Captured memories 1930-1945 : across the threshold of war : the thirties and the war / World War, 1939-1945
Liddle, Peter.
Captured memories 1930-1945 : across the threshold of war : the thirties and the war / Captured memories. Volume II, 1930-1945. by Peter Liddle. - Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2011. - xviii, 395 p., [26] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War. He was the founder/Director of a new archive in 1999 specifically dedicated to the rescue of evidence of the Second World War which now documents the lives of more than nine thousand people in that war. Many of the most vivid recollections he has recorded covering this period appear in this book. For the Thirties poverty is movingly exemplified in recall of orphanage upbringing, labour in an East Lancashire mill and Glasgow childhood. Privileged public schools and university education is here too, with political convictions expressed by Barbara Castle and quite exceptionally by Oswald Mosley. For the War, there is a section on the sea which includes graphic detail of battle, lifeboat command, the St Nazaire Raid, and of Pearl Harbor. A George Medallist and an Admiral of the Fleet add special distinction here.
9781848842335 1848842333
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.
Captured memories 1930-1945 : across the threshold of war : the thirties and the war / Captured memories. Volume II, 1930-1945. by Peter Liddle. - Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2011. - xviii, 395 p., [26] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War. He was the founder/Director of a new archive in 1999 specifically dedicated to the rescue of evidence of the Second World War which now documents the lives of more than nine thousand people in that war. Many of the most vivid recollections he has recorded covering this period appear in this book. For the Thirties poverty is movingly exemplified in recall of orphanage upbringing, labour in an East Lancashire mill and Glasgow childhood. Privileged public schools and university education is here too, with political convictions expressed by Barbara Castle and quite exceptionally by Oswald Mosley. For the War, there is a section on the sea which includes graphic detail of battle, lifeboat command, the St Nazaire Raid, and of Pearl Harbor. A George Medallist and an Admiral of the Fleet add special distinction here.
9781848842335 1848842333
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.