BOOKS: Testament to the men of the First World War; Britain's Last Tommies...

The Birmingham Post (England);  January 7, 2006 ;     556 words ......generation. Britain's Last Tommies, by Richard van Emden, is oral history at its finest and stands...figure less prominently in the book. Van Emden recounts the men's desperate tales of...7th Buffs (East Kent Regiment), told van Emden how he became buried in a trench several...

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Medium Aevum;  March 22, 1998 ;     443 words ...Le Jeu d'Adam, ed. Wolfgang van Emden, British Rencesvals Publications 1 (Edinburgh...0-9519791-2-4. No price given. Wolfgang van Emden's new edition of the Anglo-Norman Adam...a performance text used frequently by van Emden over a number of years. With so much...

Sticky secrets of the sex-mad greenfly

Evening Standard - London;  May 28, 1999 ;     325 words ......exactly why, according to Professor Helmut van Emden of Reading University. "It's had 1,800...at the Chelsea Flower Show. Professor van Emden explains: "The sugar is secreted by greenfly...double every 5 1/2 days," says Professor van Emden. "So if you start with one greenfly at...

OBITUARY: Professor Wolfgang van Emden French Epic specialist with...

The Independent - London;  September 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ...WOLFGANG VAN EMDEN, Professor of French at Reading University...the reunification of Germany, Wolfgang van Emden, by then a naturalised British citizen...Graduate Centre of Medieval Studies. Helmut van Emden was Professor of Horticulture, and he...

PERSPECTIVE : The last few survivors that still grow old.(Comment)

The Birmingham Post (England);  November 8, 2005 ;     531 words ......six of them left when author Richard van Emden sent the final draft of Britain's Last...more might die before publication of van Emden's book. If anything, the knowledge of...barrage seems other worldly. But as Richard van Emden points out, the war years were only part...

PREFERENCE-PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIPS AND EFFECTS OF HOST PLANT CHOICE IN...

Ecological Monographs;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......factors other than those intrinsic to the host plant are important in determining host range...factors such as predation, in determining host plant choice in insects has been the subject...specialized than insects to particular host plant taxa (Hay and Steinberg 1992), many species...

Pvt Godfrey.. the war hero; REVEALED: WWI TRAUMA OF DAD'S ARMY'S...

The Mirror (London, England);  July 28, 2008 ;     449 words ......came to light after historian Richard van Emden unearthed Ridley's official documents...But we now know that is what he did. Mr van Emden told how Ridley was injured in 1916 after...in the groin by a German's bayonet. Mr van Emden added: He was hit on the head with a...

Boys dying as men in the trenches.(Entertainment)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  May 22, 2006 ;     471 words ......Soldiers of the Great War by Richard van Emden. Published by Headline at pounds 7.99...strictly accurate, though, as Richard van Emden shows in this book, it isn't inconceivable...diaries, letters and official documents, Van Emden shows it wasn't just the recruiting sergeants...

The boys who served, so young, yet so brave.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  April 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ......different story. Each chapter of Richard Van Emden's new book, Boy Soldiers Of The Great...September 1916, aged 16 Oral historian Van Emden, who studied at Newcastle University...publication, four of the under-age veterans Van Emden spoke to were still alive,

Life at the front; LIFESTYLE On the 90th anniversary of the end of the...

The Birmingham Post (England);  November 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......far from sanitised by author Richard van Emden, who has included gutwrenching accounts...histories of the Great War. However, Van Emden has chosen a path less travelled and...words. However, the stories uncovered by Van Emden may well be the exception to the rule...

THE LAST FOUR TOMMIES; As Remembrance Day nears, a remarkable band of...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: RICHARD VAN EMDEN;NIGEL BLUNDELL THEY are the great survivors...the last German survivor, By Richard Van Emden and Nigel Blundell Charles Kuentz...moving accounts - as told by Richard Van Emden in his remarkable new book - are historic...

Non-host volatiles do not affect host acceptance by alate virginoparae of...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......it was shown that volatiles of a non-host plant (alfalfa, Medicago sativa L.) did not...Rhopalosiphum padi L., once it was settled on a host plant (wheat, Triticum aestivum L.). INTRODUCTION Host plant selection by aphids consists of a sequence...

Book Reviews: Get to grips with life in the front line.(Features)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  March 3, 2003 ;     251 words ......Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line, 1916, by Richard Van Emden. Published by Corgi Books. pounds 8.99 ANYONE who saw the BBC...could suck a man in, never to be seen again. Author Richard Van Emden has concentrated on the ordinary lives of the soldiers. There...

Diversity of Parasitic Cuscuta and their Host Plant Species in a...

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences);  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......dodder (Cuscuta spp.) on a variety of host plant species was quantitatively investigated...their parasitic nature on a variety of host plant species, different Cuscuta species demonstrate...dumosa) (Beauchamp 1986). Two common host plant species of Cuscuta denticulata are creosote...

O BITUARY: Cecil Withers.(Comment)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 9, 2005 ;     332 words ......sentiments spoken by people who weren't there. Withers told Richard van Emden about rats feeding on the dead bodies of the soldiers, and...and so they became, in a sense, unknown warriors,' he said. Van Emden ended his new book, Boy Soldiers of the Great War, with the...