Download or read book Memoirs of a Reluctant Copper written by Douglas Hemingway and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a brief history of the author in an attempt to highlight the trigger points that lead to a career as a detective in the London Metropolitan Police. There follows descriptions of the issues that this somewhat opinionated man had to negotiate. The investigation of rape and all the issues that are experienced by all parties involved is then described in full. The last chapter is an indulgence.
Download or read book A Reluctant Memoir written by Robert Ballagh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal artistic training, he triumphed in his field despite often formidable hostility. His work was also strikingly topical and political, playing with classic images by Goya or Delacroix to express outrage about the situation in Northern Ireland. But it is his series of realistic portraits of writers, politicians and fellow artists – often searingly inquisitive and moving in equal measure – that have won him lasting fame. His subjects include Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, James Watson, Francis Crick, Harold Pinter and Fidel Castro. And his remarkable self-portraits unsparingly document the process of his own ageing. This memoir is also a story of Ireland over the past sixty years, its violence, hypocrisy and immobility as well as its creativity and generosity.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Reluctant Capitalist written by John Heller and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reluctant Revolutionaries written by Joseph S. Tiedemann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
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Download or read book Memoirs of the late Mrs Mary Cooper of London who departed this life June 22 1812 etc The editor s preface signed A C i e Adam Clarke written by Mary COOPER (of London.) and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir Respecting the Kaffers Hottentots and Bosjemans of South Africa written by John Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coop written by Russell Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and revealing memoir charts the evolution of the grazier turned politician Russell Cooper through his 'fires of experience' from life on the land to the halls of State Parliament. He writes candidly about his youth, the people and the Party that influenced him politically providing a rare insight into his trademark decisive approach to nation shaping events like prison reform, gun laws and police powers. Russell Cooper writes like he speaks, at pace and without fear - his distinctive voice and turn of phrase hit the page and the reader. He addresses some mistruths, misunderstandings and misgivings with surprising honesty, from his heady days in the Young Country Party to taking on the top job for the Queensland Nationals. It is a relatable account of the political theatre that plays out behind the scenes without losing sight of what matters most - the people of Queensland.
Download or read book The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II written by Donal Sexton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War. With an emphasis on the American forces in these theaters, each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation that will allow researchers to navigate through the vast amount of literature on the campaigns fought in these regions with ease. Focusing on all aspects surrounding the U.S. involvement in the Western European and Mediterranean theaters, including politics, religion, biography, strategy, intelligence, and operations, this bibliography will be a welcome addition to the collection of any academic or research library. Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies provide concise, annotated bibliographies to the major areas and events in American military history. With the inclusion of brief critical annotations after each entry, the student and researcher can easily assess the utility of each bibliographic source and evaluate the abundance of resources available with ease and efficiency. Comprehensive, concise, and current—Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies are an essential research tool for any historian.
Download or read book Original Matter Contained in Lt Col Sutherland s Memoir on the Kaffers Hottentots and Bosjemans of South Africa Heads 1st and 2nd written by John Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of an Anti Semite written by Gregor Von Rezzori and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator’s Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just this relationship that has blinded him to—and makes him complicit in—the terrible realities of his era. Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori’s most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.
Download or read book Memoirs written by Andrei D. Sakharov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of the Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident who, at enormous personal cost, laid the foundations for the profound political changes sweeping the Soviet Union to this day. 32 pages of black-and-white photos. First time in paperback.
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Download or read book John Quincy Adams Reluctant Abolitionist written by Jeffrey A. Denman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred for the arguments of Southern slaveholders, and eventually found himself in the center of America's greatest struggle. Informed by Adams' revealing and often tormented musings from his vast diary, this sweeping narrative offers a unique and gripping account of John Quincy Adams' battle with slavery, while exploring the many fault lines in American society that led to the Civil War. Included are the dramatic showdowns in the House of Representatives and Supreme Court, as well as Adams' attempts at outsmarting Southern politicians and his efforts to keep slavery at the forefront of Congressional activities.
Download or read book The Indian Army and the End of the Raj written by Daniel Marston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal violence in the period leading up to and following the official day of independence, 15 August 1947. In this book, Daniel Marston provides a unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India. He draws upon extensive research into primary source documents and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the vital part that the Indian Army played in preserving law and order in the region. This rigorous book fills a significant gap in the historiography of the British in India and will be invaluable to those studying the British Empire and South Asia more generally.
Download or read book The annals of Ballitore with a memoir of the author written by Mary Leadbeater and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
