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Fonthill Media LLc Bristol Scout 1264: Rebuilding Granddad's
Book SynopsisIn 1913, Frank Barnwell designed the Bristol Scout, which was the fastest and most manoeuvrable warplane for the first eighteen months of the First World War, and became the prototype single-seat fighter from which all later fighters were derived. As a result Barnwell became one of the seminal figures in the development of aircraft design. In 1916, Flt Sub Lt F. D. H. Bremner RNAS flew Bristol Scouts for No. 2 Wing in the eastern Mediterranean. In 1983, his grandson David discovered three aircraft parts from Scout no. 1264 in his late grandfather's workshop and twenty years later he, together with his friend Theo Willford, researched the possibility of rebuilding her from these three parts. This book interweaves the previously unpublished early life of Barnwell and his brother Harold, the operational and technical history of his creation the Bristol Scout, Bremner's flying career, and the challenges faced by Theo together with David and his brother Rick in recreating 1264 and getting her back in the air. Neither Frank Barnwell nor the Bristol Scout have received the acclaim due to them in the history of military aviation and this lavishly illustrated book attempts to put the record straight.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1 The Barnwells: Early Days (1880–1907); 2 Leo Opdyke (1970–1986); 3 The Barnwells: Stretching Their Wings (1907–1911); 4 Research (1983–2007); 5 Frank Barnwell: Bristol Beginnings (1911); 6 Registration (2007); 7 Frank Barnwell: X-Planes (1911–1913); 8 Harold Barnwell: Instructor (1911–1913); 9 Bits and Pieces (2008–2012); 10 The Baby: Conception (1913); 11 The Baby: Gestation (1913–1914); 12 Wings and Things (2012–2014); 13 The Baby is Born (1914); 14 Harold Barnwell: Test Pilot and Designer (1913–1915); 15 Grandad Goes to War (1914–1915); 16 Final Touches (2014); 17 Scout A: Outbreak of War (1914); 18 Engine (2014–2015); 19 Scout C (1914–1915); 20 Testing Times (2015–2016); 21 Scout D (1915–1916); 22 Grandad’s War: No. 2 Wing, RNAS (1915–1918); 23 Island of Dreams (2012–2016); 24 Scout Armament (1914–1916); 25 Dreams Come True (2016); Epilogue; Endnotes; Further Reading.
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Wits University Press Lie on your wounds: The prison correspondence of
Book SynopsisThis book, comprising approximately 300 letters, provides access to the voice of Robert Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource of Sobukwe’s voice that exists: his prison letters. Not only do the letters evince Sobukwe’s storytelling abilities, they convey the complexity of a man who defied easy categorization. More than this: they are testimony both to the desolate conditions of his imprisonment and to Sobukwe’s unbending commitment to the cause of African liberation.The memory of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, inspirational political leader and first President of the Pan-Africanist Congress, has been sadly neglected in post-apartheid South Africa. In 1960, Sobukwe led the Anti-Pass Protests, which culminated in the Sharpeville Massacre, which proved a crucial turning point in the eventual demise of apartheid. Nevertheless, Sobukwe – a man once thought to hold greater promise for the liberation of South Africa than even Nelson Mandela – has been consistently marginalised in histories of the liberation struggle. Jailed for nine years, including a six-year period of near complete solitary confinement on Robben Island, Sobukwe was silenced throughout his life, a condition that has been extended into the post-apartheid present, so much so that we can say that Sobukwe was better known during rather than after apartheid.Given Sobukwe’s antagonistic relations both to white liberalism and to the African National Congress (whom he felt had betrayed the principles of African Nationalism), it is unsurprising that he has been subjected to a ‘consensus of forgetting’. With the changing political climate of recent years, the decline of the African National Congress’s hegemonic hold on power, the re-emergence of Black Consciousness and Africanist political discourse, the growth of student protests, Sobukwe is being looked to once again.Table of ContentsPreface by Otua Sobukwe Acknowledgements Introduction Letters 1960–1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Address at Fort Hare College Delivered by Mr Sobukwe, October 21, 1949 References Index
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Westholme Publishing, U.S. Maria Romanov: Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries
Book SynopsisThis is the third volume in our�series of original English translations�of the Romanov family's�private letters and diaries. As with the other volumes, this�is the first English translation of�her diaries and letters. All of the�materials are held in Russian�archives. The author fortunately�has been given access to the original�documents. Maria Romanov was canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church for her service as a nurse�tending wounded soldiers during World War I. Her diary reveals she felt she was the �black sheep� of the family despite being knows as the�most beautiful of the four sisters. (Lord Mountbatten kept her photo with him his entire life�as a remembrance of his youthful crush on her.) Her letters and diaries include intimate details about Rasputin and the royal family as well as�the family's concern over the war with Germany and the subsequent rise of the Bolsheviks. She was eighteen-years-old when she was murdered by the Bolsheviks.
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Random House USA Inc Peter the Great His Life and World Modern Library
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history—from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great “Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—The New York Times Book Review Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. Robert K. Massie delves deep into his life, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy into a legend—including his “incognito” travels in Europe, his unquenchable curiosity about Western ways, his obsession with the sea and establishment of the stupendous Russian navy, his creation of an unbeatable army, his transformation of Russia, and his relationships with those
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Tiger Project A Series Devoted to Germanyâs
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Simon & Schuster About Face
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ABC-CLIO William Pitt Earl of Chatham 17081778
Book SynopsisChapters include a survey of manuscript sources, coverage of relevant newspaper articles, historiographical materials, and an extensive compendium of historical and biographical works on Pitt, his achievements, and his place in history.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chronology of Significant Events in the Life of William Pitt Unpublished Personal Papers Published Compilations of Original Papers Other Works Printing Pitt Letters Speeches Published Writings of William Pitt Pamphlets Relating to Pitt Newspapers Journals and Periodicals Pitt's Life and Career Bibliographies Contemporary Memoirs and Diaries Containing Important Material on Pitt Special Topics Portraits, Cartoons and Statues, Etc. Places Associated with William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
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The History Press Ltd Jeremy Bamber
Book SynopsisDid Jeremy Bamber murder five members of his adoptive family in a frenzy, or was he falsely imprisoned?
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Pegasus Books Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the
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Penguin Books Ltd No Easy Walk to Freedom
Book SynopsisNelson Mandela was born in 1918 to one of the royal families of the Transkei, the eldest son of a Temba chief. He studied at the University of Fort Hare until he was expelled for participating in a student protest. He became a leading member of the ANC until 1963, when he was arrested, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. He spent the next eighteen years in the maximum-security prison for political prisoners on Robben Island, and was later moved to Pollsmoor Prison. During his incarceration he became a potent symbol for the anti-apartheid movement, and in response to increasing domestic and international pressure was finally freed on 11 February 1990. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, and in 1994 was elected president of South Africa in its first multiracial elections. He led the country until 1999.Mandela died in December, 2013.Trade ReviewOne of the great icons of the twentieth century -- Ato QuaysonTable of ContentsPart 1 Streams of African nationalism: no easy walk to freedom; the shifting sands of illusion. Part 2 Living under Apartheid: people are destroyed; land hunger; the doors are barred. Part 3 The fight against Apartheid - our tactics and theirs: freedom in our lifetime; our struggle needs many tactics; Verwoerd's tribalism; a charge of treason. Part 4 Resistance from underground: the struggle for a national convention; general strike; letter from underground; a land ruled by the gun. Part 5 On trial: black man in a white man's court; the Rivonia trial.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Absolutely Indispensable Man Ralph Bunche the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Kal Raustiala, Ralph Bunche has found his most attentive, incisive, and sympathetic biographer. Arguably the nation's most significant envoi of the American Century, Dr. Bunche emerges from these pages a brilliant, complex figure—equally pragmatic and visionary, cautious and courageous. We discover a precocious Black kid with worldly dreams; a genuine internationalist skeptical of nationalisms; an intellectual maverick who helped to construct the postwar global order while insisting on a planet without colonies. An absolutely indispensable book. * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *The Absolutely Indispensable Man is a magisterial tour through the life of Ralph Bunche filled with riveting history, hard-earned wisdom, and essential lessons for our own times. At a time of global disorder, Kal Raustiala brings us the incredibly full life of a man represented the best of what both America and the international order could be. * Ben Rhodes, author of After the Fall and The World as It Is *Not only a brilliant assessment of my grandfather's international career, but a timely reminder of the central role of the United Nations and UN peacekeeping in the liberation of colonized and oppressed people. * Ralph J. Bunche III, General Secretary of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization *When Ralph Bunche was born in 1903, nearly half the world's population—the darker half—lived under colonial rule. By the time of his death in 1971, colonialism was dead and the newly independent states had a voice in world affairs through the United Nations. As Kal Raustiala so convincingly demonstrates, no one was more central to decolonization or to the UN than Ralph Bunche. * Charles P. Henry, Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies, University of California at Berkeley *This is an outstanding biography. If someone had asked me whether we needed another biography of Bunche after Brian Urquhart's seminal study, I would have said, 'No.' Then I read Kal Raustiala's extraordinary volume. It brings to life the person, the times and Bunche's pathbreaking role in the creation of the modern United Nations with fresh insights on every page. This is essential reading for all who seek to understand the UN's potential and its limitations. * Michael Doyle, Columbia University, former Special Adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning, United Nations *The Absolutely Indispensable Man could not be more timely. Kal Raustiala weaves together absorbing stories of Ralph Bunche's life against the complex backdrop of race, global power politics, and the building of the 20th century international order. At a time when the future of that order is in question and issues of white supremacy roil both domestic and international politics, this book is lively, illuminating, and important. * Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America *This study is indispensable for understanding the era... A lengthy treatise but a great read. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1: West and East 2: Mandates and Colonies 3: A World View of Race 4: The War 5: Rebuilding the World 6: San Francisco 7: The UNO 8: The Struggle Over Trusteeship 9: The Problem of Palestine 10: The Path to the Prize 11: Triumph 12: Bunche Fever 13: Loyalty 14: Showdown at Suez 15: Corporal Bunche 16: To Gaza 17: The Year of Africa 18: Katanga 19: The Congo and the Cold War 20: The Death of Hammarskjold 21: Kennedy and Johnson 22: From Saigon to Selma 23: Seeking an End 24: An Idealist and a Realist Epilogue
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University of Wales Press Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury 14731541
Book SynopsisBorn in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the sixteenth century. This work presents the life and culture of this propertied titled lady against the social and political background of late Yorkist and early Tudor Britain.
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Orion Publishing Co City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search
Book Synopsis'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West' Vogue'Utterly compelling' Daily Mail'Gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling . . . Deeply researched yet as exciting as a novel' Simon Sebag MontefioreWelcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is sold in the sprawling bazaars; a place where ordinary people are forced to lead extraordinary lives.Based on extensive interviews, CITY OF LIES chronicles the lives of eight men and women drawn from across the spectrum of Iranian society and reveals what it is to live, love and survive in one of the world's most repressive regimes.Trade ReviewAn intriguing book based on the premise that, to survive in a repressive regime where the government believes it has the right to interfere in even your most intimate matters, you have to lie... A talented writer... Navai has a reporter's eye for the telling detail... this is a timely and beautifully written insight into the lives of Tehranis - "masters at manipulating the truth", Navai says - just as their country seems to be opening up -- Christina Lamb * SUNDAY TIMES *Welcome to life in the Islamic Republic of Iran - or, more specifically, in its teeming, ugly, catastrophically polluted capital city. Ramita Navai is an award-winning British-Iranian journalist and broadcaster who has lived in Tehran and London, and feels allegiance to both countries. It was while working as a newspaper correspondent in Tehran that she began interviewing a wide range of ordinary people about their lives, collecting stories which are (unsurprisingly) extraordinary. This gripping book is a mosaic of such glimpses into a very different world... the chapters read like utterly compelling short tales, catapulting us imaginatively into the hearts and minds of people we feel we know, even though their lives are so very 'other'... It is the author's considerable achievement to make you feel deeply moved by these lives - even as you send up a fervent prayer of gratitude that we were lucky enough to be born here -- Bel Mooney * DAILY MAIL *City of Lies is a fascinating account of ordinary life in a major city where religious fanaticism has been allowed to run riot. It's hard to close the book without valuing the freedom secularisation brings, and the relative absence of hypocrisy that arrives through not having to repress human nature * ENTERTAINMENT FOCUS *City of Lies is thoroughly researched and deeply evocative of place. Navai has a formidable talent as a storyteller. Her stories are by turns comical, intriguing and heart-wrenching. And although there's a great deal of sadness in the stories she tells, she writes with obvious love for the wondrous variety of life in Tehran * GEOGRAPHICAL *City of Lies explores the double lives led by Tehranis as they evade the watchful eye of the regime... a rich portrait of this vibrant, opaque and paranoid city... at the heart of City of Lies is some brilliant reporting. Persuading subjects to talk, even anonymously, is an achievement where betrayal is commonplace and there is always someone watching. Black humour runs through the book -- Hugh Tomlinson * THE TIMES *Navai's Tehran teems with crystal meth pushers, gun runners, prostitutes and transexuals... what makes City of Lies engaging is that it is rooted in real-life stories... It is, in many ways, the written version of a television docudrama, with parallel stories that never intersect -- Farah Nayeri * THE INDEPENDENT *Searing account of life in Tehran... Iranians share stories intimate and unforgettable enough to establish City of Lies as a remarkable and highly readable map of its human geography... Navai's prose is startling... She picks up snatches of songs, poems, billboard propaganda and is quick to find the knife and turn the blade on the hypocrisy of the city she knows so well -- Eliza Griswold * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Telling the story of Tehran through a cast of characters...Navai illustrates how Iranians are far more bound by what they have in common: a strong awareness of class, an irrepressible drive for upward mobility, daily clashes with the forces of modernity and tradition, and a profound disillusionment with the opportunities society has on offer. Fast-paced and saturated with detail each chapter describes a Tehrani whose life the treacherous, glittering city has disfigured in some way... what [Navai] has done is extraordinary. Despite the bleakness of life in their "city of lies", her Iranians continue to soldier on, hoping the future holds something better -- Azadeh Moaveni * FINANCIAL TIMES *Phenomenal... Pacy and informative. City of Lies is an extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West * VOGUE *In City of Lies, the British-Iranian writer Ramita Navai has brought together an intriguing collection of cameo portraits to illustrate the difficulties and challenges Tehranis face in their everyday lives... Navai provides a fascinating insight into the routine hypocrisy and dishonesty for millions of city-dwellers... Navai's book offers a fascinating glimpse into how Iranians cope with the demands of living under one of the world's most authoritarian regimes. But it also suggests the country needs to experience an altogether different type of revolution before its people can ever dream of living something approaching a normal life -- Con Coughlin * THE MAIL ON SUNDAY *Of the great cities of the Earth, Tehran is by no means the most engaging... Bursting with automobiles, poisoned with smog and opium, shaken by earthquakes and almost permanent insurrection... City of Lies shows how well the Islamic Republic, for all its unworldliness has survived for 35 years and why a man such as ex-president Ahmadinejad, to us a mere clown, for a long time commanded a following... In few other places is the gulf so wide between what is said and what is done -- James Buchan * THE GUARDIAN *Iranians will condemn Navai for sowing this bleak and ugly side of Iran, in which she has broken taboos and laid bare what everyone knows but nobody mentions... She writes well and with fluency, in tight prose -- Antony Wynn * TLS *In City of Lies Ramita Navai tells us that 'in order to live in Tehran you have to lie'. Survival there depends on dodging the fatwas of Iran's medieval theocratic regime. Drink, drugs and paid-for sex proliferate; the divorce rate soars while religious attendance tumbles. Navai paints brilliantly insightful portraits of eight Tehranis suffering under an Iranian revolution which has gone terribly wrong - but with no stomach for another in the light of the failed 'Arab Spring' -- Jonathan Rugman * THE SPECTATOR (Books of the Year) *Gripping, a dark delicious unveiling of the secret decadent life of Islamic Tehran, deeply researched yet exciting as a novel -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * EVENING STANDARD *Each chapter reads almost like a short story, covering the fascinating inner worlds of socialites, prostitutes, gangsters, junkies and anti-regime bloggers. Nose jobs, illicit sex, bribery and fear of the Gashte Ershad morality police loom large in this vivid captivating insight as Navai explores the little reported day-to-day existence of Tehranians -- Tom Chesshyre * THE TIMES 'Books of the Year' *Compulsively readable... readers are granted a panoramic view of Iranian society * THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE *This is an important book. A seamless literary tapestry that just happens to be true. Ramita Navai's collection of stories are uniquely Iranian yet they will move, chill and delight even a reader indifferent to Persia -- Sam Kiley, Foreign Affairs Editor, SKY NEWSRamita Navai has written a fascinating, unforgettable book about the unbreakable human spirit in one of the world's great cities -- Jeremy BowenThe stories are beautiful, and they're so well-detailed and nuanced -- Jon Stewart * THE DAILY SHOW *Utterly gripping and one of the best books I've read in a long time -- Jane Merrick * THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *The stories are beautiful, and they're so well-detailed and nuanced -- Jon Stewart * THE DAILY SHOW *
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The Mercier Press Ltd The Big Fellow:: Michael Collins and the Irish
Book SynopsisRe-issued with an introduction by Neil Jordan, 'The Big Fellow' is the 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader Michael Collins by acclaimed author Frank O'Connor. It is an uncompromising but humane study of Collins, whose stature and genius O’Connor recognised. A masterly, evocative portrait of one of Ireland’s most charismatic figures, 'The Big Fellow' covers the period of Collins' life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. The author, having served with the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, wrote 'The Big Fellow' as a form of reparation over the guilt he felt with regards to taking up arms against his fellow Irishmen and Collins' untimely death. Liam Neeson has said that he found the book of great assistance when preparing for the role of Collins in the 1996 film directed by Neil Jordan.
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Poolbeg Press Ltd The Day Michael Collins Was Shot: 2022
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Greenhill Books In the Shadow of Isandlwana: The Life and Times
Book SynopsisLord Chelmsford is not a bad man. He is industrious and conscientious so far as his lights guide him. But nature has refused to him the qualities of a great captain. He has suffered much and is entitled to certain commiseration. - Thomas Gibson Bowles, Vanity Fair General Lord Chelmsford's military career took him around the world; he served in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Abyssinian Expedition, before commanding the British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa. In January 1879, disaster struck when Chelmsford divided his forces at Isandlwana in the face of the enemy and the Zulu overwhelmed his camp, killing more than 1,300 of its defenders. Such a defeat was almost unprecedented in a Victorian colonial campaign. Despite Chelmsford's later victories at Gingindlovu and Ulundi, he was humiliatingly relieved of his command. His responsibility for Isandlwana dogged him for the rest of his days, and he would forever be associated with this historic defeat. In this comprehensive new biography, Anglo-Zulu War specialist John Laband, explores the personal character and military career of Lord Chelmsford, providing a well-rounded, well-balanced and well-informed picture of this complex military figure.
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Biteback Publishing The Not Quite Prime Ministers: Leaders of the
Book SynopsisHistory is written by the winners, they say. And more often than not, it is written about them too. A library's worth of books have been published chronicling the UK's Prime Ministers - those individuals who somehow made it to the top of the greasy pole of politics, however short or undistinguished their tenure. But what about those who failed to make it? Leaders of the Opposition present themselves as the alternative Prime Minister, waiting in the wings, ready to move centre stage. Many of them have indeed gone on to take power. But many more have not. Who were these potential PMs? Why did they never reach the top job? Do they all deserve to be remembered as losers? In this often wildly entertaining anthology, Dr Nigel Fletcher of the Centre for Opposition Studies brings together profiles of the opposition leaders who didn't make it to No. 10, from Charles James Fox to Jeremy Corbyn. Packed to the brim with odd facts, amusing anecdotes and pub quiz trivia about each not quite Prime Minister, this compelling collection is a journey through British political history, bringing to life the figures from the other side of the political equation who had remained in the shadow of 10 Downing Street - until now.
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New Generation Publishing All About Harry
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The History Press Ltd Magnificent Women and Flying Machines: The First
Book Synopsis‘Lively history of British women aviators.’ Daily Mail‘Compelling stories of female pioneers whose soaring ambition achieved firsts in the field of aviation.’ Britain Magazine‘This lovely book offers a welcome and enjoyable read and provides a timely testament for these unsung pioneers of aviation.’ Maggie Appleton MBE, Chief Executive Officer, RAF Museum‘A real celebration of the women who defied tradition and followed their dreams into the sky. Readable and entertaining, this book is a worthy tribute to Britain’s woman aviation pioneers.’ Sharon Nicholson FRAeS, Chairwoman of the British Women Pilots’ AssociationJust eighteen months after two Frenchmen made the world’s first ever flight, a fearless British woman hopped into a flimsy balloon and flew across the London sky for nearly an hour. Since then, many other remarkable British women have decided to defy traditional society and follow their dreams to get into the sky.For the first time, Magnificent Women and Flying Machines tells the stories of the pioneers who achieved real firsts in various forms of aviation: in ballooning, parachuting, gliding, airships and fixed-wing flight – right up to a trip to the International Space Station! Full of entertaining adventure, here at last is a proper record of Britain’s wonderful women of the air.Trade ReviewMagnificent Women and Flying Machines is a fantastic celebration of the amazing achievement of women in the air and space! All kudos to our foremothers who said “knickers” to peril and prejudice and went ahead with their ambition regardless. -- Dr Alice Bunn CEng, FRAeS, FIMechEThis lovely book offers a welcome and enjoyable read and provides a timely testament for these unsung pioneers of aviation. -- Maggie Appleton MBEA real celebration of the women who defied tradition and followed their dreams into the sky. Readable and entertaining, this book is a worthy tribute to Britain’s woman aviation pioneers. -- Sharon Nicholson FRAeS
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Olympia Publishers The Prison Guard
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Helion & Company Anson: Royal Navy Commander and Statesman,
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Newcastle Libraries & Information Service The Blacketts: A Northern Dynasty's Rise, Crisis
Book SynopsisThe Blacketts have cast long shadows over the region's history as Newcastle merchants, miners, the builders of Wallington Hall and political figures in the 1600s and 1700s. Yet historians over the years have previously found it hard to get out from those shadows and to see more than the silhouettes of myth. Greg Finch's flowing account of the first three Sir William Blacketts, based on extensive new research, now dispels those myths. He reveals a vivid story of a dramatic rise from modest origins, the opening up of the regional lead industry, the creation and operation of a huge business and the crises that followed during a turbulent century of conflict and progress.Trade Review'The depth and breadth of Greg Finch's scholarship is extraordinary: he finds, interprets and explains exactly what was going on in a dynasty of extraordinary entrepreneurs in North-east England on the brink of the industrial revolution. But this is no dry, scholarly tome: he tells the tale with the pen of a poet.' - Matt Ridley
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Batsford Ltd I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts
Book SynopsisDid you know that Winston Churchill spent his twenty-fifth birthday as a prisoner of war? Or that he fought in the trenches during the First World War? Churchill once had dinner with the king in No. 10’s air-raid shelter, and his chickens lived in a shed, built by Winston, called ‘Chickenham Palace’. These and many other fun facts about this great historical figure and his life are all contained within this little book, which, together with more than 100 illustrations, will delight Churchill fans everywhere!
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Are You With Me?: Kevin Boyle and the Human
Book SynopsisKevin Boyle (1943–2010) was one of the world’s great human rights lawyers. In a career that lasted decades and spanned continents, he tackled issues ranging from freedom of the press to terrorism to minority rights. This compelling account of Kevin Boyle’s life and work is a remarkable tale of how a taxi driver’s son from Northern Ireland inspired the human rights movement around the world. Born in Newry in 1943, Boyle attended Queen’s University Belfast in the early 1960s, beginning to teach law in 1966. He was a co-founder of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) and the People’s Democracy, mediated during the 1981 hunger strikes and helped forge the basis for the agreement that ended the Troubles. His ideas, endorsed in a previously unrevealed conversation Margaret Thatcher had with Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald, provided much of the intellectual underpinning for the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement. He was the lead lawyer in the case that decriminalized homosexuality in Northern Ireland, which then led to its decriminalization in the Irish Republic and other countries. Through a series of landmark cases at the European Court of Human Rights, he left an enduring mark on international human rights law, campaigning against apartheid in South Africa and repression in Turkey. He also played a critical role as the senior advisor to Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, during 9/11 and was involved in shaping the international response. He also led the campaign to support Salman Rushdie after the writer was targeted by Iran’s ayatollahs in 1989. Kevin Boyle was central in founding human rights law centres at universities from Ireland and Britain to Brazil and Japan. Though he was a towering figure, his personal story is not well known. Now, based on years of research, thousands of documents, and scores of interviews, former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy has crafted the compelling life story of a remarkable Irishman.Trade ReviewA terrific biography told by a world-class journalist. -- Dan Rather * CBS News *An eloquent account of the life and work of one of the greatest heroes who has ever worked in the sphere of human rights… and I am delighted that Mike Chinoy has written this book. -- Zeinab BadawiThis chronicle of Kevin Boyle’s life is outstanding. Told by an accomplished writer, it is an engaging narrative of five interwoven strands; the political, the historical, the international legal, the academic and the deeply personal. * Dublin Review of Books *Chinoy’s book is a worthwhile read and a fitting homage not only to an individual pioneer of international human rights law, but also to the underestimated power of the law in challenging injustice and inequality around the world. -- Connor Beaton * Irish Legal *Chinoy’s biography is a conscientious, engaging tribute to a true believer in universal human rights. While lawyers rarely seem glamorous, Boyle proves they can still be heroes. -- Melissa Chan * Los Angeles Review of Books *A fitting tribute to a great man who helped forge Irish peace. -- Eilis O'Hanlon * The Independent *In this beautifully-written and fascinating book, Mike Chinoy has brought to life one of the great pioneering human rights lawyers of our times, a brilliant and dedicated fighter for justice, first in Northern Ireland and then on the international stage. -- Conor O'CleryThe story of the late Kevin Boyle is well worth telling … Never one to seek the limelight, his name and legacy slipped into an obscurity from which Mike Chinoy has deservedly rescued him. -- Mary McAleese
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable
Book SynopsisIn a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed. In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London. An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights. WINNER OF THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTrade Review'A must read.' ‘A brilliant biography . . . [Jones] has given a vivid picture of London one hundred years ago.’ 'An engaging, worthwhile biography. … Jones uncovers the life of a historical ghost, nearly lost to the world' -- Choice‘The richness and wider implications of Merriman-Labor’s life and sojourn in England come out vividly in [this] book because of Jones’ careful research, analytical rigor, and lively writing.’ -- Journal of African History'Written with great verve, An African in Imperial London reconstructs the life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor... Both he and his biographer provide a rich picture of London, particularly in his most important work... an enlightening account of what it meant to be black in the most powerful country in the world'. -- Peter Stansky'Historical rigour, literary skill and a deep sense of humanity pervades this splendid biography which recovers from the condescension of the past the world of Augustus Merriman-Labor.' -- David Killingray'The moving and surprising story of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor, both insider and outsider in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa and England, is also a compelling contemporary parable about the interaction between individuals and society.' -- Edward MendelsonElegantly written and meticulously researched for over seven years, An African in Imperial London presents the life and times of Augustus Merriman-Labor: Sierra Leonean writer, barrister, munitions worker during the First World War, and much more besides. This is an important addition to the history of Africans in Britain.' -- Hakim Adi
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Helion & Company Memoirs of a Bush War Operator: Further Memoirs
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Bookmarks Publications Duncan Hallas: Indomitable Revolutionary: A
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Whitefox Publishing Ltd Mother Country: A Story of Love and Lies
Book SynopsisA true story of the passionate and tragi-comic relationship between a mother running from her past in Hitler’s Germany and a daughter running towards it. Inge was German, half-Jewish and a Holocaust survivor, all of which she chose to deny until the very end. Talented and able, charismatic and infuriating, she surged through life constantly reinventing herself. Sent out of Nazi Germany to the souks of Meknés, she fled a freezing attic in war-torn Brussels to land in a council estate in Birkenhead. London offered the escapee a new start until her past caught up with her. Triumph finally came in France where nobody knew who she was – least of all the friends who adored her. Led by emotions she could barely understand, let alone control, Inge divided, and often she conquered. After her death, deep secrets emerged. Her daughters knew that she had always misled others – but not that they, too, might be collateral damage. Compelling, frank, and witty, this memoir is part detective story, part daughterly fury. Drawn to embrace the identity her mother could not bear, Monique Charlesworth has dug deep into Inge’s story, unveiling tragedy, passion, heartbreak and, finally, the truth.Trade Review'Mother Country is Charlesworth's moving attempt to come to terms with her own dysfunctional childhood: her obedient yet deeply ambivalent relationship with Inge, who was generous and loving yet unempathetic and self-centred ... A book is another way to honour the dead, and with this fine memoir Charlesworth ensures that her family’s past will not be forgotten.' -- Natasha Lehrer * TLS *‘An affectionate, daughterly memoir that has as many twists and turns as a fast-paced thriller.’ -- Liz Hodgkinson * The Lady *
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Hachette Livre - BNF Vie Politique de
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Edition Lebensbilder Hildegard von Bingen: Biografie
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Edition Lebensbilder Stefan Zweig: Erinnerungen eines Freundes.
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Alpha Edition Catherine De' Medici And The French Reformation
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Incredible Life of Birsa Munda: The Great
Book SynopsisBirsa Munda lived in one of the villages that dotted the Chhotanagpur region in today's Jharkhand. He was a dreamy boy with an uncanny ability to mesmerize not only humans but birds and animals too with his words and music. As he grew up, he became more and more aware of the exploitation of the Adivasi people by rich landowners and the British government. Birsa spoke out one day, and from that moment on, he started a journey that saw him become one of India's greatest tribal leaders and icons of resistance.Birsa Munda rallied his people, telling them to stand up for their traditional rights to the forests and their land.
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Lector House Behind The Scenes In Warring Germany
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Infinite Intel Consult Sir OLATERU OLAGBEGI KBE - The Legendary King
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Dutton Caliber The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from
Book SynopsisThe remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom.Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was one of only two crewmen who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground, when their plane was shot down near Cognac, France, in 1943.After fleeing the wreck, Arthur knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, whose owners hastily took him in. Fortunately, his hosts had a tight connection to the French resistance group Morhange and its founder, Marcel Taillandier, who arranged for Arthur’s transfers among safe houses in southern France, shielding him from the Gestapo.Based on recently declassified material, exclusive personal interviews, and extensive research into the French Resistance, The Lost Airman tells the tense and riveting story of Arthur’s hair-raising journey to freedom—a true story of endurance, perseverance, and escape during World War II.INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAP
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Simon & Schuster Walter Isaacson: The Genius Biographies: Benjamin
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University of Washington Press Winning the West for Women
Book SynopsisThis fascinating biography describes the real experiences of women and their relationships as they struggled to win the right to voteTrade Review"Ross-Nazzal has nicely woven DeVoe's story into the politics of both the West and of the suffrage movement, exposing the gritty realities of both." -- Angela Firkus * North Dakota History *"The book provides vivid glimpses of America in its passage from the 19th into the 20th century. . . . We could use more voices like DeVoe's nowadays." -- Judy Lightfoot * Crosscut *"This text does vital work in reclaiming the life of Emma Smith DeVoe, giving scholars deeper knowledge of the contradictions and complexities of the suffrage campaign." -- Loretta Kensigner * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Ross-Nazzal argues convincingly that DeVoe made a vital contribution to the woman suffrage movement on both the state and national levels. While concentrating on DeVoe, this study reaffirms the important role western women played in the suffrage struggle." -- Kathleen M. Green * The Annals of Iowa *"What makes DeVoe's story particularly fascinating is that suffrage leaders, including Susan B. Anthrony, disapproved of DeVoe's insistence on a more feminine approach. Ross-Nazzal correctly notes that not only were suffragists critical of DeVoe's strategy but historians have been as well." -- Sunu Kodumthara * Montana The Magazine of Western History *"Ross-Nazzal brings the experiences of the movement to life. Her well-researched and closely chronicled account helps illuminate the significant role of women in the West and Midwest in attaining the vote for women." -- Lisa R. Lindell * South Dakota History *"Ross-Nazzal's study helps us understand her difficult position—determined and resourceful but constrained by financial problems and prevailing gender norms—and appreciate the extent of her impressive accomplishments." -- Rebecca Mead * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"Winning the West for Women is an intriguing study of the hard work, varying strategies and shifting alliances that were involved in securing the vote for women." -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael * The Bellingham Herald *"Ross-Nazzal is right to suggest that Emma Smith DeVoe's important role in the women's suffrage struggles of the West has been overlooked and that western women did in fact play a crucial role in winning passage of the Nineteenth Amendment." -- Jason McCollom * H-Net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note about Names List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Moral Reform and Statehood 2. The South Dakota Woman Suffrage Campaign 3. Building a National Reputation 4. The Organization Committee 5. The Northwest Campaigns 6. The Nineteenth Amendment 7. Party Women Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Little, Brown & Company Barack and Joe The Making of an Extraordinary
Book SynopsisFrom the Washington Post editor and author of Kennedy and King, a vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" that developed between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, which captured Americans' imagination and was unlike any President-Vice President relationship in American history.
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Random House USA Inc Wild Steps of Heaven
Book SynopsisIn his critically acclaimed bestseller Rain of Gold, Victor Villase-or brought his mother''s family vividly to life. In Wild Steps Of Heaven, he turns to his father''s family, the Villase-ors. Against a vivid backdrop of love and war, magic and heroism, the author breathes life into his father''s people--and in particular, the Villase-or women*Margarita, the indomitable matriarch who was swept away by Don Juan Jesus Villase-or on the eve of the Mexican revolution*their beautiful daughters, who find strength and endurance in their mother''s faith, and searing passion amidst the turmoil of war. But it is little Juan, the youngest son, through whose eyes this tumultuous saga unfolds. Juan would learn from his brother Jose, a hero of the revolution, how to be a man; and from his beloved mother, how to live and love con gusto y amor. A story of madness and miracles, rage and redemption, In Wild Steps Of Heaven creates a riveting portrait of an extraordin
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Random House USA Inc On Great Fields
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College.How did a
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Random House USA Inc American Crisis Leadership Lessons from the
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.“An impressive road map to dealing with a crisis as serious as any we have faced.”—The Washington Post When COVID-19 besieged the United States, New York State emerged as the global “ground zero” for a deadly contagion that threatened the lives and livelihoods of millions. Quickly, Governor Andrew Cuomo provided the leadership to address the threat, becoming the standard-bearer of the organized response the country desperately needed. With infection rates spiking and more people dying every day, the systems and functions necessary to combat the pandemic in New York—and America—did not exist. So Cuomo undertook the impossible. He unified people
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Penguin Putnam Inc Rahul Bajaj
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Random House, India Bahawalpur
Book SynopsisThe nation's troubled history has clouded a clear picture of it and shrouded its component parts. From the microcosm of Bahawalpur, this account helps to join the dots of a more coherent view of the macrocosm of Pakistan and queries the future route of the Islamic State.
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Penguin Random House India A Childhood in Tibet True lifestory of a woman
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Lexington Books Gandhis Experiments with Truth
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn a time ravaged by large-scale violence and unending 'terror wars,' nothing seems more urgent than to be reminded of another possibility: the path of non-violent struggle for justice exemplified by Gandhi. This volume assembles for the first time writings both by Gandhi and about Gandhi, the latter by some of the most distinguished experts in the field. Richard Johnson deserves credit for his judicious selections and for persuasively arguing that Gandhian satyagraha is 'the only way to stop terrorism.' -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre DameHaving these essays on one volume makes it a valuable source of supplemental readings for courses on Gandhi, peace and nonviolence, and conflict studies. -- July 2007 * Religious Studies Review *Those looking for an introduction to Gandhi, seasoned nonviolent activists, and long time students of Gandhi will all find this to be a remarkable collection. Johnson has brought together key selections from Gandhi’s writings with insightful essays by a variety of Gandhian scholars on Gandhi’s nonviolence, views on religion, methods of political, economic, and cultural change and his continuing influence and relevance for today. I cannot think of a better book that unites Gandhi’s own words with very readable essays covering a breadth of topics on Gandhi’s life and thought. Johnson's book makes clear again Gandhi's importance as a resource for creating a more just and peaceful world. -- Peter R. Gathje, Christian Brothers UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Gandhi's Experiments with Truth: Private Life, Satyagraha, and the Constructive Programme Part 2 Gandhi's Life and Thought Chapter 3 From Childhood to Satyagrahi Chapter 4 Return to India Part 5 Selections from Writings by Gandhi Chapter 6 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth Chapter 7 Satyagraha in South Africa Chapter 8 Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule) and Related Writings Chapter 9 Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place and Related Writings Chapter 10 Short Moral and Political Writings Part 11 Writings about Gandhi Part 12 Part A. Gandhi's Practice and Theory of Satyagraha Chapter 13 The Birth of Gandhian Satyagraha: Nonviolent Resistance and Soul Force Chapter 14 Gandhian Freedoms and Self-Rule Chapter 15 Gandhi's Politics Chapter 16 "Satyagraha, the Only Way to Stop Terrorism" Chapter 17 Gandhi and Human Rights: In Search of True Humanity Chapter 18 Gandhi's Constructive Programme Part 19 Part B. Gandhi's Impact on the World Chapter 20 Gandhi in the Mind of America Chapter 21 The Availability of Gandhi: Toward a Neo-Gandhian Praxis Chapter 22 Gandhi, Contemporary Political Thinking, and Self-Other Relations Chapter 23 Gandhi's Legacy Chapter 24 Gandhi's Contribution to Global Nonviolent Awakening Chapter 25 Gandhi, Nonviolence, and the Struggle against War
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The History Press Ltd Magnificent Women and Flying Machines
Book SynopsisBalloons, parachutes, aeroplanes, gliders, airships –the extraordinary personal tales of the women who led the way in early British aviation!Trade ReviewMagnificent Women and Flying Machines is a fantastic celebration of the amazing achievement of women in the air and space! All kudos to our foremothers who said “knickers” to peril and prejudice and went ahead with their ambition regardless. -- Dr Alice Bunn CEng, FRAeS, FIMechEThis lovely book offers a welcome and enjoyable read and provides a timely testament for these unsung pioneers of aviation. -- Maggie Appleton MBEA real celebration of the women who defied tradition and followed their dreams into the sky. Readable and entertaining, this book is a worthy tribute to Britain’s woman aviation pioneers. -- Sharon Nicholson FRAeS
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Goose Lane Editions Bamboo Cage
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