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Author : Lucy Cecil Lillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Aunts
ISBN : NYPL:33433074888920
Author : Lucy Cecil Lillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1038114360
Author : James Willway Treadwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU03956202
Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101970270
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The colonel had served in two wars with the Marines, without being injured. Then, at home, he breaks both legs falling off a horse, and learns that his knees will never fully recover. Together with his wife, he will have to relearn everything, all over again. “The Colonel’s Wife” is the moving story of a man and his wife, the woman for whom, when he met her for the first time, he felt “that he was looking at the sun without burning his eyes.” A story of peace after war and the continued drama of real life. From Andre Dubus’s masterful and compassionate collection Dancing After Hours, a New York Times Notable Book. An eBook short.
Author : W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440636097
They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come...
Author : Rosa Liksom
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451076
A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021062612
Author : Alanna Nash
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781312018
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.
Author : William Stephens Hayward
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385328280
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Thomas W. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192597922
Trust and trustworthiness are core social phenomena, at the heart of most everyday interactions. Yet they are also puzzling: while it matters to us that we place trust well, trusting people who will not let us down, both also seem to involve morally driven attitudes and behaviours. Confronted by whether I should trust another, this tension creates very practical dilemmas. In Trust, Thomas Simpson addresses the foundational question, why should I trust? Philosophical treatments of trust have tended to focus on trying to identify what the attitude of trust consists in. Simpson argues that this approach is misguided, giving rise to merely linguistic debates about how the term 'trust' is used. Instead, he focuses attention on the ways that trust is valuable. The answer defended comprises two claims, which at first seem to be in tension. One is a form of evidentialism about trust: normally, your trust should be based on the evidence you have for someone's trustworthiness. But, second, someone's word is normally enough to settle for you whether you should trust them. Social norms of trustworthiness explain why both are normal. Methodologically innovative, Trust also applies the account , addressing how cultures of trust can be sustained, and the implications of trust in God. While it is a philosophical essay, the book is written in a way that presumes no prior knowledge of philosophy, to be accessible to the scholars from the many disciplines also attracted and puzzled by trust.
Author : Daad Sharab
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526795991
An insider’s view of Libya’s fallen dictator by the woman who served as his longtime troubleshooter and confidante. For almost half of Muammar Gaddafi’s forty-two-year reign, Daad Sharab was his trusted confidante—the only outsider to be admitted to his inner circle. Down the years many have written about Gaddafi, but none have been so close. Now, years after the violent death of “the Colonel,” she gives a unique insight into the character of a man of many contradictions: tyrant, hero, terrorist, freedom fighter, womanizer, father figure. Her account is packed with fascinating anecdotes and revelations that show Gaddafi in a surprising new light. Daad witnessed the ruthlessness of a flawed leader who is blamed for ordering the Lockerbie bombing, and she became the go-between for the only man convicted of the atrocity. She does not seek to sugar-coat Gaddafi’s legacy, preferring readers to judge for themselves, but also observed a hidden, more humane side. The leader was a troubled father and compassionate statesman who kept sight of his humble Bedouin roots, and was capable of great acts of generosity. The author also pulls no punches about how Western politicians such as Tony Blair, George Bush, and Hillary Clinton shamelessly wooed his oil-rich regime. Despite her warnings the dictator was ultimately consumed by megalomania, and Daad was caught up in his dramatic fall. Falsely accused by Gaddafi’s notorious secret service of being both the Colonel’s mistress and a spy, she faced betrayal and imprisonment—and, caught up in the Arab Spring uprising, she also faced a fight for her life as bombs rained down on Libya.
Author : H. Rider Haggard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752360363
Reproduction of the original: Colonel Quaritch by H. Rider Haggard
Author : H. Rider Haggard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664602459
'Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life' is an adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard. The story begins by immediately introducing us to the hero of the story, Colonel Quaritch, who the author describes as, "He was a peculiar and rather battered looking individual, apparently over forty years of age, and yet bearing upon him that unmistakable stamp of dignity and self-respect which, if it does not exclusively belong to, is still one of the distinguishing attributes of the English gentleman. In face he was ugly, no other word can express it."
Author : House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1737
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000357342
Author : H. Rider Haggard
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788771573
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Colonel Quaritch, V.C. by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Haggard includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Colonel Quaritch, V.C. by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Haggard’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
