Author: Gerald Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781444787207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Adventures of a Soldier's Wife
Author: Joe P. Plant
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782224467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
IRELAND - INDIA - ENGLAND1915 – 1974A story based on the memoirs of Pte. Sarah Kathleen CunninghamA TRILOGY– entrusted to and written by Joe P. Plant1915. The true story of a young Irish Coleen. Sarah, eldest daughter of the Cunningham family. Exasperated by the drudgery of her home life, volunteers to serve in the Army. An adventure which is to change the course of her future life. Demobbed in 1919. Meets, falls in love with a young veteran of the war, her Gallant Sergeant Jack Plant. They court; due to the Troubles their marriage is almost a disaster, but that’s just the beginning? Seven postings later, a posting to India.1929 they sail to Bombay. Breakfast in the Taj Mahal gives Sarah a false image of her future life? After a four-day train journey, arrive in Nowshera. Sarah inherits 28 servants who only speak Urdu. During her stay Sarah endures loneliness, despair, illness, miscarriages, a birth, frightening escapades of her tribe, wild animals, the king cobra, visits to hill stations, a chance meeting with Kitty – a lifelong friendship provides amusement. They return to Blighty, the birth and death of Peter, more babies. Jack’s demobilisation; due to the pending war, his recall. Later a traumatic period, evacuation, her eldest daughter Mary contracts TB. During the London Blitz bombed out, necessitates a move to a Lancashire cotton town. Her eldest son is sent to the war in Burma. They return to a devastated London and rationing. What will happen next?
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782224467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
IRELAND - INDIA - ENGLAND1915 – 1974A story based on the memoirs of Pte. Sarah Kathleen CunninghamA TRILOGY– entrusted to and written by Joe P. Plant1915. The true story of a young Irish Coleen. Sarah, eldest daughter of the Cunningham family. Exasperated by the drudgery of her home life, volunteers to serve in the Army. An adventure which is to change the course of her future life. Demobbed in 1919. Meets, falls in love with a young veteran of the war, her Gallant Sergeant Jack Plant. They court; due to the Troubles their marriage is almost a disaster, but that’s just the beginning? Seven postings later, a posting to India.1929 they sail to Bombay. Breakfast in the Taj Mahal gives Sarah a false image of her future life? After a four-day train journey, arrive in Nowshera. Sarah inherits 28 servants who only speak Urdu. During her stay Sarah endures loneliness, despair, illness, miscarriages, a birth, frightening escapades of her tribe, wild animals, the king cobra, visits to hill stations, a chance meeting with Kitty – a lifelong friendship provides amusement. They return to Blighty, the birth and death of Peter, more babies. Jack’s demobilisation; due to the pending war, his recall. Later a traumatic period, evacuation, her eldest daughter Mary contracts TB. During the London Blitz bombed out, necessitates a move to a Lancashire cotton town. Her eldest son is sent to the war in Burma. They return to a devastated London and rationing. What will happen next?
Arthursdale Boy, Nidderdale Girl
Author: Frank Pedley
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803134372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This book is a unique biography; a time capsule of the lives of two people without fame in a bygone age that spans a 75 year period of worldwide turmoil, catastrophe, bloodshed and sacrifice, with rapid changes of lifestyle, communication and expectation.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803134372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This book is a unique biography; a time capsule of the lives of two people without fame in a bygone age that spans a 75 year period of worldwide turmoil, catastrophe, bloodshed and sacrifice, with rapid changes of lifestyle, communication and expectation.
No Life Like It
Author: Harrison, Deborah
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550284461
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. No Life Like It 2. Absences 3. The Gulf War 4. Postings 5. Missed Opportunities 6. Cover Ups 7. Endings 8. Resistance Notes References Index
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550284461
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. No Life Like It 2. Absences 3. The Gulf War 4. Postings 5. Missed Opportunities 6. Cover Ups 7. Endings 8. Resistance Notes References Index
The Man Who Wore His Wife's Sarong
Author: Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 1912049090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A mother finds out her son is gay; a daughter finds out her two mothers are lesbians; a niece stumbles upon the body of her dead uncle dressed in his wife’s sarong kebaya; and an old man’s nascent feelings for a Filipino maid lead him back to his suppressed art. "The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong", Suchen Christine Lim’s short stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore, delve beneath the sunlit island’s prosperity and coded decorum. Her characters chip away prejudice and sculpt it into acceptance of the other. Previously published in part as "The Lies that Build a Marriage" (shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2008), this new collection contains five additional stories.
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 1912049090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A mother finds out her son is gay; a daughter finds out her two mothers are lesbians; a niece stumbles upon the body of her dead uncle dressed in his wife’s sarong kebaya; and an old man’s nascent feelings for a Filipino maid lead him back to his suppressed art. "The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong", Suchen Christine Lim’s short stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore, delve beneath the sunlit island’s prosperity and coded decorum. Her characters chip away prejudice and sculpt it into acceptance of the other. Previously published in part as "The Lies that Build a Marriage" (shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2008), this new collection contains five additional stories.