this book is one of the best for personal narratives about the war. It's multi-person perspective delivers a well-balanced, insightful picture of the war at ground level (free of any hidden agenda). This book would perfectly complement a broad narrative history of World War I.
A Great Read & Excellent History.......2002-12-23
Now Max Arthur has put together many of these unheard voices from the Great War to produce this spellbinding and captivating book. I must admit that I was reluctant to buy this book as I was worried that a book full of short accounts would be too disjointed and really not detailed enough to satisfy my interest. I can honestly say that I truly enjoyed reading this book.
Each chapter of the book was a year of the Great War and was commenced by an introduction by the author offering a brief run down on the major events of that year. Then we heard from the men and women who participated in these events, from both sides of no-man's land. The author has concentrated mainly on the Western Front and Gallipoli and has tried to run the oral segments in chronological order.
I was really taken by these segments and I found it hard to stop reading. The accounts from these soldiers and civilians alike were at times humorous, strikingly direct, horrifying and on many occasions quite sad. I was really taken in by these accounts and I don't think that any World War One library would be complete without this title sitting on the shelf. I can honestly say that I learnt quite a few things from this book and I would place it along side such works offered by Lyn MacDonald. Well done to the author and the Imperial War Museum for allowing these veterans, many now long dead, the last word on their experiences in the Great War. This is a great book, you won't be disappointed.
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VOICES IN FLIGHT: Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War
Anna Malinovska Manufacturer: Pen and Sword ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1844153991 |
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Thanks to the foresight of the authors, Voices in Flight is a literary memorial to the hugely gallant men who fought their war in small dangerous and vulnerable aero planes.
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Voices From The Home Front: Personal Experiences of Wartime Britain 1939-45 (Voices from Series)
Felicity Goodall Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0715317083 |
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From the people who lived through extraordinary and terrible times--the air raid wardens, the Home Guard, the Land Army, the families pulled apart and the communities brought together--real life stories of Britain under fire during World War II.Revisiting an era brought to life with the vivid re-telling of events, this is a book written by the people who survived the war from their own homes and in their own workplaces. From the cities come stories of the bomb shelters and munitions factories; recollections of getting on with life when everything was in tatters. From the coasts and the countryside the Britons who worked to keep the nation fed and who took in the children of stangers when they were evacuated to safety, tell their story. Here too are tales of liasons with American Gis, and the relationship of the public with Italian POWs.
Voices from the Home Front offers a collection of viewpoints that will strike a chord of familiarity for all those that share these living memories. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the resilience of a nation at war, the humor and the strength that such times inspired even in the face of hardship and tragedy.
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This is a really great book.......2006-07-27
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Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-18
David Omissi Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312220618 |
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Indian soldiers served in France from 1914 to 1918. This book is a selection of their letters. By turns poignant, funny, and almost unbearably moving, these documents vividly evoke the world of the Western Front--as seen through "subaltern" Indian eyes. The letters also bear eloquent witness to the sepoys' often unsettling encounter with Europe, and with European culture. This book helps to map the imaginative landscape of South Asia's warrior-peasant communities.Customer Reviews:
The First World War from an Indian Soldier's Viewpoint.......2007-01-08
WW1--an unfamiliar view.......2001-11-21
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Drawn Blank
Bob Dylan Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O9Q2ZY |
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Reg Gadney Manufacturer: William Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0434280003 |
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Drawn from Life, Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, and Young Couples ( Dickens Character Sketches Arlington Edition ) . The Chronological Position of These Sketches is Between the Completion of PICKWICK and the Commencement of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY a
Charles, 20 Illustrations By Phis, Frontispiece with FoXing, Yellow Endpapers Light Wear Fox, Blank Flyleaf Former Owner Name Address, Inner Hinges Starting Dickens Manufacturer: Hurst & Co. Publ. NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JD62XC |
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Tale Of Buster Bumblebee, The Tuck-Me-In Tales ( Tuck Me In )
color pictorial endpapers, owner stamp back blank flyleaf, Text illustrations drawn by Harry L. Smith, B/W Frontispiece Arthur Scott Bailey Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JD2ZX8 |
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Drawn Blank
Bob Dylan Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0679417885 Release Date: 1994-11-15 |
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An extraodinary collection of drawings and sketches-of women, hotel rooms, cityscapes, and more-by the world's best-known singer-songwriter, each accompanied by a note or short poem.Customer Reviews:
Another Side of Bob Dylan.......2005-07-13
a 10 if there were commentaries.......1998-05-09
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Drawn Blank (SIGNED 1st Edition)
Bob Dylan Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O9Q3E4 |
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