Dockers Stories From The Second World War

Author : Henry T. Bradford
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752483218
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dockers' Stories from the Second World War written by Henry T. Bradford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dockers' Stories from the Second World War is a collection of several true stories, drawn from Henry Bradford's time as a Registered Docker in the Port of London. Men were often killed and injured during their every-day work on the docks; nonetheless, never was the bravery of these men so tested as during times of war. Henry heard many stories from dockers in his time working the docks but it was their wartime adventures that seemed most vivid. Henry Bradford's lively stories and colourful characters reveal the bravery of ordinary men in World War Two, from Captain Jim Fryer's ship towage work on Calais roads and Dunkirk beaches, and saving lives of survivors from the bombed hospital ship Paris, for which he was awarded the DSC, to Petty Officer Jack Hicks' quieter but equally memorable posting steering a clinker-built boat on a hush-hush job from the Thames to the north-east, his crew consisting only of an inexperienced co-man and an incredibly efficient WREN. This book is sure to appeal to those whose relatives worked as dockers, and to anyone with an interest in London's East End at war.

Author : Henry T. Bradford
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953187
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of London Docklands written by Henry T. Bradford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of true stories, drawn from Henry Bradford's personal experience as a Registered Docker in the Port of London - when traffic through the docks was at its peak.

Author : Raghu Karnad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248100
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War written by Raghu Karnad and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.

Author : Aileen O’Carroll
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1911024876
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dublin Docker written by Aileen O’Carroll and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a port city, Dublin owes much to the labourers who strove against the heavy-duty tide of imports and exports; a league of thousands who were hired on a day-to-day basis for generations, defining the bustle of Dublin city centre – a cornerstone of the urban industrial working class in Ireland. The Dublin Docker is a sumptuously illustrated history that determines the dockers’ and stevedores’ importance as an industrial subculture within the Dublin that they navigated. The authors excavated the archive of the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society to discover a wealth of photographs, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s, that capture the dockers’ arduous labour and the energy of Dublin port. These evocative images bring this beautifully designed social history to life, complementing the inimitable voices revealed in interviews with the dockers themselves. How they negotiated working hours and pay, the changes that came with epochal events – the Dublin Lockout, the First World War, the Easter Rising and War of Independence – and the innumerable myths and ‘dark stories’ that shrouded their image: The Dublin Docker is a history of the dockers and their deep-woven connection to the city.

Author : A. Mah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283149
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Cities and Global Legacies written by A. Mah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.

Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101974699
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain at Bay written by Alan Allport and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From statesmen and military commanders to ordinary Britons, a bold, sweeping history of Britain's entrance into World War II—and its efforts to survive it—illuminating the ways in which the war permanently transformed a nation and its people “Might be the single best examination of British politics, society and strategy in these four years that has ever been written.” —The Wall Street Journal Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict’s first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles pressing questions such as whether the war could have been avoided, how it could have been lost, how well the British lived up to their own values, and ultimately, what difference the war made to the fate of the nation. In answering these questions, he reexamines our assumptions and paints a vivid portrait of the ways in which the Second World War transformed British culture and society. This bracing account draws on a lively cast of characters—from the political and military leaders who made the decisions, to the ordinary citizens who lived through them—in a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. A sweeping and groundbreaking epic, Britain at Bay gives us a fresh look at the opening years of the war, and illuminates the integral moments that, for better or for worse, made Britain what it is today.

Author : Lorraine Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Humour of Despair written by Lorraine Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was once called 'the humour of despair'! Thousands of men worked at the 'Liverpool Docks', stretching for seven miles from the 'Gladstone Dock' to the 'Herculaneum'. Dockers endured many long, poorly-paid, and soul-destroying hours, in what were often dreadful working conditions, but their humour helped them through. This book brings to life the 'fantastic characters', their terrific sense of humour, and wonderful expressions peculiar to themselves, in a collection of true stories that took place on the Liverpool Docks during the early1960s. The book is based on co-author Tony's memories of being a young Liverpool docker during the early 1960s. It is packed full of funny true stories, dockers' nicknames, phraseology, working practices and enlightening facts; but also contains some tragic stories to highlight the dangerous working conditions and practices that the dockers faced daily. It is a social document enveloped in humour! 'The humour of despair'. The book will enlighten, enthrall and educate but most of all entertain, and leave you with a greater understanding about a part of Liverpool's history that has now gone forever. It is the only access you will have into the working lives of fantastically funny characters who worked at the Liverpool docks. There isn't a book quite like it! About the authors: The authors are father and daughter, Tony and Lorraine Sanders. Tony is an ex-Bootle Grammar School boy and ex-Liverpool docker. Lorraine is a graduate from The University of Liverpool. In a totally unique style, they have encapsulated the magic of the 'laugh a minute' spirit, present, in what was once a premier seafaring port.

Author : Hilde Van Gelder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700052
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allan Sekula. Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum written by Hilde Van Gelder and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life (2010–2013). The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks. At the time of his sad passing in the Summer of 2013, Allan Sekula was in the midst of collaborating on this publication with all four contributing authors: Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alberto Toscano, and Hilde Van Gelder, each of whom he had asked to write essays. This volume, which includes a representative ensemble of images and objects that are part of Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum, follows as closely as possible the instructions given by the artist and is the first substantial scholarly analysis of this impressive project. It contains a preface by Jürgen Bock and Bart De Baere, who both curated exhibited installations of the work during the artist's lifetime. The volume also includes draft text materials written by the artist himself, as well as selections from the multitude of unpublished interviews, public debates, and lectures that Allan Sekula delivered between 2010 and 2012. Finally, this publication includes a moving essay on the project by the artist's widow, Sally Stein.

Author : E.E. Barringer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473811805
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea' written by E.E. Barringer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1995-06-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 835 Naval Air Squadron as told by one of its surviving officers. It tells the story of the outstanding fleets of flying and the importance of the Merchant Navy in the Second World War.

Author : Stephen Bloomfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619535
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance written by Stephen Bloomfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance explains how the real world of corporate governance works. It offers new definitions of governance and new conceptual models for investigating governance and corporate behaviour, based on both practical experience and academic investigation. In examining the historical development of corporate governance, it integrates issues of company law, regulatory practice and company administration with contemporary corporate governance policies and structures. An extensive range of international examples, both recent and historical, is used to compare theoretical explanations of governance behaviour with practical outcomes. This book will be particularly suitable for students taking an ICSA-accredited course - giving a necessary critical view on governance, law and regulation - and will also be suitable for accountancy courses. Through utilising new conceptual models, it will stimulate debate among both theorists and practitioners looking to develop their expertise.