Author: Frederick EdgePublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429019433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
An Englishman's View of the Battle
Author: Frederick EdgePublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429019433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
An Englishman's View of the Battle Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge
Author: Frederick Milnes EdgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge
Author: Frederick EdgePublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040752105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Real Bull-Fight - An Englishman's View Of Bull-Fighting
Author: Otis MygattPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446549577
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Last Englishmen
Author: Deborah BakerPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.
The Fatal Englishman
Author: Sebastian FaulksPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307523608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young. Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist. Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three. Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time. Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.
The Magazine of History
Author: The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
A History of the United States: The war for southern independence, 1849-1865
Author: Edward ChanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Author: