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Author : Harry Willey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0975826425
Author : Harry Willey,Anthony Staunton,John Mussell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0975826417
Author : Michael Ashcroft
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785901409
Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War. Lord Ashcroft, who has been fascinated with bravery since he was a young boy, now owns 200 VCs, by far the largest collection of its kind in the world. Following on from the bestselling Victoria Cross Heroes, first published in 2006 to mark the 150th anniversary of the award, Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II gives extraordinary accounts of the bravery behind the newest additions to Lord Ashcroft's VC collection - those decorations purchased in the last decade. With nearly sixty action-packed stories of courageous soldiers, sailors and airmen from a range of global conflicts including the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and the First and Second World Wars, this book is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who earned the Victoria Cross. Their inspirational deeds of valour and self-sacrifice should be championed and never forgotten.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015079780550
Author : Michael Morris,Jim McLagan
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210550138
Verdi was writing operas, Gustave Flaubert was outraging the French with his classic novel Madame Bovary, and Indian militants were rising against the British in bloody revolt. Karl Marx and Charles Darwin were working at texts that would change the mindset of the 20th century, and, in America, the northern and southern states were squaring up for a devastating civil war. The year was 1857. In Cape Town, with its muddy, smelly streets and weekly horse races on the Wynberg road, colonial progress -- the need for a harbour, the prospect of railways -- were the big topics of discussion. These, and expectations of a new war on the eastern frontier as the grim effects of the cattle-killing spread, were the news stories of the day. Into this setting, Bryan Henry Darnell and Richard William Murray introduced another newspaper -- the fourth in the port city -- that would outlast all its competitors and the Cape Argus was born. In Paging through History, the newspaper celebrates 150 years of liberal journalism in the city, not without introspection and self-criticism. The richly illustrated book makes substantial use of original material that illuminates the historic context and the minutiae that tell the story of the long dialogue between the evolving metropolis and its oldest newspaper.
Author : Norman S. Poser
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228015642
Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga, New York, in 1777, General John Burgoyne was one of the most interesting – and extraordinary – figures of the eighteenth century. In From the Battlefield to the Stage Norman Poser provides a rounded biography, covering not only the Saratoga campaign but also elements of Burgoyne’s eventful life that have never been adequately explored. At the age of twenty-eight, Burgoyne eloped with Charlotte Stanley, the daughter of the immensely wealthy and influential Earl of Derby. Though initially furious, the earl, convinced of the young officer’s good character, eventually forgave the couple, and the Stanley family became a major influence in Burgoyne’s life and career. He was a socialite, welcome in London’s fashionable drawing rooms, a high-stakes gambler in its elite clubs, and a playwright whose social comedies were successfully performed on the London stage. As a member of Parliament for thirty years, Burgoyne supported the rule of law, fought the corruption of the East India Company, and advocated religious tolerance. From the Battlefield to the Stage paints a vivid portrait of General John Burgoyne, remembering him not only for his role in one of Britain’s worst military disasters but also as a brave, talented, humane man.
Author : Alan Lester,Kate Boehme,Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426206
Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
Author : Joseph Haydn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : ONB:+Z257178008
Author : Peter Fibiger Bang,C. A. Bayly,Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199772360
This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history. Volume I: The Imperial Experience is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages. The broad range of perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics, military organization, political economy and elite formation, monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion, literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power, examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power, disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these chapters offer a comprehensive and unique view of the imperial experience in world history. Volume II: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Asoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019850228
Author : James Powell,Bank of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112077032222
Author : Loughlin Sweeney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030193072
This book is a social history of Irish officers in the British army in the final half-century of Crown rule in Ireland. Drawing on the accounts of hundreds of officers, it charts the role of military elites in Irish society, and the building tensions between their dual identities as imperial officers and Irishmen, through land agitation, the home rule struggle, the First World War, the War of Independence, and the partition of Ireland. What emerges is an account of the deeply interwoven connections between Ireland and the British army, casting officers as social elites who played a pivotal role in Irish society, and examining the curious continuities of this connection even when officers’ moral authority was shattered by war, revolution, independence, and a divided nation.
Author : Kevin Brazier
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473872066
This fully revised paperback edition of the complete chronological record of VC holders is an essential work of reference for every student of military history. All the British and Commonwealth servicemen who have been awarded the highest honour for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice are commemorated here. The first VCs awarded for the Crimean War and in the nineteenth-century colonial wars are described, as are the VCs awarded in the world wars of the twentieth century and the most recent VCs awarded during present-day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The extraordinary exploits recounted in this fascinating book make unforgettable reading.
Author : Ashali Varma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 8131774597
Memoirs of the author's father, Prem Bhagat, who was military officer in Africa during World War II and after in independent India and awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in World War II.
Author : John Sheen
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844154951
'Durham Pals' is a well-illustrated record of Great War service from 1914-1918. The Durhams were the largest regiment in the British army, and this book covers the war on the Western front including the Somme, as well as Italy.
