Author: James Grant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Legends of the Black Watch: Or, Forty-Second Highlanders
Author: James Grant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Black Watch. Or, Forty-second Highlanders
Author: James Grant
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385385865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385385865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Walking Wounded
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199603189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literature examination papers. Scannell died in 2007, and Walking Wounded draws on his personal diaries, poems, and other writings to offer the first detailed study of this complex, controversial, and occasionally tragic life. For the first time, the women who loved him tell their stories; his children describe growing up with a father who was funny, affectionate, sometimes violent, and often not there at all; and his fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Anthony Thwaite, Alan Brownjohn and Kit Wright, speak of the dedicated stylist, assured performer, and occasionally roistering drunk that they knew. Scannell was seriously wounded in Normandy shortly after D-Day, but the book looks at the deeper, mental scars from the War that he bore all his life, and of the suffering they caused to him and the people who loved him. It is an important book about an important poet, which investigates where poetry comes from, and the terrible price that sometimes has to be paid for it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199603189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literature examination papers. Scannell died in 2007, and Walking Wounded draws on his personal diaries, poems, and other writings to offer the first detailed study of this complex, controversial, and occasionally tragic life. For the first time, the women who loved him tell their stories; his children describe growing up with a father who was funny, affectionate, sometimes violent, and often not there at all; and his fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Anthony Thwaite, Alan Brownjohn and Kit Wright, speak of the dedicated stylist, assured performer, and occasionally roistering drunk that they knew. Scannell was seriously wounded in Normandy shortly after D-Day, but the book looks at the deeper, mental scars from the War that he bore all his life, and of the suffering they caused to him and the people who loved him. It is an important book about an important poet, which investigates where poetry comes from, and the terrible price that sometimes has to be paid for it.
A Clash of Kings
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553897853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO In this thrilling sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel . . . and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553897853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO In this thrilling sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel . . . and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.
The Black Watch and the King's Enemies
Author: Bernard Fergusson
Publisher: London Collins 1950.
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: London Collins 1950.
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Grant's Novels: The queen's cadet. The Black watch
Author: James Grant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Black Watch
Author: Gregory Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
An unauthorised biography of the legendary Scottish regiment. Celebrated for its bravery and clan loyalties, the Black Watch has been in the vanguard of countless British military expeditions from Waterloo and the Somme to Kosovo. Its last great challenge before enforced amalgamation was relieving American forces at Camp Dogwood in Iraq during 2004. Based on interviews with former soldiers of the Black Watch who served in Iraq.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
An unauthorised biography of the legendary Scottish regiment. Celebrated for its bravery and clan loyalties, the Black Watch has been in the vanguard of countless British military expeditions from Waterloo and the Somme to Kosovo. Its last great challenge before enforced amalgamation was relieving American forces at Camp Dogwood in Iraq during 2004. Based on interviews with former soldiers of the Black Watch who served in Iraq.
ABA Bulletin
Author: American Booksellers Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Chambers Scottish Biographical Dictionary
Author: Rosemary Goring
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
2400 entries, bringing together eminent names from every era and discipline, focusing not just on the well known but also on those whose achivement has previously been neglected.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
2400 entries, bringing together eminent names from every era and discipline, focusing not just on the well known but also on those whose achivement has previously been neglected.
The Clique
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description