Dancing on Ochre Sands
Title | Dancing on Ochre Sands PDF eBook |
Author | Nellie P. Strowbridge |
Publisher | Breakwater Books |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781894377089 |
HANDBOOK FOR MAKING YOUR GOLDEN YEARS GOLDEN
Title | HANDBOOK FOR MAKING YOUR GOLDEN YEARS GOLDEN PDF eBook |
Author | PAGE ONE |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 2016-07-19 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1365151042 |
Resource book for seniors; golden year ideas; handbook for making golden years golden; activities for the age-challenged, card making art, writing tips, financial advice for seniors.
Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador
Title | Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador PDF eBook |
Author | María Jesús Hernáez Lerena |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-09-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1443883336 |
The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a mythologized place that resonates with tragic adventure, polar expeditions and Grand Banks fishing; a real and imagined geography with an incredible artistic output that calls for critical discussion. This book examines the diversity of this province’s literature and culture, taking into consideration the expertise of scholars and writers who have first-hand knowledge of its unique context. Chapters on history, travel, fiction, autobiography, poetry, theatre, storytelling, filmmaking, and the visual arts provide an up-to-date survey across a broad range of artistic endeavours, as well as close readings of selected texts. The questions that fill the pages of Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador arise from the awareness its contributors have of historically shared experiences, but also of shared delusions, and their essays provoke contemplation beyond the labels local/global, Newfoundlander/Come-From-Away. Aboriginal histories and writing come to the foreground in this panoramic view that balances descriptions of mainstream, vernacular and Indigenous cultural productions. The final chapter is organized as a multi-voiced interview which serves as a supplement to the academic essays. Here, themes are revisited and personalized as several writers express their feelings about what it means to be a Newfoundlander and an artist. As such, this book will encourage dialogue about Newfoundland and Labrador’s literary and artistic achievements within the international community of readers and researchers.
Dance of War
Title | Dance of War PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bates |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | 389 |
Release | 1992-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473813433 |
Based on research in England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, this is a detailed account and analysis of Rommel's attempt in July 1942 to break through to Cairo and Alexandria, and the 8th Army's successful defence and unsuccessful attempts to destroy the Panzerarmee. The author, a participant in the events described, supports the view of some historians that the Battle of Egypt, rather than the Battle of Alamein three months later, was the turning point of the war in North Africa. The battle is set against the background of the many nationalities involved, as well as the physical conditions on the battlefield and the urgency of the political context. Particular attention is given to the controversy of the armour's failure to support the infantry, and reasons for this are canvassed.
Warriors On Wheels
Title | Warriors On Wheels PDF eBook |
Author | Capt. Robert “Park” Yunnie MC |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | 609 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787200000 |
Captain Robert Park Yunnie MC (1909-1961) was one of the original officers of “Popski’s Private Army” (officially No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA), a unit of British Special Forces set up on Cairo in October 1942 by Major Vladimir Peniakoff, MC (“Popski”). Capt. Yunnie was Popski’s second in command and leader of “B” patrol. “This is the true story of a small group of men who enjoyed World War II. The war was not of their seeking, few of them knew anything about war or wanted it, but when it came they volunteered as a matter of course. One by one, led by a love of adventure, they gravitated to a special service unit called ‘Popski’s Private Army’. I was second-in-command of Popski’s Private Army. I was the first recruit. I trained the men and knew them intimately. I fought with them and joked with them. I shared their triumphs, their failures and their fears. I saw some of them die. I loved these men and was honoured by their friendship and their faith. This story should have been written long ago, when the war ended. It was, but in a different form, and never published; now I have found time to rewrite it, just as it happened during the years of the war.”-Author’s Preface.
Fighting with Popski's Private Army
Title | Fighting with Popski's Private Army PDF eBook |
Author | Park Yunnie |
Publisher | Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783031727 |
This WWII memoir gives the inside story of Britain’s legendary demolition squadron and their daring escapades in Italy and Norther Africa. During the Second World War, a Russian-born emigre named Vladimir Peniakoff emerged as a decorated officer of the British Special Forces in Cairo. Code-named Popski, he started the No. 1 Demolition Squadron—known as Popski’s Private Army—charged with thwarting Field-Marshal Rommel’s fuel supply in Northern Africa. This is the story of Popski's famous fighting unit as told by his second-in-command, Captain Bob (Park) Yunnie. As Britain’s Eighth Army advanced toward Tripoli, PPA set out in jeeps across the desert to mount raids behind the Mareth Line in Southern Tunisia. In his lively and intimate account, Yunnie describes the ensuing action at Gafsa and Kasserine, and vividly depicts the sorties which took the men straight across the German Line of Command. As Tunis fell to the Allies on May, 7th, 1943, PPA began raid operations for the Italian Campaign. Dropped into Central Italy by RAF gliders, they set about blowing up strategic targets while waiting for the Allied landings. Yunnie takes command of his own patrol, and through a series of daring missions, colorful characters flit in and out of the front-line action.
Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index
Title | Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 1610 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Canada Imprints |
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