Britains Lost Tragedies Uncovered

Author : Richard M. Jones
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750998393
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered written by Richard M. Jones and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is any disaster really forgotten? It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home. Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered is a look at the tragedies and disasters that may not have stayed in public memory, but are no less terrible than their more famous counterparts. From a late-nineteenth-century family massacre in London to two separate fatal crashes at Dibbles Bridge in Yorkshire, and the worst-ever aviation show crash in post-war Farnborough to the horrifying Barnsley Public Hall disaster – here are twenty-three accounts of true devastation and stunning bravery. They are tales that deserve to be remembered.

Author : Richard M Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 139904625X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances written by Richard M Jones and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most mysterious vanishings, ships that have made headlines but have never been found, both famous and forgotten cases that have left an outward ripple of tragedy and mystique. Most people have heard of the Mary Celeste crew vanishing, but how many knew that this was not the last case of an entire crew going missing? What about the three Scottish lighthouse keepers who were never seen again? Or the world famous aviation pioneers who took flight to never return? This book will tell you that MH370 was not the first airliner to disappear over the sea, nor was the Bermuda Triangle actually the cause of so many disappearing ships. How could six airplanes disappear in one day? Why did a ship with over 300 people on board not send a single distress call? Which ships vanished and then later messages in a bottle suddenly turn up, not just once but two separate shipwrecks? Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances will cover all these and more as we reveal the stories of some of the most fascinating incidents above and below the waves.

Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice Preserved, Or, A Plot Discovered written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Drama: Tragedies: Alexander the Great, by Nathaniel Lee. All for love by Mr. Dryden. Alzira, by Aaron Hill. The distressed mother, tr. by Ambrose Philips, from the "Andromaque" of Racine. The Earl of Essex, by Mr. Henry Jones. Mahomet [adapted from the French of Voltaire] by the Rev. Mr. Miller. The orphan of China, by Arthur Murphy. Pizarro from the German of Kotzebue [by R. B. Sheridan] The Roman father, altered from Mr. W. Whitehead. The siege of Damascus, by John Hughes. Tamerlane, by Nicholas Rowe. Ximena, by Colley Cibber. Zara, by Aaron Hill written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arrigo Petacco
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802039219
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tragedy Revealed written by Arrigo Petacco and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, Petacco reveals the events and exposes the Italian government's mishandling - and then official silence on - the situation.

Author : Paulin Huggett PEARCE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P. H. Pearce's Tragedy of the Battle of Waterloo, etc. [In five acts and in verse.] written by Paulin Huggett PEARCE and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541419
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 written by Edith Hall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience - including women - than had access to the original texts. Archival research has excavated substantial amounts of new material, both visual and literary, which is presented in chronological order. But the fundamental aim is to explain why Greek tragedy, which played an elite role in the curricula of largely conservative schools and universities, was magnetically attractive to political radicals, progressive theatre professionals, and to the aesthetic avant-garde. All Greek has been translated, and the book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Greek tragedy, the reception of ancient Greece and Rome, theatre history, British social history, English studies, or comparative literature.

Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.WY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Drama: Tragedy of Jane Shore, by Nicholas Rowe. Tragedy of Cato, by Joseph Addison. Tragedy of Isabella; or, The fatal marriage. by Thomas Southerne. Tragedy of George Barnwell, by George Lill. -v. 2. Comedy of The School for wives, by Hugh Kelly. Masque of Comus, by John Milton. The comedy of The city wives' confederacy, by Sir John Canbrugh. The comedy of The inconstant, by George Farquhar. -v. 3. Comedy of The chances, by [Francis] Beaumont and [John] Fletcher. Comedy of The way of the world, by William Congreve. Comedy of The suspicious husband, by Benjamin Hoadly. Comedy of She stoops to conquer; or, The mistakes of a night, by Oliver Goldsmith. -v. 4. The comedy of th beaux stratagem, by George Farquhar. Comedy of All in the wrong, by Arthur Murphy. Comedy of The constant couple; or, A trip to the jubilee, by George Farquhar. The comedy of The clandestine marriage, by George Colman and David Garrick written by Richard Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Lives of British Dramatists written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Withington
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075098127X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's 20 Worst Military Disasters written by John Withington and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crecy, Agincourt, Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, El Alamein – the names trip off the tongue and resound through our history. Great British military victories, often won against the odds. But what of the defeats and disasters – from our conquest by Roman armies to the fall of Singapore in 1942, described by Churchill as the 'worst disaster' in our military history. This is the story of those disasters, and the ones in between. From famous battles like Hastings and Yorktown, to those that are less well-known but had far-reaching consequences, such as Castillon. Others, like the Battle of the Medway in 1667, which were deeply shameful – 'a dishonour never to be wiped off' – but had relatively little long term impact. Sometimes, a brilliant retreat helped prevent an even greater calamity, as at Gallipoli and Dunkirk. It is an epic story following British armies and navies across the world to France, Africa, North and South America and the Far East. It is a tale of bungling, miscalculation, unpreparedness and heroism.