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Book Synopsis Officers and Gentlemen by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book Officers and Gentlemen written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect must be paid to the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is soon followed by the bitterness of Crete, where chaos reigns and a difficult evacuation must be accomplished.—Goodreads.com.
Book Synopsis From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen by : Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum
Download or read book From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen written by Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, Agyekum assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organization that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government. Focusing on the process of professionalization of the Ghanaian military, this ethnography based monograph examines both historical and contemporary themes, and assesses the shift in military personnel from ‘Buga Buga’ soldiers – uneducated, lower-class soldiers, human rights abusers – to a more ‘modern’ fighting force.
Book Synopsis A Gentleman and an Officer by : Judith N. McArthur
Download or read book A Gentleman and an Officer written by Judith N. McArthur and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He left behind seven children, the eldest only twelve, and a wife who was eight and a half months pregnant. As a field officer in a prestigious unit, the opportunities for fame and glory seemed limitless.
Book Synopsis Roman Officers and English Gentlemen by : Richard Hingley
Download or read book Roman Officers and English Gentlemen written by Richard Hingley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the reader a throrough grounding in the history of Roman archaeology itself.
Download or read book Men at Arms written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy. The other two volumes are Officers and Gentlemen and The End of the Battle (UK title Unconditional Surrender). The novel is semi-autobiographical and reflects Waugh's experiences during the Second World War, while giving a satirical view of military bureaucracy. There is a strong religious element.
Book Synopsis Gentlemen and Officers by : T. S. Brown
Download or read book Gentlemen and Officers written by T. S. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Officers Out of Gentlemen by : Vipul Dutta
Download or read book Making Officers Out of Gentlemen written by Vipul Dutta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Officers out of Gentlemen aims to study the emergence and evolution of the military training and feeder institutions, beginning in the early twentieth century, which were central to the project of Indianization-a key political and nationalist process aimed at opening up of the officer ranks to Indians in the Indian Army. This volume examines a broad network of institutions, starting from the early preparatory schools in the northwest that sprang up from the 1890s to the post-Independence national institutions like the National Defence Academy (NDA). The author argues for a more sustained discussion on the policy implications of this large transformation of India's institutional landscape, where Indianization turned the spotlight on issues of the Indian officers to their evolving occupational profile, the relevance of educational policy in military decision-making, and their larger systemic relationship with the colonial and postcolonial State. The book also addresses military training institutions broadening the scope of military Indianization policies in order to include substantive themes of administration, student and officer training, and other institutional challenges.
Download or read book Sword of Honour written by Evelyn Waugh and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gentlemen and the Roughs by : Lorien Foote
Download or read book The Gentlemen and the Roughs written by Lorien Foote and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize "A seminal work. . . . One of the best examples of new, sophisticated scholarship on the social history of Civil War soldiers." —The Journal of Southern History “Will undoubtedly, and properly, be read as the latest word on the role of manhood in the internal dynamics of the Union army." —Journal of the Civil War Era During the Civil War, the Union army appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below the surface of the North’s presumably united front. Internal fissures were rife within the Union army: class divisions, regional antagonisms, ideological differences, and conflicting personalities all distracted the army from quelling the Southern rebellion. In this highly original contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that these internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood. Clashing ideals of manliness produced myriad conflicts, as when educated, refined, and wealthy officers (“gentlemen”) found themselves commanding a hard-drinking group of fighters (“roughs”)—a dynamic that often resulted in violence and even death. Based on extensive research into heretofore ignored primary sources, The Gentlemen and the Roughs uncovers holes in our understanding of the men who fought the Civil War and the society that produced them.
Book Synopsis Gentlemen of the Raj by : Pradeep P. Barua
Download or read book Gentlemen of the Raj written by Pradeep P. Barua and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic transformation of a small British-led colonial force into a large modern national army, complete with its own institutional officer corps, is a unique event, one without parallel. Indeed, the Indian Army's evolution challenges many current theories on the nature of British colonial rule in India. Barua offers a case study of the only post-colonial officer corps, among developing nations, never to have toppled a civilian administration. Its successful transformation forces us to re-examine interpretations of the British Raj. This remarkable achievement was the culmination of a complex, if cautious, program of military modernization that has been practically ignored by scholars researching the colonial Indian Army. Barua examines these neglected institutional and organizational changes, demonstrating that the dynamics of colonial military modernization in India was a result of the interaction between British and Indians. The end result was the creation of a highly professional national army, one of the few in the developing world to be untainted by political involvement.
Book Synopsis Officers and Gentlemen by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book Officers and Gentlemen written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Society of Gentlemen by : Mark C. Hunter
Download or read book A Society of Gentlemen written by Mark C. Hunter and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark C. Hunter makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the evolution of professional standards in the U.S. armed forces with this social history of U.S. naval officer education at Annapolis. Combining statistical and scholarly analysis based on original research, he reveals that through the Naval Academy, the Navy in 1845 initiated a more structured form of education in order to assess potential officers on academic and practical seamanship skills. His findings show that by the 1850s the Academy had established summer cruises and school ships to teach navigation and command skills to recruits taken from civilian life. This study offers a detailed analysis of antebellum Naval Academy alumni, including their backgrounds and disciplinary records while students at Annapolis. Hunter enlivens this statistical data to provide insight into the personal lives of these young officers by drawing on the letters of midshipmen and the autobiographies of famous naval officers.
Book Synopsis An Officer, Not A Gentleman by : Elizabeth Johns
Download or read book An Officer, Not A Gentleman written by Elizabeth Johns and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Tobin O'Neill's humble origins, he finds himself a lieutenant in His Majesty's army, serving on Wellington's staff. When the roguish Irishman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a general's daughter, they somehow become enmeshed in navigating the perils of the greatest battle of their age. Bridget Murphy had grown up following the drum. Left motherless when a child, she knows no other life and has found purpose in nursing the wounded. The conflict at Waterloo having no regard for rank or fortune in the course of its destruction, they find themselves leaning on each other as they slowly recover from the aftermath. When they return to Ireland, Bridget's family betrays her, while Tobin's unexpectedly wants to be a part of his life. In a stroke of irony their situations then become reversed, and Tobin now has to convince Bridget that they were meant for each other.
Download or read book Heirpower! written by Bob Vásquez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unconditional Surrender by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book Unconditional Surrender written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.
Book Synopsis An Officer and a Gentleman by : Rachel Lee
Download or read book An Officer and a Gentleman written by Rachel Lee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Night of the jaguar" -- His job was to infiltrate a small band of Central American rebels. But his mission was protecting the beautiful woman they held captive. Can he do both?
Book Synopsis Titanic Officers and a Gentleman by : Ned W. Schillow
Download or read book Titanic Officers and a Gentleman written by Ned W. Schillow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of eight deck officers and the chairman of the White Star Line were irrevocably changed when the Titanic collided with an iceberg. Four would not survive the night, and the other five could never escape being forever linked to those events which spanned just a few hours.While it is certainly true that their adrenaline-pumped actions of April 14-15, 1912, have become the focal points of their existences, far more can be said about them. Each of these nine men experienced a lifetime of events which are told here: childhoods, apprenticeships, family life, and what may have seemed like the most mundane work routines all contributed to their very essence of being. For those fortunate enough to have survived the sinking, their lives continued with further service linked to the sea, two world wars, personal relationships, and retirement activities.Clearly none of them wished to be defined solely by the Titanic disaster. This presentation of the nine men is a celebration of their fortitude as well as their personal journeys. Certainly life is more than the sum of its parts.
