Background
Woodruff, William was born on September 12, 1916 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Came to the United States, 1952, naturalized, 1972. Son of William and Anne (Kenyon) Woodruff.
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Woodruff's novel is about the fortunes of an Oxford University rowing eight, leading up to and during the Second World War. Ultimately this book, like the Nab End stories, is about common humanity and the importance of virtues such as faith, loyalty, and self- sacrifice.
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The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. Eventually he decides to "get some leernin" and his first white-collar job starts for the Water Board. Continuing to pursue his studies, he finally wins a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic concludes this second volume.
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A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years, The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on, Billy and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. For the ordinary families of Lancashire, unemployment was an ever-present fear: "If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry." Billy's boyhood was not all misery. Working-class pride and culture made for tight family and neighborhood bonds and added savor to the smallest pleasures in life. Mr. Woodruff writes with an understated lyricism and an eye for telling details that effortlessly pulls us into another time and place.
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Attempts to provide a global perspective of the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. The book also shows the extent to which the two World Wars undermined Europe's dominion and led to the resurgence of Asia.
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By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world view--which this book provides--has become acute.
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This book investigates the major changes in world history and world economy during the past five hundred years and explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both past and present. Its underlying theme is the struggle for power in which, since the sixteenth century, the West has prevailed. Many of the problems of the contemporary world - including terrorism - are the legacy of the period of Western domination. Until the rise of the West, and its incomparable impact on every branch of human activity, the centre of the world has been in Asia. By the nineteenth century world power was firmly in the hands of the West. America's later rise to world status was prompted by the two world wars. The most prominent of the Western nations, the US is now blamed for all the excesses of an earlier colonial age.
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Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written. Here, (distilled from the experiences and observations of one who fought with them in the British infantry unit) is the mood of those who fought and died at Anzio. Their task - to seize the Alban Hills and then Rome forty miles away. Instead, for more than four months, they sank into the mud of the Anzio plain and fought for their lives. Nothing has appeared since Erich Maria Remarque's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT that can compare with this book's ability to penetrate the minds of men at war. There are no heroes, no heroines, no victories. This is a faceless, nameless, fragmented war. Even national differences - Britain, Italian, German, American - merge and are forgotten in this larger story of humanity. This story, in fact, does not need to be Anzio; it could be any battlefield where man has faced death.
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William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirized in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extremely tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn—a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup—and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. At 16, William leaves the poverty of Blackburn for London, where he finds no streets paved with gold, but filthy tenements and such squalor only a great city can conceal. He gets a job in an iron foundry and finds lodgings with a beer-swilling landlady and her family—a predatory daughter, and a tattooed madman of a son with whom he has to share his bed. Then, at night school, William discovers his love of learning, which eventually takes him to Plater college, Oxford. As Mosley's blackshirts provoke fighting on the streets, William witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war: a war in which he himself will soon be fighting
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Woodruff, William was born on September 12, 1916 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Came to the United States, 1952, naturalized, 1972. Son of William and Anne (Kenyon) Woodruff.
Bachelor, Oxford University, 1940. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1946. Bachelor of Science, London University, 1949.
Doctor of Philosophy, Nottingham University, 1952. M.Com. (honorary), Melbourne University, Australia, 1957.
Lecturer in economic history Nottingham University, England, 1946-1950. Houblon-Norman fellow Bank of England, London, 1950-1951. Professor economics University Illinois, 1953-1956.
Professor professor economics history Melbourne University, 1956-1964. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1964-1965. Graduate research professor economic history University Florida, Gainesville, 1966—1996.
( By investigating the major changes of world history dur...)
(This book investigates the major changes in world history...)
(This book investigates the major changes in world history...)
(A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the grea...)
(Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most conv...)
( Woodruff's novel is about the fortunes of an Oxford Uni...)
(Attempts to provide a global perspective of the major cha...)
( The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts ...)
( William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirized in...)
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Married Kay Wright, September 20, 1941 (deceased 1959). Children: David, Roger. Married Helga Gaertner, Jyly 19, 1960.
Children: Kirsten, Mark, Peter, Andrew, Thomas.