Author: William T. UtterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780975575765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Granville
Author: William T. UtterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780975575765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Spy Who Loved
Author: Clare MulleyPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250030331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife, Granville would become one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents. Having fled to Britain on the outbreak of war, she was recruited by the intelligence services and took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High Tatras into occupied Poland, served in Egypt and North Africa, and was later parachuted behind enemy lines into France, where an agent's life expectancy was only six weeks. Her courage, quick wit, and determination won her release from arrest more than once, and saved the lives of several fellow officers—including one of her many lovers—just hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More importantly, the intelligence she gathered in her espionage was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort, and she was awarded the George Medal, the OBE, and the Croix de Guerre. Granville exercised a mesmeric power on those who knew her. In The Spy Who Loved, acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley tells the extraordinary history of this charismatic, difficult, fearless, and altogether extraordinary woman.
Small Town
Author: Granville HicksPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823223572
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views. In this book, he combines a kind of hand-crafted ethnographic research with personal reflections on the qualities of small town life that were being threatened by spreading cities and suburbs. He eloquently tried to define the essential qualities of small town community life and to link them to the best features of American culture. The book sparked numerous articles and debates in a baby-boom America nervously on the move. Long out of print, this classic of cultural criticism speaks powerfully to a new generation seeking to reconnect with a sense of place in American life, both rural and urban. An unaffected, deeply felt portrait of one such place by one of the best American critics, it should find a new home as a vivid reminder of what we have lost-and what we might still be able to protect.
The Amazing Mind of Granville Woods
Author: Granville
Author: Alexa McDonoughPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 073859976X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In 1805, a group of citizens from Massachusetts and Connecticut braved treacherous travel conditions to settle a new village in the heart of Ohio. Like the Welsh pioneers who arrived in the area a few years earlier, these industrious New Englanders found abundant natural resources to sustain themselves as they erected buildings, planted crops, and platted a town. The result of their hard work was the village of Granville, a beautiful and productive community that continues to adapt and thrive in the 21st century. Downtown Granville has evolved into a popular tourist destination, and Denison University, founded in the 1830s as the Granville Literary and Theological Institution, has become an elite and respected college of liberal arts and sciences.
The Gladstone-Granville Correspondence
Author: W. E. GladstonePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Reprint of this private correspondence with a new introduction which places Ramm's edition in its historical and literary context.
The Granville Jubilee
Author: First Church of Christ (Granville, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Granville (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre
Author: Michelle FaubertPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319927868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the “Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.” In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132 enslaved Africans overboard to their deaths. Uncovered by Michelle Faubert at the British Library in 2015, the letter is reproduced here, accompanied by her examination of its provenance and significance for the history of slavery and abolition. As Faubert argues, the British Library manuscript is the only fair copy of Sharp’s letter, and extraordinary evidence of Sharp’s role in the abolition of slavery.
The Remains of Denis Granville, D.D.
Author: Denis GrenvillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Durham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Lord John Carteret, Earl Granville - His Life History and the Granville Grants
Author: Stewart DunawayPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130087807X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This book detail the history of the Carteret, Granville, Thynne, Fermor and other families, pertaining to the Carteret's. John Carteret will inherit from his grandfather his 1/8 interest in the Lord Proprietor grant from King Charles II. John Carteret will be the only one of the eight inheritors who will retain his portion and establish his territory in North Carolina. This 1/8 portion is defined and granting of land will being in the 1740s. This book covers all aspects of what is well known as the Granville Grant. Modern maps are used to illustrate the magnitude of the original grant wording (Proprietors as well), and a detailed look into the calculation of Carteret's 1/8 portion. No other book has been dedicated to this topic, including following the land to the Thynne's.