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Author :National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Foreign Missions Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :45 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (543 download)
Book Synopsis Speeches by : National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Foreign Missions
Download or read book Speeches written by National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Foreign Missions and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 by : Susan Morris
Download or read book Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 written by Susan Morris and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 7460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.
Download or read book The Titled Nobility of Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mauled by a Tiger by : Arthur W. Strachan
Download or read book Mauled by a Tiger written by Arthur W. Strachan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published over sixty years ago, this book will appeal to all those who have experienced the beauty and fascination of the Indian jungles, and who have seen its wild denizens whether of animal or bird life. It provides an admirable account of sport and forest life in India. As the title aptly suggests, the author was mauled by a tiger, on one of his adventures into the jungle, a shocking story he narrates in this book and as the reader shall learn, his 'two injured limbs had, of course, to be amputed.' What shines through is his love for the animals and the jungles, despite the misadventure, making this book so special. In the same breath that the author narrates the story of the attack, he ends the chapter with these golden words that make this book such a classic, "my ambition now is to be able to go back to India for the purpose of "shooting" these splendid brutes with a cine camera." Also noteworthy are the spectacular colour hand-drawings of the ,jungle scenes created by the author himself!
Book Synopsis The Patient Assassin by : Anita Anand
Download or read book The Patient Assassin written by Anita Anand and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted Dyer to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, as well as recent demonstrations, strikes, and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these things, to Sir Michael, were a precursor to a second Indian revolt. What happened next shocked the world. An unauthorized gathering in the Jallianwallah Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919 became the focal point for Sir Michael’s law enforcers. Dyer marched his soldiers into the walled public park, blocking the only exit. Then, without issuing any order to disperse, he instructed his men to open fire, turning their guns on the crowd, which numbered in the thousands and included women and children. The soldiers continued firing for ten minutes, stopping only when they ran out of ammunition. According to legend, nineteen-year-old Sikh orphan Udham Singh was injured in the attack, and remained surrounded by the dead and dying until he was able to move the next morning. Then, he supposedly picked up a handful of blood-soaked earth, smeared it across his forehead, and vowed to kill the men responsible. The truth, as the author has discovered, is more complex—but no less dramatic. Award-winning journalist Anita Anand traced Singh’s journey through Africa, the United States, and across Europe until, in March 1940, the young man finally arrived in front of O’Dwyer himself in a London hall ready to shoot him down. The Patient Assassin “mixes Tom Ripley’s con-man-for-all-seasons versatility with Edmond Dantès’s persistence” (The Wall Street Journal) and reveals the incredible but true story behind a legend that still endures today.
Download or read book Statesman of Europe written by T. G. Otte and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world. The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Statesman of Europe describes the three decades before the First World War through the prism of his biography, which is based almost entirely on archival sources and presents a detailed account of the main domestic and international events, and of the main personalities of the era. In particular, it presents a fresh understanding of the approach to war in the years and months before its outbreak, and Grey's role in the unfolding of events. Yet Grey's life was not all public affairs, momentous as those were. He disliked being in London, much preferring country life at Fallodon, his family estate in Northumberland, and displayed none of the ambition of his contemporaries (or successors). He attended assiduously to his duties as director of the Great North Eastern Railway, one of the transformative enterprises in industry and communications of the period, and wanted to spend as much time as he could fishing. Apart from his memoirs, the only book he wrote was called The Charm of Birds. This hinterland gave quality to his judgements, and made his character attractive to his contemporaries. This important book is the definitive biography of one of the pivotal figures in European diplomacy, and a magnificent portrait of an age.
Book Synopsis Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage by :
Download or read book Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 2726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Ten Thousand written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Persian Petroleum by : Leonardo Davoudi
Download or read book Persian Petroleum written by Leonardo Davoudi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newly-uncovered private papers, as well as public and private archives in three countries, this book tells the definitive history of the first discovery of oil in Iran - the first discovery of oil in the Middle East. Exploring the formal and informal dealings of politicians, investors, civil servants and intermediaries Leonardo Davoudi charts the development of Persian petroleum from uncertain beginnings to becoming one of Britain's largest oil companies with the British government as its principal shareholder. Assessing the relationship between economic and political forces within the British empire and the relationship of foreign economic forces and domestic political forces in Persia, the book also explores the role of intermediation, informal empire, the Anglo-Russian rivalry over Persia, British naval developments and Persian political developments.
Book Synopsis World War I [2 volumes] by : Spencer C. Tucker
Download or read book World War I [2 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers detailed coverage of every country that played a significant role in World War I, from key participants including France, Germany, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the United States, to smaller nations such as Bulgaria, Montenegro, and New Zealand. World War I: A Country-by-Country Guide is a comprehensive reference exploring the role various nations played in this devastating conflict. Each of the 22 country sections provides detailed background information, the reasons behind the country's entry into the war, a summary of its combat effort in the war, a discussion of the home front experience, and a description of the war's impact on that nation. Illuminating sidebars offer an interesting war anecdote involving each country, while essays survey each country's military branches and key military and political leaders. Finally, a timeline for each nation covers all of the important events involving that country during World War I. In addition to the country coverage, a battles section offers entries on 18 of World War I's most important engagements and a separate section on weapons and tactical changes is included. The book also features dozens of maps and images throughout the text that serve as important visual aids that help readers to understand all aspects of the conflict.
Book Synopsis Journals of the House of Lords by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Download or read book Journals of the House of Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Book Synopsis Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics by : M. Naeem Qureshi
Download or read book Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics written by M. Naeem Qureshi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the Khilafat movement (1918-1924) in British India, which aimed at mobilizing pan-Islam for saving Ottoman Turkey from dismemberment and securing political reforms for India. It also examines the gradual transition of Muslim politics from pan-Islam to territorial nationalism.
Book Synopsis Power and Stability by : Erik Goldstein
Download or read book Power and Stability written by Erik Goldstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of stability drove British foreign policy even before 1865. These papers assess the implications of such a policy during the following 100 years when Britain slid from being the only global power to a regional European state.
Book Synopsis A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War by : Cameron Hazlehurst
Download or read book A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War written by Cameron Hazlehurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war. Pease was an unassuming participant in the deliberations of a unique gathering of political talent. His journals as President of the Board of Education from 1911 to the formation of the coalition ministry in 1915 are a closely observed, unvarnished record of what he saw and heard in Downing St and Westminster: constitutional and Home Rule crises, industrial conflict, electoral reform, women's suffrage controversies, struggles over budgets, naval estimates, and foreign policy. Despite his Quaker beliefs, Pease committed to supporting war against Germany, and his troubled conscience is laid bare in letters to his wife and friends. Replete with intimate portraits of his revered chief H. H. Asquith and the Prime Minister's social circle, the journals also provide evocative observations of the contest of ideas, arguments, and moods of prominent contemporaries, especially David Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill as Home Secretary then First Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord Kitchener as Secretary of State for War. Pease's candid accounts, augmented by the diaries and letters of others privy to Cabinet policy secrets and personal rivalries, reveal the stories not told in the Prime Minister's reports to the King. Together with the editors' biographical introduction, extensive explanatory commentaries, and bibliographical guidance, Pease's text provides a uniquely comprehensive understanding of Asquith's Liberal government in peace and war.
Book Synopsis New Delhi: The Last Imperial City by : D. Johnson
Download or read book New Delhi: The Last Imperial City written by D. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931.
Book Synopsis The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 by : Zara S. Steiner
Download or read book The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 written by Zara S. Steiner and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1970 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ettie written by Richard Davenport-Hines and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Lady Desborough - beautiful heiress, aristocratic hostess, unfaithful wife, tragic mother, Edwardian icon. Born in 1867 and orphaned at three, Ettie Fane was brought up by a beloved grandmother and then two adoring, almost incestuous, bachelor uncles. At twenty she married Willy Grenfell, later Lord Desborough. Beautiful, rich, charming and clever, Ettie soon became a leading hostess at the two magnificent country houses she had inherited. Leading politicians, writers and artists were very much part of her circle. But there was a dark side too, as this book will reveal. Ettie could be manipulative and cruel. Her eldest son Julian, after a nervous breakdown at Oxford, rejected her world and values. Nemesis and tragedy were not far away. In 1915 Julian died of war wounds. Six weeks later her second son Billy was killed in action. Her youngest son Ivo would be killed shortly after the war. But despite intense private misery, she reacted with outward courage and self-mastery. Grief revealed the greatness of her spirit. In the 1920s and 1930s she continued to collect new types, especially gifted young men, relishing people of all ages up to her death in 1952, a redoutable survivor from a vanished age.