Tempus books stroud (15 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. This is a real-life saga highlighting the trials and tribulations experienced by one family during the Second World War. The story is told by Muriel, the eldest daughter, who was eighteen when war broke out in 1939. The household initially consists of Sir Irving Gane and his Canadian wife, Monty (from Bowmanville, Ontario), Audrey and Diana (middle and youngest daughters), Flo the nanny and her sister, Nellie, the cook, with many and varied family pets completing the picture. Each and every one of them does their bit towards the war effort, though in very different ways. Everyday life changes beyond all recognition as the war progresses with the family learning to cope with everything from the hardship of rationing to the terror of air raids. The household grows at the beginning of the war, with evacuees, military personnel and many others finding a warm welcome at the farm, then declines as the war ends with two of the daughters leaving home to follow their foreign servicemen husbands to distant shores. Over the six years of war many incidents occur, from the momentous to the mundane. All are related in a warm and moving style. Illnesses suffered, marriages made and new children brought into the world are but a few of the events endured and enjoyed while the world continues at war. Monty Gane is very much the lynchpin for the whole family - able, it seems, to cope with everything the war throws at her. While her husband and daughters serve with the forces in the Second World War she remains a housewife - a title which, however, encompasses a whole host of unexpected roles during wartime - but she reminds her family that she won a medal for her service as a theatre sister in the Queen Alexandra's Army Nursing Corps in the First World War. This slice of one family's history reminds us of the many important roles which women performed during the war. Their initiative, energy and determination played a large, though sometimes overlooked, part in winning the war. This copy is sold in FINE condition between FINE illustrated card covers.…

Paperback. Condición: Mint. First Edition. The central story of the fight at Rorke's Drift is evocatively set out much as it must have appeared to the participants. By extensively quoting the defenders, Yorke captures the initial bewilderment, the tension as events gathered momentum, the dramatic hours of hand-to-hand fighting and the ultimate disbelief at having survived. This copy is in MINT condition in illustrated card covers as issued.…

Paperback. Condición: Mint. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Mint. 1st Edition. The Senior Service has, for a hundred years, had submarines. Originally thought to be Un-English, submarines helped us win two World Wars and have played a great part in Britain's nuclear deterrent for the past thirty years. Originally some of the small subs had crews of less than ten men, unlike today's nuclear behomeths with crews of almost one hundred. Submariners are a breed apart; ask any submariner and they'll tell you they think and act differently from the regular navy. Submariners' Tales is the story of the submarine service in the words of the men involved. This 2006 first edition is sold in MINT condition between MINT illustrated card covers. …

Paperback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. This book is Alice James' second selection of Fareham pictures in the Archive Photograph Series. In this volume she extends her attention to the areas around the town, including Wallington, Old Turnpike, Knowle, Wickham and Portchester as well as Fareham itself. This first edition copy is signed with no dedication. This copy is sold in FINE condition in FINE illustrated card covers. Signed NO DEDICATION.…

Paperback. Condición: Mint. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Mint. Reprint. Focusing on the area around the Cotswolds, a range of hills in central England, this book examines the folklore of the area, such as the seasonal customs, traditions, rituals, and taboos. This copy is in MINT condition in illustrated covers as issued.…

Cloth. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. Using personal accounts taken from diaries and letters of British soldiers who served in the First World War the author describes the experiences of combat in Egypt and Palestine. Drawing on unpublished accounts from the Imperial War Museum this book paints a vivid picture of life for the British Tommy in conditions vastly different from the Western Front. This copy is in MINT condition in a MINT unclipped dustwrapper.…

Paperback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. This is the second volume of Stuart Nicol's look at James Macqueen, the driving force behind the forming of the Royal Mail Steam Packet shipping company. This book is illustrated throughout without photos from this organization and its ships over the last century and a half. This copy is sold in FINE condition between FINE illustrated card covers. ref KKK 3.…

Harback. Condición: MINT. Estado de la sobrecubierta: MINT. First. The period 1943-45 saw some of the most important events of the Second World War, and few were fully aware of the decisions that were to affect the outcome of a global conflict. Yet, a young wartime secretary, Olive Christopher, spent this remarkable time working in Churchill's famous Cabinet War Rooms, where she was one of a tiny inner circle of people party to the political secrets of the crucial final years of the Second World War. Working for long hours in an underground bunker opposite St James' Park, Olive wrote a series of letters to her fiance, a major in the armed forces and posted abroad. Filled with incredible details about the glamorous lifestyle and travel Olive enjoyed because of the seriousness of her job, these letters form an astonishing record of how an ordinary girl could become privy to the most secret aspects of the Second World War. Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive access to the closed world of Churchill's inner circle. This first edition copy is sold in MINT condition in a MINT unclipped dustwrapper. Size: 256pp. Hardback. …

Hardback. Condición: Mint. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Mint. 1st Edition. In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success. A qualified doctor who had travelled widely, a keen and able sportsman, chronicler of the South African war, writer of historical novels, champion of the oppressed and, most notably, the creator of that honourable, brave, scientific and eminently sensible master detective "Sherlock Holmes". Every new Holmes story was greeted with great anticipation and confidence, in the knowledge that however complex the crime, the supremely intelligent and logical detective would solve it. It therefore came as a great surprise to his readers, when in 1916, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle declared that he believed in spiritualism. And when, in 1922, Doyle published a book in which he professed to believe in fairies, his devotees were nonplussed. How could the creator of the inexorably logical Sherlock Holmes claim to believe in something as vague and unproven as the paranormal? In this fascinating study of the life of the creator of one of the greatest detectives of all time, Dr Andrew Norman traces the story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's strange beliefs. Can it be that Doyle's alcoholic father holds the key to the unanswered questions about his son? What was Doyle's involvement in the infamous Cottingley fairy affair? By delving into medical records and the writings of Doyle himself, Dr Norman unravels a mystery as exciting as any of the cases embarked upon by Sherlock Holmes, but in this case about the author himself. This first edition copy is sold in MINT condition in a MINT unclipped dustwrapper.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated, laminated card covers. 9.25ins x 6.5ins, 128pp. Illustrations and sketch maps within the text. VG.

1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated, laminated card covers. 9.25ins x 6.5ins, 128pp. Illustrations and sketch maps within the text. VG.

1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated, laminated card covers. 9.25ins x 6.5ins, 128pp. Illustrations and graphs within the text. VG.

1st edition. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 10ins x 7ins, 128pp. Mostly comprises old photographs. VG / VG.

1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated, laminated card covers. 9.25ins x 6.5ins, 128pp. Illustrations and graphs within the text. VG.

1st edition. Paperback. Illustrated, laminated card covers. 9.25ins x 6.5ins, 128pp. Illustrations and graphs within the text. VG.