On to Civvy Street

On to Civvy Street
Author: Peter Neary
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773586598

Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events responsible for developing the orders and statutes that came to be known as the Veterans Charter, creating the Department of Veterans Affairs, and establishing sweeping new benefits for servicemen and women. Comparing rehabilitation programs after the Second World War with those after the First World War, Neary reveals the lasting importance of the country's new way of expressing its obligations to veterans. He shows that the measures developed to reintegrate them into civilian society became essential building blocks for the Canadian welfare state and helped pave the way for the unprecedented prosperity of the 1950s. A comprehensive study of a fundamental change in the relationship between government and citizens, On to Civvy Street is also a timely reminder of the debt the country owes its veterans.

Operation Civvy Street

Operation Civvy Street
Author: Peter Lewis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0957067402

Operation Civvy Street is for anyone planning on leaving the Armed Forces. Full of hints, tips and advice to make the most of your transition from the military to the civilian world. Written by Peter Lewis, a soldier for 20 years, it contains techniques that will allow you to create a fantastic new life beyond the military. Written in clear, no nonsense style, this book outlines the necessary steps you need to take to fulfil your true potential. Using the principles described, Peter has created a highly successful training business from scratch; despite having little idea what he could do when he started planning! Each chapter contains mini-tactics that you can implement straight away in your daily routine in order to develop your confidence, gain clarity on what you want to do and design the new life that you are capable of. It doesn't matter if you have little or no idea about what you could do in civilian life - this book will help you get clear and moving towards a great future!

Civvy Street

Civvy Street
Author: Heather Davidson
Publisher: Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

Drop Zone Burma

Drop Zone Burma
Author: Roger Annett
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844157504

Air-dropped supplies were a vital part of the Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. The transportation of munitions, food and medical supplies was undertaken in the most difficult situations, both on the land where the air bases were often situated in remote tropical jungle terrain and in the air when hazardous flying conditions were met in the steamy airs above the carpet of forest treetops. This book is based upon the memories of nine veterans of the campaign: John Hart, an air-dispatcher with 194 Squadron; Peter Bray, a Dakota pilot with 31 Squadron; Arthur Watts, a fitter with both 31 and 194 Squadrons; Colin Lynch an Observer on 31 Squadron; Norman Currell, a Dakota pilot with 31 Squadron; George Hufflett, 1st Queen’s Infantry; Ken Brown, Royal Signals; Eric Knowles, the Buffs and Dame Vera Lynn who was with ENSA during the campaign. It describes how they arrived in Burma and their previous wartime experiences and then explains there parts in the famous actions such as The Defence of Arakan, The Sieges of Imphal and Kohima, the Allied Counterattack, the Advance to Mandalay and the Race to Rangoon. The author explains the background to this theater of war and then puts the veterans memories into context as the campaign progresses.

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199232059

Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1426
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134963653

The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.

The Journey to a Little White House

The Journey to a Little White House
Author: Lynda M. Buckman
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1039182666

From the Permanent Married Quarters of a naval base to the little white house at the end of the road, Lynda M. Buckman and her family have lived a life of fun, adventure, and great love. Military service in their young adulthood and early marriage gave the author and her husband the tools they needed to facilitate strong communication throughout their now five-decades’ long partnership, including in their roles as parents, entrepreneurs, homesteaders, and hobby farmers. In four parts, each encompassing a different home, the author recounts her tales of lessons learned in short anecdotes that are at once comfortingly universal and delightfully original. Told with humour and a lot of heart, The Journey to a Little White House is the story of a wistful dream that became a beautiful reality.

Captives of War

Captives of War
Author: Clare Makepeace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107145872

Capture-- Imprisoned servicemen -- Bonds between men -- Ties with home -- Going "round the bend"--Liberation -- Resettling -- Conclusion

Prosthetic Agency

Prosthetic Agency
Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009081616

Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography. In particular, the book explores how technology was imagined as a new space of masculine becoming and how disability was written, represented and assimilated. Through a focus on popular narrative, this book explores the modes of masculinity promoted as ideally suited to national reconstruction and tries to make sense of a culture of rehabilitation that could not name or know itself as such.