Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Galignani's Messenger
Author: The Pan-African Movement
Author: Imanuel GeissPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780841901612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Chronicles and examines the origins, development, directions, and leaders of Pan-Africanism and African nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Africa, America, and Europe
Opposition to Louis XIV
Author: Lionel RothkrugPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400878306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
In tracing the history of the anti-mercantilist movement, the author shows that many of the ideas and attitudes associated with eighteenth century philosophes were first formulated in the anti-mercantilist criticism. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics
Author: Ronald L. MeekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521153348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This volume explores the renowned political historian, sociological and economic author A. R. J. Turgot (1727-81).
The Origins of Physiocracy
Author: Elizabeth Fox-GenovesePublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Observations on the Slave Trade
Author: Carl Bernhard Wadstro mPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
SAS with the Maquis
Author: Ian WellstedPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848328990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
On the night of 5/6 June 1944, D-Day, a Lockheed Hudson dropped a small group of parachutists into the mountainous Morvan area of central France. Their mission was to operate as an advance reconnaissance party 400 miles behind the German lines and to make contact with the French Resistance.One of the team, later to become its commander, was Ian Wellsted, known by his nom-de-guerrre of Gremlin. During the next three months No.1 Troop of the 1st Special Air Service Regiment relayed vital information about enemy troop locations and movements, sabotaged bridges and supply lines, skirmished with German columns and harried the occupying forces as they retreated eastwards in the face of the Allied invasion.Camped deep in the woods of the Montsaughe region, the small force worked alongside the local groups of Maquis, forging strong links of mutual respect and friendship.Ian Wellsteds exciting first-hand account of his operations behind enemy lines is a tale of gallantry and daring, of comradeship and cooperation, full of humour and perceptive insight revealing one of the most significant chapters in the history of the SAS.
SOE in France
Author: Michael Richard Daniell FootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
She Landed By Moonlight
Author: Carole Seymour-JonesPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444724630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love. Pearl's lover was a Parisian parfumier turned soldier, Henri Cornioley, who had been taken prisoner while serving in the French Logistics Corps and subsequently escaped from his German POW camp. Agent Pearl Witherington's wartime record is unique and heroic. As the only woman agent in the history of SOEs in France to have run a network, she became a fearless and legendary guerrilla leader organising, arming and training 3,800 Resistance fighters. Probably the greatest female organiser of armed maquisards in France, the woman whom her young troops called 'Ma Mère', Pearl lit the fires of Resistance in Central France so that Churchill's famous order to 'set Europe ablaze', which had brought SOE into being, finally came to pass. Pearl's story takes us from her harsh, impoverished childhood in Paris, to the lonely forests and farmhouses of the Loir-et-Cher where she would become a true 'warrior queen'. Shortly before Pearl's death in 2008, the Queen presented her with a CBE in Paris. While male agents and Special Force Jedburghs received the DSO or Military Cross, an ungrateful country had forgotten Pearl. She had been offered a civilian decoration in 1945 which she refused, saying 'There was nothing civil about what I did.' But what pleased her most was to receive her Parachute Wings, for which she had waited over 60 years. Two RAF officers travelled to her old people's home and she was finally able to pin the coveted wings on her lapel. Pearl died in February 2008 aged 93.