Harry S Last Stand

Author : Harry Leslie Smith
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848317277

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Harry's Last Stand by Harry Leslie Smith Pdf

'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page.' The Guardian 'It is not enough to read Harry's record of the struggles and hopes of a generation – we have to re-assert his principles of common ownership and the welfare state. If Harry can do it, we should too!' Ken Loach, Director of I, Daniel Blake 'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it...' In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith's Guardian article – 'This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time' – was shared over 80,000 times on Facebook and started a huge debate about the state of society. Now he brings his unique perspective to bear on NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption, food poverty, the cost of education – and much more. From the deprivation of 1930s Barnsley and the terror of war to the creation of our welfare state, Harry has experienced how a great civilisation can rise from the rubble. But at the end of his life, he fears how easily it is being eroded. Harry's Last Stand is a lyrical, searing modern invective that shows what the past can teach us, and how the future is ours for the taking. 'Smith's unwavering will to turn things around makes for inspirational reading.' Big Issue North '[With] sheer emotional power ... Harry Leslie Smith reminds us what society without good public services actually looks and feels like.' New Statesman

Author : Harry Leslie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1848317360

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Harry's Last Stand by Harry Leslie Smith Pdf

'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it.'

Author : Doug Feldmann
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780826219503

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Gibson's Last Stand by Doug Feldmann Pdf

Bob Gibson remains one of the most unique, complex, and beloved players in Cardinals' history. His final years on the team are placed within the context of American history and popular culture in this captivating read. During the late 1960s, exorbitant salaries and free agency were threatening to change baseball forever, and Gibson's pitching success caused team owners to think fans wanted only base hits and home runs. The action of the game, both on and off the field, is interjected with interesting and detailed tidbits on players' backgrounds that often tie them to famous players of the past, current stars, and well-known contemporary places.

Author : Bob Drury,Tom Clavin
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555849122

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The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury,Tom Clavin Pdf

“The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox’s Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like they will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.

Author : Mary O'Hara
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447315704

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Austerity Bites by Mary O'Hara Pdf

Since taking power in 2010, the Coalition Government in the United Kingdom has pushed through a drastic program of cuts to public spending, all in the name of austerity. The effects on large segments of the population, dependent on programs whose funding was slashed, have been devastating and will continue to be felt for generations. This timely book by journalist Mary O'Hara chronicles the real-world effects of austerity, removing it from the bland, technocratic language of politics and showing just what austerity means to ordinary lives. Drawing on hundreds of hours of first-person interviews with a wide range of people and, in the paperback edition, featuring an updated afterword by the author, the book explores the grim reality of living amid the biggest reduction of the welfare state in the postwar era and offers a compelling corrective to narratives of shared sacrifice.

Author : Christopher E. Bell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600055

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Hermione Granger Saves the World by Christopher E. Bell Pdf

The new essays in this book make two central claims. First, for some people, the word "feminist" has been either poorly defined or even demonized. Hermione Granger, of the Harry Potter series, serves as an outstanding example of what modern young feminism looks like: activist, powerful and full of agency, yet feminine, romantic and stylish--a new kind of feminism for a new kind of girl. The second claim the essays make is that our young, emergent feminist Hermione Granger is a pivotal character upon whom the entire series rests--not Harry Potter himself (or, at least, not Harry Potter solely). It is Hermione who solves every difficult puzzle, performs every difficult spell, and to whom her two male companions look for guidance and advice. On several occasions throughout the series, Hermione literally saves the world through her actions. This is an outstanding model for young women (and for young men as well) who are confused about how feminism manifests and operates in 2012.

Author : Giselle Liza Anatol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313361982

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Reading Harry Potter Again by Giselle Liza Anatol Pdf

Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays extends the discussion of the Harry Potter books by covering the entire series in one new and comprehensive volume. As was argued in Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2003), interpreting the underlying messages and themes of the Harry Potter series is vital for understanding the ways in which we perceive and interact with each other in contemporary society. The novels and corresponding film adaptations have broken records with their astonishing sales and widespread acclaim. They have also generated a plethora of writing—by critics, academics, and fans. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books could easily be called this generation's most formative narratives, and thus certainly warrant critical attention. This new volume of essays covers the entire seven-book sequence. Contributors consider myriad themes from a variety of perspectives. Areas addressed include religion, morality, race, magic, and other themes popular in discussing the books. With this book in hand, fans of the series—indeed anyone interested in the Harry Potter phenomenon—will better appreciate and understand Rowling's work and the impact of her stories on our culture and on our times.

Author : Brian W. Dippie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803265921

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Custer's Last Stand by Brian W. Dippie Pdf

Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.

Author : Charles E. Rankin
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 091729842X

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Legacy by Charles E. Rankin Pdf

Proceedings of the Little Bighorn Legacy Symposium, held in Billings, Montana, August3-6, 1994.

Author : Craig Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525522546

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Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson Pdf

The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.

Author : Harry Patch,Richard van Emden
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780747593362

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The Last Fighting Tommy by Harry Patch,Richard van Emden Pdf

The extraordinary and moving story of a man, now aged 108, whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty Prime Ministers .

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446547274

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The Vintage Mencken by Alistair Cooke Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Roland Greene
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781639033607

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The Last Eve by Roland Greene Pdf

I chose The Last Eve as the title of this book because early in the Bible study, we learn that sin first came into a perfect world by the first Eve. She was created to be a helper for the first man Adam, who was first created, put in a perfect garden, and given instructions to dress and keep it. Also, he was given for food all that grew in the garden except the fruit of one tree, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve, who was created after Adam and from a part of Adam, was told by Adam of the instructions given to him by the Creator; otherwise, she could not have known that fruit from that tree was forbidden. Her desire to elevate herself above that which the Creator had given her is precisely the desire of women today and the reason a once great country, the United States of America along with the rest of the world, has now become so divided. As the apostle said, we can be nothing and have nothing except it be given to use by the One who created us. Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution giving women the right to vote gave her the opportunity she desired to again take that which is forbidden to her, to have authority over men (1 Timothy 2:12). The Congress of the United States is now nearly half women, who can be accurately described as the last Eve because like the first Eve, they have taken which is forbidden to them. They take part in making laws which have authority over men as well as women. At the judgment, those men who allow it will hear as the first Adam did because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife!

Author : Sarah Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024881490

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Harry S Truman Home by Sarah Olson Pdf

Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101971215

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On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides Pdf

"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington Post From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What followed was one of the most heroic--and harrowing--operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way to the sea. Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of Marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances. Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the Miami Herald wrote, "Sides has a novelist's eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives."