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Book Synopsis Four Thousand Lives Lost by : Alastair Walker
Download or read book Four Thousand Lives Lost written by Alastair Walker and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them — but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is often referred to as a 'company man', or a government stooge. But is this the whole truth? Everyone has heard of Titanic and Lusitania but more passengers died when the Empress of Ireland sank in May 1914. That inquiry turned into a head-to-head between an American lawyer and a British one. Did Mersey let the right man win? Was he fair to Captain Lord of the Californian when he blamed him for the loss of so many lives on Titanic? The U-Boat that sank the Falaba with the loss of 104 lives behaved very differently to the one that torpedoed the Lusitania just six weeks later. Did Mersey reflect that in his findings or was he more interested in propaganda than truth?
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by :
Download or read book Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by :
Download or read book The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by : Freeman Hunt
Download or read book Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review written by Freeman Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Kershaw's Brigade by : D. Augustus Dickert
Download or read book History of Kershaw's Brigade written by D. Augustus Dickert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Kershaw's Brigade of South Carolinians is familiar to all who wore the gray and saw hard fighting on the fields of Virginia, in the swamps of Carolina and the mountains of Tennessee. This was ""the First Brigade of the First Division of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia,"" and many of its members volunteered for service before the first gun was fired at the Star of the West, while its ragged regimental remnants laid down their arms at Greensboro not till the 2d of May, 1865, nearly a month after the fateful day of Appomattox. Its history is a history of the war, for, as will he seen, there were few pitched battles in the East that did not call forth its valor. The chief merit of Captain Dickert's book is that it presents the gay and bright, as well as the grave side of the Confederate soldier's experience. It is full of anecdote and incident and repartee. Such quips and jests kept the heart light and the blood warm beneath many a tattered coat.
Book Synopsis Life Lost Or Saved by : Selina Ditcher
Download or read book Life Lost Or Saved written by Selina Ditcher and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Thousand Lives Lost by : Alastair Walker
Download or read book Four Thousand Lives Lost written by Alastair Walker and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them - but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles Bigham, Lord Mersey, who was appointed to head the inquiries into each disaster. Mersey is oftern referred to as a 'company man', or a government stooge. But is this the whole truth? Everyone has heard of Titanic and Lusitania but more passengers died when the Empress of Ireland sank in May 1914. That inquiry turned into a head-to-head between an American lawyer and a British one. Did Mersey let the right man win? Was he fair to Captain Lord of the Californian when he blamed him for the loss of so many lives on Titanic? The U-Boat that sank the Falaba with the loss of 104 lives behaved very differently to the one that torpedoed the Lusitania just six weeks later. Did Mersey reflect that in his findings or was he more interested in propaganda than truth?
Book Synopsis History of Kershaw's brigade by : A.D. Dickert
Download or read book History of Kershaw's brigade written by A.D. Dickert and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by :
Download or read book Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by :
Download or read book The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania by : Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines
Download or read book Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Natural Disasters by : P. A. Merriman
Download or read book Natural Disasters written by P. A. Merriman and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1993 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been estimated that, as a result of natural disasters, during the 1970s and 1980s three million lives were lost worldwide, the number of disasters increased threefold, the economic losses per decade almost doubled and the insurance losses quadrupled. In the light of these figures, the United Nations proclaimed the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and this book focuses on the British contribution to the Decade and is supplemented by papers from America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Download or read book Dead Wake written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo
Book Synopsis The Book of Whispers by : Kimberley Starr
Download or read book The Book of Whispers written by Kimberley Starr and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuscany, 1096 AD. Luca, young heir to the title of Conte de Falconi, sees demons. Since no one else can see them, Luca must keep quiet about what he sees, or risk another exorcism by the nefarious priest Ramberti. Luca also has dreams—dreams that sometimes predict the future. Night after night Luca sees his father murdered, and vows to stop it coming true. Even if he has to go against his father's wishes and follow him on the great pilgrimage to capture the Holy Lands. Far away in Cappadocia, Suzan has dreams too. Consigned with her mute mother to a life in an underground convent, she has a vision of a brown-haired boy riding through the desert. A boy with an ancient book that holds some inscrutable power. A boy who will take her on an adventure that will lead to places beyond both their understanding. Together, Luca and Suzan will realise their true quest: to defeat the forces of man and demon that wish to destroy the world. Kimberley Starr is a teacher and author based in Melbourne. Her debut novel, The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, won the 2003 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging Author. She has a degree in mediaeval literature, and travelled through Turkey and Israel to research The Book of Whispers. ‘The Book of Whispers combines history, fantasy, romance and the brutality of the Middle Ages in a satisfyingly epic novel.’ Books+Publishing ‘The Book of Whispers is fast paced and bloody in parts, not shying away from the brutality of the period and the atrocities committed during the Crusades; but it also shrewdly challenges the reader to think about religion, extremism and tolerance—particularly in relation to a region where those topics have particular significance.’ Lamont Books ‘One of my favourites of this year.’ Tea in the Treetops ‘This fast paced and well developed story has a little bit of everything to provide you with an interesting foray into a historical journey through time. Grief, love, chaos, adventure, magic, and the Christian crusades into Jerusalem all melded together into a beguiling and beautiful novel.’ Artistic Bent ‘The Book of Whispers embraces its fantastical aspects without sacrificing the concrete, and offers an introspective glance into human nature.’ Foreword Reviews ‘An epic novel that merges history, make-believe, romance and the harshness of the Middle Ages.’ PS News
Download or read book Flicker written by Andrew David Doyle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title FLICKER was named mainly due to the flickering of the Pathe - Wartime Newsreel footage and film presentations that were shown at almost every cinema on a daily basis across the United Kingdom as the great war unfolded. The technical term and explanation would be aimed towards the FLKR indirect acronym which is explained as :- Flicker, Frame or FFV, a method of modifying poor-quality video files into files that can, and do trick the human eye into observing a clearer and better image. With trickery and deception being the main driver for this World War II counter intelligence spy novel, Lt Colonel Kemp Hastings R.A. Chief of Staff Bletchley Park, struggles to makes sense of the predicament he suddenly finds himself wrapped up in. In an attempt to ensure the safety and protection of the Prime Minister Mr Winston Churchill the Staff at Bletchley soon hatch a plan that required a great deal of internal resource to ensure success but finds to their surprise that a higher echelon was already at work.
