The increasing life expectancy seen in developing countries has coincided with massive migrations due to urbanization, industrialization, and disasters, both natural and man-made, to cause acute physical and psychological suffering for many old people and their dependents. In this study, Tout takes the first in-depth look at this phenomenon and proposes a new approach to the special needs of the elderly in developing countries. Describing successful national programs already in place for the elderly, he highlights lesser-known difficulties, such as the responsibilities grandmothers may have to assume in the face of heterosexually-transmitted AIDS, and the consequences of the disintegration of the traditional extended family in countries too poor to provide pension schemes.

Ageing in Developing Countries

Business & Money

Tout, Ken

Economics

HelpAge International

The increasing life expectancy seen in developing countries has coincided with massive migrations due to urbanization, industrialization, and disasters, both natural and man-made, causing acute physical and psychological suffering for many old people and their dependents. Tout takes the first in-depth look at this phenomenon and proposes a new approach to the special needs of the elderly in developing countries. Describing successful national programs already in place for the elderly, he highlights lesser-known difficulties, such as the responsibilities grandmothers may have to assume in the face of heterosexually-transmitted AIDS, and the consequences of the disintegration of the traditional extended family in countries too poor to provide pension schemes.

Oxford University Press

The issue of elderly care is becoming increasingly important in both developed and developing countries alike as population structures change, and the trend towards ageing populations gathers momentum. This text presents a diverse range of progressive programmes from all parts of the world for the care of elderly people, ranging from community care schemes to fitness and income generation.

Elderly Care: A world perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Springer

Explores the total experience of battle with unforgettable intensity: the fear and incomprehension; the boredom and exaggerated importance of mundane detail; the fleeting exhilaration and lasting grief. It tells the story of a crew of very ordinary young lads who find themselves rolling into an epic armoured action - the Night March of the lst Northamptonshire Yeomanry on 7/8 August 1944 - which penetrated what was possibly the strongest defence line set up by the Germans in World War II. But Ken Tout's book is much more than a record of a remarkable military exercise. It is a vivid recreation of the conditions - the heat, the noise, the smells - inside "the Tommy Cooker". This macabre nickname, given by the Germans to the Sherman tank, graphically summed up the fate of many young soldiers, burned alive when their tanks "brewed up" into an instant inferno. This is a compassionate, perceptive and sometimes humorous account which commends bravery and spirit without glorifying battle. As one of the most remarkable pieces of literature to come out of the war it makes compelling reading for the military enthusiast. For the general reader it offers a unique insight into human behaviour in inhuman conditions.

Tank!

History

Military

Hale

'TANKS, ADVANCE!: NORMANDY TO THE NETHERLANDS, 1944'

Europe

Robert Hale, 1987

This book recreates the tiny, enclosed world of the tank soldier and the unexpected intimacy of armored warfare.

To Hell with Tanks!

Biographies & Memoirs

Tank

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Like most of his comrades, Ken Tout was just 20 years old in Normandy 1944. Not until the 1980s did he feel able to gather their memoirs in three books, Tank!, Tanks, Advance! and To Hell with Tanks. Now these adventures are condensed into this one continuous narrative. Follow the very ordinary young lads of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry through the massive enemy defences on Bourguebus Ridge, to the snows of the Ardennes, the night crossing of the River Rhine, and final roll-call in Zwolle's Grote Kerkl, where they celebrated with liberated Dutch citizens. The author graphically describes the total experience—the heat, noise, and smells—inside the Sherman tank. By Tank: D Day to VE Days vividly recalls, in one complete volume, the whole experience of battle with utter authenticity—the fear, confusion, boredom, excitement and grief.

By Tank: D to VE Days

Historical

Robert_Hale

Normandy 1944. Like most of his comrades, Ken Tout was just 20 years old. Not until many years later did he feel able to gather their memoirs in three Hale books, Tank!, Tanks, Advance!, and To Hell with Tanks!. Now these adventures are condensed into this one continuous narrative. Follow the ordinary young lads of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry through the massive enemy defenses on Bourguebus Ridge, to the snows of the Ardennes, to the night crossing of the River Rhine, and finally to Grote Kerk, where they celebrated with liberated Dutch citizens. They were not professional soldiers but young conscripts willing to "do their bit," knowing that their Shermans were outgunned by the enemy's much heavier Tiger and Panther tanks. By Tank: D Day to VE Days vividly recalls, in one complete volume, the whole experience of battle with utter authenticity: the fear, confusion, boredom, excitement, and grief.

Leaders & Notable People

The Crowood Press

A Fine Night for Tanks: The Road to Falaise

On 7 August 1944, the Canadian Army, reinforced with British Army units, sent four armored columns south of Caen to close the Falaise Gap. Driving through the night, the British tanks reached their objectives behind German lines and linked up with their Canadian compatriots. In the German counter-attack that followed, the British smashed the elite Tiger-equipped Wittman Troop. Using eyewitness accounts from tank crews and infantry, Ken Tout reveals how Totalize was a resounding Allied success.

The History Press

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Books by Tout, Ken

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Ageing in Developing Countries

Ageing in Developing Countries

Elderly Care: A world perspective

Tank!

'TANKS, ADVANCE!: NORMANDY TO THE NETHERLANDS, 1944'

To Hell with Tanks!

Tank

By Tank: D to VE Days

By Tank: D to VE Days

A Fine Night for Tanks: The Road to Falaise