Westwind

Travel

Ellis, Ray

Specialty Travel

Random House Value Publishing

Once a Hussar is a true account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of World War II and began a journey which would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, an Italian prisoner of war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Apennines. His story is an honest and moving memoir of the unimaginable horrors of warfare but also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis's self-deprecating humour skilfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives.

Once a Hussar

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Bright Pen

Always a Hussar continues the chronicle of Ray Ellis's life. His previous book, Once a Hussar, describes his exploits during the Second World War. He picks up his story again at the end of his overseas service. After his years of fighting in the western desert and the deprivation suffered during his time as a prisoner of war, he is suddenly returned to an England that is unfamiliar to him. This happened in the days before Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome was a recognised condition and restorative treatment, such as rehabilitation, was not yet an available option. Ellis leads us, unsparingly, through the harrowing personal breakdown of his selfhood and documents the painful results of his disturbing behaviour. However, this is not merely a story of bitterness and regret. Instead, it charts his journey through his darkest days , his self-generated recovery and his eventual arrival at a state of contentment and peace of mind. Always a Hussar is a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit.

Always a Hussar

An interesting delightful mixture of poetry in rhymed and free verse. Poems that entertain and enhance your awareness of such things as wind, water, sun, snow, and trees. Poems about life, death, time, and human nature. Also some personally influenced, inspired poems about love, relationships, and working on the job.Look through the eyes of the author and see from a new perspective. See some things that perhaps you missed on previous glances.

More Poems by Ray

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

AuthorHouse

From the Maine shoreline to the Florida Keys, and from the Northwest's inland waters to Baja, California, this collection of oils and watercolours includes views of New England's rocky shores and sandy beaches, Chesapeake Bay, South Carolina's Low Country, the rugged Oregon Coast (where Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean), the spirit of sailing across San Francisco Bay, and the expanse of Big Sur.

Coastal Images of America

Arts & Photography

BALLARD, Robert D.

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

A series of reproductions of Ray Ellis' paintings are accompanied by the narrative of the author. Taking the reader on a voyage along America's western coast, this book describes the coastline's grandeur, its cultural past and marine and wildlife, from the San Juan Islands to San Diego Bay.

Cronkite,Walter

Oxmoor House

Fishing the Vineyard

Ed Jerome

Compass-Publishing

The Spirit of Golf

Illustrated with 67 paintings by Ray Ellis.

Sports & Outdoors

Wind, Herbert Warren

Wright, Ben

Golf

Longstreet Pr

The spirit of golf is conveyed with eighty oils and watercolors by Ray Ellis, perhaps America's greatest contemporary impressionist. A book of rare beauty -- and of immeasurable appeal to golf enthusiasts everywhere.

Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War and started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Appenines. His story is an honest and moving memoir that relays graphic eyewitness accounts of the horrors of warfare, but it also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis’s self-deprecating humor skillfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives. Featuring twenty-six rare photographs from Ellis’s life and experiences, Once a Hussar is a compelling and deftly told account of one soldier’s life in the Second World War. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture, and Escape in World War II

Historical

Skyhorse

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