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• The damage caused by air raids to the rebuilding of central Coventry, the Second World War. Many other tow

... • The damage caused by air raids to the rebuilding of central Coventry, the Second World War. Many other tow tackling similar problems of renewal. author indicates some of the difficulties Is gave speeial y, already begun before towns and cities are now ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 51 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

LIKE a good many organisations set up at the start of the Second World War, the Ministry of Information was

... LIKE a good many organisations set up at the start of the Second World War, the Ministry of Information was run by amateurs. That was no ren t handi c ap in some cases. The amateurs' brilliant rovegations, original approach and lack of respect for channels ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1979
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 462 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

[ ERNIE NEWBOLD 1 In memory of a villager THE only Services casualty of the Second World War from the

... [ ERNIE NEWBOLD 1 In memory of a villager THE only Services casualty of the Second World War from the village of Ansty, near Coventry. Private Reginald Eason, may soon have a commemorative stone in the a in 33 years after being killed In ction Italy. ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1976
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

FACT AND FICTION GENERAL SIKORSKI was an acknowledged leader of the Polish community in Britain during the ..

... FACT AND FICTION GENERAL SIKORSKI was an acknowledged leader of the Polish community in Britain during the Second World War. He died in a plane crash at Gibraltar in 1943. More than 20 years later a German, Rolf Hochhuth, wrote a play called The Soldiers ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1972
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 278 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

In 1944 Hanbury was almost untouched by the Second World War Except for its plasterboard works it was mainly a

... In 1944 Hanbury was almost untouched by the Second World War Except for its plasterboard works it was mainly a farming community busily digging for victory The old gypsum and alabaster mines under the village were exhausted long before Yet on a Monday ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1994
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2001 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

SUNDAY MERCURY Februry 11 IN Silesia that part of the south-east Germany (as she was before the Second World War)

... SUNDAY MERCURY Februry 11 IN Silesia that part of the south-east Germany (as she was before the Second World War) which bordered Chechoslovakia and Poland there is a range of mountains called the “Glatzer Mountainland” These mountains are not majestic ...

Published: Sunday 21 February 1960
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1654 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

The surrender of Singapore in 1942 was the outstanding British humiliation of the Second World War. A new ..

... The surrender of Singapore in 1942 was the outstanding British humiliation of the Second World War. A new account of the chain of disasters that led to the final disaster is assessed by Peter Midforth. We continue to discover the real Rupert Brooke. A ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1971
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

April and May Publications The Origins of the Second World War Lanterns and Lances The Labyrinth New drawings ..

... April and May Publications The Origins of the Second World War Lanterns and Lances The Labyrinth New drawings by the most original satirical draughtsman of our time. Nimrod Smith The life of a famous hug-game hunter by the author of Snake Man . The First ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1961
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TV and TONIGHT A programme of wartime memories The response of writers to the second World War is the programme

... TV and TONIGHT A programme of wartime memories The response of writers to the second World War is the programme arranged by the Home Service as a mark of the 25th anniversary of the start of the war. A Citizen's War will include verse Sand proe from six ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Compiled from N.B.C. film, the shows the early life of the Kennedy family before the Second World War, and ..

... Compiled from N.B.C. film, the shows the early life of the Kennedy family before the Second World War, and Kennedy's 1939 visit to Glasgow as a young man to report on American survivors after the sinking of the attention of The Rat Catchers is turned ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1967
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 444 | Page: 2 | Tags: none