Author: J. L. F. LAMBERT
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0993692699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In a quiet suburb of Bordeaux, France, memories from the last century haunt the thoughts of a retired, lonely widow, night after night. Time is running out for this former schoolmistress: she opens up to a stranger, the narrator, to have her story serve as a lesson for the next generation. In the process, she is led to revisit a wartime decision, involving a forbidden romance, deeply rooted in wolf-pack psychology. In spite of her upbringing and redemption in her career, she finally comes to question her sacrifice. In the end, her ordeal will be acknowledged by a coincidence. - Maps, Drawings, Photos, Letters, Poem, Notes. (Also as paperback.)
THE QUIET TIDES OF BORDEAUX
Author: J. L. F. LAMBERT
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0993692699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In a quiet suburb of Bordeaux, France, memories from the last century haunt the thoughts of a retired, lonely widow, night after night. Time is running out for this former schoolmistress: she opens up to a stranger, the narrator, to have her story serve as a lesson for the next generation. In the process, she is led to revisit a wartime decision, involving a forbidden romance, deeply rooted in wolf-pack psychology. In spite of her upbringing and redemption in her career, she finally comes to question her sacrifice. In the end, her ordeal will be acknowledged by a coincidence. - Maps, Drawings, Photos, Letters, Poem, Notes. (Also as paperback.)
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0993692699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In a quiet suburb of Bordeaux, France, memories from the last century haunt the thoughts of a retired, lonely widow, night after night. Time is running out for this former schoolmistress: she opens up to a stranger, the narrator, to have her story serve as a lesson for the next generation. In the process, she is led to revisit a wartime decision, involving a forbidden romance, deeply rooted in wolf-pack psychology. In spite of her upbringing and redemption in her career, she finally comes to question her sacrifice. In the end, her ordeal will be acknowledged by a coincidence. - Maps, Drawings, Photos, Letters, Poem, Notes. (Also as paperback.)
A Peer Among Princes
Author: Philip Grant
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526745429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This authoritative biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Victorian era politician and hero of the Napoleonic Wars. Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career during the Napoleonic Wars. In the struggle for the Iberian Peninsula, he won a major victory at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the siege of San Sebastian, and acted as the Duke of Wellington’s second in command. But Graham was much more than a soldier. An innovative Scottish landowner, politician, sportsman, and traveler, he was a remarkable man of his age. In A Peer Among Princes, Philip Grant does justice to his life and reputation. Lord Lynedoch only took up his military career in 1792 when he was outraged by the violation of his wife’s coffin by French revolutionaries. Determined to fight them, he raised his own regiment and soon establishing himself as an outstanding leader and field commander. He saw action at Toulon, made a daring escape from the siege of Mantua, served in Malta and Egypt and with Sir John Moore during the Corunna campaign. With quotes from Graham’s vivid letters and diaries, Grant weaves an absorbing and detailed narrative of his long and varied life.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526745429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This authoritative biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Victorian era politician and hero of the Napoleonic Wars. Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career during the Napoleonic Wars. In the struggle for the Iberian Peninsula, he won a major victory at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the siege of San Sebastian, and acted as the Duke of Wellington’s second in command. But Graham was much more than a soldier. An innovative Scottish landowner, politician, sportsman, and traveler, he was a remarkable man of his age. In A Peer Among Princes, Philip Grant does justice to his life and reputation. Lord Lynedoch only took up his military career in 1792 when he was outraged by the violation of his wife’s coffin by French revolutionaries. Determined to fight them, he raised his own regiment and soon establishing himself as an outstanding leader and field commander. He saw action at Toulon, made a daring escape from the siege of Mantua, served in Malta and Egypt and with Sir John Moore during the Corunna campaign. With quotes from Graham’s vivid letters and diaries, Grant weaves an absorbing and detailed narrative of his long and varied life.
Time's Ungentle Tide
Author: Dudley Winthrop Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Speak, Silence
Author: Carole Angier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526634783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526634783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait.
Brakespeare; Or, The Fortunes of a Free Lance
Author: George Alfred Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Overland Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 2066
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 2066
Book Description
The American Journal of Nursing
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Broadway Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Time & Tide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Cruising West France
Author: Peter Cumberlidge
Publisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd
ISBN: 1786794667
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
West France is, in the author’s words, a glorious coastline of timeless cruising pleasures. This sailing companion will take you along its rocky coastlines and golden beaches and up its many estuaries and rivers, enriching your journey from port to port with the history, sights and gastronomic delights of the region. Numerous photographs illustrate the places described and emphasise the picturesque nature of this most popular cruising ground.
Publisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd
ISBN: 1786794667
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
West France is, in the author’s words, a glorious coastline of timeless cruising pleasures. This sailing companion will take you along its rocky coastlines and golden beaches and up its many estuaries and rivers, enriching your journey from port to port with the history, sights and gastronomic delights of the region. Numerous photographs illustrate the places described and emphasise the picturesque nature of this most popular cruising ground.