Phil Carradice
Forfatter af The Cuban missile crisis. thirteen days on an atomic knife edge / October 1962
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Phil Carradice is a novelist, historian and broadcaster. He has written over forty books, the most recent being The Black Chair, a novel about the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn who was killed at Passchendaele in 1917, and, with his wife Trudy, Welsh Golf Clubs: An Illustrated History. He presents the BBC vis mere Wales history programme The Past Master and often broadcasts on Radio Four. vis mindre
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Værker af Phil Carradice
The Cuban missile crisis. thirteen days on an atomic knife edge / October 1962 (2017) 13 eksemplarer
Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Excision of Rohm's SA Brownshirts, 30 June-2 July 1934 (History of Terror… (2018) 7 eksemplarer
Masada: Mass Suicide in the First Jewish-Roman War, c. AD 73 (History of Terror) (2019) 5 eksemplarer
Life Choices: Teaching Adolescents to Make Positive Decisions about Their Own Lives (Lucky Duck Books) (1981) 2 eksemplarer
The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands: British Naval Campaigns in the Southern Hemisphere 1914-15 (2014) 2 eksemplarer
Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor: A Historical Journey from Pembroke to Bosworth 1 eksemplar
The Zeppelin: An Illustrated History 1 eksemplar
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This actually got started; the fleet showed up in Galway Bay. But the commanding officer, General Hoche, had been blown well out into the Atlantic, and his second in command was unwilling to take over; thus disgruntled French troops sat it in their ships waiting for Hoche to show up, and eventually sailed back to France. The eastern diversion never got out of port. But the western one did, and landed at Fishguard in Wales. What they were supposed to do was march to Bristol, burn it, and then go north to Liverpool and burn that too; what they actually did is loot farmhouses, get drunk, and wander around Wales robbing, pillaging, and raping. Eventually enough militia showed up to overawe the French and they surrendered. Thus ended the Battle of Fishguard, the last invasion of the British Isles.
Phil Carradice’s book on the subject is entertaining and an easy read. The situation was pretty confusing, with neither the French nor English nor Welsh really understanding what was going on, but Carradice does manage to make sense of it. Unfortunately, book does suffer from a lack of maps; the only one that shows the battle area doesn’t have a scale, a North arrow, or any relation to the larger area. Carradice does apologize for his illustrations, noting that there are no known pictures of most of the participants and has to be content with what he can scrape up (David’s Death of Marat, for example). End notes and a good bibliography.… (mere)