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The Pretoria Pit Disaster: A Centenary Account by Alan Davies (Paperback, 2010)
15. Dez 2021
You'll be glad you bought this.
Factual, definitive, researched thoroughly and obviously put together by someone who not only understands the history of mining but can put the technical aspects into an easily readable form.
Take a look at the authors' background and the listings of source material used for this book and you'll be amazed that so much has been packed into such a small volume. While there are large amounts of information available about the disaster compiled by a large number of talented and diligent people, this book on its own will answer the vast majority of your questions and if you should want to know more will point you in the right direction.
15. Sep 2018
Buy it NOW!
1 von 2 finden das hilfreich The thing I hate most in the world is painting and decorating.
The thing I hate second most in the world is ironing shirts. I would rather buy a new shirt than iron one so when I ended up with a pile of newly washed shirts that needed ironing I got half way through them and thought there must be a better way.
Thanks to a quick search on Ebay I've found a better way. My new steam press is quick and simple to use, has the feel of a quality product and after a rapid look through the instructions I don't think I'll ever use a conventional iron/ironing board again. It's not huge, it can be used on a coffee table or sideboard/kitchen table and the expense is justified for me by the amount of time I'll save.
Niggles? Not really. Just make sure that you give the steam generator time to heat up and everything will work like a charm.
15. Okt 2019
Accuracy, Honesty, Sadness and Humour.
1 von 1 finden das hilfreich Written by a First World War veteran and reprinted word for word as it was originally written in 1931, 'Other Ranks' is a book that will give you as near as possible to a genuine, first hand account of life in the trenches as you can get. It doesn't gloss over the gory, horrific pointlessness of it all and doesn't pull any punches at all in it's criticism of how the war was run.
If you can cope with squaddies humour then it's also very funny. If you can laugh at the idea of an officer turning up and asking a soldier to check if his hand grenades work by throwing a few over the top and then being surprised because the Germans reply with a few of their own then you will laugh at this book. If you can laugh at the idiocy of an officer who sits up high on his horse and wonders why his overburdened, underfed, dehydrated troops can't keep up with him on a route march then you will laugh at this book.
If you want lots of pictures and diagrams with contributions from historians who weren't even born at the time then you need to look elsewhere. If you want accuracy, honesty, sadness and humour in an extremely well written account of trench life then this is the book for you.
The characterisation and humour is sharply observed and the writing is expertly done. The secret of this book is that not only were the events real but the characters were also based on real people. W.V. Tilsley originally gave the characters in the book false names because he didn't want to damage the memory of those people he knew who had died or risk offending the relatives or surviving veterans still alive in 1931.
That veil of anonymity has been lifted by Gaye Magnall whose research has identified the real names and details of the characters in the book. I know that the research is accurate because my Great-Uncle, 16538, Private James Harrison, 1/4th Loyal North Lancs Regiment, killed in 1917 at Passchendaele just happens to be one of the characters Gaye has identified. I can't fault her research and know that she's put in what must be thousands of hours to make this book as accurate a tribute to the fallen as it can be. Gaye has taken the intelligent decision not to mess with the main text and has put the fruits of her research in a comprehensive index, explanatory notes and glossary at the rear of the book.
If you saw the recent film 'They Shall Not Grow Old' and like me thought it was a masterpiece because the only voices you heard were the actual voices of veterans and the only pictures you saw were actually taken at the time then this book is exactly in that vein.
A veteran's first hand account.