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Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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Through documents, the Wigan area can trace its coal mining activities as far back as 650 years, and for a brief spell in the late nineteenth century Wigan itself was proudly known as 'Coalopolis'. Mining machinery such as ventilation fans, winding engines, air compressors, pumps and haulage engines were manufactured around Wigan, the products of Worsley Mesnes Ironworks, Woods & Sons or Walker Brothers. The closure of the Bickershaw, Golborne and Parsonage mining complex in 1992, however, brought to an end the Wigan Coalfield's great era. Over 700 million tons of coal have been produced in the Wigan coalfield over the last 600 years, while a similar amount still lies below the ground. The recent ill-advised rush to wipe out all trace of the British coal industry has temporarily closed the mines of the Wigan area, and sadly thousands of men with the specialist skills peculiar to the industry have found themselves without a career. The photographs in the compilation have been carefully selected from the collections of the Lancashire Mining Museum, Wigan Heritage Centre, and the Donald Anderson/Tony France Archive.It is a book that will provide an intriguing insight into the lives and working conditions of Wigan area miners, and is a testament to the region and its proud coal mining legacy.
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When First Lieutenant Hugh Jones, an American Infantry officer, and Captain Debbie Stittsworth, an Army nurse, meet in Vietnam, the mortar rounds and bullets are flying. Wishing only to do his job in Vietnam and go home, Jones finds himself in love with the spunky nurse. Her death, at the hands of the enemy, drives him to the verge of insanity and beyond. Ma Qui, the phantom, is born seeking revenge on those who took his love from him. His enemy tries to kill him on the battlefield and follows him home to America. He questions if a man can move on from loss and survive the horrors of war. Other women in his life: Chantell, a Viet Cong soldier, Margaret, a librarian in the Montana Historical Library, Doctor Francine Harder, an Army Psychiatrist and Mrs. Ethel Kimble, a World War II widow, seek to bring him peace even as he saves their lives. Along the way: he leads men in desperate battles, rages in the jungles of Vietnam as the feared American soldier, Ma Qui, saves several peoples lives, including that of President Richard Nixon, excels at the first Army Ranger School for General Creighton Abrams new Ranger Battalion, finds himself leading the life of a spy in North Vietnam and is himself buffeted by the storms of living as he thinks deep thoughts about his life, love and loss. But it isn''t until the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that Jones finds the peace he has sought for a decade. He finally reconciles with his violent past when he returns to Vietnam, twenty years after his first trip to the embattled nation.