Dear Old Blighty

E. S. Turner

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Добро
Забележка:: Отчислена от библиотека, използвана и стегната книга - без подчертавания, с нормални следи от употреба, поовехтял вид.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Michael Joseph
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 1980 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 288
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: История и археология
Тегло (гр.):: 491
Ширина (мм):: 140
Височина (мм):: 220
Дебелина (мм):: 27
ISBN:: 0718118790

What was life really like in Britain in 1914-18? The rumble of the barrage in Flanders Was heard in the southern counties, disturbing schoolboys at their classes, providing a deadly accompaniment for the arms workers on their summer holidays. Year in, year out, the population which supposedly practised business as usual was distracted by spy fever and increasingly bizarre rumours. What was the Unseen Hand which held back Britain's victory? Was it a. conspiracy of traitors, or some supremely diabolic individual? What was the menace the press called Boloism? And what were the nameless sins committed in the capital as the war neared its end? E. S. Turner offers some astonishing glimpses of a nation under stress: blind men recruited to listen for Zeppelins; surprise round-ups of train travellers in a search for 'slackers'; Whitehall's propagandists sowing dissension between sweethearts; married men and bachelors at loggerheads over conscription; parents with eight, ten and twelve sons in khaki; bereaved women flocking to a notorious 'prayer shop' in Regent Street; the bestseller which revealed that newly dead subalterns could order cigars and whisky-and-sodas on the Other Side; and the sad trick played on the King, who was persuaded to give up drink for the duration, thus setting an example which hardly anybody followed. Dear Old Blighty also reminds us that the forms of industrial strife familiar today—with shop stewards setting the pace and defying their union leaders— flourished in the great arms factories; and we read how the Government fought back, for example by 'deporting' the Clyde trouble-makers. There is a chapter, too, on the strange episode of the 'peace prattlers' who met at Leeds to pave the way for the British Revolution. * About the Author E. S. Turner was born in Liverpool in 1909 and educated in Shrewsbury and Newcastle-under-Lyme. He worked as a reporter, sub-editor and columnist on Glasgow newspapers during the 1930s. In World War Two he served in the Royal Artillery and was editor of the War Office magazine Soldier from 1946 to 1957. E. S. Turner is well known as a freelance writer; he has been a regular contributor to Punch since 1935, and also writes for the Listener and the Times Literary Supplement. Among his books are All Heaven in a Rage, The Court of St James's, May It Please Your Lordship, Boys will be Boys and Amazing Grace. ** Contents List of Illustrations 1 Acknowledgements 9 Author's Note 11 Introduction 15 1 The Great Anger 23 2 Noblesse Oblige 38 3 Sound of the Guns 46 4 Hallucinations 52 5 Calling All Sweethearts 64 6 'Dear Belgians!' 76 7 The King's Error 86 8 Hunwives and Others 94 9 Behind Wire 106 10 Under the Zeppelins 114 11 Living with Telegrams 126 12 Whisky on the Other Side 137 13 Strife in the Factories 147 14 'Coming To Fetch You!' 162 15 Before the Tribunal 169 16 The Nastiest Rumour 183 17 A Whiff Of Revolution 190 18 Morality At Bay 200 19 Most Excellent Order 219 20 'Eat Slowly' 228 21 The Unseen Hand 240 22 'Victory Is Ours!' 251 Sources 263 Select Bibliography 275 Index 279

Ключови думи: книги на английски език, английски книги, история, Великобритания