Trenches to Trams

Trenches to Trams
Author: Clive Burlton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781906477462

Trenches to Trams is a vivid social and military history bringing to life the story of an ordinary Bristolian who experienced extraordinary times. George Pine was one of four brothers from Easton who all fought in the First World War. George was awarded the DCM for gallantry and was injured three times while serving with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He experienced the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele. With gunshot wounds to the head and shoulder George was left for dead on the battlefield but miraculously found his way back to the British Lines. With his army career over, he partially recovered from his injuries at Beaufort War Hospital in Bristol and in 1920 managed to get a job as a conductor on Bristol's Trams. He experienced the changeover from trams to buses in the 1930s and survived several close shaves during the Blitz. He retired in 1956. At the request of his grandson, George jotted down 44,000 words of memories in the eight months before he died in 1972. George's story has been painstakingly researched by Clive Burlton who has uncovered hundreds of photographs and objects from family, public and private sources and added extensive Author's Notes. Trenches to Trams is an invaluable social history of a working class Bristolian who lived through two World Wars. It contains more than 200 archive images most of them never previously published.

This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan

This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan
Author: Ted Allan
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0776621645

A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades—men and women from around the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. This new edition of Ted Allan’s novel, This Time a Better Earth, reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War and Madrid, which for a short time in the 1930s became the epicentre of a global struggle between democracy and fascism. This Time a Better Earth, first published in 1939, tells the story of Canadian Bob Curtis from the time of his arrival in Spain and the idealism and trials of the international volunteers. Allan’s novel achieves the distinction of being both a work of considerable literary and historical significance and a real page-turner. This is the first installment of a series of titles to be published in the Canadian Literature Collection under the Canada and the Spanish Civil War banner. This is a large-scale project devoted to the recovery and presentation of Canadian cultural production about the Spanish Civil War (spanishcivilwar.ca), directed by Bart Vautour and Emily Robins Sharpe.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Author: Royal Engineers' Institute (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1927
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

The Law Reports

The Law Reports
Author: Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1156
Release: 1909
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

The Official Gazette

The Official Gazette
Author: Barbados
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1594
Release: 1917
Genre: Barbados
ISBN:

Supplements contain abstracts of House of Assembly and Legislative Council debates.