Download or read book John Verney written by Horace Annesley Vachell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Going to the Wars written by John Verney and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My brother officers. Are they human?” Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of modern art and literature, who has, almost on a whim, joined a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II two years later, Verney arrives in the Middle East and there learns, almost in spite of himself, to be a soldier. In 1943, he becomes a parachutist and leads a “drop” into Sardinia to attack German airfields. His adventures there―two weeks wandering through enemy territory, his capture, and his eventual escape―are brilliantly told. Woven into the fabric of this narrative of a young man growing reluctantly to maturity and coming to terms with military life, are Verney’s thoughts and feelings about his wife, Lucinda, and the child he has never seen, and his longing to return to them. “Delightful reading.”―The Economist “This book is unclassifiable: commentary, autobiography, satire by turns: but it is wholly readable, wholly successful. The author stands spokesman for a whole generation.”―Daily Telegraph “This short, witty book is a triumph.”―Observer “An exciting writer.”―Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times
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Download or read book A Dinner of Herbs written by John Verney and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, after parachuting into Sardinia to raid a German airfield, John Verney and several of his comrades from the British irregular forces were captured and sent to a POW camp in Italy’s Abruzzo region. As the Allies attempted to retake the country, Verney and two others made their escape. For months, they survived on the generosity and bravery of the local Italians who fed them and kept them hidden in haylofts and mountain caves―despite the scarcity of resources and the dangers they themselves faced by harboring English soldiers. Twenty years after the war, Verney revisited the scenes of his imprisonment and escape, and the result is both an enchanting evocation of Southern Italy and an exhilarating story of wartime daring. He recounts the ironic upsides of being a prisoner of war (“for the first time in four long years, I was free to do entirely what I wanted, which was to read as much as possible and try to learn to draw and write”) as well as the anxiety aroused by the possibility of attempting an escape. He describes the extremes of boredom, hunger, discomfort, and mutual irritation that he and his companions faced after their escape, and the immense capacity for tolerance and goodness that they discovered in each other―and especially in the desperately poor Italian families who helped them. Verney writes with a deceptive ease and wit, which reveals a subtlety and a candor that make this book as penetrating as it is delightful. “Delightful reading.”―Economist on Going to the Wars “This short, witty book is a triumph.”―Observer on Going to the Wars "One of the best memoirs of the Second World War."―The Independent on Going to the Wars “This book is unclassifiable: commentary, autobiography, satire by turns: but it is wholly readable, wholly successful. The author stands spokesman for a whole generation.”―Daily Telegraph on Going to the Wars
Download or read book Friday s Tunnel written by John Verney and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet twelve-year-old February and her older brother Friday in this witty and sophisticated middle grade mystery.
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Download or read book A Great and Rising Nation written by Michael A. Verney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge -- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism -- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture -- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith -- Proslavery explorations of South America -- Arctic exploration and US-UK rapprochement.
Download or read book John Verney written by Horace Annesley Vachell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ii we meet sheila charles desmond had a very high regard for John Verney. At Harrow, John had been the closest friend of his favourite son, who was killed during the Boer War. The famous Minister's other sons had chosen to serve the State, respectively as soldier, diplomat, and barrister. Each had done well, but each, in a sense, had drifted apart from a father who was necessarily engrossed with his own and the nation's affairs. For many years Desmond's party had been in power. Now they were confronted with a General Election and a possible defeat. Desmond, m the most sanguine of politicians, told John that he had enjoyed a long innings, and that the country, in his opinion, wanted to see what the other fellows would do. The Socialists, of course, had something up their sleeves: a tremendous appeal to the Industrials: largesse to be filched from the few and flung to the many. Also without doubt, the Liberals had organized a big campaign, whereas the Conservatives had exhibited a disposition to sit smilingly upon fences. Desmond himself could not accept Tariff Reform in its entirety. For many years a Free Trader, he had been constrained to consider a modified form of Protection, but exactly how this was to be brought about with justice to all industries, and without commercial stagnation and dislocation, he avowed himself unable to say. John entered the library and went to his desk, piled high with letters and papers awaiting Desmond's signature. Picking these up, he advanced towards his Chief, who frowned and waved a fretful hand. "I want to talk to you," he said. As he spoke he looked keenly at his secretary, taking stock of him, appraising him, for the first time, as a possible suitor of his daughter. Part of his success as a...
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