Author: Peter Stephaich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761868690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family. He describes in fascinating detail his upbringing in a world which has long since ceased to exist. As a member of the elite Hussar Cavalry, Stephaich fought bravely on horseback against mechanized armies in World War II. At the start of his career in Hungary's elite diplomatic corps, the brutal Nazi occupation of his country left him destitute and in exile. He reinvented himself in the US as an announcer with Radio Free Europe, in Egypt as a shipping operator and in Paris as a stock broker where he also became the recognized expert on traditional hunting across Europe. Yet as Alexandre de Takacsy writes in his epilogue, Peter always had the deepest reverence for nature and wildlife. His was a life well lived in truly turbulent times.
The Last Hussar
Author: Peter Stephaich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761868690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family. He describes in fascinating detail his upbringing in a world which has long since ceased to exist. As a member of the elite Hussar Cavalry, Stephaich fought bravely on horseback against mechanized armies in World War II. At the start of his career in Hungary's elite diplomatic corps, the brutal Nazi occupation of his country left him destitute and in exile. He reinvented himself in the US as an announcer with Radio Free Europe, in Egypt as a shipping operator and in Paris as a stock broker where he also became the recognized expert on traditional hunting across Europe. Yet as Alexandre de Takacsy writes in his epilogue, Peter always had the deepest reverence for nature and wildlife. His was a life well lived in truly turbulent times.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761868690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family. He describes in fascinating detail his upbringing in a world which has long since ceased to exist. As a member of the elite Hussar Cavalry, Stephaich fought bravely on horseback against mechanized armies in World War II. At the start of his career in Hungary's elite diplomatic corps, the brutal Nazi occupation of his country left him destitute and in exile. He reinvented himself in the US as an announcer with Radio Free Europe, in Egypt as a shipping operator and in Paris as a stock broker where he also became the recognized expert on traditional hunting across Europe. Yet as Alexandre de Takacsy writes in his epilogue, Peter always had the deepest reverence for nature and wildlife. His was a life well lived in truly turbulent times.
Forgotten Wars
Author: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108944884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108944884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.
Complete Works of Lord Byron, from the Last London Edition
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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A King's Hussar
Author: Herbert Compton
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron from the Last London Edition
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema
Author: Susan Martin-Márquez
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198159797
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This work provides a detailed consideration of women directors working before the Civil War and during Franco's dictatorship, and an exploration of the impact of feminism on filmmaking in Spain.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198159797
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This work provides a detailed consideration of women directors working before the Civil War and during Franco's dictatorship, and an exploration of the impact of feminism on filmmaking in Spain.
The Year's Sport
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Hussar General
Author: Roger Parkinson
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840222531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Without the timely arrival of the brave 72-year-old Blucher at the head of his Prussian army, the course of history could well have taken a dramatic turn.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840222531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Without the timely arrival of the brave 72-year-old Blucher at the head of his Prussian army, the course of history could well have taken a dramatic turn.
The Hussar
Author: George Robert Gleig
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Hussar. By the Author of the Subaltern [G. R. Gleig].
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Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Languages : en
Pages : 310
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