Author: Benjamin Vallotton
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ISBN: 9781331053743
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Excerpt from Potterat and the War "I like this place immensely!" and with a wide David Potterat added: "The Alps on the left, the Jura on the right, the Lake in front, the Jorat behind, the sun blazing away in the heavens, a garden, and me in the middle of it... What more could a man want?" So then, after a career full of honours and of dangers, the retired Police Superintendent had settled down to cultivate his flowers, grow salads, and employ his detective talents in tracking down snails and slugs. Was it really nine years since he and his wife and two cats had come to live in this old house, above whose doorway, half hidden by the climbing ivy, might be read the poetic name 'Eglantine Cottage.'... Nine years! But happiness is not to be measured by years. Often would Potterat lean upon his spade, and look up at the house, the overhanging eaves of which made it look like an old face in a poke bonnet. With a musically monotonous note the fountain behind the thicket plashed ceaselessly into its basin; and the arched door of the shed, the dormer windows, the laurels, and the thousand and one flowers which faithfully came to keep tryst with the seasons, the jasmine, honeysuckle, tulips, larkspurs, carnations, and roses, lay always under the magic of its voice. Potterat loved to sit on the bench in the shade, and smoke his pipe after the day's work. 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: Benjamin Vallotton
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Benjamin 1877-1962 Vallotton
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ISBN: 9781372457203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Benjamin 1877-1962 Vallotton
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363600472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Author: Erskine Childers
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267968107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Excerpt from War and the Arme Blanche I have read with the greatest interest Mr. Childers's illuminating book War and the Arme Blanche. My opinion of the subject with which it deals is already SO well known throughout the army that I need not labour to say how entirely I agree with the author's main thesis indeed, anyone who will take the trouble to read Cavalry Training will see that I anticipated the arguments which he has so ably developed. This being so, it is not surprising that I should view the regulations laid down in Cavalry Training with some concern. 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: E. V. L.
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ISBN: 9781331251347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Excerpt from Quoth the Raven: An Unofficial History of the War A certain amount of the present work appeared as a serial in the Star, under the title "Never Again!" No pains have been spared, during revision, to make it as authentic as the war-muddled condition of modem memories will permit. If more emphasis seems to be laid on the surprising activities on the home Front than on the foreign Front it is because we heard more about them and saw more of them. It is not that our soldiers and sailors were not busy too, but they were busy in a different way. Moreover, other historians, it is possible, are writing about them. 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: Antoine-Henri Jomini
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282112738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Excerpt from The Art of War To those persons to whom the study of the art of war is a new one, it is recommended to begin at the article Stra tegy, Chapter III., from that point to read to the end of the Second Appendix, and then to return to Chapters I. And II. It should be borne in mind that this subject, to be appreciated, must be studied, map in hand: this re mark is especially true of strategy. An acquaintance with the campaigns of Napoleon I. Is quite important, as they are constantly referred to by J omini and by all other recent writers on the military art. 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: Chris Bohjalian
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525432698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: “Historical fiction at its best…. The book is a thriller in structure, and a real page-turner, the ending both unexpected and satisfying” (Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series, The Washington Post). A young Puritan woman—faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul—plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense. Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary—a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony—soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt.
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759574731
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas. “A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person looks at the world.” —Michael Lewis
