The invasion of Anzio and the four month battle for Rome are viewed through the minds and struggles of British, American, and German soldiers

Vessel of Sadness

Literature & Fiction

WOODRUFF, WILLIAM

British & Irish

Harpercollins

By investigating the major changes in world history during the past 500 years, this book explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both the past and the present. This book tells of the rise and fall of empires and civilizations, and recounts the growing communality and interdependence of nations. It shows how so many problems of the contemporary world are the legacy of an unprecedented era of western domination - the end of which was hastened by the two world wars. In explaining how the world has come to be what it is, the book examines the implications surrounding the end of the Cold War, the unravelling of communism in Eastern Europe, and the growing challenge of the non-western world to western superiority. It is the author's belief that we have reached a transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. With the shift of geopolitical and geoeconomic power to Asia, and with the growing worldwide influence of religious fundamentalism and revolutionary nationalism, the need for a global perspective has become acute.

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 To the Present

History

World

St.Martin's Press

The history of the world from the end of the Middle Ages to the present is viewed as a fight for power

The Struggle for World Power, 1500-1980

St.Martin's

This omnibus edition comprises William Woodruff's two volumes of autobiography, The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End. Born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill, William faced a tough life in 1920s Blackburn. At 16 he left the poverty of Blackburn for London, where he found no streets paved with gold, but instead filthy tenements and squalor. He eventually makes it to Plater College, in Oxford, and witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war—a war in which he himself will soon be fighting

Nab End and Beyond: The Road to Nab End & Beyond Nab End

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Little, Brown Book Group

America's Impact on the World: A Study of the Role of the United States in the World Economy,1750-1970

Business & Money

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In an ever-shrinking world, the need for a global perspective in dealing with the modern world has become acute. This book attempts to provide such a perspective by investigating the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. However compact, it enables us to understand the present unravelling of Communism and the growing challenge from Asia to Western Superiority. It is shown that in so many ways the problems of the contemporary world spring from the unprecedented era of western domination, which the non-western world is now trying to unlive.

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present

The Road to Nab End : A Lancashire Childhood

Arts & Literature

ABACUS +

The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. Eventually he decides to "get some leernin" and his first white-collar job starts for the Water Board. Continuing to pursue his studies, he finally wins a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic concludes this second volume.

Beyond Nab End

Europe

Woodruff's novel is about the fortunes of an Oxford University rowing eight, leading up to and during the Second World War. Ultimately this book, like the Nab End stories, is about common humanity and the importance of virtues such as faith, loyalty, and self- sacrifice.

Shadows of Glory: A Novel

Vessel of sadness

Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written. Here, (distilled from the experiences and observations of one who fought with them in the British infantry unit) is the mood of those who fought and died at Anzio. Their task - to seize the Alban Hills and then Rome forty miles away. Instead, for more than four months, they sank into the mud of the Anzio plain and fought for their lives. Nothing has appeared since Erich Maria Remarque's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT that can compare with this book's ability to penetrate the minds of men at war. There are no heroes, no heroines, no victories. This is a faceless, nameless, fragmented war. Even national differences - Britain, Italian, German, American - merge and are forgotten in this larger story of humanity. This story, in fact, does not need to be Anzio; it could be any battlefield where man has faced death.

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Vessel of Sadness

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 To the Present

The Struggle for World Power, 1500-1980

Nab End and Beyond: The Road to Nab End & Beyond Nab End

America's Impact on the World: A Study of the Role of the United States in the World Economy,1750-1970

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present

The Road to Nab End : A Lancashire Childhood

Beyond Nab End

Shadows of Glory: A Novel

Vessel of Sadness