Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Fifth Book of Obituaries written by Hugh Massingberd and published by Pan Macmillan Adult MM. This book was released on 1999 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the DAILIY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF OBITUARIES series. A selection of obituaries from the DAILY TELEGRAPH. The obituaries are a sympathetic and often hilarious celebration of individual human diversity. Includes a medley of larger-than-life characters whose largely unsung contribution deserves to be recorded.
Download or read book The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries have been both a critical and a popular success, winning plaudits from readers and reviewers alike. Here, gathered in one volume, is the very best of the witty, waspish and often wildly funny biographical short stories that are the mark of a Telegraph Obituary. Together they offer a richly unpredictable medley of twentieth-century lives, a deliciously idiosyncratic study in miniature, reflecting the last century at its most picturesque, poignant and absurd.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 1995 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Second Book of Obituaries written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by Pan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Times written by A. N. Wilson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would occur over the next fifty years, both in Britain and around the world. In Our Times, A. N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through postwar Britain. With his acute eye not just for the broad social and cultural sweep but also for the telling detail, he brilliantly distills half a century of unprecedented social and political change. Here are the defining events and characters of the modern age, from the Suez crisis to Vietnam, from the Beatles to Princess Diana. Here are the Angry Young Men, the rise of pop culture and celebrity, industrial unrest and the Winter of Discontent, the Thatcher era and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. This book propels the reader from postwar austerity, to the end of the British Empire and the emergence of America as a superpower, to the multicultural Britain of today. With Our Times, Wilson triumphantly concludes the acclaimed trilogy that opened with The Victorians and was followed by After the Victorians. Our Times makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped our world.
Download or read book The Obituary as Collective Memory written by Bridget Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Download or read book Chin Up Girls written by Georgia Powell and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the self-styled 'Queen of Soho' who sued BA, claiming to have been bitten on the bottom by a flea, to the butcher's daughter from Oldham who performed topless as 'the world's strongest woman' before becoming becoming the mistress of a peer whom she met while living in a Pyrennean mountain hut, this is a celebration of the women who refused to fulfil society's expectations. Their company includes the woman who survived four months adrift in a dinghy in the Pacific and the woman who played professional polo disguised as a man for fifteen years, as well as the inimitable Dame Barbara Cartland and Fanny Cradock. And there are over one hundred more. This is the first time that the Daily Telegraph has dedicated a book to women's stories; very few of the women featured were 'celebrities', yet their stories represent a century of progress and change, capturing the spirit of those who came of age between Emancipation and the Equal Opportunities Act, whether high life or low life, pioneers or bluestockings. Taking its title from the inspiring lines of a matron whose nurses faced a WWII firing squad, this is a fascinating portrayal of unforgettable and extraordinary characters united by their refusal to accept society's constraints.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries written by David Twiston Davies and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeen years since The Daily Telegraph started to take its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1,000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found here, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience. They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, such as the New Zealander Charles Upham, who won the Victoria Cross twice in Crete and North Africa, the commando leader "Mad Jack" Churchill and Drum Major Buss, the bugler who rallied the Glosters at the Imjin River in Korea. Among the senior figures are General Mazek, who commanded the Poles in Normandy, the rigorous Field Marshal Lord Carver and General Sir Walter Walker, who won three DSOs.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected obituaries of entertainers from 1986-1994.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries written by David Twiston Davies and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. The stories of these characters beautifully illustrate the way the Imperial influence spread British culture around the world in the form of practices, traditions and history, sometimes positively and deliberately, often unconsciously and sometimes even in the face of considerable hostility. This compilation is divided up by regions, beginning with India, followed by the dominions Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and concluding with the individual colonies in Africa and the South Seas, as well as the North and South Poles."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Book of SAS Obituaries written by The Daily The Daily Telegraph and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its somewhat inauspicious early days in North Africa in 1941, the Special Air Service went on to become one of the most respected and elite military formations in the world. Its activities during the Second World War, and after, have become the stuff of legend and numerous books have been dedicated to the astonishing exploits of the men in its ranks.No more so is the case then for Colonel Sir David Stirling, whose obituary understandably features in this book. The creator of the SAS, Stirling was nicknamed the 'Phantom Major' by the Germans for his remarkable exploits far behind their lines in the Western Desert. In the fifteen months before he was captured, he and his desert raiders destroyed aircraft, mined roads, derailed trains, fired petrol dumps, blew up ammunition depots, hi-jacked lorries and killed many times their own number. Rommel admitted that Stirling's men caused more damage than any other British unit of equal strength.In 1942 the SAS was given the status of a full regiment. Montgomery said of its creator: 'The boy Stirling is quite mad. However, in war there is a place for mad people.' Whilst Stirling was awarded a DSO in 1942 and was appointed OBE in 1946, he was once described as 'one of the most under-decorated soldiers of the Second World War'.Stirling himself designed the Regiment's cap badge, which carries the world-famous motto, 'Who Dares Wins'. These words not only summed up Stirling's philosophy perfectly, but also that of many of the men who served in the regiment.The individual members of the SAS have generally kept a low profile while serving with the regiment, which makes their obituaries so interesting - revealing much about the men whose actions are as relevant in the dangerous world of today as they have been throughout the decades since the Second World War.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Airmen s Obituaries written by Graham Pitchfork and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed chronicler of RAF history has compiled ninety-one obituaries of outstanding aviators covering the period from 2007 to the end of 2017. With a focus on personnel from a range of air forces, including the RAF, USAF, RCAF, RNZAF and SAAF, there are a number of fascinating and distinguishable lives to read about. Those featured include MRAF Sir Michael Beetham, the longest-serving Chief of Air Staff in the RAF (apart from its founder Lord Trenchard); Brigadier General Paul Tibbets who commanded the USAAF bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; and Wing Commander “Dal” Russel, a highly decorated wartime Canadian fighter pilot, whose logbook recorded kills in the Battle of Britain and the Normandy invasion. There is also Lettice Curtis, the first woman qualified to fly a four-engine bomber and who by the end of the Second World War had flown over 400 heavy bombers, 150 Mosquitos and hundreds of Hurricanes and Spitfires as part of her role in the Air Transport Auxiliary. The book includes a foreword written by former Chief of Air Staff, Sir Richard Johns.
Download or read book Death on Telegraph Hill written by Shirley Tallman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tallman offers an entertaining mystery . . . will appeal to fans of Anne Perry and Rhys Bowen"--"Library Journal." San Francisco, 1882. When her brother is hit by a bullet, a crusading young lawyer discovers more murder and mayhem on Telegraph Hill.
Download or read book Dictionary of Pseudonyms written by Adrian Room and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substantially revised and enlarged, this new edition of the Dictionary of Pseudonyms includes more than 2,000 new entries, bringing the volume's total to approximately 13,000 assumed names, nicknames, stage names, and aliases. The introduction has been entirely rewritten, and many previous entries feature new accompanying details or quoted material. This volume also features a significantly greater number of cross-references than was included in previous editions. Arranged by pseudonym, the entries give the true name, vital dates, country of origin or settlement, and profession. Many entries also include the story behind the person's name change.
Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries written by Group Limited Telegraph and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a splendid anthology, both hilarious and melancholy' Spectator Witty, enchanting, engaging and moving, Hugh Massingberd's third collection of Daily Telegraph obituaries ranges in scope from well-known entertainers like Liberace and Kenneth Williams to more obscure characters such as the one-time world's fattest man and a little-known pantomime dame. This wonderfully varied, rich and humorous book will appeal to all tastes. 'a funny and moving collection' Paul Bailey
Download or read book The Economist Book of Obituaries written by Keith Colquhoun and published by Bloomberg Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about, the surprising lives they led, and the brilliant writing style. This volume gathers 200 of the best obituaries.
