Author: Robert Douglas Pinkerton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"Ladies from Hell,"
Author: Robert Douglas Pinkerton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Last Lady from Hell
Author: Richard G. Morley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781468009835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"The Last Lady from Hell" is an historical novel about one of the world's darkest hours. A haunting old photograph of a bagpiper playing to a shellshocked kilted regiment inspires a Queens University student to track down the last living Canadian veteran of " The War to end all Wars." He meets the 109-year old Ian Macdonald who, as a member of a kilted bagpipe band (mockingly referred to by the German troops as The Ladies from Hell ), led Allied troops into the war's bloodiest conflict. Recounting his tale to the young student, Macdonald relives his remarkable journey leading up to and including the horrors of the Battle Somme on the Western Front. With 56,000 casualties on the first day, this battle would go down in history as Britain's worst losses in any one event.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781468009835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"The Last Lady from Hell" is an historical novel about one of the world's darkest hours. A haunting old photograph of a bagpiper playing to a shellshocked kilted regiment inspires a Queens University student to track down the last living Canadian veteran of " The War to end all Wars." He meets the 109-year old Ian Macdonald who, as a member of a kilted bagpipe band (mockingly referred to by the German troops as The Ladies from Hell ), led Allied troops into the war's bloodiest conflict. Recounting his tale to the young student, Macdonald relives his remarkable journey leading up to and including the horrors of the Battle Somme on the Western Front. With 56,000 casualties on the first day, this battle would go down in history as Britain's worst losses in any one event.
Seventeen Seventy-six
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743226720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Chronicles the American Revolution during the year 1776, examining the leadership of George Washington and British commander William Howe and the experiences of American and British troops.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743226720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Chronicles the American Revolution during the year 1776, examining the leadership of George Washington and British commander William Howe and the experiences of American and British troops.
Now the Hell Will Start
Author: Brendan I. Koerner
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, this work tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding playboy who winds up in the Indo-Burmese jungle--not for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the U.S. Army during World War II.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, this work tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding playboy who winds up in the Indo-Burmese jungle--not for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the U.S. Army during World War II.
Scottish Military Disasters
Author: Paul Cowan
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.
Women are from Venus, Men are from Hell
Author: Amanda Newman
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671037338
Category : Interpersonal communication
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A spiky and cheeky look at the male sex in a parody of the megabestseller MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS. Neatly sectioned in chapters with titles such as 'Men: Simple or Dense?' and 'There Must Be Some Misunderstanding', WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS, MEN ARE FROM HELL is a collection of the wittiest, cattiest, funniest quotes about men - from both frustrated women and smart men: 'I married beneath me, all women do' - Nancy Astor 'Get a job, your husband hates you. Get a good job, your husband leaves you. Get a stupendous job, your husband leaves you for a teenager' - Cynthia Heimel 'Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels' - Ann Richards 'Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name' - Joan Rivers 'If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman' - Margaret Thatcher 'If men liked shopping, they'd call it research' - Cynthia Nelms 'Behind every great man there is a surprised woman' - Maryon Pearson
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780671037338
Category : Interpersonal communication
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A spiky and cheeky look at the male sex in a parody of the megabestseller MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS. Neatly sectioned in chapters with titles such as 'Men: Simple or Dense?' and 'There Must Be Some Misunderstanding', WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS, MEN ARE FROM HELL is a collection of the wittiest, cattiest, funniest quotes about men - from both frustrated women and smart men: 'I married beneath me, all women do' - Nancy Astor 'Get a job, your husband hates you. Get a good job, your husband leaves you. Get a stupendous job, your husband leaves you for a teenager' - Cynthia Heimel 'Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels' - Ann Richards 'Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name' - Joan Rivers 'If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman' - Margaret Thatcher 'If men liked shopping, they'd call it research' - Cynthia Nelms 'Behind every great man there is a surprised woman' - Maryon Pearson
Life
Author: John Ames Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965
Author: Barry Monush
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557835512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
(Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557835512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
(Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!
Shaking the Gates of Hell
Author: John Archibald
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525658114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News. "My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my best, I think it comes from that sermon place." Everything Archibald knows and believes about life is "refracted through the stained glass of the Southern church. It had everything to do with people. And fairness. And compassion." In Shaking the Gates of Hell, Archibald asks: Can a good person remain silent in the face of discrimination and horror, and still be a good person? Archibald had seen his father, the Rev. Robert L. Archibald, Jr., the son and grandson of Methodist preachers, as a moral authority, a moderate and a moderating force during the racial turbulence of the '60s, a loving and dependable parent, a forgiving and attentive minister, a man many Alabamians came to see as a saint. But was that enough? Even though Archibald grew up in Alabama in the heart of the civil rights movement, he could recall few words about racial rights or wrongs from his father's pulpit at a time the South seethed, and this began to haunt him. In this moving and powerful book, Archibald writes of his complex search, and of the conspiracy of silence his father faced in the South, in the Methodist Church and in the greater Christian church. Those who spoke too loudly were punished, or banished, or worse. Archibald's father was warned to guard his words on issues of race to protect his family, and he did. He spoke to his flock in the safety of parable, and trusted in the goodness of others, even when they earned none of it, rising through the ranks of the Methodist Church, and teaching his family lessons in kindness and humanity, and devotion to nature and the Earth. Archibald writes of this difficult, at times uncomfortable, reckoning with his past in this unadorned, affecting book of growth and evolution.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525658114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News. "My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my best, I think it comes from that sermon place." Everything Archibald knows and believes about life is "refracted through the stained glass of the Southern church. It had everything to do with people. And fairness. And compassion." In Shaking the Gates of Hell, Archibald asks: Can a good person remain silent in the face of discrimination and horror, and still be a good person? Archibald had seen his father, the Rev. Robert L. Archibald, Jr., the son and grandson of Methodist preachers, as a moral authority, a moderate and a moderating force during the racial turbulence of the '60s, a loving and dependable parent, a forgiving and attentive minister, a man many Alabamians came to see as a saint. But was that enough? Even though Archibald grew up in Alabama in the heart of the civil rights movement, he could recall few words about racial rights or wrongs from his father's pulpit at a time the South seethed, and this began to haunt him. In this moving and powerful book, Archibald writes of his complex search, and of the conspiracy of silence his father faced in the South, in the Methodist Church and in the greater Christian church. Those who spoke too loudly were punished, or banished, or worse. Archibald's father was warned to guard his words on issues of race to protect his family, and he did. He spoke to his flock in the safety of parable, and trusted in the goodness of others, even when they earned none of it, rising through the ranks of the Methodist Church, and teaching his family lessons in kindness and humanity, and devotion to nature and the Earth. Archibald writes of this difficult, at times uncomfortable, reckoning with his past in this unadorned, affecting book of growth and evolution.
Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description