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Author: Lady Dorothy Stanley Publisher: ISBN: Category : World War, 1914-1918 Languages : en Pages : 8
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Letter primarily regarding the conduct of the war and American participation in it, along with her demands for reparations from and occupation of Germany. Also mentions Mark Twain's account of a party at her house, Stanley's book "Miss Pim's Camouflage," the Mesopotamian campaign, and her mother's health.
Author: Lady Dorothy Stanley Publisher: ISBN: Category : World War, 1914-1918 Languages : en Pages : 8
Book Description
Letter primarily regarding the conduct of the war and American participation in it, along with her demands for reparations from and occupation of Germany. Also mentions Mark Twain's account of a party at her house, Stanley's book "Miss Pim's Camouflage," the Mesopotamian campaign, and her mother's health.
Author: Lady Dorothy Stanley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 2
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Thanks Miss Crosby for the book and mentions that her son has returned from India. She describes the uncertainty in Europe regarding the League of Nations, the watered-down peace terms and menace of a recovering Germany, and the perceived betrayal of England by President Wilson.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Explorers Languages : en Pages : 62
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Discussing her work as an artist (the first two letters contain charming ink sketches), commenting on London society, her immediate friends and acquaintances, including the explorers' circle and her travels around Great Britain. A revealing archive commencing before she had met Henry M. Stanley and continuing until after their marriage. The first two letters are dated 17 July 1879, 8 pages and 30 July 1879, 10 pages. Both are addressed in very familiar terms to an unidentified addressee. They clearly illustrate Dolly's standing in society as both a hostess and a talented amateur painter. The third letter, 17 August 1886, is a report of the cruise she and her mother, together with fifty other guests including Stanley, undertook around the Isles of Scotland in July. This was on a ship owned by William Mckinnon. Although the biographies indicate that Stanley was courting Dolly at this stage and made his first proposal after the cruise, she makes no mention of him in this close-written four page letter to her intimate correspondent. Perhaps she was in the process of turning down the proposal and thus eliminated him from the report. The fourth letter, dated 29 July 1887, is another account of travels around the north country and Scotland. It includes the details of a ""Naval Review Cruise" in the company of several celebrities. "The most interesting were Sir John Kirk who was governor of Zanzibar, Mr. George Mackenzie, one of Mr. Mackinnon's best men ... Sir Francis de Winton the friend and co-worker of Stanley ... I may here mention, in parenthesis, that no credit is given to the report of Stanley's death, the source is absolutely untrustworthy ..." Dolly goes on to mention Horace Waller, David Livingstone and Gordon, in the course of describing the Review. Of the final three letters, the two before her marriage deal with much news of common relations and acquaintances. The third contains a detailed account of the society wedding of Margot Tennant and H.H. Asquith (later Prime Minister). A "tour de force" which shows her capability for detailed observation of people and faces, while emphasizing the prejudices of her upbringing.
Author: Ian W. Shaw Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1466825960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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When Singapore fell dramatically to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, hundreds of people scrambled to leave. Amongst the evacuees were 65 Australian nurses who boarded coastal freighter "Vyner Brooke" which Japanese bombers sank. The largest group of nurses that made it to shore gathered at Radji Beach. Eventually the shipwreck survivors surrendered to the Japanese rather than slowly starve to death. The Japanese did not accept their surrender and divided the Europeans into three groups and killed all in turn. The Australian nurses were in the third group, and 21 of them died in a hail of bullets as they walked into the waters off the beach. There was one survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel, and she went on to survive the various camps and diseases that took away several of her friends.
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