Author: London (England) Picadilly HotelPublisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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A Twentieth Century Palace
Author: London (England) Picadilly HotelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Last Palace
Author: Norman EisenPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0451495799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.
A Twentieth Century Palace
Author: Piccadilly HotelPublisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Twentieth Century Palace
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330563113
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Excerpt from A Twentieth Century Palace: The Piccadilly Hotel, With Some Notes on the History, Landmarks Worthies of Piccadilly and Regent Street The completion of the Piccadilly Hotel which now entirely covers the topographical island between Regent Street and Piccadilly on the north and south, and Air Street and Piccadilly Place (once George Court) on the east and west, marks an epoch in the history of the making of modern London - the British metropolis of the future. A consensus of architectural skill, rarely bestowed on any one building, has not only restored the Quadrant to the muster-roll of London s architectural wonders, but has added, as if by the stroke of a magician's wand, a Twentieth Century Palace of surpassing magnificence to those never-to-be-forgotten eighteenth-century mansions, the fame of which will ever be closely linked with the annals of Piccadilly. Not only is the Piccadilly Hotel the latest and most perfect exemplification of art as applied to this particular class of building, but it enjoys the inestimable advantage of occupying a site which is absolutely unique, commanding at once, as it unquestionably does, the most central and important portion of two of the world s great thoroughfares - Piccadilly and Regent Street, both within the confines of the ancient City of Westminster. Although the latter has still to wait ten years for the centenary of its construction, the former has figured in some shape or other on the map of London for nearly three centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Moving the Palace
Author: Charif MajdalaniPublisher: New Vessel Press
ISBN: 1939931487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
“A Middle Eastern heart-of-darkness tale that flows like a dream . . . Crackling with razor-sharp humor” (The New York Times). At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard of architectural fragments, ferrying the dismantled landmark through Sudan, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, attempting to return to his native Beirut with this moveable real estate. Along the way, he will encounter skeptic sheikhs, suspicious tribal leaders, bountiful feasts, pilgrims bound for Mecca, and T. E. Lawrence in a tent—in this “utterly charming” novel that was a recipient of the Académie Française’s François Mauriac Prize (Library Journal). “Renders the complex social landscape of the Middle East and North Africa with subtlety and finesse . . . Yet one doesn’t need to care about the region’s history, or its present-day contexts, to enjoy Moving the Palace.” —The Wall Street Journal
Twentieth Century Palace; The Piccadilly Hotel; With Some Notes on the History, Landmarks & Worthies of Piccadilly & Regent Street
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376839876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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The Twentieth Century
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
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Twentieth Century
Author: The Twentieth Century Cyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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