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Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0333740009
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0330349791
This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
Author : Hugh M. Massingberd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 033037110X
These obituaries cover a decade's worth of colourful, often outrageous, larger-than-life picaresque characters, ranging from politicians and lawyers, businessmen and gangsters to female tyrants and femmes fatales.
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0330484702
The five Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries have been both a critical and a popular success, winning plaudits from readers and reviewers alike. Here, gathered in one volume, is the very best of the witty, waspish and often wildly funny biographical short stories that are the mark of a Telegraph Obituary. Together they offer a richly unpredictable medley of twentieth-century lives, a deliciously idiosyncratic study in miniature, reflecting the last century at its most picturesque, poignant and absurd.
Author : Bridget Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134218011
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Pan
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0330352989
Author : Adrian Room
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786457632
Substantially revised and enlarged, this new edition of the Dictionary of Pseudonyms includes more than 2,000 new entries, bringing the volume's total to approximately 13,000 assumed names, nicknames, stage names, and aliases. The introduction has been entirely rewritten, and many previous entries feature new accompanying details or quoted material. This volume also features a significantly greater number of cross-references than was included in previous editions. Arranged by pseudonym, the entries give the true name, vital dates, country of origin or settlement, and profession. Many entries also include the story behind the person's name change.
Author : David Twiston-Davies
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459714373
Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists, artists, and even journalists. Among the prominent Canadians viewed from afar are persons such as Margaret Laurence, Joey Smallwood, K.C. Irving, Raymond Burr and A.J. Casson.
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0333675061
Selected obituaries of entertainers from 1986-1994.
Author : David Twiston Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000107522827
In the seventeen years since The Daily Telegraph started to take its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1,000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found here, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience. They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, such as the New Zealander Charles Upham, who won the Victoria Cross twice in Crete and North Africa, the commando leader "Mad Jack" Churchill and Drum Major Buss, the bugler who rallied the Glosters at the Imjin River in Korea. Among the senior figures are General Mazek, who commanded the Poles in Normandy, the rigorous Field Marshal Lord Carver and General Sir Walter Walker, who won three DSOs.
Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446493014
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world. In Our Times, A.N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey from that day to this. With his acute eye not just for the broad social and cultural sweep but also for the telling detail, he brilliantly distils half a century of unprecedented social and political change. Here are the defining events and characters of the modern age, from the Suez crisis to Vietnam, The Beatles to Princess Diana, the miners' strike to the Cold War. Here are the Angry Young Men, the satirists of Beyond the Fringe, Ruth Ellis and the abolition of hanging, the rise of pop culture and celebrity, industrial unrest and the Winter of Discontent, the Thatcher era and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. This book will propel you from post-war austerity - an age of deference in which men wore hats and women wore gloves - through the alterations in our social landscape to the multi-cultural Britain of today. Despite the appalling tyrannies that have taken place in the world, Wilson argues that in the last fifty years Britain has known a period of prosperity and peace without precedent in its history. With Our Times, A.N. Wilson triumphantly concludes the acclaimed trilogy which includes The Victorians and After the Victorians. It makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped our world.
Author : Graham Pitchfork
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781911667520
The acclaimed chronicler of RAF history has compiled ninety-one obituaries of outstanding aviators covering the period from 2007 to the end of 2017. With a focus on personnel from a range of air forces, including the RAF, USAF, RCAF, RNZAF and SAAF, there are a number of fascinating and distinguishable lives to read about. Those featured include MRAF Sir Michael Beetham, the longest-serving Chief of Air Staff in the RAF (apart from its founder Lord Trenchard); Brigadier General Paul Tibbets who commanded the USAAF bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; and Wing Commander “Dal” Russel, a highly decorated wartime Canadian fighter pilot, whose logbook recorded kills in the Battle of Britain and the Normandy invasion. There is also Lettice Curtis, the first woman qualified to fly a four-engine bomber and who by the end of the Second World War had flown over 400 heavy bombers, 150 Mosquitos and hundreds of Hurricanes and Spitfires as part of her role in the Air Transport Auxiliary. The book includes a foreword written by former Chief of Air Staff, Sir Richard Johns.
Author : Nigel Moor
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781915603425
The 2019 general election radically changed the political map of England. People in “left-behind towns” want politics to reflect and respond to their needs. England needs its own devolution, and this book includes case studies where local communities have tackled these problems and embraced regeneration. These include the metropolitan areas of Greater London, Liverpool, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and Plymouth and the smaller towns of Stamford, Grantham and Blyth Valley, Northumberland, one of the Red Wall constituencies that changed political allegiance at the 2019 general election. England's Future discusses how politics influence the environment in England. Covering Brexit, the pandemic, and the 2019 general election, among other themes, this book will appeal to those who enjoy books on politics, social history, education, the environment and to those working in councils and the wider public sector.
Author : David Twiston Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 184832524X
"For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. The stories of these characters beautifully illustrate the way the Imperial influence spread British culture around the world in the form of practices, traditions and history, sometimes positively and deliberately, often unconsciously and sometimes even in the face of considerable hostility. This compilation is divided up by regions, beginning with India, followed by the dominions Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and concluding with the individual colonies in Africa and the South Seas, as well as the North and South Poles."--Jacket.
Author : Keith Colquhoun,Ann Wroe
Publisher : Bloomberg Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079206655
For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about, the surprising lives they led, and the brilliant writing style. This volume gathers 200 of the best obituaries.
