Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
This historical work traces the personal odyssey of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved literary figures, J.B. Priestley. It tells the full story of one of the literary giants of the 20th century, and his role in the military conflict and social change that defined the 'Great War to Cold War' era.
Author : Chris Priestley
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
ISBN : 9780439938815
Harry Woods joins the RAF during WWII, battling the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. England, 1941. Sometimes I can't remember a time when I didn't have the roar of engines or rattle of machine-guns ringing in my ears. Sometimes it feels as though I've been a fighter pilot all my life -- that I had no life before the RAF, before the War, before the Battle of Britain. But I did. Of course I did. Once I was just Harry Woods, a kid like any other kid. And I suppose that's when my story really begins... Harry joins the RAF to protect his country, only to be called a coward by those who do not understand the battles raging in the air above. He loses friends and nearly loses his life when his plane goes down in the Channel.
Author : Eddie Brady
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 179601219X
The Priestleys have been described as “one of the most noted athletic families in this section of the country in a generation.” This unique tribute described four brothers, whose potential professional hockey and football careers with the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Philadelphia Eagles were cut short by their service with the United States military during World War II. The sports they excelled in ranged from ice hockey, football, baseball, track, and golf. Despite the travails of the Great Depression and World War II, this family overcame unbearable personal tragedies and traumas to lead successful lives that inspired their era and to this day.
Author : J.b. Priestley
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494063849
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
Author : John Baxendale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719072864
"Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J.B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics." "This book will appeal to all those interested in the culture and politics of twentieth-century Britain, in the continuing debates over 'Englishness' to which Priestley made such a key contribution, and in the life and work of one of the most remarkable and popular writers of the past century."--Jacket.
Author : Rebecca Priestley
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1775581152
Although New Zealander Lord Rutherford was the first to split the atom, the country has since been known around the world for its nuclear-free stance. In this engaging and accessible book, an alternative history is revealed of "nuclear New Zealand"—when there was much enthusiasm for nuclear science and technology. From the first users of X-rays and radium in medicine to the plans for a nuclear power station on the Kaipara Harbour, this account uncovers the long and rich history of New Zealanders' engagement with the nuclear world and the roots of its nuclear-free identity.
Author : Chris Priestley
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
ISBN : 9781407173849
It's 1939 and Harry Woods is a Spitfire pilot in the RAF. When his friend Lenny loses his leg in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe, Harry is determined to fight on. That is, until his plane is hit and he finds himself tumbling through the air high above the English Channel...
Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822205722
The members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781911281894
Author : Roger Fagge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1441163794
Drawing on private and published sources, Roger Fagge takes an in-depth look at J.B. Priestley's work, seeking to reclaim him as an important English thinker. Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge and embarking on a career as a writer. A committed radical, he wrote widely for the press, as well as producing autobiographies, social criticism and plays. This work revealed a growing interest in the meaning of Englishness and the start of a long-running relationship with America. Priestley achieved even greater influence during the early years of World War II via his popular BBC radio 'postscripts'. His later career, however, saw his faith in the people give way to a disillusionment with the spread of the Americanised mass society, although his critical response to the latter maintained a perceptive engagement with world. The Vision of J.B. Priestley charts the continuities, strengths and weaknesses in the author's long career, and his vision of an outward looking radical Englishness.
