Books written by John Howlett

  • Love of an Unknown Soldier

    The piano was playing in the 'Officers-Only' room across the bar, a head of wild wavy hair Harry recognized – Lieutenant Ordish's lazy eyes through a mirror recognizing him in turn: Lance-Corporal Harry Cardwell, 3rd Section, 4 Platoon, ...

  • James Dean: Rebel Life

    never die, no, not the great James Dean. He can't. I was wondering if you would send me a piece of his clothing. Just a piece, so I will have something. Even if it's just a piece of his hair when he was small. I don't care what you send ...

  • Last Snow Of Winter

    “Apart from his active support of his father-in-law, your Ganascia organised the assassination of the Rosselli brothers in France, using a gang of French fascists. Les Cagoulards?” The Rosselli brothers? “Ask your Spanish comrades,” ...

  • Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education

    ... and the instruction for education and the instruction and enlightenment of the teacher' (E. Sharwood Smith, 1937, 39). ... Significantly, the address of Welcome to the 1936 Conference was given by Cyril Norwood who was to be, ...

  • First Snow of Winter

    A Dr Rudolf Lange had been present in the villa by that lakeside, his earlier report as SS commander in Latvia one of the reasons why the conference had been called in the first place. 'Rudolf was in charge of an Einsatzkommando ...

  • When War Came Again

    “And none of these things must you ever talk about with your mother.” “Why? ... “So have you.” “It doesn't matter for a man.” Veronica smiled her smile again. She knew her Harry. ... Damn you, England, she said to herself.

  • Progressive Education: A Critical Introduction

    progressive. pioneer? Today, John Locke's (1634–1702) reputation as a thinker of the front rank cannot be overstated. His Two Treatises of Government (1689) were seminal in defining modern neo-Liberal (and American) politics with their ...

  • Progressive Education: A Critical Introduction

    Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau's seminal treatise Emile and closing with the Critical Pedagogy movement, this book draws on the latest scholarship to cover the key thinkers, movements and areas where schooling has been more than just ...

  • Maximum Credible Accident

    When this book was first published in the 1980's, it was dramatised by BBC Radio.

  • James Dean: A Biography

    James Dean died in 1955 at the age of 24, blazing out his position as the 'first American teenager' and destined forever to exemplify the spirit of rebellion and defiance.

  • Playing the Game: Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt

    ... The Mystery of Fidele : An Investigation of the Origins and Background of Sir Henry Newbolt's Ballad of Orchardleigh Fidele's Grassy Tomb ' . Frome : Frome Society for Local Study , 1999 . Kenneth Millard , Edwardian Poetry . Oxford ...