Songs From the Barmy Army

Author: Paul Winslow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849836736
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Everywhere England go to play Test cricket, the Barmy Army follows, giving them unstinting support and always searching for the best songs, chants and banter to help their team overcome the opposition. This hilarious book collects the best and funniest songs and chants from almost 20 years of enthusiastic backing. The book not only reveals how the chants were created, but also how the players responded to hearing their names being sung and how much it meant to them. There are also revealing interviews with some of the Barmy Army's leading songwriters, who provide a fascinating insight into what makes for a truly great chant. Sometimes, of course, the Barmy Army targeted the opposition, and 'The Mitchell Johnson Song' helped England on their way to a famous Ashes triumph in 2010-11. From the classic 'Ball and Chain' to the more recent 'Swann Will Tear You Apart', this book is an ideal way to get into the true Barmy spirit.

Boudica and Her Barmy Army

Author: Valerie Wilding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407124124
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Everybody knows that Boudica went galloping to battle in a big chariot, and became very angry with her Roman rulers. But in this book readers will find out all the things they didn't know, such as how she burned London to the ground and chopped off the Emperor Claudius's head (well, sort of). Everything you ever wanted to know about the queen with the barmy army.

Malice in Kulturland

Author: Horace Wyatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
A parody of Alice in Wonderland as well as a satire of Prussian methods in war, diplomacy and propaganda. Illustrations 'after Tenniel.'

Ginger, You're Barmy

Author: David Lodge
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446496716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing, shepherd's pie 'made with real shepherds' and drills is relieved only by the occasional lecture on firearms or V.D. The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to survive this two-year confiscation of their freedom, with dramatic consequences

Soldier X: Operation Takeaway

Author: Doug Armstrong
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140884236X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
For Captain Don Headley of the SAS, the police anti-terrorist exercise on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport was to have been just another training job. But in the grey suburban sprawl on the edge of London another, far more sinister plot was about to unfold, a plot that would suck him in relentlessly and send him off on a hostage-rescue mission to the Indian subcontinent. Under the auspices of the inscrutable Intelligence chief Sir Anthony Briggs, the operation would reunite him with some of the hardest troopers from Hereford, for only such a hand-picked team was capable of storming a terrorist stronghold among the mountain fastnesses of Pakistan. And only the very best would have a chance of coming back alive. Central to the mission was the mysterious Mr Sanji. It was at the cost of precious lives that Don and his men would learn the horrific secret of this world-weary man and understand at last that the roots of the kidnap plot lay buried in the dying days of the British Raj.

766 and All That

Author: Matthew Hancock
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571277829
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 447

Book Description
WICKET! 1st over: Ponting c Swann b Anderson 0 (Australia 0-2) Ponting has gone first ball! I don't believe it! An unbelievable start for England! Ponting has gone for a golden duck in his 150th Test and England have gone wild. Stop the clocks! Shout it from the rooftops! Australia are in utter disarray!The Ashes 2010-11 saw the coming together of the old foes in Australia's backyard. Back in freezing, snowy England, untold numbers huddled around their TV sets to watch the struggle into the early hours of the morning. But for many the joy was only complete with the accompaniment of guardian.co.uk's Over By Over.Around the globe they joined in from unlikely locations, offering stories of emotional drinking, marital predicament and witty observations as the series built to an astonishing climax. Could England really be about to crush Australia - in a manner not witnessed for a generation? There were Cook's runs - all 766 of them, Anderson's wickets, Prior's catching and the power of Pietersen. We saw established stars like Graeme Swann and Andrew Strauss, unpredicted stars like Tim Bresnan, spasmodic stars like Mitchell Johnson and fading stars like Paul Collingwood and Ricky Ponting.Now 766 and All That allows us to savour again the sweet taste of that absolute victory - exactly as it happened, Over by Over.

Tourism and Cricket

Author: Tom Baum
Publisher: Channel View Publications
ISBN: 1845414535
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

Soldier, Soldier

Author: Tony Parker
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571304435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
For his twelfth book, first published in 1985, Tony Parker was given near-unlimited access by the Ministry of Defence and spent eighteen months interviewing the officers and soldiers of a single British Army infantry regiment - as well as their wives. Both a pacifist and a former conscientious objector, Parker brought his singular perspective to the questioning of fighting men on what it means to bear arms for one's country. 'A unique picture of a social institution which is an exaggerated microcosm of society and yet set apart from it.' Scotsman 'A revealing glimpse into the lives and thoughts of the men in khaki.' Gerald Kaufman, Manchester Evening News 'Captivating bedside reading.' Sunday Telegraph

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134963653
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1426

Book Description
The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.

To Have and to Hold

Author: Mike Deakin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467013374
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
A Journey of Faith, Hope and Discovery! If you could meet me today, you would see a bright, confident woman, happy relaxed; content with my situation, looking forward to a future of better things. However, it wasnt always like that. When my husband left me for another woman, I was devastated! Werent we both Christians who didnt believe in divorce? However, God gave me a promise that He would restore him so whilst I had to get on with life, I also held onto the promise. Mike, having walked away tried to wash his hands of God! Yet he never lost the knowledge that God loved him, even though his life was not honouring Him. Over a period of 18 years God worked in each of our lives like a Master Craftsman, in order to bring two individuals together and make them one. God has a plan and purpose for all our lives and as we get to know Him, so He reveals the plan. We are glad He doesnt show it to us all at once. We would not be able to cope with the dark threads of lifes tapestry but God weaves them together with gold, silver and brightly coloured threads so that we can look back and rejoice in His beautiful handiwork! God is always faithful to His Word but often we are not willing to wait around to see its fulfilment; but patience and obedience allows the love of Jesus to transform us and our situations. As we surrender to His perfect Will for our lives He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we could ask or imagine! Eph 3:20 For with man this is impossible but with God ALL things are possible! Matt 19:26