Soldier Poet Rebel

Author : Miles Hudson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752469676

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Soldier, Poet, Rebel by Miles Hudson Pdf

Charles Hudson VC was one of the twentieth century's outstanding fighting soldiers. His military career through two world wars and in Russia in 1919 earned him a host of medals. He was also a man of deep feeling, an accomplished poet and, in many ways, a rebel. In this compelling biography, the author skilfully interweaves his own narrative insight with his father's wartime journals and other unpublished material. The narrative includes detailed personal descriptions of the Battle of the Somme and other actions. It recounts the authoress Vera Brittain's bitter reaction to the death of her brother Edward when under Hudson's command in Italy in 1918 and tells how Hudson, out of compassion for her feelings, did not reveal the truth until he met her in 1934. It tells of the extraordinary affair in the summer of 1940, when the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, asked a meeting of senior army commanders in the then beleaguered Britain whether, in the event of a successful German invasion, their soldiers would agree to be evacuated to Canada or whether they would insist on going home to support their families.

Author : Miles Hudson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752469676

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Soldier, Poet, Rebel by Miles Hudson Pdf

Charles Hudson VC was one of the twentieth century's outstanding fighting soldiers. His military career through two world wars and in Russia in 1919 earned him a host of medals. He was also a man of deep feeling, an accomplished poet and, in many ways, a rebel. In this compelling biography, the author skilfully interweaves his own narrative insight with his father's wartime journals and other unpublished material. The narrative includes detailed personal descriptions of the Battle of the Somme and other actions. It recounts the authoress Vera Brittain's bitter reaction to the death of her brother Edward when under Hudson's command in Italy in 1918 and tells how Hudson, out of compassion for her feelings, did not reveal the truth until he met her in 1934. It tells of the extraordinary affair in the summer of 1940, when the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, asked a meeting of senior army commanders in the then beleaguered Britain whether, in the event of a successful German invasion, their soldiers would agree to be evacuated to Canada or whether they would insist on going home to support their families. The author examines Hudson's motivation in both wars and delves deeply into his complex, and highly courageous, character.

Author : Thomas Sturge Moore
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:8596547103929

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Some soldier poets by Thomas Sturge Moore Pdf

'Some Soldier Poets' is the 1919 publication of several poems by Thomas Sturge Moore. Moore was a prolific poet and his subjects included morality, art and the spirit writing in a 'severely classical tone', according to poet/critic Yvor Winters. He was also described as "one of the most exquisite poets writing in England" by W. B. Yeats, a long-term friend and correspondent of his.

Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107081581

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India, Empire, and First World War Culture by Santanu Das Pdf

This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.

Author : Terry Freeman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780615180205

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Rebel Soldiers and Other Musings on the Vanity of Life by Terry Freeman Pdf

This is Terry Freeman's first book. The poem Rebel Soldiers was written in 1990. Terry was in Biloxi Mississippi on business. He stopped by Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis' home, and visited the Confederate cemetery. He was the only person there. It was late in the day and the sun seemed to float through the live oaks and Spanish moss. The shadows seemed to dance on the tombstones in the warm evening breeze. The only sound heard was the rustle of dry leaves rolling along the ground. He spent a long time beside the tomb of the Confederate Unknown Soldier. It was dark when he made his way back to his rental car. Later that night he wrote Rebel Soldiers. The other poems in this book were written at various times over a 30-year period.

Author : Ian Cobain
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846274534

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Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain Pdf

The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks beyond the cover-ups and the equivocations, to get to the truth. From WWII to the War on Terror, via Kenya and Northern Ireland, Cruel Britannia shows how the British have repeatedly and systematically resorted to torture, bending the law where they can, and issuing categorical denials all the while. What emerges is a picture of Britain that challenges our complacency and exposes the lie behind our reputation for fair play.

Author : Gerald Dawe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108420358

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The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets by Gerald Dawe Pdf

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Author : Harold M. Hyman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520372719

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To Try Men's Souls by Harold M. Hyman Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Author : P. Moeyes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230374560

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Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory by P. Moeyes Pdf

Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet's published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited diaries and letters. We learn how Sassoon's family background and Jewish inheritance, his troubled sexuality, his experience of war - in particular his public opposition to it - his relationship to the Georgian poets and other writers, and his eventual withdrawal to country life shaped his creativity. Sassoon's status as a war poet has overshadowed his wider achievements and the complex personality behind them. This critical evaluation of Sassoon's work is long overdue and will provide a valuable starting-point for future reappraisals of a writer for whom life and art were fused.

Author : Charles E. Stebbins
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781616631390

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The Soldier's Poem Book by Charles E. Stebbins Pdf

Our freedom is not free Go to any cemetery and see Look for any serviceman's grave See what price he had to pay Freedom comes at a high cost. Men and women are willing to fight and die for our great country, and they encounter some of the greatest emotional struggles of all. Soldiers have families and loved ones they miss dearly while miles away in the heart of battle. Soldiers have lost friends while fighting. Soldiers have formed lifelong friendships with those that make it through the battle with them. Here, in A Soldier's Poem Book, readers will gain insight into the heart of mind of some of our country's finest, the ones willing to pay the price for the freedom we enjoy. Many times, long after the battles end, these are the thoughts of a dedicated soldier, husband, father, and God-fearing man. These pages are a reminder that many have served and many more will serve to keep our country strong under God.

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141938868

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The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Pdf

On 2 August 1944, in the wake of the complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre in Belorussia, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. 'Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler,' Churchill jibed. 'Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in his actions.' Andrew Roberts's previous book Masters and Commanders studied the creation of Allied grand strategy; Beating Corporal Hitler now analyses how Axis strategy evolved. Examining the Second World War on every front, Roberts asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won. Were those German generals who blamed everything on Hitler after the war correct, or were they merely scapegoating their former Führer once he was safely beyond defending himself? In researching this uniquely vivid history of the Second World War Roberts has walked many of the key battlefield and wartime sites of Russia, France, Italy, Germany and the Far East. The book is full of illuminating sidelights on the principle actors that bring their characters and the ways in which they reached decisions into fresh focus.

Author : Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422467

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Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War by Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter Pdf

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

Author : Matthew Page Andrews
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547138471

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The Dixie Book of Days by Matthew Page Andrews Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Dixie Book of Days" by Matthew Page Andrews. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Gebre Menfes Kidus
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781496955401

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Rebel Song by Gebre Menfes Kidus Pdf

REBEL SONG is a collection of poetry, essays, stories and meditations that reveals a depth of social conviction and the honesty of sincere spiritual struggle. Writing from an Orthodox Christian foundation, the author provides words of necessary challenge and transcendent hope. This is a compilation of philosophical prose, revolutionary verse, and mystical reflections written by a visionary of peace, love, and human rights. Herein are prophetic insights that will stir apathetic minds and arouse slumbering hearts. Provocative, incendiary, and perhaps controversial, this book ultimately resonates with redemptive truth. Through candid self-reflections and his clarion call to the Gospel of Peace, GEBRE MENFES KIDUS reveals the soul and consciousness of a true spiritual rebel.

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:N10605208

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The Rebellion Record by Frank Moore Pdf