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Homefront Yorkshire, 1939–1945

By: Len Markham

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Homefront Yorkshire, 1939–1945

By: Len Markham

No event in history had such a profound and long-term effect as World War Two, it's consequences still helping to shape the modern world. With our trade routes harassed by U-boats, our skies darkened by the Luftwaffe and our beaches imperilled by the threat of invasion, the period from 1939 to 1945 was a frightening one for ordinary civilians. But the people of Yorkshire responded to the challenge with incredible fortitude, camaraderie, determination and good humour, the tireless efforts of armies of civilians keeping the British lamp of freedom trimmed. This unique compendium of many never-before-published personal reminiscences from the Yorkshire home front paints an astonishing picture of life in the war torn county. It records the tender and sometimes hilarious adventures of boys and girls, the selfless grind of workers in the mines and factories, the exhausting labours in allotments and fields and the bravery and dedication of the emergency services and other dedicated professionals who just put on their tin hats and worked on. Consigned to the memory banks for nearly seven decades, these stirring remembrances reveal the wealth of ingenuity and invention and the passionate bulldog spirit that kept our hopes alive during our darkest hours, the author also touching on the less heroic aspects of the period.

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178159743X

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Dogfriendly. Com's United States and Canada Dog Travel Guide

By: Tara Kain,Len Kain

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Dogfriendly. Com's United States and Canada Dog Travel Guide

By: Tara Kain,Len Kain

Get the award winning premier dog travel guide. DogFriendly.com is used by over 1 million people annually for pet travel information. This latest version of the winner of ForeWord Magazines Pet Book of the Year adds even more pet-friendly hotels, B&Bs and lodging (with detailed pet policies) that accept dogs of all sizes. Now includes nearly 100 dog-friendly city and resort guides with attractions, outdoor restaurants, stores, parks, beaches and camping. Also has beach guides, airline pet policies and road trip tips. Plus new to this edition are National Park Guides, an off-leash dog park directory and a section of photographs of dog-friendly places visited by the authors. The previous edition received positive reviews by Midwest Book Review, Heartland Reviews and Booknews. So whether you travel with a tiny toy poodle or a large black lab it's time to replace that old out-of-date or hotel only list with this all inclusive guide to everything dog travel.

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0971874255

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Mud Beneath My Boots

A Poignant Memoir of the Effects of War on a Young New Zealander

By: Allan Marriott,Len Coley

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A Poignant Memoir of the Effects of War on a Young New Zealander

By: Allan Marriott,Len Coley

Using previously unpublished letters and journals, author Allan Marriott retells the amazing story of his uncle, Private Len Coley, who at barely 16 lied about his age to enter the army in 1916 and found himself in the trenches at the battle of Passchendaele.Shelled, bombed, shot at by snipers and poisoned by mustard gas, he somehow managed to survive the momentous and infamous battles of Passchendaele, Ypres, Messines and the Somme - and then in 1930, now in his thirties, he revisited France and the scenes of his boyhood terror.Len wrote a journal of his trip back to the battlefields in 1930, drawing on the detailed notes he had kept as a boy soldier from 1916-1919 before the Second World war, and wrote about the memories that surfaced, and the way he was now able to think about things as an adult that had been happening all around him as that frightened young boy His nephew, Allan Marriott, has used Len's extraordinary record to tell the story of life in the trenches from two perspectives - the raw and vulnerable boy and the seasoned man - providing a unique insight into one of the blackest periods of our recent history.

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