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Author: Gordon Kerr
Publisher:
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781905847563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Britain is a nation obsessed with runners-up and near misses: the national psyche also considers failure to be heroic and success insipid, if not downright rude. In this book Gordon Kerr has assembled a veritable menagerie of British bunglers from every conceivable walk of loserdom, covering everyone from Caractacus to Lewis Hamilton.
Author: Stephanie L. Barczewski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0300180063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aan de hand van heroïsche mislukkingen zoals de Charge van de Lichte Brigade en Captain Scott wordt licht geworpen op het Brits zijn.
Author: Gordon Kerr
Publisher: Muswell Press
Published: 2016-06-06
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1999313518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Italian Alps,1944. The Resistance is fighting a bitter battle against German forces on the treacherous mountains of the Valtellina. Eighteen-year-old Sandro Bellini falls in love with the wife of his Commander. No good can come of it. London,1999. Michael Keats is mourning the death of his wife, killed in a hit and run accident in Northern Italy. His discovery that she had been having an affair devastates him and he sets out to find the identity of her lover. That journey leads him to the villages of the Valtellina, where he becomes embroiled in a crime of treachery and revenge. The brutal repercussions of the war are still reverberating, and as Michael uncovers the truth of his wife's affair, he reveals five decades of duplicity and deception.
Author: W. H. Hudson
Publisher: Binker North
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Afoot in England is a classic English bird watching volume by W.H. Hudson. Mr. Hudson is a nature lover, especially, a bird lover, and it was his quest for the bird life of the English Countryside that led him "afoot" on many of these birding pilgrimages through un-frequented England, of which he gives us such attractive glimpses.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1775458709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' stories, the titular detective is described in passing as a skilled amateur boxer. In the novel Rodney Stone, however, Conan Doyle dives much deeper into the world of pugilism, combining a satisfying mystery plot with the tale of an up-and-coming young boxer who rubs shoulders with many of England's most renowned nineteenth-century athletes and personages.
Author: Jocelyn Pixley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521827850
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Author: Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chapter IX appeared originally in the Westminster review (July, 1886) cf. Pref.
Author: Gordon Kerr
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2014-06-27
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1843440954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The First World War, lasting just four years, from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated. A Short History of the First World War tells the story of this cataclysmic event describing the background to war, the international rivalries and conflicts of the previous decades that led to the nations of Europe forming virtual armed camps, the relentless build-up of military and naval hardware that characterized the early years of the 20th century and the great figures that tried to prevent conflict or enthusiastically pushed for it. A Short History of the First World War provides a superb introduction to the events of this epochal conflict at a time when the world will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of its outbreak and remembering the millions who lost their lives in it.
