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Esse texto consiste em uma breve exposição, reunião e percepção, de algumas das múltiplas vivências que circundam o dia a dia das trincheiras, durante a Primeira Guerra mundial. Dando importância a t

The Battle of Clonmult was the IRAs greatest loss of volunteers in a single engagement against Crown Forces. On Sunday, 20 February 1921, at Clonmult near Midleton in County Cork, almost the entire east Cork flying column was wiped out having been surprised by a British Army patrol later reinforced by Auxiliary Police. Only one IRA man escaped the attack. Twelve were killed, seven after they had surrendered, and two of the eight captured were later executed.In this balanced and factual account of the Battle of Clonmult, Tom ONeill includes the formation of the column, the events leading to the battle, a detailed account of that terrible day for the IRA locally and nationally, the aftermath, trials, executions and reprisals. This book goes into detail of how the British Army located the column even though the informer had mistakenly directed them to the wrong house, and this revised edition draws on the original 1921 Military Court file of the Clonmult prisoners to provide new information on the battle.

A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New Poor Law of 1834 proved equally unattractive in much of Wales some parts of the country resisted providing a workhouse until the 1870s, with Rhayader in Radnorshire being the last area in the whole of England and Wales to do so.Our image of these institutions has often been coloured by the work of authors such as Charles Dickens, but what was the reality? Where exactly were these workhouses located and what happened to them?People are often surprised to discover that a familiar building was once a workhouse. Revealing locations steeped in social history, Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders is a comprehensive and copiously illustrated guide to the workhouses that were set up across Wales and the border counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. It provides an insight into the contemporary attitudes towards such institutions as well as their construction and administration, what life was like for the inmates, and where to find their records today.

This book will be a source of help for anybody researching their farming and countryside ancestors in England. Looked at through the lens of rural life, and specifically the English village, it provides advice and inspiration on placing rural people into their geographic and historical context. It covers the time from the start of parish registers in the Tudor world, when most of our ancestors worked on the land, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when many had moved to the towns. Helen Osborn demonstrates how genealogical records are integral to their place of origin and can be illuminated using local newspaper reports, and the work of local historians. She explores the stories of people who lived in the countryside in the past, as told by the documents that record them, both rich and poor. The book will be particularly valuable to anyone who is looking for a deeper understanding of their family history, rather than simply collecting names on the tree.

The French strategy of seeking to establish a fortified base across the Viet Minhs route to and from Laos provoked an awesome struggle that lasted from November 1953 to May 1954. During this time Dien Bien Phu, surrounded by 2000 ft hills and thus difficult to re-supply by air as the French had intended, became the scene of fearful contests between the locally savvy men of General Giap and the hapless French forces who, losing one strongpoint after another, were finally trapped in Dien Bien Phu garrison. The French lost the cream of their strategic reserve in the region and, within months, were agreeing to the independence of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. David Stone, a British Army officer of the post World War II era, leads the reader through the complex nature of this significant action.

Norman Cross was the site of the worlds first purpose-built prisoner-of- war camp constructed during the Napoleonic Wars. Opened in 1797, it was more than just a prison: it was a town in itself, with houses, offices, butchers, bakers, a hospital, a school, a market and a banking system. It was an important prison and military establishment in the east of England with a lively community of some 7,000 French inmates. Alongside a comprehensive examination of the prison itself, this detailed and informative book, compiled by a leading expert on the Napoleonic era, explores what life was like for inmates and turnkeys alike the clothing, food, health, education, punishment and, ultimately, the closure of the depot in 1814.

Following years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hands of the IRA in 1919 signalled the outbreak of war in Ireland. The Irish War of Independence raged until a truce between the British Army and the IRA in 1921, historical consensus being that the conflict ended in military stalemate. In A Hard Local War, William Sheeham sets out to prove that no such stalemate existed, and that both sides were continually innovative and adaptive. Using new research and previously unpublished archive material, he traces the experience of the British rank and file, their opinion of their opponents, the special forces created to fight in the Irish countryside, RAF involvement and the evolution of IRA reliance on IEDs and terrorism.

The First World War was the biggest conflict in Irish history. More men served and more men died than in all the wars before or since that the Irish fought in. Often forgotten at home and written out of Irish history, the Irish soldiers and their regiments found themselves more honoured in foreign fields. From the first shot monument in Mons to the plaque to the Royal Irish Lancers who liberated the town on Armistice Day 1918, Ronan McGreevy takes a tour of the Western Front. At a time when Ireland is revisiting its history and its place in the world, McGreevy looks at those places where the Irish made their mark and are remembered in the monuments, cemeteries and landscapes of France and Flanders.

Nottinghamshires position at the very heart of England has given it important strategic significance throughout two millennia, underlined by the number of roads, waterways, and later railways, criss-crossing the county. An endless succession of armies have used the Great North Road: the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, the Lancastrians and the Jacobites. Strategic river crossings and road junctions have been guarded by Roman camps, Viking and Saxon burhs, medieval castles, Parliamentarian and Royalist forts, and the anti-invasion defences of the Second World War. The area has traditionally provided a rallying point for armies to be gathered, from Richard IIIs in 1485 to Kitcheners in 1914. Building on the experience of the great training camps of Clipstone and the Dukeries and the extensive munitions works of Chilwell and Nottingham, in the Second World War the county expanded such provision, becoming home to a concentration of flying training centres, key components of the armys and the RAFs logistical support networks and further munitions plants. Much of this military activity has left its mark on the landscape, some of it relatively untouched, and some adapted to meet the demands of change. Some monuments are of enormous national importance; Newark-on-Trent, as well as retaining its unspoilt medieval castle ruins, boasts the best single concentration of Civil War-period fortifications anywhere in Britain.

Throughout history, Cambridgeshire (including Huntingdon and Peterborough) has figured in many of the conflicts which have shaped our nation. Doomed Roman legionaries marched from Longthorpe to defeat by Boudiccas Iceni; Saxons and Danes fought over the edges of the Danelaw; the Normans came this way to crush Herewards Fenland resistance; in the Civil War it provided the defended frontier between Parliamentarian and Royalist; in Napoleonic times French prisoners of war were incarcerated here; and in the twentieth century its flat expanses were home to numerous airfields and missile bases. This book describes the function and purpose of these defensive structures and reveals the evidence which many of these major events left on the ground: the earthworks of hill forts, medieval castles and moats; the masonry of later forts and strong-houses; drill halls and militia barracks; and the lines of anti-invasion defences from 1940.

The Falls Curfew of 3-5 July 1970 is considered by many to be the turning point in Catholic-Army relations throughout Northern Ireland and Belfast in particular, and ultimately led to Catholic alienation from the state. The curfew was intended to dispel the violence, it lasted 36 hours during which 4 people were killed, at least 75 were wounded (including 15 soldiers) and 337 people were arrested. Allegations of army brutality towards Catholics and destruction of property have also popularised this belief. However, the seeds of Catholic mistrust were sown decades before. The partition of Ireland in 1922, the subsequent Unionist domination of government and the ignorance of the British government towards the province, ensured that it was only a matter of time that the initial welcome for the army in 1969 faded. This is the story of the Falls Curfew, its causes, and the subsequent polarisation of a community under siege. It is a story many wish could be forgotten, but its legacy still lives on.

For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been in the front-line against foreign invasion, from the Romans to the Spanish Armada to the two World Wars. It has also been involved in civil disorder, from the Anarchy and the Peasants Revolt to the English Civil War. Many reminders of these scenes of conflict may be seen in the landscape - Iron Age forts, a Roman walled town, medieval castles, strong-houses and homestead moats, coastal fortifications from Napoleonic times and earlier, and Victorian barracks and the drill halls of the Volunteers. From the twentieth century there are still more sites: military airfields from the First World War and Battle of Britain fighter airfields, radar sites and later bomber bases from the Second. Anti-invasion defenses line the coast, linear defenses criss-cross the landscape, and AA sites are everywhere to be found. Taking the story all the way up to the nuclear threat of the Cold War, this guide will interest residents and visitors alike.

The First and Second World Wars had a profound effect on all parts of Great Britain, and the comparatively isolated and rural island of Anglesey was no exception. Men were recruited and conscripted into the armed forces in large numbers and some parts of Anglesey, such as the port town of Holyhead, sprang to life. Many Anglesey men found themselves in exotic locations all across the world, while others lost their lives on the killing fields of Western Europe during the First World War. Many soldiers wrote letters home describing their experiences: good, bad and downright bizarre. Airships were deployed during the First World War and RAF airbases were established during the Second World War. The wars left a legacy that can still be seen on the island today.

Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfasts streets.Whartons work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer, but no less violent streets of the Murph, Turf Lodge and Andersonstown. The author has interviewed UDR soldier Glen Espie who survived being ambushed and shot by the IRA not once, but twice, and Army Dog Handler Dougie Durrant, who, through the incredible ability of his dog, tracked an IRA gunman fresh from the murder of a soldier to where he was sitting in a hot bath in the Turf Lodge, desperately trying to wash away the forensic evidence.Whartons reputation for honesty established from previous works has encouraged more former soldiers of Britains forgotten army to come forward to tell their stories of Bloody Belfast. The book continues the story of his previous work, presenting the truth about a conflict which has sometimes been deliberately underplayed by the Establishment.

This is good honest history. Soldiers and civilians alike owe the author a debt of gratitude for telling it like it was. - Patrick Bishop, best-selling author of 3 ParaKen Whartons latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a direct consequence of the insanity that would grip Ulster for almost 30 years. His empathy lies firstly with the men who tramped the streets and countryside of Northern Ireland - but also with the good folk of the six counties who never wanted their beautiful land to be the terrorists battleground. Ken Wharton is utterly condemnatory of the Provisional IRA and INLA but he certainly pulls no punches in his assessment of the Loyalist paramilitaries and terror gangs who sought to outdo the barbarism of their republican counterparts. Based on the testimony of the men who were there during that terrible year, the author tries to investigate every loss in as much detail as time and space permit, with longer chapters to describe Bloody Friday the appalling tragedy of Claudy and - with the 12-year public inquiry finally over - the terrible events of Bloody Sunday. The Bloodiest Year is written with passion and a detailed knowledge in particular of Belfast and the experience of the ordinary squaddie on the streets. The Troubles have become Britains forgotten war and so long as he is able, Ken will do his best to keep the memory of Operation Banner alive.

Discussing the background, weapons and tactics of the ancient Greeks, this title describes the weapons, armour, chariots and other military equipment used from 1550 to 150 BC. It traces how and when various pieces of equipment came into use; where they were introduced from; the effectiveness of the equipment; and when and why things changed.

La vocación intelectual del norteamericano George Ticknor, considerado el primer autor de una Historia literaria española (1849) y precursor en Harvard de los estudios hispanísticos en Estados Unidos, debe mucho al viaje de formacion que lo llevo a recorrer España en 1818. Gracias a este pudo conocer in situ su tan admirado caracter nacional español, amen de varias personalidades de la corte, las letras o la aristocracia; pero tambien los problemas que aquejaban al pais, cuatro años despues del fi nal de la Guerra de la Independencia. El diario que fue redactando durante este viaje, cuyos manuscritos guardaban muchos pasajes ineditos y que nunca habian sido traducidos al español, es un lugar privilegiado para encontrar sus hondas refl exiones sobre el ser de los españoles y el retrato del pais a la altura de 1818, mientras se descubren las amenas aventuras de uno de los primeros viajeros extranjeros por la romantica España.

In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers further use.

Das Historische Archiv der Universitat zu Koln nimmt den 75. Todestag des Grafikers und Heraldikers Otto Hupp (Dusseldorf 1859 - 1949 Oberschleiheim) im Januar 2024 und den 50. Jahrestag des Abschlusses der nordrhein-westfalischen Kommunalgebietsreform am 1.1.2025 zum Anlass, einmal an das wappenkundliche Werk Hupps zu erinnern, das zu wesentlichen Teilen aus Entwurfen und Forschungen zu Kommunalwappen besteht.Es erschienen zwischen 1894 und 1938 in zwei verschiedenen Formen: die erste, 1928 abgebrochene Buchreihe wurde von 1913 bis 1918 durch eine ebenfalls nicht abgeschlossene Serie von Wappenmarken-Sammelheften der Bremer Kaffee HAG ersetzt. Diese wurde erst nach der Neukonzeption seit 1926 bis 1938/39 vollstandig publiziert und sollte nach der Annexion des Sudentenlandes und Osterreichs noch um die Kommunalwappen dieser Gebiete erweitert werden. Andreas Freitager widmet sich der Biographie und den verschiedenen Facetten des Werks von Otto Hupp sowie der Geschichte der drei deutschen Ortswappenwerke bis 1938. In Erganzung zum Parallelprojekt der schwedischen Tochter der Kaffee HAG, den "Sveriges Riksvapen" erlautert Emil M. Sydhagen an den Wappen das schwedische System von Landskap, Lans und Kommun.

Las memorias de Ángel Viñas, un historiador que no estaba destinado a serlo.Este libro no es una autobiografía al uso. No se trata del compendio de las memorias de Ángel Viñas, cuya trayectoria como economista, alto funcionario, diplomatico y, sobre todo, historiador, por discurrir en los años decisivos de la historia reciente de España, haria de por si sumamente interesante su consulta. No busque el lector sumergirse en un relato falsamente literario, ni espere prescindibles confesiones intimas, ni mezquinos ajustes de cuentas, ni profesiones de fe tonantes. Es decir, todo aquello que adorna un genero caracterizado por la autoindulgencia y la busqueda de la pose para la posteridad. No, lo que el lector tiene entre sus manos es la experiencia personal y profesional del historiador, una reflexion introspectiva sobre sus motivaciones, sus influencias, sus fuentes y sus metodos. Persigue explicar, desde su propia optica, el vinculo entre la historia que hizo, la historia que le hizo y como entre ambas inspiraron la historia que ha escrito.Viñas se convierte en este texto en historiador de si mismo, aplicando a su entorno y sus circunstancias la metodologia analitica y rigurosa que en tantas ocasiones ha empleado para esclarecer parcelas plagadas de estereotipos de nuestra historia contemporanea y demoler, siempre basandose en las fuentes primarias, los mitos interesados que la han entenebrecido, desde el oro de Moscu a la idiosincrasia violenta, corrupta y esencialmente criminal del franquismo.