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Book Synopsis King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure by : Talbot Mundy
Download or read book King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure written by Talbot Mundy and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general cracked his whip without any other comment than a smile. A blood mare tore sparks out of the macadam, and a dusty military road began to ribbon out between the wheels. Sentries in unexpected places announced themselves with a ring of shaken steel as their rifles came to the “present,” which courtesies the general noticed with a raised whip. Then a fox-terrier resumed his chase of squirrels between the planted shade-trees, and Peshawur became normal, shimmering in light and heat reflected from the “Hills...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book Affair in Araby written by Talbot Mundy and published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also published under the title The King in Check, Affair in Araby is part of action-adventure writer Talbot Mundy's popular Jimgrim series, which chronicles the globetrotting exploits of British secret service agent James Schuyler Grim. In this thrilling installment, Jimgrim finds himself in the middle of a maelstrom of political one-upmanship between various factions from France, Syria, and Jerusalem. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.
Book Synopsis Jimgrim And Allah's Peace by : Talbot Mundy
Download or read book Jimgrim And Allah's Peace written by Talbot Mundy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventurous book "Jimgrim and Allah's Peace" was written by Talbot Mundy. The story takes place in the Middle East's unstable interwar geopolitical environment. James Schuyler Grim, also referred to as Jimgrim is an American secret agent who has a thorough awareness of the complexity of the region. The story chronicles his adventures. The mission of bringing peace and stability back to the Middle East falls to Jimgrim and his motley crew of friends, which includes Jeff Ramsden and Narayan Singh. Many factions compete with one another for influence and power as the story takes place against the backdrop of political unrest. Jimgrim's attempts to negotiate the complex web of tribal relationships, espionage, and competing interests are the main subjects of the story. Jimgrim is renowned for his cunning, inventiveness, and capacity to comprehend and honor regional cultures and traditions. The book combines adventure, espionage, and a critical analysis of the collision of cultures in a historically rich and intricate area.
Book Synopsis The Winds of the World by : Talbot Mundy
Download or read book The Winds of the World written by Talbot Mundy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis Hira Singh : When India Came To Fight In Flanders by : Talbot Mundy
Download or read book Hira Singh : When India Came To Fight In Flanders written by Talbot Mundy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders" is a novel written by Talbot Mundy. It tells the story of Hira Singh, a Sikh soldier from India who volunteers to fight alongside British forces in World War I. The novel follows Hira Singh's journey from his homeland in Punjab to the Western Front in Flanders, Belgium. It explores his experiences as a soldier, the challenges he faces, and his interactions with fellow soldiers from different backgrounds. Mundy delves into themes of loyalty, identity, and the clash of cultures during a time of war. "Hira Singh" offers a unique perspective on the First World War, shedding light on the contributions and sacrifices made by soldiers from India who fought alongside the British. Talbot Mundy's writing style often combines adventure, history, and elements of mysticism, creating a captivating narrative that immerses readers in the protagonist's journey.
Book Synopsis Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by : Sir Robert Warburton
Download or read book Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 written by Sir Robert Warburton and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1900 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Warburton (1842-99) was a British army officer who served for 18 years as the political officer, or warden, of the Khyber Pass, the most important of the mountain passes connecting Afghanistan and present-day Pakistan. He was born in Afghanistan, the son of a British officer and his wife, a noble Afghan woman who was the niece of Amir Dost Mohammad Khan. Warburton was educated in England, commissioned an officer, and served at posts in British India and in Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia) before being appointed, in 1879, to his post in the Khyber. Home to the fiercely independent Pushtun Afridi people who resisted external control, the pass frequently had been blocked by the Afridis or by fighting among the hill tribes. Warburton is credited with keeping the frontier peaceful and the pass open, mainly though diplomacy rather than force. He drew upon his Afghan background and his fluent Persian and Pushto to gradually win the trust of tribesmen whose traditions made them deeply suspicious of outsiders. In August 1897, one month after Warburton's retirement, unrest broke out among the Afridis, who seized the pass and held it for several months. Warburton was called back into service and participated in the Tirah expedition of 1897-98, in which Anglo-Indian forces reopened the pass. Warburton was especially proud of the role played in the expedition by the Khyber Rifles, a paramilitary force recruited from Afridi tribesmen that he had raised and commanded. Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 is Warburton's account of his education and career. It touches upon virtually every individual and event that played a role in relations between Afghanistan and British India during the last quarter of the 19th century. Long in poor health, Warburton returned to England and died before the book was completed. Posthumously published, it is illustrated with a number of striking photographs and includes a detailed fold-out map of the Khyber.
Download or read book Guns of the Gods written by Talbot Mundy and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 'The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses' by : John V Watson
Download or read book 'The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses' written by John V Watson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive book provides a complete and comprehensive account of the evolution of CinemaScope, and the launch of the revolutionary wide-screen system by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1953, detailing its initial reception, its progression of technical development, and its immense commercial and artistic success. This book includes a complete and extensively detailed filmography of the first five films that were made in CinemaScope and first shown in 1953, with full details of each of the Hollywood studios involved, as well as contemporary reviews of the films as published at the time by trade journals and movie fan magazines. The first five films are: The Robe, How to Marry a Millionaire, Beneath the 12 Mile Reef, King of the Khyber Rifles and Knights of the Round Table. Uniquely, most of this detailed information has never been published in book form.
Book Synopsis Return of a King by : William Dalrymple
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Book Synopsis The Eye of Zeitoon by : Talbot Mundy
Download or read book The Eye of Zeitoon written by Talbot Mundy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical novel is set in the Ottoman Empire right before the start of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 and sheds light on Armenians struggling to be free of ruthless Turks. It revolves around three Englishmen, an American man, and a strong, fearless American woman who join the battle on the side of the Armenians. This tragic work is loaded with intrigue and beautiful descriptions of the country.
Download or read book The Nine Unknown written by Talbot Mundy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Emperor Asoka started a project around 260 BC to collate and guard advanced knowledge gathered from around the world over the years. The project ended with making the nine books of secret knowledge and from then on, the nine different men are assigned to guard the nine books. Father Cyprian, a Christian priest, believes that their contents total tip the almost absolute of evil, and wants to burn them, so he invites Jimgrim and his faithful compatriots Ramsden and Ross to help him bring down the secret society that holds the nine books.
Book Synopsis Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure by : Brian Taves
Download or read book Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure written by Brian Taves and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure--a journey that took him from India to the Middle East to Tibet and finally to America, which became his adopted home. The American spirit of adventure matched Mundy's own, and it was here that he found a true audience for his work. This book explores Mundy's oeuvre--much of it set in exotic locales through which he himself had traveled--and considers both his novels and his lesser known writing, as well as his film and radio work. Books such as Rung Ho!, King-of the Khyber Rifles, Caves of Terror, Purple Pirate and Tros of Samothrace are discussed and placed within the framework of Mundy's life and philosophy. The final chapter evaluates the enduring value of his writings. Appendices include a comprehensive list of Mundy's works and a chronological listing by their original publication dates.
Book Synopsis The Frontier Scouts by : Charles Chenevix Trench
Download or read book The Frontier Scouts written by Charles Chenevix Trench and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Om -- The Secret of Ahbor Valley by : Alan Rodgers
Download or read book Om -- The Secret of Ahbor Valley written by Alan Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cottswold Ommony has guts and influence. He's in the Secret Service, and heading for McGregor's office. No one in India knows what Ommony will do next.And it's a good thing. Because there are evils on the land -- evils like OM, the Secret of the Abhor Valley.
Book Synopsis King, of the Khyber rifles by : Talbot Mundy
Download or read book King, of the Khyber rifles written by Talbot Mundy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations by : Tony Reeves
Download or read book The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations written by Tony Reeves and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all those fans who wonder where their favorite movies were filmed or what it would be like to visit the sites, this book is the ultimate resource. It features information on blockbuster, cult, and art house favorites from Saturday Night Fever to Men in Black, from Belle du Jour to Ben Hur. The entries for individual films include brief descriptions of key scenes shot at the location, travel details, photographs, film stills, behind-the-scenes information, and insights as to what these places are really like. Also included are full-color features on major sites of special interest—Vertigo’s San Francisco, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, and a world Star Wars tour, among others—along with more obscure locations that have become sought-after travel destinations simply because of their connection to the movies.
Download or read book 45-70 Rifles written by Jack Behn and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the day of the .45-70 recedes further into history, Jack Behn's book will become firmly established in the literature of American firearms."--William B. Ruger, former president of Sturm, Ruger & Company: A historical look at the .45-70 cartridge and the firearms in which it was used* Features guns used in the late 1800s and throughout the Civil War: From 1873 to 1898, the .45-70 was the official United States Army small arms cartridge. Gun makers developed new designs at a record pace to showcase the versatility of the cartridge for both military and sporting purposes. From the U.S. Springfield and Winchester to the Marlin and Ballard, firearms enthusiasts will discover a wealth of information pertaining to classic rifles and the cartridge that made them famous. The history of the .45-70 cartridge and the associations that surround it are sure to delight collectors and historians alike.
