Minds war poetry

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  Methuen, 1966. Reprint. Hardback. 188pp. An anthology selected and arranged by Brian Gardner. First world war poetry from over 70 poets including Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Herbert Read, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt etc. Substantial end section provides potted biographies of all those included. This is the companion volume to 'The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-1945'.

Drummer Hodge - The Poetry of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 By: M. van Wyk Smith A first edition hardcover published by Clarendon Press in 1978 Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, previous owners signature on front flyleaf, dustjacket is complete but with closed tear to front spine & front top right cover Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

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Leslie Frewin, London, 1966. Hardcover - Brown. Book Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+, price-clipped some edge chipping.  Unstated First Edition. Contains poetry by Kingsley Amis, H.E.Bates, Sarah Churchill, Lawrence Durrell, & many others. 403 pp. Index of 1st lines. World War II did not - could not - produce a Rupert Brooke but it did inspire a vast army of poets. 

1995 paperback with 456 pages in good condition. R55 postage in SA. The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified. Features Summary The War Behind the Wire is the new book by the acclaimed author of Six Weeks which depicted the extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War in such harrowing detail... Author John Lewis-Stempel Publisher Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) Release date Pages 288 ISBN ISBN

John Dovey did his National Service in the SADF in 1985-1986. He has served since then in three Citizen Force Regiments, and is still serving. This compilation of poems is his attempt to preserve some of the thoughts and feelings of the soldiers who were in the SADF during the "Border War" period. The poems in this compilation are mostly from that period. There are a few poems from Cubans and one from a British soldier, that fit into the theme of the compilation. Some are in English, some in Afrikaans and there is even one in Spanish. The poems are all heart-felt ones that reflect the mood and emotion of the times. There are a surprising number that deal with loneliness and fear, which two things any soldier will know are constant companions. This book is above all about the commonality of experience that all soldiers share, and about the human face of the individuals of which an "army" is comprised. Paperback, 59 pages. Published November 2006

Galaxie Press, Rhodesia, 1971, reprinted. Hard cover, 267 pages. Used but in good condition. Name of former owner in front. Under 1kg. This narrative by a British and a South African journalist looks at the situation in Rhodesia, South West Africa (now Namibia), South Africa, Angola, and Mozambique from the viewpoint of the white settlers who want to win the hearts and minds of the "moderate Africans" in their war against the "terrorism" of the revolutionary movements in those area.

Galaxie Press, Rhodesia, 1971, reprinted. Hard cover, 267 pages. Used but in good condition. Gift inscription in front. Under 1kg. This narrative by a British and a South African journalist looks at the situation in Rhodesia, South West Africa (now Namibia), South Africa, Angola, and Mozambique from the viewpoint of the white settlers who want to win the hearts and minds of the "moderate Africans" in their war against the "terrorism" of the revolutionary movements in those area.

Photorealistic pencil drawings by the author with his own poetry. The book is a poignant exploration of the human experience of South Africans at war in the Rhodesian, SWA and Angolan bush. Hardcover. Graham Publishing. 1981 1st ed. ISBN: 620053445. 112 pp with numerous fine bw illustrations and line dwgs. Good condition in quarto hardcover with good dust wrapper. Book No:1000144

 THE HAPPY WARRIOR - AND ANTHOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND MILITARY POETRY SELECTED BY PAUL BARRETT & KERRY B COLLISON. SOFTCOVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION SID HARTA 2001, 524 PAGES                                                      WAR POETRY, AUSTRALIA MILITARY, NEW ZEALAND MILITARY   

SUMMARY Brace yourself for a hardboiled, sci-fi thriller from the creator of Madoka Magica and the studio that brought you Ghost in the Shell. Welcome to a world where just thinking about a crime is enough to make you guilty. Bad intentions can no longer be hidden, and the police know exactly which tainted minds are about to cross over to the wrong side of the law. The great equalizer in the war on thugs is the Dominator, a futuristic weapon that can read minds and assess the risk that a citizen will turn criminal. Cops work in teams made up of Enforcers and Inspectors. Enforcers take out the bad guys, Inspectors stop their partners from going rogue, and the all-powerful Sibyl System keeps a watchful eye on us all. Society is paralyzed by its deepest, darkest desires, and trial by jury has been replaced by the wrath of the Dominator. Welcome to the future. How guilty are you? DETAILS Premium Contents: ID Holder + Logo Decal + Card Case/Keychain & 2 Season One OST CDs Includes: Eps 1-22 Format: Blu-ray Language: English,Japanese Subtitles: English Closed Captioning: No Rating: TV-MA Aspect Ratio: p High Definition 16x9 HD Native Main Feature Audio: Dolby TrueHD: English 5.1,Dolby TrueHD: Japanese 2.0,English 5.1 Surround,Japanese Stereo Special Feature Audio: Dolby TrueHD: English 2.0,Dolby TrueHD: Japanese 2.0 Runtime: 550 Region: A|B Number of Blu-ray Discs:4 Number of CDs: 2 Studio: FUNimation UPC: SPECIAL FEATURES Season One OST On 2 CDs Actor Commentaries PSYCHO-PASS at Sakura-Con Part 1 & 2 Textless Songs Trailers

Although this is a history book, it is also extremely topical: the story of America and Britain coming together as increasingly close partners in the face of a global threat of war. But this is not 2003 and Iraq, but 1940 and the start of World War II. And, in an inversion of 2003, this is the story of the USA coming to the aid of Britain. Norman Moss's book is about the 19 weeks of World War II between May and September 1940 - a whirlwind of events that saw the swift fall of France followed by the evacuation of Dunkirk, air raids over London and the Battle of Britain, with Britain's entire safety and independence threatened as never before in modern times. Though the USA did not formally enter the war until after Pearl Harbor in 1941, as Moss shows, it was these crucial 19 weeks that swung the US from a position of defiant isolationism to a position of committed support for Britain's cause against Nazi Germany, and ultimately forged America's long-term interventionist role in the world. "19 Weeks" tells the story from both sides of the Atlantic, and from the point of view of both the policymakers and the ordinary citizenry. It follows closely the developing relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, Roosevelt's battle for the hearts and minds of his countrymen, and the far-reaching consequences for Britain's future role in the world, the seeds of which were irrevocably sewn during this brief, crucial epoch.Ex-library; with stamps and stickers otherwise good

2004 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 241 pages in very good condition. Inscription of previous owner in front. R46 postage in SA. On April 10 th, 2003, the 1 st Battalion, 5 th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the presidential palace in downtown Baghdad, ran headlong into what Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North called, "the worst day of fighting for U.S. Marines." Hiding in buildings and mosques, wearing civilian clothes, and spread out for over a mile, Saddam Hussein's militants rained down bullets and rocket propelled grenades on the 1 st Battalion. But when the smoke of the eight-hour battle cleared, only one Marine had lost his life. Some said the 1 st Battalion was incredibly lucky. But in the hearts and minds of the Marines who were there, there was no question. God had brought them miraculously through that battle. As the 1 st Battalion's chaplain, Lieutenant Carey Cash had the unique privilege of seeing firsthand, from the beginning of the war to the end, how God miraculously delivered, and even transformed, the lives of the men of the 1 st Battalion. Their regiment, the most highly decorated regiment in the history of the Marines, was the first ground force to cross the border into Iraq, the first to see one of their own killed in battle, and they were the unit to fight what most believe to have been the decisive battle of the war-April 10 th in downtown Baghdad. Through it all, Carey Cash says, the presence of God was undeniable. Cash even had the privilege of baptizing fifty-seven new Christians-Marines and Sailors-during the war in Iraq. The men of the 1 st Battalion came to discover what King David had discovered long ago--that God's presence could be richly experienced even in the presence of enemies. Here is the amazing story of their experience.