When This Bloody War Is Over
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Author | : Max Arthur |
Publisher | : Piatkus Books |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Music |
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When this bloody war is over, No more soldiering for me. This book brings together the words - humorous, cynical, bitter, wistful - of the songs the soldiers of the First World War sang. The haunting songs of the First World War still have a powerful emotional impact; these are the words the soldiers actually sang - on the march, in the dug-outs and trenches - amidst the appalling carnage of the battlefield. The stoic courage and endurance of the ordinary soldiers shines through such songs as We are Fred Karno's Army, No More Soldiering for Me and It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary. Each song is introduced by Max Arthur, giving its historical background. Together with contemporary cartoons and drawings, this attractive, evocative book cannot fail to delight and move anyone with an interest in the First World War.
Author | : Max Arthur (Military historian) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Large type books |
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Author | : Graham Seal |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780702234477 |
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Author | : Max Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Large print books |
ISBN | : 9781842621882 |
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Soldiers' songs of the First World War The songs of the First World War represent the ascendancy of the human spirit over the cruel inhumanity of the war. They still possess a haunting power - by turns funny, cynical, angry and wistful. Max Arthur has collected together the lyrics of nearly 100 of the songs that the soldiers sang on the march, in the trenches and in their rare moments of rest. They include "Keep the Home Fires Burning", "Good-bye-ee!", "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty", and many more. Each song is annotated by the author, giving the historical background and tune wherever possible.
Author | : Max Arthur |
Publisher | : Piatkus Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780708861479 |
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Author | : Max Arthur (Military historian) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : War songs |
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Author | : Annie Murray |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2016-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1447286286 |
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Now the War is Over is a moving story of post-war hardship and the struggles of a reunited family, featuring characters from Annie Murray's bestselling War Babies. The Second World War has finally come to a close. Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Booker's life. Her husband has returned, and the family that struggled for survival throughout the uncertain war years is now together. But family life settles into a routine and Rachel, unsatisfied, starts to yearn for more' Melly, Rachel's eldest daughter, is a child of the war. She grew up in the bombed-out streets of Birmingham and has never known anything other than the hungry ration years and supporting her mother and younger brother Tommy. But times are changing and Melly now has a fresh future ahead of her. She's determined to make the most of life and her greatest wish is to become a nurse. As the gloom of the 1940s passes by and the promise of the 1950s dawns, a whole new world of opportunity opens up to Rachel and Melly - but with this come new challenges and tough choices. They will each have to decide whether their loyalties still lie with the family and friends they clung to throughout the war years or if it's time to move on . . .
Author | : Chandra Manning |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307267431 |
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Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
Author | : Marcus Clapham |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1509848797 |
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The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert Brooke, the disillusionment of Charles Hamilton Sorley, or the bitter denunciations of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the war produced an astonishing outpouring of powerful poetry. Edited by author and editor Marcus Clapham, the major poets are all represented in this beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library anthology, Poetry of the First World War, alongside many others whose voices are less well known, and their verse is accompanied by contemporary motifs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Author | : Tim Kendall |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0191642045 |
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The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.