The Monocled Mutineer
Author : Alan Bleasdale
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Etaples Mutiny, Etaples, France, 1917
ISBN :
Author : Alan Bleasdale
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Etaples Mutiny, Etaples, France, 1917
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Author : George W. Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521427234
On British television drama in the 1980's
Author : Emma Hanna
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0748633901
In Britain since the 1960s television has been the most influential medium of popular culture. Television is also the site where the Western Front of popular culture clashes with the Western Front of history.This book examines the ways in which those involved in the production of historical documentaries for this most influential media have struggled to communicate the stories of the First World War to British audiences. Documents in the BBC Written Archives Centre at Caversham, Berkshire, the Imperial War Museum, and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives all inform the analysis. Interviews and correspondence with television producers, scriptwriters and production crew, as well as two First World War veterans who appeared in several recent documentaries provide new insights for the reader.Emma Hanna takes the reader behind the scenes of the making of the most influential documentaries from the landmark epic series The Great War (BBC, 1964) up to more recent controversial productions such as The Trench (BBC, 2002) and Not Forgotten: The Men Who Wouldn't Fight (BBC, 2008). By examining the production, broadcast and reception of a number of British television documentaries this book examines the difficult relationship between the war's history and its popular memory.
Author : Dan Todman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0826467288
The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of ground. Writers, notably Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, provided unforgettable images of the idiocy and tragedy of the war. Yet this vision of the war is at best a partial one, the war only achieving its status as the worst of wars in the last thirty years. At the time, the war aroused emotions of pride and patriotism. Not everyone involved remembered the war only for its miseries. The generals were often highly professional and indeed won the war in 1918. In this original and challenging book, Dan Todman shows views of the war have changed over the last ninety years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.
Author : Martyn R Beardsley
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399054856
Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britains most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without being caught. The lives of career criminals are invariably dotted with prison sentences, but thanks to his caution and cunning, Flannelfoot operated night after night, year after year with an impunity which embarrassed the police. In the twenties and thirties, Londers were deserting the overcrowded capital for the burgeoning suburbs of Metroland. Flannelfoot was equally attracted to these areas, and one of his hallmarks was to steal a bicycle at the scene of his last break-in of the night and cycle to the nearest tube station. Burglars and burglaries are never glamorous, but one reason why the Flannelfoot saga engendered fascination more than fear is that he was never confrontational, never violent, and in fact so stealthy that few ever saw him. His one-man crime epidemic led to Scotland Yard assembling a team more used to solving murders than the plundering of gas meters. After a lengthy and painstaking investigation, a carefully planned night-time surveillance operation involving several teams of officers led to the sensational capture of Flannelfoot. Flannelfoot routinely features in crime anthologies and was the subject of a feature film, but this is the first full biography of the man who became a legend in his own lifetime.
Author : Tom Fort
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857203274
'A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail The A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English motoring and the road of choice to the West Country for thousands of holidaymakers, the A303 recalls a time when the journey was an adventure and not simply about getting there. Tom Fort gives voice to the stories this road has to tell, from the bluestones of Stonehenge to Roman roads and drovers paths, to turnpike tollhouses, mad vicars, wicked Earls and solstice seekers, the history, geography and culture of this road tells a story of an English way of life. 'Fort has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, the pompous and a style that, like the road, is always on the move' Sunday Telegraph 'A lovely book...At last someone has celebrated the romance of the British road' Guardian
Author : Craig Cabell
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2011-11-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1843585766
Doctor Who is the world's longest-running science fiction television series, and has had children hiding behind sofa's since it was first broadcast in 1963. Eleven actors have played the famous Time Lord, starting with William Hartnell, and it has been a career landmark for all of them. Indeed, no other role in television history is as iconic, demanding, or as anticipated by its legions of fans as that of the famous time traveller with two hearts. Find out: * Who was a bouncer for The Rolling Stones before taking control of the Tardis. * Who was nearly blown up in the Second World War aboard HMS Hood. * Who had a fondness for woolly hats and had a grandson who would become Harry Potter's nemesis. * Who played a transvestite barmaid before becoming a Doctor Who heart-throb. Go back in time and read the human story behind a TV legend.
Author : Stephen Badsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135226660
A collection of the papers from the 1995 Sandhurst conference presented by leading members of the armed forces, the media and academia. The conference marked a major advance in British thinking on this very topical and fast-moving subject, bringing together authorities from various fields in a multidisciplinary investigation which has been, and will be of great interest to a wide variety of specialist readers.
Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2732 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135194793
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
Author : Sean Day-Lewis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781860205125
Interviewes with British television writers