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Author : Vivian Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:$B675658
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1152864142
Author : Vivian Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015049832200
"Very short, highly anecdotal memoir of a machine gun officer's WWI adventures in France, the Balkans, and finally with Allenby across Arabia. Many of the anecdotes are entertaining, even moving. This book does a decent job reminding us that Allenby's army did most of the heavy lifting, while the threat of Lawrence's band on the flanks or cutting down a column on the move made the Turks quick to retreat rather than get boxed in at the end of the campaign. One is left wondering how many men from Gilbert's unit survived the whole war, first in the trenches of France, a few months of combat near Salonika, and finally enduring the very harsh conditions and lack of supply in the Middle East." --
Author : Vivian Gilbert
Publisher : New York : Appleton
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1007290461
Author : Louis De Wohl
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681495101
Don Juan of Austria, one of history's most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant's hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as his half-brother, the attractive youth quickly became a central figure in a Court where intrigues and romances abounded. Don Juan's intelligence, kindness and devout attachment to the Church enabled him to live unscathed in an environment of luxury, violence and treachery. De Wohl paints in brilliant color the vivid scenes and characters at the Court of King Philip, Juan's campaign against rebel Moriscos in Andalusia, and the amazing climactic victory at Lepanto where he saved the Christian world from Islamic dominance. Here is a novel of high adventure which brings to life the turbulence of the sixteenth century with its conflicts of wickedness and piety, its sins of pride and conquest, its seething heresies and its great faith.
Author : VIVIAN. GILBERT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033018635
Author : Vivian Gilbert
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0331489635
Excerpt from The Romance of the Last Crusade: With Allenby to Jerusalem By a chance most fortunate I heard Major Vivian Gilbert tell the story which he has written here. When it was done, I was astonished to find that he had been talking for an hour; time had been quite forgotten, and I was ready to listen to him for as much longer as he might have been willing to speak. So have I, by certain firesides, sat enthralled while others from the Somme, or the Argonne, or Mesopotamia, made us forget time while they forgot themselves in narrating what they had seen and done; but this was in privacy: none have I heard who could hold an audience in public with a war tale as Major Gilbert did. Such tales Should be told and should be set down. They serve to remind us of the greatness in man at a time when his littleness seems chiefly to the fore. They will serve the future, too, as documents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Kei Sazane
Publisher : Yen On
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1975385454
Love is a battlefield For years, a great war has raged on between the scientifically advanced Empire and a paradise of witches known as the Nebulis Sovereignty. This age-old battle sets the scene for a fateful encounter between two young combatants: an imperial swordsman, Iska, and the witch princess, Aliceliese. As sworn enemies, they vow to cut each other down in order to unite their worlds, and yet Iska finds himself entranced by her beauty and righteousness, while Aliceliese is moved by his strength and resolve. In the midst of a never-ending war that forbids them from being together, they have no choice but to destroy each other-or can they find another way?
Author : Kei Sazane
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781975305789
A SECRET NEVER TO BE TOLD... To rest and recuperate from their set of life-threatening missions, Unit 907 is finally granted a much-needed break. And what better place to spend time off than at a distant resort where they can lounge in their bathing suits 24-7? Against all odds, the trip is going according to plan...until Iska bumps into a certain witch who instantly reminds him of Alice. In fact, it feels all too familiar when she demands he come to Nebulis-for reasons she simply cannot reveal. And she isn't the only one with a hidden motive: Alice has arrived to investigate why her sister has been spying on Iska...for months.
Author : Mike Horswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584258
This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism – the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery – in Britain, from Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were popular, how they fitted with other cultural trends of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, how their use was affected by the turmoil of the First World War and whether they were differently employed in the interwar years and in the 1939-45 conflict. Building on existing studies and contributing the fruits of fresh research, it brings together examples of the uses of the crusades from disparate contexts and integrates them into the story of the rise and fall crusader medievalism in Britain.
Author : Eitan Bar-Yosef
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191555572
The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem in the Middle East? The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 offers a new cultural history of the English fascination with Palestine in the long nineteenth century, from Napoleon's failed Mediterranean campaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the British involvement in the land, to Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. Bar-Yosef argues that the Protestant tradition of internalizing Biblical vocabulary - 'Promised Land', 'Chosen People', 'Jerusalem' - and applying it to different, often contesting, visions of England and Englishness evoked a unique sense of ambivalence towards the imperial desire to possess the Holy Land. Popular religious culture, in other words, was crucial to the construction of the orientalist discourse: so crucial, in fact, that metaphorical appropriations of the 'Holy Land' played a much more dominant role in the English cultural imagination than the actual Holy Land itself. As it traces the diversity of 'Holy Lands' in the Victorian cultural landscape - literal and metaphorical, secular and sacred, radical and patriotic, visual and textual - this study joins the ongoing debate about the dissemination of imperial ideology. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from Sunday-school textbooks and popular exhibitions to penny magazines and soldiers' diaries, the book demonstrates how the Orientalist discourse functions - or, to be more precise, malfunctions - in those popular cultural spheres that are so markedly absent from Edward Said's work: it is only by exploring sources that go beyond the highbrow, the academic, or the official, that we can begin to grasp the limited currency of the orientalist discourse in the metropolitan centre, and the different meanings it could hold for different social groups. As such, The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 provides a significant contribution to both postcolonial studies and English social history.
Author : David Ewing Jr
Publisher : Suhel Khan
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : PKEY:6610000376032
Is there 1000 years of fake history? Did Jesus Christ live in Europe? Did Jesus Christ live 1000 years ago? Where is Jerusalem? What language did Jesus Christ speak? Who said they killed Jesus Christ? What is the name of God? What really happened during the Crusades? What really happened during the Renaissance? Many people around the world are asking these questions and they want answers. Many people no longer believe what historians have told the world. This book will take a look at the history that they don’t want you to know
Author : Stefan Goebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521854153
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Author : S.J. Allen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442600232
Nineteenth-Century Islam and the Crusades -- The Twentieth Century -- The Twenty-First Century -- Box 5.1: Matthew Schlimm's Analysis of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven -- Questions for Reflection -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Who's Who in the Crusading World -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Index
Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812209358
By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the Visigoths, whose heirs they claimed to be, the Castilian monarchs continued intermittently to assault Granada until the late fifteenth century. Matters changed thereafter, when Fernando and Isabel launched a decade-long effort to subjugate Granada. Utilizing artillery and expending vast sums of money, they methodically conquered each Naṣrid stronghold until the capitulation of the city of Granada itself in 1492. Effective military and naval organization and access to a diversity of financial resources, joined with papal crusading benefits, facilitated the final conquest. Throughout, the Naṣrids had emphasized the urgency of a jihād waged against the Christian infidels, while the Castilians affirmed that the expulsion of the "enemies of our Catholic faith" was a necessary, just, and holy cause. The fundamentally religious character of this last stage of conflict cannot be doubted, Joseph F. O'Callaghan argues.