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For Those They Serve

By: Gwyn Roberts

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For Those They Serve is an action-packed thriller about a plan to steal the Crown Jewels of Great Britain. Because of the world crises, Major Wilson's rifle company has been involved in near continual combat situations, causing the Major to grow disillusioned and angry at the way his men have been killed and injured, due to the British Government's foreign policy. One day the Major is sitting in the officer's mess when one of his officers tells him he has heard of a hypothetical plan to steal the Crown Jewels while their battalion is on public duties in London. The more Wilson thinks about it, the more he feels this simple plan might actually work. Ultimately he decides that if the British Government doesn't care about compensating his men for their sacrifices then he will do something about it himself. Along with the officers and Senior NCO's of his rifle company, Wilson hatches a plan to carry out the most audacious robbery in the history of the United Kingdom. But then, of course, every plan has its shortcomings...Born in the Welsh town of Dolgellau and raised in Shrewsbury Shropshire in the UK, Gwyn Roberts joined the army in 1973 and served with the 1st Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers for ten years.After being discharged he found work with the British Railways. Now retired, he currently lives in Stafford with his partner Barbara and a border collie called Max. Apart from writing, he is involved in scale military modelling and fundraising for the Royal Naval Association of Stafford. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/GwynRobert

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Love Inspired Historical November 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Karen Kirst,Sherri Shackelford,Keli Gwyn,Erica Vetsch

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Love Inspired Historical November 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Karen Kirst,Sherri Shackelford,Keli Gwyn,Erica Vetsch

Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. A LAWMAN FOR CHRISTMAS Smoky Mountain Matches by Karen Kirst After lawman Ben MacGregor and avowed spinster Isabel Flores discover a four-year-old boy abandoned on her property at Christmas, they must work together to care for him. But can their temporary arrangement turn into a forever family? MAIL-ORDER CHRISTMAS BABY Montana Courtships by Sherri Shackelford When a child arrives with the Wells Fargo delivery with documents listing Heather O’Connor and Sterling Blackwell as the baby’s parents, they are forced to marry to give the baby a home—and save their reputations. THEIR MISTLETOE MATCHMAKERS by Keli Gwyn Lavinia Crowne heads to California planning to bring her late sister’s orphaned children back east. But Henry Hawthorn, their paternal uncle, is intent on raising them in the only home they know…and three little matchmakers hope their mistletoe-filled schemes will bring their aunt and uncle together. A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS WISH by Erica Vetsch After her home is destroyed in a fire, pregnant widow Kate Amaker and her in-laws take refuge with Oscar Rabb—the widowed farmer next door whose daughter has one holiday wish: a baby sibling for Christmas.

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Harlequin

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1488017956

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David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar"

By: Gwyn Campbell

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David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar"

By: Gwyn Campbell

In 1838, William Ellis of the LMS published a History of Madagascar―considered a key primary source for nineteenth-century Malagasy history. Four years later, David Griffiths, longest serving member of the Madagascar Mission, published Hanes Madagascar (“History of Madagascar”) in Welsh. Campbell’s study explores the intriguing relationship between these works and their authors. It analyses the role of Griffiths; presents evidence that much of Ellis’ History derived from Griffiths’ research; and presents the first ever translation of Hanes Madagascar (with extensive annotations). This study suggests that the tensions arising from the different cultural perceptions of Welsh and English missionaries moulded the destiny of the Madagascar mission. It will hopefully inspire re-evaluation of other missions and their relationship to British imperial policy.

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BRILL

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9004195181

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Exploring the Appalachian Trail

Hikes in the Virginias 2nd Edition

By: David Lillard,Gwyn Hicks

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Exploring the Appalachian Trail

Hikes in the Virginias 2nd Edition

By: David Lillard,Gwyn Hicks

46 day hikes and overnight trips in Virginia and West Virginia Complete with elevation profiles, topographic maps, descriptions of terrain, and notes on landmarks, side trails, and shelters Includes directions to trailheads and information on available parking Completely revised and updated to reflect recent trail changes Indexes sort the hikes by difficulty and length

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Stackpole Books

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0811710661

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9780811710664

The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media

By: Gwyn Symonds

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The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media

By: Gwyn Symonds

The topic of violence in the media seems as inundated as can be. Countless studies and research projects have been conducted, mostly to show its negative effects on society. What Gwynneth Symonds proposes, though, takes this significant topic one step further: studying the aesthetics of media violence. By defining key terms like the 'graphic' nature and 'authenticity' of violent representations, and discussing how those definitions are linked to actual violence outside the film and television screen, Symonds broadens the arena of study. Engagingly written, The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media fills an important gap. Symonds uses existing studies for the empirical audience reception data, together with discussions of the different representations of violence to look at violence in the media as an art form in of itself. By looking at The Simpsons, Bowling for Columbine and Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love, just to name a few, Symonds cross-analyzes violence in multiple media to see their affective role in audience reception - an important aspect when discussing media. The book strikes a balance between the readers' need to see how theory matches what actually happens in the texts in question and the demands of a theoretical overview.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441117369

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The Madagascar Youths

British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region

By: Gwyn Campbell

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The Madagascar Youths

British Alliances and Military Expansion in the Indian Ocean Region

By: Gwyn Campbell

In 1820, King Radama of Imerina, Madagascar signed a treaty allowing approximately one hundred young Malagasy to train abroad under official British supervision, the so-called 'Madagascar Youths'. In this lively and carefully researched book, Gwyn Campbell traces the Youths' untold history, from the signing of the treaty to their eventual recall to Madagascar. Extensive use of primary sources has enabled Campbell to explore the Madagascar Youths' experiences in Britain, Mauritius and aboard British anti-slave trade vessels, and their instrumental role in the modernisation of Madagascar. Through this remarkable history, Campbell examines how Malagasy-British relations developed, then soured, providing vital context to our understanding of slavery, mission activity and British imperialism in the nineteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009062743

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Gwyn y Mans - Hunangofiant Gwyn Elfyn

By: Gwyn Elfyn

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Gwyn y Mans - Hunangofiant Gwyn Elfyn

By: Gwyn Elfyn

Fel Denzil ar Pobol y Cwm y mae Gwyn Elfyn fwyaf adnabyddus, ac yntau wedi chwarae rhan y cymeriad hwnnw am bron i 30 mlynedd cyn cael ei orfodi i adael yn 2011. Ond ceir yma hefyd hanes Gwyn yn ei filltir sgwar yng Nghwm Gwendraeth, yn hyfforddwr rygbi, dyn teulu a Christion - a chyn brif leisydd y grAup Chwarter i Un!

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Y Lolfa

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184771689X

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The Merthyr Rising

By: Gwyn A. Williams

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The Merthyr Rising

By: Gwyn A. Williams

This book, first published in 1978, examines the independent political action by the thousands of working people in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. After a mass rally on the hills above the town, thousands of workers under a reg flag broke into insurrection – a detachment of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders marched into the town to restore order. The rebels repulsed the soldiers and held the town, with at least two dozen workers killed. Within weeks of the Rising, trade unions began to appear in South Wales, and this book argues that these events were central to the emergence of a Welsh working class.

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Routledge

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1000424243

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The Welsh in their History

By: Gwyn A. Williams

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The Welsh in their History

By: Gwyn A. Williams

This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse.

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1000593770

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Love Inspired Historical March 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Rhonda Gibson,Sherri Shackelford,Keli Gwyn,Shannon Farrington

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Love Inspired Historical March 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Rhonda Gibson,Sherri Shackelford,Keli Gwyn,Shannon Farrington

Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. PONY EXPRESS MAIL-ORDER BRIDE Saddles and Spurs by Rhonda Gibson Needing a home and a husband to help her raise her orphaned nephews, Bella Wilson heads to Wyoming in response to a mail-order bride ad. But when she discovers that Philip Young, her pony express rider groom-to-be, didn’t place the ad, she must convince him to marry her for the sake of the children. A TEMPORARY FAMILY Prairie Courtships by Sherri Shackelford Stagecoach-stop station agent Nolan West’s best chance to protect Tilly Hargreaves and her three nieces from the outlaws threatening his town is by pretending Tilly is his wife. And soon his temporary family is chipping away at his guarded heart. HER MOTHERHOOD WISH by Keli Gwyn When Callie Hunt and Chip Evans discover two orphans and become their caregivers, neither is ready for a relationship. But can the children draw Callie and Chip together and convince them to put their plans aside and fall in love? FRONTIER AGREEMENT by Shannon Farrington When she goes to live with her Native American mother’s tribe after her father’s death, Claire Manette is told she must find a husband, but she wishes to marry for love. Is there a chance she can find it in the marriage of convenience Lewis and Clark Expedition member Pierre Lafayette offers?

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1488017557

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Welsh Slate

Archaeology and History of an Industry

By: David Gwyn

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Welsh Slate

Archaeology and History of an Industry

By: David Gwyn

Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.

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187118455X

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The Search for Beulah Land

By: Gwyn A. Williams

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The Search for Beulah Land

By: Gwyn A. Williams

This book, first published in 1980, describes and analyses the revolutionary years that saw the birth of the first modern Welsh nation and the American Republic. In the last days of the eighteenth century, as the Atlantic world responded to the challenge of the American and French revolutions, the novel industrial capitalism of England planted itself in the Welsh south and east, and disrupted traditional rural community to west and north. Wales, a marginal and poverty-stricken country, was propelled into modernisation, cultural revival, a breach with the Establishment, a millenarian mitigation and its first politics.

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1000593762

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TRAC 2000

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference. London 2000

By: Gwyn Davies,Andrew Gardner,Kris Lockyear

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TRAC 2000

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference. London 2000

By: Gwyn Davies,Andrew Gardner,Kris Lockyear

Thirteen papers on Roman archaeology from the 10th TRAC conference in London. The tenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in April 2000, at the Institute of Archaeology. As the confernce was diveded into five different sessions. In the opening session, Representing Romans the methodology of portraying the Romans to the wider world was expolored. Hunter and Clarke's paper outline the challenge of designing appropiate gallery displays for the new National Museum of Scotland whereas Grew, discusses the development of Roman London. Fincham's paper discusses the threat of overwheling military intervention by the imperial ower in colonial negotiations. Issues of ethnicity, gender, class and occupation within the later Roman army are addressed here. Green's paper presents an important discussion of hte nature of human/stag hybrids in iron Age and Gallo-Roman iconography and Hawkes presents an anlysis of differential foodways, preparing and serving meals encountered in Roman Britain. Carr considers the role of body decoration and grooming, arguing that individuals in different areas of south eastern Roman Britain made different cultureal choices to structure their ethnic identities. The final set of papers focused on Constructing Chrildhood in the Roman World reconsidering some long-standing truisms regarding the status and treatment of children in the Roman context. Pearce's examines Roman infant burial and what role religion plays in burial cerimony.

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Oxbow Books

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1785707892

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An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895

The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire

By: Gwyn Campbell

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An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895

The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire

By: Gwyn Campbell

The first comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar, this study examines the island's role from 1750 to 1895 in the context of a burgeoning international economy and the rise of modern European imperialism. This study reveals that the Merina of the Central Highlands attempted to found an island empire and through the exploitation of its human and natural resources build the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, the Merina failed due to imperial forced labour policies and natural disasters, the nefarious consequences of which (disease; depopulation; ethnic enmity) have in traditional histories been imputed external capitalist and French colonial policies.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521839351

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Frigates and Foremasts

The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815

By: Julian Gwyn

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Frigates and Foremasts

The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815

By: Julian Gwyn

This study of naval operations involving North American squadrons in Nova Scotia waters offers an analysis of the motives behind the deployment of Royal Navy vessels between 1745 and 1815, and the navy's role on the Western Atlantic.

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0774809116

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Timeless Desire

By: Gwyn Cready

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Timeless Desire

By: Gwyn Cready

For lovers of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, a sexy Scottish time travel romance from award-winning author Gwyn Cready Thrown back to the sizzling tensions of the Scottish borderlands Librarian Panna Kennedy battles budget cuts, eccentric patrons, and the loneliness of early widowhood until she ventures through a long-locked door under the library's stairs and finds herself in the opulent eighteenth-century castle library of the dashing and dangerously handsome Captain Jamie Bridgewater. Can she trust a handsome hero? Jamie is embroiled in a risky game of high-stakes subterfuge on the Scottish/English border, where loyalty to the wrong cause can cost you your life, and Panna is instantly swept into the intrigue. Their adventure takes them across the border into perilous and passion-filled territory. But when Jamie is caught and Panna realizes she holds the key to his destiny, will she return to safety as he demands, or follow her timeless desire? "The master of time travel romance." —Booklist "A thrill-ride of a time travel romance, a genre Gwyn Cready has quickly come to master." —Sapphyria's Steamy Book Reviews "A time-bending treat." — Full Moon Bites

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492630985

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Nation Maker

Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

By: Richard J. Gwyn

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Nation Maker

Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

By: Richard J. Gwyn

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn. John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States. But it wasn't easy. The wily Macdonald faced constant crises throughout these years, from Louis Riel's two rebellions through to the Pacific Scandal that almost undid his government and his quest to find the spine of the nation: the railroad that would link east to west. Gwyn paints a superb portrait of Canada and its leaders through these formative years and also delves deep to show us Macdonald the man, as he marries for the second time, deals with the birth of a disabled child, and the assassination of his close friend Darcy McGee, and wrestles with whether Riel should hang. Indelibly, Gwyn shows us Macdonald's love of this country and his ability to joust with forces who would have been just as happy to see the end of Canada before it had really begun, creating a must-read for all Canadians.

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Random House Canada

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0307366871

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Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

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Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope

Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation

By: Pink Dandelion,Douglas Gwyn,Rachel Muers,Brian Phillips

The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been proposed and debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe or misadventure is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design that the word once conveyed. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in particular as a case study. Chapters focus on the origins of tragedy in ancient Greece, gospel and tragedy, the beginnings of the Quaker movement in seventeenth-century England, apocalyptic versus secularized experiences of time, Edwardian Quaker triumphalism, the search for English identity in postcolonial Britain, liberal Quakerism at the end of the twentieth century, and the promise and dilemma of postmodernity. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation. A Foreword by Richard Fenn introduces the book with an original and provocative meditation on tragedy and time.

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Routledge

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1351878417

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The King's Cardinal

The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey

By: Peter J Gwyn

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The King's Cardinal

The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey

By: Peter J Gwyn

Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively overturns in this remarkable book. From exceedingly humble beginnings Wolsey rose to a pinnacle of power unsurpassed by any other British commoner. Peter Gwyn explores every aspect of the Cardinal's career - not least his relationship with Henry VIII - and sets it firmly in a vividly recreated Tudor world. The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.

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1446475131

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The Stamp of Innocence

By: Aled Gwyn Jôb

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The Stamp of Innocence

By: Aled Gwyn Jôb

The Stamp of Innocence is a heart-rendering tale of an ordinary Welsh family whose lives were ripped apart by false imprisonment and an epic 16 year battle to restore the family honour. Noel Thomas, who was a respected village sub-postmaster and councillor was sent to prison accused of stealing money from the post office he ran on Ynys Mon, Wales. A charge based on computerized evidence which later turned out to be totally false. Noel tells the story in his own words as we follow his heroic journey with all its twists and turns over the years to clear his name. Fighting not only two huge corporate institutions in the form of computer giants Fijitsu and the Post Office with all their power, influence and money. But also taking on successive UK Governments as well- the sole shareholder of POL( Post Office Limited). The book also features the voice of his daughter, Sian Thomas, who has devoted years of her life researching and networking widely to help her father clear his name. The Stamp of Innocence is a story about a unbreakable bond between a father and daughter, building up to their eventual redemption in the Court of Appeal in April 2021, and their continuing campaign to be fully compensated for the cruel injustice perpetrated against them. It's also a story about their beloved island community and the support provided by that community to sustain the family through all their trials and tribulations. It's a tale to shock and horrify, but it's also an uplifting tale about the resilience of the human spirit.

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1805146890

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