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From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smoldering ruins of Berlin in 1945 via Palestine Tobruk El Alamein DDay Nijmegen and the crossing of the Rhine this is a unique firstperson account of World War II The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Stanley Christophers regiment went to war as amateurs equipped with courage but very little else and ended up one of the most experienced highly trained and most valued armored units in the British Army Their journey through the war learning through mistakes and tragedy as well as from a determined desire to improve can in many ways be seen to reflect the experience of the British Army as a whole From Alamein onwards the Sherwood Rangers were in the vanguard of almost every action in which they took part and over the course of the conflict they amassed an astonishing 30 battle honors Christopherson himself was to rise from a junior subaltern to become the commanding officer of the regiment soon after the DDay landings He took part in all 30 battle honors and collected a Distinguished Service Order two Military Crosses and an American Silver Star as well as being Mentioned in Despatches four times His is an extraordinary story
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From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smoldering ruins of Berlin in 1945 via Palestine Tobruk El Alamein DDay Nijmegen and the crossing of the Rhine this is a unique firstperson account of World War II The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Stanley Christophers regiment went to war as amateurs equipped with courage but very little else and ended up one of the most experienced highly trained and most valued armored units in the British Army Their journey through the war learning through mistakes and tragedy as well as from a determined desire to improve can in many ways be seen to reflect the experience of the British Army as a whole From Alamein onwards the Sherwood Rangers were in the vanguard of almost every action in which they took part and over the course of the conflict they amassed an astonishing 30 battle honors Christopherson himself was to rise from a junior subaltern to become the commanding officer of the regiment soon after the DDay landings He took part in all 30 battle honors and collected a Distinguished Service Order two Military Crosses and an American Silver Star as well as being Mentioned in Despatches four times His is an extraordinary story
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In the first terrifying days of World War I four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pass as Picard peasants The Englishmans Daughter is the neverbeforetold story of these extraordinary men their protectors and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne the most beautiful woman in Villeret Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as The Englishmans Daughter and in an act of unspeakable betrayal a tragic legacy that would haunt the village for generations to come Through the testimonies of the villagers and the last letters of the soldiers acclaimed journalist Ben Macintyre has pieced together a harrowing account of how life was lived behind enemy lines during the Great War and offers a compelling solution to a gripping mystery that reverberates to this day
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The second son of a minor Essex landowner John Hawkwood chose to head south in 1360 after serving as a captain in the Black Princes wars against France He and other freebooters besieged the Pope at Avignon and when they were paid to go to Italy discovered that the threat of force could be very profitable indeed Hawkwood became the most successful mercenary leader of the time immortalised after death by Paolo Uccellos fresco in the Duomo This is the story of an age when everything came to have a price But above all Hawkwood is a brilliant illumination of one of the outstanding figures of English and European history
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Anthony Whitelands an English art historian is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrats collection At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera founder and leader of the Falange a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil warThe paintings turn out to be worthless but before Whitelands can leave for London the duques daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home Afraid that the duque will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman who is also being watched by his own embassyAs Whitelandsever the fool for a pretty facevies with Primo de Rivera for Paquitas affections he learns of a final interested party Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize
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Maurice Cottterill an expatriate rubber planter was the only Englishman to have lived in Malaya when the country was successively a part of the British Empire occupied by the Japanese designated a British colony subject to a prolonged civil war and then an independent nation He spent the years from 1942 to 1945 in the jungle being one of the handful of refugees to survive betrayal capture starvation or disease
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In 1854 after recently arriving from England twentytwoyearold Reuben Smith traveled west eventually making his way to Kansas Territory There he found himself in the midst of a bloody prelude to the Civil War as Free Staters and defenders of slavery battled to stake their claim The young Englishman wrote down what he witnessed in a diary where he had already begun documenting his days in a clear and candid fashion As beautifully written as they are keenly observant these diaries afford an unusual view of America in its most tumultuous times of Kansas in its critical historical moments and of one mans life in the middle of it all for fifty yearsFrom his moving account of traveling from England by ship to his reflections on settling in the newly opened Kansas Territory to his observations of war and politics Smith provides a picture that is at once panoramic and highly personal His diaries depict the escalation of the Civil War along the KansasMissouri border as well as the evolution of a volunteer soldier from an inexperienced private to a seasoned officer and government spy They take us inside military camps and generals quarters to the front lines of battle and in pursuit of bushwhackers William Quantrill and Cole Younger Later they show us Smith as a state representative and steward of the Kansas State Insane Asylum in its early years In historic scenes and poignant personal stories these diaries offer a unique perspective on life in the Midwest in the last half of the nineteenth centuryEditor Lana Wirt Myerss commentary and extensive notes provide the context and information needed for a full understanding of Reuben Smiths remarkable stories
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Maurice Cottterill an expatriate rubber planter was the only Englishman to have lived in Malaya when the country was successively a part of the British Empire occupied by the Japanese designated a British colony subject to a prolonged civil war and then an independent nation He spent the years from 1942 to 1945 in the jungle being one of the handful of refugees to survive betrayal capture starvation or disease
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After the Chinese legalize opium the English open a vast market of smuggling that is opposed by the Chinese millionaire Yinkwa and the Englishman Charlie the Red Barbarian in a plan that ends with the last Chinese dynasty
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Ranging from Seattle to Cairo from the high seas to the US presidential campaign Raban brings a distinctive and often unexpected perspective to the issues facing postSeptember 11 AmericaWhat does the war on terror and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest Jonathan Raban finds as he reads the source texts that have inspired modernday jihad memories of his own adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation and moral uncertainty turn to a backwardlooking version of Islam to help them resist the upheavals of modernityRaban reflects on the Bush administrations manipulation of the threat of terrorism to undermine civil rights In diagnosing what has gone wrong in the Iraq war he emphasizes the US failure to understand the history of the Middle East and explains the regions shifting and complex loyalties of religion and ethnicity He traces the continuing support for a disastrous war to the legacy of American Puritanism the tendency of Americans to be inspired by a religious fervor oblivious to history and reason And he explores the increasing polarization of American politics as exemplified by the issues that he has seen divide his urban from his non urban neighbors in the Northwest
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Death of a Translator A sold for 31.37 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
After spending the summer in Kabul province a young freelancer became a staff reporter for The Times of London covering conflicts in Northern Ireland the Gulf Pakistan Sri Lanka and the Balkans but Afghanistan never let him goA young devilmaycare Englishman determined to report on the Soviet war and make a name for himself makes a fateful commitment to a swashbuckling Afghan guerrilla commander Not only does he go inside the capital secretly and live in the network of safe houses run by the resistance he travels around the city in a Soviet Army jeep dressed as a Russian officerWaiting in the mountain camp from where Niazuldins band of fighters lived and planned their hitandrun attacks on Soviet troops Ed Gorman discovers what it means to experience combat with men whose only interest is to be killed or martyredDeath of a Translator is a searingly honest description of a mind haunted and eventually paralyzed by the terror of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Set before and during the great war Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale It is the story of Stephen a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in 1910 Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself
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After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson
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David Leans splendid biography of the enigmatic T E Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desertloving Englishman who united Arab tribes in a battle against the Ottoman Turks during World War I
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After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson8 episodes on 3 dis
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After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson
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After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson10 episodes on 3 di
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Poldark The Complete First Season sold at 32.52 $ ; this product is listed in the Movies, TV Series category, produced by , and sold by Deepdiscount.com.
After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson8 episodes on 3 dis
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After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson8 episodes on 3 dis
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After fighting in the American Revolutionary War Englishman Ross Poldark Aidan Turner returns to his Cornwall home only to find his father dead his community in the grip of harsh economic times and the woman he loves engaged to his cousin Resolved to make a fresh start Poldark takes control of his lands and sets out to redefine his fortunes This newest Britishmade series adapted from the Winston Graham novels costars Heida Reed Kyle Soller and Elinor Tomlinson10 episodes on 3 di
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