Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: WILFRID SCAWEN. BLUNT
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ISBN: 9781033585610
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Pages : 0

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Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Category : Great Britain
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Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Author: Michael D. Berdine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000143597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi Revolt in 1882. It addresses Blunt's tireless efforts on behalf of the Egyptian Nationalists to mediate the differences between Britain and Egypt and prevent a British invasion of Egypt. It highlights what amounted to a government cover-up of the actions of certain governmental officials to precipitate the invasion by falsifying intelligence information and manipulating the press. It also takes to task the scholarly tradition of maligning Blunt and questioning the accuracy of his version of the events of 1882. Blunt was branded a traitor in the House of Commons. This book was written to set the record straight. It is ideal reading for those interested in the field of Middle Eastern, Imperial or Colonial history and will provide readers with a better understanding of the real story of imperialism that went on at the time and is still going on in the Middle East today.

Author: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: William Manchester
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316244856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century. In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain. Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen.