Back in Blighty

Back in Blighty
Author: Gerard DeGroot
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1448161207

World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people. As its reverberations were so long-lasting and significant, it is easy to assume that the social consequences were as profound. In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were surprisingly resilient. Despite economic and technological changes, the British peoplemanaged to cling onto their usual ways of life as much as possible in this new world. Back in Blighty has been fully revised to take into account new scholarship and historical perspectives, and is full of fascinating glimpses into everyday life during the war. The lives of ordinary people are illuminated and given historical significance in this powerful portrait of the British people and their culture.

Blighty's Railways

Blighty's Railways
Author: Alexander J Mullay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1445638746

Alexander Mullay tells the story of Britain's Railways during the First World War. From troop and hospital trains to carrying munitions and freight, the railways were vital.

Dear Old Blighty

Dear Old Blighty
Author: E. S. Turner
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0571296939

'So the recruiters, rolling up their sleeves, varied the appeal to pride, honour, manliness and vengeance with warnings to eschew shame, disgrace, betrayal, sloth and cowardice. From a poster showing the ruins of Belgium a woman asked, 'Will you go or must I?'' First published in 1980, Dear Old Blighty is E.S. Turner's superb account of life 'on the home front' in Britain during the Great War of 1914-1918: a time of conscription, propaganda, 'spy fever', industrial unrest in the arms factories, and grieving families turning to spiritualism. When even the blind were being recruited to serve as listening sentries for approaching Zeppelins, all were expected to contribute to the war effort; and, as Turner shows us, the means of exhortation (and the penalties for non-compliance) were many. 'No matter where you open a page, you learn something you feel you should have known.' Miles Kington, Independent

Hallo Sausages

Hallo Sausages
Author: Jemima Dury
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1408812142

Presents the complete lyrics of rock musician Ian Dury, along with handwritten notes, candid photographs, and an audio CD featuring previously unreleased material.

Blighty

Blighty
Author: Gerard J. De Groot
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

As well as incorporating the latest scholarship, he makes rich, and often very moving, use of primary sources - newspapers, poetry (both high and low), literature, memoirs and letters - to illuminate the attitudes of society at all its levels, not merely the elite and the articulate. He reveals the extent to which the dominant social force in Britain during the war was not change but continuity.

Victor Records

Victor Records
Author: Victor Talking Machine Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1918
Genre: Sound recordings
ISBN:

The Dreamer

The Dreamer
Author: Cliff Richard
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1473588952

'Before Cliff Richard and the Shadows, there was nothing worth listening to in British music.' - John Lennon. Cliff Richard tells his story, in his own words, in his highly anticipated new autobiography. Achieving a hit in every decade since the 1950s, Cliff Richard stands alone in pop history. Coming of age in 1950s London, he began his music career at Soho's legendary 2i's Cafe, and now he's approaching his 80th birthday with record sales of over 250m and counting. Cliff Richard was a pioneer, forging the way for British rock 'n' roll with his unique sound. The original British teen idol, his incredible story takes us into the studio of TV's first pop show Oh Boy!, through 40 years of Top of the Pops, and playing live up and down the country and across the world, with a constant backdrop of screaming fans. Cliff looks back on his humble upbringing, and how he went on to fulfil his wildest dreams by becoming a pop star and even a film star. He talks about finding Christianity, reflects on the ups and downs of life in the public eye, and reveals how the false allegations against him changed his life forever. He's seen era-defining pop stars come and go, and he's still making new music, with a new project to be released this year. As a teenage Elvis-fan in Cheshunt, this may have seem a distant dream. Here's his story of how he made it all happen.

The Royal Flying Corps in the War

The Royal Flying Corps in the War
Author: Wilfrid Theodore Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1918
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

"Of all the tales and sketches which go to make up the present work, some have been actual experiences of the writer, more of other members of the Royal Flying Corps, whilst one or two are purely imaginative, but none the less possible. In cases where the writer may seem to be inaccurate or out of date, he begs to remind his readers that sketches were written in the autumn of 1916 in most instances, and portray events that happened to him and his contemporaries in the R.F.C., mostly in 1915 and the beginnng of 1916. After that date the writer ceased to fly himself, owing to a period of eight months in the hospital, and became a "Wing Adjutant." The details of the R.F.C. in the East were obtained whilst he was actually there during the greater part of 1917."--Preface.