Download or read book Theirs is the Glory written by David Truesdale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Theirs is the Glory' - the story of the Battle of Arnhem - was the biggest-grossing UK war film for a decade. Made by veterans of the battle in the late summer of 1945, it tells their story day by day: the pre-operation briefing, the drop, the race to the bridge, the daring, death and banter that only soldiers could have scripted - but the veterans had outstanding assistance. Men like Terence Young of XXX Corps - and later the early 'James Bond' director - helped craft the words we hear. Directing the veterans was a First World War veteran - who had survived a bayonet charge at Gallipoli - and prolific film director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Born and bred in Belfast, Hurst went on to learn the craft of film making in Hollywood with his mentor, John Ford. Conflict is shown, heard and interpreted in many of his 30 films made from the 1920s to the 1960s. This book is the 'director's cut' - looking in-depth at his work on conflict - and takes, as its centerpiece, 'Theirs is the Glory'. Decade-by-decade conflict is chronicled from the 1920s and Hurst's 'Ourselves Alone' (and the War of Independence in Ireland, where his film was banned in Northern Ireland) to the 1960s and 'Simba' and the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. This is a book you will refer to again and again, and shows why 'Theirs is the Glory' is the definitive film on Arnhem; it will remain the veterans' lasting tribute to their comrades that did not return. This book also shows why Hurst was an enigma, but a master of the genre, and at his very best when focusing on the subject of conflict on the vast canvas of film.
Download or read book Dancing in the Glory of Monsters written by Jason Stearns and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
Download or read book Into the Glory written by Jamie Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1976-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ballad of Love and Glory written by Reyna Grande and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters’s Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Fiction A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this “epic and exquisitely wrought” (Patricia Engel, New York Times bestselling author) saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War—from the author of The Distance Between Us. A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance. The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with México over the disputed Río Grande boundary. Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband’s memory and defend her country, Ximena uses her healing skills as a nurse on the frontlines of the ravaging war. Meanwhile, John Riley, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army desperate to help his family escape the famine devastating his homeland, is sickened by the unjust war and the unspeakable atrocities against his countrymen by nativist officers. In a bold act of defiance, he swims across the Río Grande and joins the Mexican Army—a desertion punishable by execution. He forms the St. Patrick’s Battalion, a band of Irish soldiers willing to fight to the death for México’s freedom. When Ximena and John meet, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history, they fight not only for the fate of a nation but for their future together. “A grand and soulful novel by a storyteller who has hit her full stride” (Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies), A Ballad of Love and Glory effortlessly illuminates a largely forgotten moment in history that impacts the US–México border to this day.
Download or read book Sunday Readings for a Year written by James Large and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunday readings for a year or Two hundred and fifty scripture titles and symbols of Christ written by James Large and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book pt 1 The Epistles of St Paul pt 2 The Epistle to the Hebrews the Catholic Epistles and the Revelation written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of the Rev John Howe with Memoirs on His Life written by John Howe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of J H With his Funeral Sermon on 2 Tim iii 14 by Mr Spademan To which are prefix d Memoirs of the life of the Author collected by E Calamy written by John Howe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Testament for English Readers The gospel of St John and the Acts of the Apostles written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgat The Old Testament First Published at Doway the New Testament at Rhemes The Fifth Edition Newly Revised and Corrected According to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures The Editor Named in the Approbatio as Bernard MacMahon written by and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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