John Sheen: 10 books
Well Worth Waiting For
An Adoptees Story.
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
John Sheen, the author of this book, was told, aged nine, that his parents were dead. It was then, having found them alive and well, that he was told that he had been adopted. This is his story, and how he came to find his birth family after sixty four years. It gives an insight of the adoption process...
With Bayonets Fixed
The 12th & 13th Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
In August and September 1914 the number of men enlisting overwhelmed the Regimental Depot of the Durham Light Infantry at Fenham Barracks in Newcastle. Accommodation was tight so the men were formed into batches and sent off to training grounds in the south of England. Over 2,000 men were sent to...
Tyneside Irish
24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) Battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The ‘Pals” battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby’s scheme, and in response to Kitchener’s famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their...
by John Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Although called the Tyneside Scottish, very few of the men who made up this Brigade were of Scottish descent. Many came from local villages or were from the Northumberland pits. They saw action at the Battle of the Somme and after it were allowed to put tartan behind their cap badges because of their bravery.
1918 The German Offensives
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
In March 1918 the German Army launched a series of offensives that brought them very close to winning the war. Military photographers followed their advance and took many photographs of the operations as they progressed. This is the war seen from the German perspective, British and French soldiers...
by John Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was one of only two battalions of the regiment that did not have its history published in some form after the Great War, the other was the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion. As the regular Home Service battalion of the regiment it was brought up to strength...
Wearside Battalion
The 20th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
This is the story of the 20th (Service) Battalion, from Wensleydale and Barnard Castle to the overseas service in Somme, Ypres Messines and more.
Loving This Planet
Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make A Better World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist
A co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century...
by John Dear,SJ,Martin Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
All of us say we want peace, but only a few are willing to prove it.John Dear, SJ, has been arrested more than seventy-five times. He has spent more than a year of his life in jail. He has been mocked by an armed and angry U.S. National Guard battalion standing outside the doors to his New Mexico parish....
Durham Pals
18th, 19th, 20th and 22nd Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
A history of four battalions of the Durham Light Infantry raised in the Country during the First World War. The 18th (Pals) were the first troops of Kitcheners new army to come under fire, when the Germans bombarded Hartlepool in December 1914. The 19th were raised as Bantams and the 20th (Wearside)...