Author: Philip Warner
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 178383272X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika Corps at 1st Alamein only to be sacked by Churchill. After a spell in the wilderness he became C in C India during the dark period of Partition and, ironically, had to preside over the destruction of his beloved Indian Army. A private man of great humour and integrity he refused to be drawn into discussing or criticising his tormentors be they Churchill, Montgomery or Mountbatten. He always argued that history would be his judge. This is a super piece of military biography by one of the most respected post war military historians.
Auchinleck
Author: Philip Warner
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 178383272X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika Corps at 1st Alamein only to be sacked by Churchill. After a spell in the wilderness he became C in C India during the dark period of Partition and, ironically, had to preside over the destruction of his beloved Indian Army. A private man of great humour and integrity he refused to be drawn into discussing or criticising his tormentors be they Churchill, Montgomery or Mountbatten. He always argued that history would be his judge. This is a super piece of military biography by one of the most respected post war military historians.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 178383272X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika Corps at 1st Alamein only to be sacked by Churchill. After a spell in the wilderness he became C in C India during the dark period of Partition and, ironically, had to preside over the destruction of his beloved Indian Army. A private man of great humour and integrity he refused to be drawn into discussing or criticising his tormentors be they Churchill, Montgomery or Mountbatten. He always argued that history would be his judge. This is a super piece of military biography by one of the most respected post war military historians.
Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck
Author: Evan McGilvray
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526716127
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This military biography explores the life and service of a British Indian Army officer who served with distinction across both world wars. During the First World War, Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck was awarded a Distinguished Service Order for his efforts in Egypt and the Mesopotamian Campaign. Afterward, he aided the pacification of the Northwest Frontier, now Pakistan. In the Second World War he briefly led a division in the ill-fated Norway campaign before being appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. Auchinleck is best remembered for his time as Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Theatre, where he halted Rommel at the First Battle of El Alamein. He then resumed command in India, where his leadership was vital to success in Burma. In the post-war years, he planned and oversaw the Partition of India and the British withdrawal. In this extensively researched biography, historian Evan McGilvray examines Auchinleck’s long career as well as the transformations of the British military and the Empire itself.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526716127
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This military biography explores the life and service of a British Indian Army officer who served with distinction across both world wars. During the First World War, Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck was awarded a Distinguished Service Order for his efforts in Egypt and the Mesopotamian Campaign. Afterward, he aided the pacification of the Northwest Frontier, now Pakistan. In the Second World War he briefly led a division in the ill-fated Norway campaign before being appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. Auchinleck is best remembered for his time as Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Theatre, where he halted Rommel at the First Battle of El Alamein. He then resumed command in India, where his leadership was vital to success in Burma. In the post-war years, he planned and oversaw the Partition of India and the British withdrawal. In this extensively researched biography, historian Evan McGilvray examines Auchinleck’s long career as well as the transformations of the British military and the Empire itself.
The Auchinleck Manuscript
Author: Susanna Fein
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.
Life of James Boswell (of Auchinleck)
Author: Percy Fitzgerald
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Boswell, of Auchinleck, Baronet
Author: Sir Alexander Boswell
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The History of the Corry Family of Castlecoole
Author: Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry Earl of Belmore
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Category : Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Auchinleck
Author: John Connell
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Category : AUCHINLECK CLAUDE SIR.
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Biografi over den britiske øverstkommanderende i Indien og Ægypten, general Auchinleck, der i 1946 blev forfremmet til feltmarskal
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Category : AUCHINLECK CLAUDE SIR.
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Biografi over den britiske øverstkommanderende i Indien og Ægypten, general Auchinleck, der i 1946 blev forfremmet til feltmarskal
Saracens and the Making of English Identity
Author: Siobhain Bly Calkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135471711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, the place of gender norms and religion in communities' self-definitions, and the roles of violence and history in assertions of group identity. Texts involving Saracens thus serve both to assert an English identity, and to explore the challenges involved in making such an assertion in the early fourteenth century when the English language was regaining its cultural prestige, when the English people were increasingly at odds with their French cousins, and when English, Welsh, and Scottish sovereignty were pressing matters.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135471711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various English knights. In these texts, Saracens engage issues such as the demarcation of communal borders, the place of gender norms and religion in communities' self-definitions, and the roles of violence and history in assertions of group identity. Texts involving Saracens thus serve both to assert an English identity, and to explore the challenges involved in making such an assertion in the early fourteenth century when the English language was regaining its cultural prestige, when the English people were increasingly at odds with their French cousins, and when English, Welsh, and Scottish sovereignty were pressing matters.
Voters in South Ayrshire, 1873-74
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Category : Voting registers
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Voting registers
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Field-Marshal Auchinleck
Author: Alexander Greenwood
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description