Author: Robert Palmer
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473368561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This publication is a collection of letters written by a soldier serving in Mesopotamia during the great war. The author writes to his mother , father, and friends, recounting his experiences of the war in the Middle-East. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.
Letters from Mesopotamia - In 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was Killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916 Aged 27 Years (WWI Centenary Series)
Author: Robert Palmer
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473368561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This publication is a collection of letters written by a soldier serving in Mesopotamia during the great war. The author writes to his mother , father, and friends, recounting his experiences of the war in the Middle-East. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473368561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This publication is a collection of letters written by a soldier serving in Mesopotamia during the great war. The author writes to his mother , father, and friends, recounting his experiences of the war in the Middle-East. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.
Letters from Mesopotamia
Author: Robert Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406541830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Letters from Mesopotamia: In 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer (1888 - 1916), who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406541830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Letters from Mesopotamia: In 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer (1888 - 1916), who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years.
Letters Form Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was Killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, Aged 27 Years
Author: Robert Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was Killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, Aged 27 Years
Author: Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
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For God and the Empire
Author: Roger Willoughby
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9781902366531
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
"The full story of the Order of the British Empire, and its medal, the British Empire medal -originally intended to honour civilian heroes of the Great War, which developed into a much sought after award for a wide variety of roles, including women, secret agents and war workers"--Naval & Military Press.
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9781902366531
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
"The full story of the Order of the British Empire, and its medal, the British Empire medal -originally intended to honour civilian heroes of the Great War, which developed into a much sought after award for a wide variety of roles, including women, secret agents and war workers"--Naval & Military Press.
Fake?
Author: Mark Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520070875
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520070875
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Koenraad W. Swart
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401196737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted the complacency and the great expectations of the past century with the fears and anxieties rampant in our own age. It is often too readily assumed that a hundred years ago all leading thinkers as weil as the educated public were addicted to the cult of progress and ignored or minimized those trends of their times that paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the intoxicating triumphs of modern science undeniably induced the general public to believe that pro gress was not an accident but a necessity and that evil and immo rality would gradually disappear. Yet fears, misgivings, and anxieties were not as exceptional in the nineteenth century as is often imagined. Such feelings were not restricted to a few dissenting philosophers and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401196737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted the complacency and the great expectations of the past century with the fears and anxieties rampant in our own age. It is often too readily assumed that a hundred years ago all leading thinkers as weil as the educated public were addicted to the cult of progress and ignored or minimized those trends of their times that paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the intoxicating triumphs of modern science undeniably induced the general public to believe that pro gress was not an accident but a necessity and that evil and immo rality would gradually disappear. Yet fears, misgivings, and anxieties were not as exceptional in the nineteenth century as is often imagined. Such feelings were not restricted to a few dissenting philosophers and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.
The Jewish Discovery of Islam
Author: Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
ISBN: 9789652240385
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In this groundbreaking volume of essays, contributors assess some of the most famous travelers, writers, and scholars. The wide-ranging introduction by Martin Kramer sets them in a still broader context, tracing the Jewish fascination with Islam in all its varieties -- romantic, assimilationist, liberal, Zionist, and Marxist.
Publisher: Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
ISBN: 9789652240385
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In this groundbreaking volume of essays, contributors assess some of the most famous travelers, writers, and scholars. The wide-ranging introduction by Martin Kramer sets them in a still broader context, tracing the Jewish fascination with Islam in all its varieties -- romantic, assimilationist, liberal, Zionist, and Marxist.
JFK vs. Allen Dulles
Author: Greg Poulgrain
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510744800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
For those interested in the assassination of JFK, the untold story of Indonesia, gold, JFK, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and secret military coups. Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, and Allen Dulles, our nation’s longest-serving CIA director, often clashed over intelligence issues and national security. However, one such conflict has remained in the shadows until now. JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia takes reader to the vast archipelago 3350 miles wide where this secret showdown occurred. In 1936, an Allen Dulles-established company discovered the world's largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. In 1962, President Kennedy intervened, and Netherlands New Guinea was added to President Sukarno's Indonesia. Neither Sukarno nor JFK was aware of the gold, since Dulles had not informed Kennedy. Dulles planned a complicated and ruthless CIA regime-change strategy to seize control not only of Indonesia itself, but also of its vast resources, including the gold. This strategy included a push to start Malaysian Confrontation. Yet Kennedy's plan to visit Jakarta in early 1964 would have sunk Dulles' master plan, which included the destruction of the Indonesian communist party as a wedge to split Moscow and Beijing. Only an assassin's bullet put an end to Kennedy’s plan of peace. Did Allen Dulles arrange for JFK to be killed to save his plan and his gold? Was his coup for gold successful with JFK out of the picture? Using archival records as a basis, Greg Poulgrain adds word-of-mouth evidence from those people who were directly involved—such as Dean Rusk and others who worked with President Kennedy and Allen Dulles at the time; or the person who was with Michael Rockefeller when he mysteriously disappeared in West New Guinea during this whole affair.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510744800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
For those interested in the assassination of JFK, the untold story of Indonesia, gold, JFK, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and secret military coups. Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, and Allen Dulles, our nation’s longest-serving CIA director, often clashed over intelligence issues and national security. However, one such conflict has remained in the shadows until now. JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia takes reader to the vast archipelago 3350 miles wide where this secret showdown occurred. In 1936, an Allen Dulles-established company discovered the world's largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. In 1962, President Kennedy intervened, and Netherlands New Guinea was added to President Sukarno's Indonesia. Neither Sukarno nor JFK was aware of the gold, since Dulles had not informed Kennedy. Dulles planned a complicated and ruthless CIA regime-change strategy to seize control not only of Indonesia itself, but also of its vast resources, including the gold. This strategy included a push to start Malaysian Confrontation. Yet Kennedy's plan to visit Jakarta in early 1964 would have sunk Dulles' master plan, which included the destruction of the Indonesian communist party as a wedge to split Moscow and Beijing. Only an assassin's bullet put an end to Kennedy’s plan of peace. Did Allen Dulles arrange for JFK to be killed to save his plan and his gold? Was his coup for gold successful with JFK out of the picture? Using archival records as a basis, Greg Poulgrain adds word-of-mouth evidence from those people who were directly involved—such as Dean Rusk and others who worked with President Kennedy and Allen Dulles at the time; or the person who was with Michael Rockefeller when he mysteriously disappeared in West New Guinea during this whole affair.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137278536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Examining the chain of events that led to the Great War and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it, an acclaimed political psychologist creates plausible worlds, some better, some worse, that might have developed.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137278536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Examining the chain of events that led to the Great War and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it, an acclaimed political psychologist creates plausible worlds, some better, some worse, that might have developed.