The Skipper's War
Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War
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2022
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78551-303-9 (ISBN)
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78551-303-9 (ISBN)
Illustrated history of the wartime years of Dragon School, Oxford, and celebrated headmaster Charles 'Skipper' Lynam.
Charles ‘Skipper’ Lynam, the celebrated preparatory school headmaster at the Dragon School, Oxford, during the First World War, inspired a generation of his pupils as they found themselves caught up in the conflict. This book tells the story of the school’s wartime years and the various fronts on which its boys were involved. It traces the roots of a school founded by Oxford dons for their children, its idiosyncratic ways and the extraordinary relationship Skipper Lynam forged with his boys, some of whom (in former pupil John Betjeman’s words) ‘lost their lives for King and Country and the Dragon School’.
Charles ‘Skipper’ Lynam, the celebrated preparatory school headmaster at the Dragon School, Oxford, during the First World War, inspired a generation of his pupils as they found themselves caught up in the conflict. This book tells the story of the school’s wartime years and the various fronts on which its boys were involved. It traces the roots of a school founded by Oxford dons for their children, its idiosyncratic ways and the extraordinary relationship Skipper Lynam forged with his boys, some of whom (in former pupil John Betjeman’s words) ‘lost their lives for King and Country and the Dragon School’.
Desmond Devitt has brought the Dragon School’s untapped archive material to life in his successful blog The Skipper’s War.
FOREWORD
Rory Stewart
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1
Summer Term 1917
CHAPTER 2
The Oxford Preparatory School
CHAPTER 3
Growth and Development
CHAPTER 4
1914: The Clouds Descend
CHAPTER 5
‘Over by Christmas’?
CHAPTER 6
The Western Front
CHAPTER 7
Summer 1915
CHAPTER 8
The Gallipoli Campaign
CHAPTER 9
The Winter of 1915–16
CHAPTER 10
The War at Sea
CHAPTER 11
The Battle of the Somme
CHAPTER 12
‘The School-house afar …’
CHAPTER 13
War in the Air
CHAPTER 14
1917/18 – The Losses Mount
CHAPTER 15
The Road to Victory
CHAPTER 16
‘Too Many Empty Chairs’
EPILOGUE
AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 287
ENDNOTES
INDEX
CREDITS
CAPTIONS
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Rory Stewart |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 694 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78551-303-6 / 1785513036 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78551-303-9 / 9781785513039 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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