Download or read book Once a Hussar written by Ray Ellis and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the Second World War and started a journey that would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, the deprivation suffered in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Appenines. His story is an honest and moving memoir that relays graphic eyewitness accounts of the horrors of warfare, but it also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis’s self-deprecating humor skillfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives. Featuring twenty-six rare photographs from Ellis’s life and experiences, Once a Hussar is a compelling and deftly told account of one soldier’s life in the Second World War. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Once a Hussar written by Ray Ellis and published by Bright Pen. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a Hussar is a true account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of World War II and began a journey which would take him through fierce fighting in the Western Desert, an Italian prisoner of war camp and a daring escape to join the partisan forces in the Apennines. His story is an honest and moving memoir of the unimaginable horrors of warfare but also reveals the surprising triumphs of the human spirit in times of great hardship. Ellis's self-deprecating humour skilfully counters the harsh realities related in a personal recollection of a war that claimed so many young lives.
Download or read book Always a Hussar written by Ray Ellis and published by Bright Pen. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a Hussar continues the chronicle of Ray Ellis's life. His previous book, Once a Hussar, describes his exploits during the Second World War. He picks up his story again at the end of his overseas service. After his years of fighting in the western desert and the deprivation suffered during his time as a prisoner of war, he is suddenly returned to an England that is unfamiliar to him. This happened in the days before Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome was a recognised condition and restorative treatment, such as rehabilitation, was not yet an available option. Ellis leads us, unsparingly, through the harrowing personal breakdown of his selfhood and documents the painful results of his disturbing behaviour. However, this is not merely a story of bitterness and regret. Instead, it charts his journey through his darkest days, his self-generated recovery and his eventual arrival at a state of contentment and peace of mind. Always a Hussar is a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit.
Download or read book The Hussar written by George Robert Gleig and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hussar written by James Rawlins and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hussar written by G. R. Gleig and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book The Hussar written by David R. Slavitt and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, from the author of Alice at 80 and many other highly acclaimed books, is a small gem of a novel, an exquisitely crafted, finely honed work in the grand tradition of the middle European novel of the last century. Indeed, David R. Slavitt's The Hussar takes its inspiration from one such novel, A Man of Honor, by the German writer Theodore Fontane. Having read and been intrigued by a plot description of that work, Slavitt determined to attempt the story of A Man of Honor on his own and then to compare his version with Fontane's original. The result of this 'literary parlor game' is nothing less than a tour de force.
Download or read book The Hussar 1845 Edition written by Sgt. Norbert Landsheit and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1837 in two volumes, this is the 1845 edition which combines both into one handy volume. It is the account of Norbert Landsheit, late sergeant in the York Hussars and 20th Light Dragoons, who saw service in the Peninsular War. He related his military life to the Rev. George R. Gleig, whom he met whilst an inmate at Chelsea Hospital in London, where the Gleig was rector at the time. Landsheit had an amazingly long career, and his memoir provides a fascinating insight into the experiences of a German soldier within the British Army.
Download or read book Hussar General written by Roger Parkinson and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000-11-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without the timely arrival of the brave 72-year-old Blucher at the head of his Prussian army, the course of history could well have taken a dramatic turn.
Download or read book The Complete Works written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 6675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the complete works by Rudyard Kipling: Novels: The Light That Failed Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks Kim The Naulahka: A Story of West and East Stalky and Co. Short Story Collections: The City of Dreadful Night Plain Tales from the Hills Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys) Soldier's Three - Part II The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories Under the Deodars Wee Willie Winkie Life's Handicap Many Inventions The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book The Day's Work Just So Stories Traffics and Discoveries Puck of Pook's Hill Actions and Reactions Abaft the Funnel Rewards and Fairies The Eyes of Asia A Diversity of Creatures Land and Sea Tales Debits and Credits Thy Servant a Dog Limits and Renewals Poetry Collections: Departmental Ditties Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads The Seven Seas An Almanac of Twelve Sports The Five Nations Songs from Books The Years Between Other Poems Military Collections: A Fleet in Being France at War The New Army in Training Sea Warfare The War in the Mountains The Graves of the Fallen The Irish Guards in the Great War I & II Travel Collections: American Notes From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel: 1892 – 1913 Souvenirs of France Brazilian Sketches: 1927 How Shakespeare Came to Write the 'Tempest' Autobiographies: A Book of Words Something of Myself Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Download or read book LEO TOLSTOY The Ultimate Short Stories Collection 120 Titles in One Volume World Classics Series written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 2420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "LEO TOLSTOY – The Ultimate Short Stories Collection: 120+ Titles in One Volume (World Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents Introduction Leo Tolstoy: A Short Biography "Tolstoy the Artist" and "Tolstoy the Preacher" by Ivan Panin "Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor" by Isabel Hapgood Short Stories & Collections The Kreutzer Sonata The Forged Coupon Hadji Murad The Dekabrists: A Romance A Morning of a Landed Proprietor After the Dance Alyosha the Pot My Dream There Are No Guilty People The Young Tsar A Lost Opportunity "Polikushka" The Candle Twenty-Three Tales Sevastopol Sketches Master and Man Father Sergius A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories An Old Acquaintance Fables and Stories for Children Stories from Physics Stories from Zoology Stories from Botany Texts for Chapbook Illustrations Stories from the New Speller Diary of a Lunatic Recollections of a Billiard-Marker Three Parables The Cutting of a Forest Yermak, the Conqueror of Siberia Two Hussars Albert The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 Nikolai Palkin and Other Stories Scenes from Common Life Meeting a Moscow Acquaintance at the Front Memoirs of a Marker From the Memoirs of Prince D. Nekhlyudov Domestic Happiness My Husband and I Who Should Learn Writing of Whom? Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction.
Download or read book Russian Hussar written by Vladimir S. Littauer and published by White Mane Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Vladimir Littauer served in the Russian Imperial Cavalry from 1911 to 1920. After the revolution he escaped via Siberia and Japan to the United States. His autobiography describes his experiences as a cadet at the Nicholas Cavalry School in St. Petersburg to his commissioning in the Sumsky Hussars (who celebrated their 250th anniversary in 1901), through the hard struggles of World War I and the harder times of the Revolution. With quiet humor, Littauer describes the world of the cavalry from schooling through the extensive cavalry operations of World War I's eastern front. (The Russian army entered that war with no fewer than 24 full divisions of cavalry.) This book is a treat for all students of cavalry warfare, European military history, and life in the Czar's army in its last decades.
Download or read book With Lawton and Roberts written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lees handicap written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Stories from Rudyard Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Stories from Kipling written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
