Author: J.D. EatonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1146980922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Life Under Two Flags
Author: J.D. EatonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1146980922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Under Two Flags
Author: OuidaUnder Two Flags
Author: Max EgremontPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297813477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A biography of one of the greatest churchillians, a crucial lynch-pin between Britain and France
Under Two Flags
Author: William M FowlerPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory. Neither ponderous nor hagiographic, the work presents characters and events that have been previously neglected and offers candid assessments of officers, men, and material. Originally published in 1990, when it was a Military History Book Club selection, the work is considered a must for Civil War buffs. It is an authoritative and gripping story of the battles waged. The author provides a rare look at the war fought by primitive northern gunboats drifting through Louisiana's muddy bayous, Yankee merchantmen captured by rebel privateers at sea, and Union ironclads subduing hotly defended Southern forts. Nor does William Fowler neglect the subtler sparrings behind the scenes: War Secretary Stanton and Navy Secretary Welles competing for Lincoln's favor and Welles's fierce duel of strategies with his Confederate counterpart, Stephen Mallory. Finally, the author describes the astonishing transformation of the Navy itself from a ragtag fleet of aging steamers and paddleboats to one of the most powerful waterborne forces in the world.
The Freetown Bond
Author: Eldred D. JonesPublisher: James Currey Limited
ISBN: 9781847010551
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Ghost-written by his wife Marjorie Jones.--Front flap
Under Two Flags; a Story of the Household and the Desert
Author: OuidaFlying Under Two Flags
Author: Gordon LevettPublisher: Frank Cass & Company
ISBN: 9780714641027
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Under Two Flags
Author: OuidaUnder Two Flags
Author: Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Under Two Flags tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion. The novel is about The Hon. Bertie Cecil (nicknamed Beauty of the Brigades). In financial distress because of his own profligacy and the loss of an important horse-race on which he has bet extensively, and falsely accused of forgery, but unable to defend himself against the charge without injuring the "honour" of a lady and also exposing his younger brother, Cecil fakes his own death and exiles himself to Algeria where he joins the Chasseurs d'Afrique, a regiment comprising soldiers from various countries, rather like the French Foreign Legion.
Under two flags, by Ouida
Author: Marie Louise De la RaméePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description