Derek Robinson is een Britse auteur die gevierd wordt om zijn militaire luchtvaartromans, gekenmerkt door hun krachtige zwarte humor. Zijn werk duikt in de rauwere aspecten van de geschiedenis, met name de minder besproken gebeurtenissen in zijn geboorteplaats Bristol, en breidt zich uit naar gidsen over rugby. Robinson's verhalen worden gekenmerkt door een scherpe, vaak satirische, analyse van de menselijke natuur onder dwang. Hij verkent meesterlijk thema's als moed, kameraadschap en de absurditeiten van conflict, allemaal overgebracht via een onderscheidende vertelstem en een boeiend gevoel voor tempo.
The narrative follows Dr. Derek J. Robinson's extraordinary path from his humble beginnings fishing in Louisiana to becoming an emergency room and helicopter flight physician in Chicago. It highlights his rise to leadership roles within some of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, showcasing the challenges and triumphs he faced along the way.
1973 was a big year for Bristol. It marked 600 years as a city and county. The thunder of civic self-congratulation was deafening. But Derek Robinson didn’t buy it. Not all of it, anyway. The born-and-bred Bristolian knew that during the past 600 years, the city and county had generated its fair share of blood and thunder. So he wrote this book, first published in 1973, to help balance the story. The result was a book that inspired a generation of young Bristolians. Robinson challenged the establishment narrative taught in the city’s schools that Edward Colston was a benefactor, that the slave trade wasn’t really that bad and that over the centuries the city had been run for the benefit of its people under the benign patronage of the Corporation and the Society Of Merchant Venturers. Tangent Books is proud to introduce A Shocking History Of Bristol to a new generation.
The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on,' a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it.' Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing.
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The Booker-shortlisted Royal Flying Corps classic.
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Dust, heat, thirst, flies - in a desert war, who needs enemies?
Bomber crews brave German flak and fighter planes as the fightback begins.
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