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Total Pages : 1704 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Debrett's Peerage, and Titles of Courtesy written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Balfour
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571303773
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Kaiser and His Times written by Michael Balfour and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the consequences for Germany, and the world, that William II was Kaiser at the onset of the 'Great War'? In The Kaiser and His Times (first published in 1964), Michael Balfour analyzes the social, constitutional, and economic forces at work in imperial Germany, and sets the complex and disputed character of the Kaiser, who occupied such a central position in the three decades before 1918, in the context of his family background and the history of Germany. '[Balfour] has borne in mind the Kaiser's own request to the head of his military Secretariat - 'Not dry reports only, please, but now and then a funny story.' The circumstances that allowed to Kaiser to live as if 'The greater part of his life... was illusion' would make comic reading if the results had not been so tragic...' Kirkus Review
Author : Clyve Jones
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 184383717X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Parliament written by Clyve Jones and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547417764
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Facing Unpleasant Facts written by George Orwell and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly). George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived. “As soon as he began to write something,” comments George Packer in his foreword, “it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge—in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent.” Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell’s development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as “Shooting an Elephant” with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell’s boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex. “Best known for his late-career classics Animal Farm and 1984, George Orwell—who used his given name, Eric Blair, in the earliest pieces of this collection aimed at the aficionado as well as the general reader—was above all a polemicist of the first rank. Organized chronologically, from 1931 through the late 1940s, these in-your-face writings showcase the power of this literary form.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author : Jon Luanna
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244403384
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Great Game written by Jon Luanna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spy novel is set between November 1937 and August 1938. The action moves between England, Ireland and Germany. The narrative pits a MI5 mole hunter and a German double agent against each other in the context of the twin backdrop of rising tension between Britain and Nazi Germany and the tour of the Australian Ashes cricket team led by Don Bradman.The denouement unfolds during a frantic chase at the fifth Ashes test, the Oval London, during which English batsman Len Hutton surpasses Don Bradman's highest test score.
Author : Tim Clayton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684869314
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Finest Hour written by Tim Clayton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recreates the tensions and uncertainties of the events of 1940.
Author : Mary Soames
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618082513
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Winston and Clementine written by Mary Soames and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 800 intimate letters between Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, are presented in this collection that provides a glimpse into the couple's ardent and playful lifelong love and offers a sweeping yet accessible view of British politics in the 20th century. Edited by the youngest, and last surviving, child of the Churchills. An "L.A. Times" Best Book of the Year. Photos.
Author : Boris Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594633983
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The Churchill Factor written by Boris Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the New York Times–bestselling story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays—with characteristic wit and passion—a man of contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the king to stay out of action on D-day; he pioneered aerial bombing and few could match his experience in organizing violence on a colossal scale, yet he hated war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was the most famous journalist of his time and perhaps the greatest orator of all time, despite a lisp and the chronic depression he kept at bay by painting. His maneuvering positioned America for entry into World War II, even as it ushered in England’s postwar decline. His open-mindedness made him a trailblazer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, he was a rebuttal to the idea that history is the story of vast and impersonal forces; he is proof that one person—intrepid, ingenious, determined—can make all the difference.
Author : Chips Channon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1529151740
Total Pages : 1201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 written by Chips Channon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 1201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon ___________________________________________ 'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.' Robert Harris 'An instant classic . . . quite simply the greatest social and political diaries of the 20th century.' Daily Telegraph 'Rich, exuberant, copious and shatteringly honest.' Spectator 'A scurrilous read. Fascinating. Gripping!' Alan Titchmarsh 'Chips writes with such vividness that one feels one is living each day in his exalted company.' The Oldie _______________________________________ This final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles. Throughout these final fourteen years Chips assiduously describes events in and around Westminster, gossiping about individual MPs' ambitions and indiscretions, but also rising powerfully to the occasion to capture the mood of the House on VE Day or the ceremony of George VI's funeral. His energies, though, are increasingly absorbed by a private life that at times reaches Byzantine levels of complexity. We encounter the London of the theatre and the cinema, peopled by such figures as John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, as well as a seemingly endless grand parties at which Chips might well rub shoulders with Cecil Beaton, the Mountbattens, or any number of dethroned European monarchs. He has been described as 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century'. This final volume fully justifies that accolade.
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Total Pages : 2106 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 2106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Charmley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461720923
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Chamberlain and the Lost Peace written by John Charmley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain. John Charmley’s important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of the war is based on extensive new work in the Chamberlain papers. It starts from Chamberlain’s belief that even a victorious war would be a disaster—it would destroy the foundations of British power and hand over Europe to Russian domination. Reconstructing Chamberlain’s policy assumptions, Mr. Charmley argues that they were neither naïve nor foolish. While focusing on the prime minister’s personality, he also shows that Chamberlain’s views were shared by many other leading politicians and diplomats. Mr. Charmley thus resurrects a whole school of thought on foreign policy which was forgotten in the wake of Churchill’s triumph. Unlike Churchill, Chamberlain was not prepared to gamble an empire; but events produced, according to Mr. Charmley, indeed a “human tragedy.” Early British reviews of the book have called it “important,” “entertaining and absorbing,” “concise and spirited,” and “provocative.” The Guardian wrote: “Chamberlain hardly emerges a hero from these pages, but at least there is no excuse left for regarding him as no more than a wimp in a wing-collar.”
Author : Edmund Lodge
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Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907 written by Edmund Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Debrett's Peerage and Titles of Courtesy written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Walford
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Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland ; Containing a Brief Notice of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, and Appointments of Each Person, His Heir ... Together with His Town Address and Country Residence written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
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:
Author : Stuart Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317161831
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis written by Stuart Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst serving in the prestigious post of Viceroy of India between 1926 and 1931, Lord Irwin (later the Earl of Halifax) was kept informed about political events in Britain by frequent and lengthy letters from Cabinet Ministers, senior Conservative MPs and other prominent figures, such as the editor of The Times. Covering events from the General Strike of May 1926 to Irwin’s negotiation of a pact with Gandhi in March 1931, these private and previously unpublished letters mix analysis and gossip. They offer a frank account from within the highest political circles of the Baldwin government of 1924-29 and the serious crisis in the Conservative Party which followed in 1929-31. There is also much commentary on major figures such as Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Ramsay MacDonald. Of great depth and richness, and emanating from experienced and shrewd political insiders, this collection is an essential historical source for British history between the two world wars.
