For King and Country

For King and Country PDF Author: Heather Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842936X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.

For King and Country

For King and Country PDF Author: Heather Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842936X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Book Description
Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.

Priceless

Priceless PDF Author: Joel Smallbone
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1617958727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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The powerfully compelling novelization of the major motion picture by Joel and Luke Smallbone of the band for King & Country. James Stevens was, at one time, a good man with a great life. After the tragic death of his wife and losing custody of his little girl, James is at the darkest crossroad of his life. Angry, desperate, and unable to hold down a steady job, he agrees to drive a box truck on a shady, one-time trip cross country for cash-no questions asked. When he discovers what he is delivering is actually a who, the questions in his mind begin haunting him mercilessly. James becomes an unlikely hero who must fight to save the lives of two young women and finds himself falling in love with one of them. Can love, strength, and faith redefine his past and change the course of his future?

For King and Another Country

For King and Another Country PDF Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 938543649X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and travelled from remote villages in India to fight in the muddy trenches in France and Flanders. Many went on to win the highest bravery awards. For King and another Country tells, for the first time, the personal stories of some of these Indians who went to the Western Front: from a grand turbanned Maharaja rearing to fight for Empire to a lowly sweeper who dies in a hospital in England, from a Pathan who wins the Victoria Cross to a young pilot barely out of school. Shrabani Basu delves into archives in Britain and narratives buried in villages in India and Pakistan to recreate the War through the eyes of the Indians who fought it. There are heroic tales of bravery as well as those of despair and desperation; there are accounts of the relationships that were forged between the Indians with their British officers and how curries reached the frontline. Above all, it is the great story of how the War changed India and led, ultimately, to the call for independence.

For King and Country

For King and Country PDF Author: Heather Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108682960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.

Not for King or Country

Not for King or Country PDF Author: Tyler Wentzell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148751879X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. Born to missionary parents in China in 1903, Cecil-Smith came to Toronto in 1919 where he joined the Canadian militia and lived a happy life ensconced in the Protestant missionary community of Toronto. He became increasingly interested in radical politics during the 1920s, eventually joining the Communist Party in 1931. Worried by the growing strength of fascism around the world, particularly in China, Germany, Italy, and Spain during the summer of 1936, Cecil-Smith quietly departed Canada and became among the first volunteers to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Cecil-Smith was motivated to fight not out of any sense of traditional patriotism (“for king or country”) but out of a sense that the onward march of fascism had to be stopped, and Spain was where the line had to be drawn. Not for King or Country is the first biography of a Canadian commander in the Spanish Civil War, and is also the first book to critically analyse the major battles in which the Canadian and American volunteers fought. Drawing upon declassified RCMP files, records held in the Russian Archives in Moscow, audio recordings of the volunteers, a detailed survey of maps, and battle records, as well as the Communist Party press, Not for King or Country breaks down the battles and the Party's activities in a way that will be accessible to interested readers and scholars alike.

For King and Country

For King and Country PDF Author: Oliver Ma
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468927418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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When Charles, the Prince of Wales departed on a trip north to confront the rebellious Scottish Noble Archibald Argyll, he realizes the British Isles were neither as prosperous nor as loyal as he had thought, and that he must begin to lighten his father's load, or lose the Stuart throne in a Civil War. In the 87,000 word historical fiction For King or Country, Prince Charles Stuart seemed to have his future laid out for him, when he was the heir apparent to the English Throne and his father ruled over a "prosperous" and "united" British Isles. Then, a religious discord originating from Scotland uprooted old sentiments between the English Parliament and the English Crown, evolving into a rebellion that threatened to encompass Charles's entire world. In a tale of trials and hardships, Charles must persist through his humility and find his new place in society in order to have any chance of becoming the King of England.

007: For King and Country #6

007: For King and Country #6 PDF Author: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Book Description
THERE’LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND! FINAL ISSUE! It all comes down to this — Bond vs. Myrmidon, no holds barred, no quarter given!

For King and Country

For King and Country PDF Author: T.L. Smythe
Publisher: Eric Olson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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I am a simple soldier I am not the strongest man, nor the fastest. I am not the best with the sword or the bow. I am not the quickest to get the point or the wittiest with a retort. I can lift a great weight, run fast, spar with a sword, hunt with a bow, laugh at a jest and respond with a pun. I am not the best or brightest or fastest or smartest or most flippant. Yet I do well in all areas. Not being the best keeps me humble and inspires me to strive for better. While being amongst the best gives me the confidence to always push forward. I joined the Kings Army directly from the farm the day after my Day of Majority rite. I was not driven out for dishonest actions, nor did I run from abusive parents. I did not hunger for great adventure though I did become restless in the tedium of a farmers life. In the end my choice was simple. The King called and I answered. This is my story.

King’s Road: for King and Country

King’s Road: for King and Country PDF Author:
Publisher: The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN: 1914151127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Born out of a desire to commemorate those men from King’s Road, St Albans, who lost their lives in the Great War, the road’s current residents suggested the idea of a lasting memorial. Then came the task of researching the lives and the families of those men. It involved many hours of leafing through old newspapers and archives, obtaining advice from local and national bodies and seeking help from relatives of the deceased. A further memorial – this book, which includes a brief history of this street – is the result. The book was compiled by Compiled by Judy Sutton & Helen Little with help and support from many others.

007: For King And Country #1

007: For King And Country #1 PDF Author: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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An all-new nail-biting Bond mission from superstar Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Action Comics) and Giorgio Spalletta (Red Sonja). Accused of murder on British soil, James Bond has been branded a traitor by his own government. As M sends the entire 00 division after 007, Bond must go underground with only one ally: Gwendolyn Gann, 003 — another traitor, presumed dead, secretly on a clandestine mission with global implications.