Author: George Carter StentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Scraps from my sabretache, personal adventures
Author: George Carter StentCatalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.)
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Cavalry Journal
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Cavalry Journal
Author: British Military Spectacle
Author: Scott Hughes MyerlyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674082496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while serving to intimidate civil rioters in peacetime. Often ridiculed for their constrictive splendor, British army uniforms of the early nineteenth century nonetheless played a powerful role in the troops' performance on campaign, in battle, and as dramatic entertainment in peacetime. Plumbing a wide variety of military sources, most tellingly the memoirs and letters of soldiers and civilians, Scott Hughes Myerly reveals how these ornate sartorial creations, combining symbols of solidarity and inspiration, vivid color, and physical restraint, enhanced the managerial effects of rigid discipline, drill, and torturous punishments, but also helped foster regimental esprit de corps. Encouraging recruitment, enforcing discipline within the military, and boosting morale were essential but not the only functions of martial dress. Myerly also explores the role of the resplendent uniform and its associated gaudy trappings and customs during civil peace and disorder--whether employed as public relations through spectacular free entertainment, or imitated by rioters and rebels opposing the status quo. Dress, drills, parades, inspections, pomp, and order: as this richly illustrated book conducts us through the details of the creation, design, functions, and meaning of these aspects of the martial image, it exposes the underpinnings of a mentality--and vision--that extends far beyond the military subculture into the civic and social order that we call modernity.
Casino Royale
Author: Ian FlemingPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460406818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Casino Royale (1953), Ian Fleming’s first novel, introduced James Bond and other recurring characters of the Bond series of novels and short stories. Complex, even conflicted, this Bond belongs to the post-war world of rationing, trauma, and a growing sense of uncertainty due to social and technological change and the rising tensions of the Cold War. This is the first edition of Casino Royale to include footnotes that provide a larger context for the novel as well as translate its French passages. The edition also includes appendices that provide a number of other works by Fleming and other literary and historical materials that help to situate the spy thriller.
The Other Wars
Author: Justin FantauzzoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The first full-length study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers in the Middle East and Macedonia during WWI.
The Book of Snobs
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Ocean Cat’s Paw
Author: George Manville FennPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752368454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Ocean Cat’s Paw by George Manville Fenn