Author: Frances Campbell-Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904349471
Category : Ladies-in-waiting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an account of the life of Frances Campbell-Preston, a life lived to the full. This work mirrors the times through which she has lived - its truimphs and tragedies. She was lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother from 1965 to the Queen Mother's death in 2002. She was created a DCVO in 1990.
The Rich Spoils of Time
Author: Frances Campbell-Preston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904349471
Category : Ladies-in-waiting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an account of the life of Frances Campbell-Preston, a life lived to the full. This work mirrors the times through which she has lived - its truimphs and tragedies. She was lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother from 1965 to the Queen Mother's death in 2002. She was created a DCVO in 1990.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904349471
Category : Ladies-in-waiting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an account of the life of Frances Campbell-Preston, a life lived to the full. This work mirrors the times through which she has lived - its truimphs and tragedies. She was lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother from 1965 to the Queen Mother's death in 2002. She was created a DCVO in 1990.
Spoils
Author: Brian Van Reet
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316316156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian Van Reet explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahedeen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the new wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a "victimless" crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined. Depicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, Spoils is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat. "The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American"-Wall Street Journal, 10 Best Novels of the Year "An electrifying debut" (The Economist) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316316156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian Van Reet explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahedeen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the new wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a "victimless" crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined. Depicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, Spoils is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat. "The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American"-Wall Street Journal, 10 Best Novels of the Year "An electrifying debut" (The Economist) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished.
Dividing the Spoils
Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199931526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199931526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death
A history of the holy Bible
Author: Thomas Stackhouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
A History of the Holy Bible, Etc
Author: Thomas STACKHOUSE (Vicar of Beenham.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians
Author: Charles Rollin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
A New History of the Holy Bible, from the beginning of the world to the establishment of Christianity. L.P.
Author: Thomas STACKHOUSE (Vicar of Beenham.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
A history of the holy Bible, with an intr., additional notes and dissertations, and a complete index by D. Dewar
Author: Thomas Stackhouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
More Than Mere Playthings
Author: Julia C. Fischer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443896497
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book is inspired by the 2015 Italian Art Society-sponsored conference sessions of the American Association of Italian Studies. Its seven chapters span the art of ancient Etruria to twentieth century Italy, and explore a variety of media, including mirrors, cameos, treasury objects, reliquaries, ceramics, and figurines. Contributors approach the topic of the minor arts from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including reception, use, patronage, gender issues, propaganda, and iconography. The volume thus fills the lacuna in the scholarship of the minor arts, and reveals that the minor arts are unique and worthy of study for their size, preciosity, patronage, audience, function, portability, and material. Ultimately, in revealing the importance of these objects, the book shows that the division between the major and minor arts is no longer valid, and that these objects of the minor arts hold as much significance as those of the major arts.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443896497
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book is inspired by the 2015 Italian Art Society-sponsored conference sessions of the American Association of Italian Studies. Its seven chapters span the art of ancient Etruria to twentieth century Italy, and explore a variety of media, including mirrors, cameos, treasury objects, reliquaries, ceramics, and figurines. Contributors approach the topic of the minor arts from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including reception, use, patronage, gender issues, propaganda, and iconography. The volume thus fills the lacuna in the scholarship of the minor arts, and reveals that the minor arts are unique and worthy of study for their size, preciosity, patronage, audience, function, portability, and material. Ultimately, in revealing the importance of these objects, the book shows that the division between the major and minor arts is no longer valid, and that these objects of the minor arts hold as much significance as those of the major arts.
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description