Download or read book Waterloo Witnesses written by Kristine Hughes and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of Sunday, 18 June, stand as the defining moment of the year 1815, if not of an entire era. The allied victory over Napoleon’s French army at the Battle of Waterloo reshaped governments and boundaries, made or broke fortunes and touched thousands of lives in ways both large and small, and it has been analysed, dissected and refought on paper a hundred times. Perhaps, though, the very best words ever written about that momentous campaign are the first-person accounts recorded as events unfolded. It is these vivid accounts that Kristine Hughes has collected together in order to convey the hopes, fears and aspirations of their authors. They inject the story of the battle with a level of humanity that reclaims it from the realm of legend and restores it to the people who witnessed it. In chronological order her work pieces together a novel view of the battle and events surrounding it as they were experienced by both military men and civilians. The result is a fascinating and varied picture of the individuals involved and the society of the period. Their words make compelling reading.
Download or read book Witnessing Waterloo 24 Hours 48 Lives A World Forever Changed written by David Crane and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’] A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.
Download or read book Who Owned Waterloo written by Luke Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Battle of Waterloo, Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity. 'Who Owned Waterloo?' demonstrates that Waterloo's significance to Britain's national psyche resulted in a different battle: one in which civilian and military groups fought to establish claims on different aspects of the battle and its remembrance.--
Download or read book Went the Day Well written by David Crane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages, acclaimed historian David Crane gives us an astonishing, intimate snapshot of the people and places surrounding the battle that changed the course of world history. Switching perspectives between Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and pauper, husband and wife, Went the Day Well? offers a highly original view of Waterloo, showing how the battle was not only a military landmark, but also a cultural watershed that drew the line between the rural, reactionary age of the past and the urban, innovative era to come. Lyrically rendered in Crane’s signature prose style, this essential account freeze-frames the ordinary men and women of 1815 who went about their business, attended lectures, worked in fields and factories—all on the cusp of a new, unforeseeable age.
Download or read book After Austen written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen’s books.
Download or read book Peterloo written by Graham Phythian and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 August 1819 on St Peter's Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabrewielding cavalry, resulting in at least fifteen dead and over 600 injured. Within days the slaughter was named ' Peter-loo', as an ironic reference to the battleground of Waterloo. Now the subject of a major film, this highly detailed yet readable narrative, based almost entirely on eyewitness reports and contemporary documents, brings the events of that terrible day vividly to life. In a world in which the legitimacy of facts is in constant jeopardy from media and authoritarian bias, the lessons to be learned from the bloodshed and the tyrannical aftermath are as pertinent today as they were 200 years ago. Film director Mike Leigh has defined Peterloo as 'the event that becomes more relevant with every new episode of our crazy times'.
Download or read book Women and the Gallows 1797 1837 written by Naomi Clifford and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime history of Georgian England reveals the scandalous lives—and unceremonious deaths—of more than 100 women who faced execution. In the last four decades of the Georgian era, 131 women were sent to the gallows. Unlike most convicted felons, none of them were spared by an official reprieve. Historian Naomi Clifford examines the crimes these women committed and asks why their grim sentences were carried out. Women and the Gallows, 1797–1837 reveals the harsh and unequal treatment women could expect from the criminal justice system of the time. It also brings new insight into the lives and the events that led these women to their deaths. Clifford explores cases of infanticide among domestic servants, counterfeiting, husband poisoning, as well as the infamous Eliza Fenning case. This volume also includes a complete chronology of the executed women and their crimes.
Download or read book Wellingtons Dearest Georgy written by Alice Marie Crossland and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wealth of unpublished sources, this book tells the story of Lady Georgiana Lennox and the unique friendship she cherished with the 1st Duke of Wellington. Georgy first met the Duke on his return from India when he was serving under her father the Duke of Richmond who was then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Lennox family moved to Brussels in 1813 and Georgy's mother threw the now legendary Duchess of Richmond's Ball the night before the Battle of Waterloo. Georgy had a front row seat to the battle, and remained in Brussels afterwards to help the many wounded soldiers who returned from the front. Georgy was a beautiful and immensely popular young lady with many suitors during her youth. She and the Duke enjoyed a flirtatious early friendship, which blossomed into an intimate friendship in later years. At twenty-nine Georgy married the future 23rd Baron de Ros who became a diplomatic spy and later Governor of the Tower of London. Georgy had three children, and died at the impressive age of 96, by which time she was one of the last people alive who had been a personal friend of the Iron Duke.
Download or read book Collected Essays 1929 1968 written by Gilbert Ryle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and yet misunderstood philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Long unavailable, Collected Essays 1929-1968: Collected Papers Volume 2 stands as testament to the astonishing breadth of Ryle’s philosophical concerns. This volume showcases Ryle’s deep interest in the notion of thinking and contains many of his major pieces, including his classic essays ‘Knowing How and Knowing That’, ‘Philosophical Arguments’, ‘Systematically Misleading Expressions’, and ‘A Puzzling Element in the Notion of Thinking’. He ranges over an astonishing number of topics, including feelings, pleasure, sensation, forgetting and concepts and in so doing hones his own philosophical stance, steering a careful path between behaviourism and Cartesianism. Together with the Collected Papers Volume 1 and the new edition of The Concept of Mind, these outstanding essays represent the very best of Ryle’s work. Each volume contains a substantial preface by Julia Tanney, and both are essential reading for any student of twentieth-century philosophies of mind and language. Gilbert Ryle (1900 -1976) was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, an editor of Mind, and a president of the Aristotelian Society. Julia Tanney is Senior Lectuer at the University of Kent, and has held visiting positions at the University of Picardie and Paris-Sorbonne.
Download or read book Seeing Europe with Famous Authors written by Francis Whiting Halsey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Witnessing the Holocaust written by Tom Bijvoet and published by Mokeham Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch in Wartime: Survivors Remember is a series of books with wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to North America, who survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. In Book 3, Witnessing the Holocaust, sixteen writers tell us how Dutch Jews were dragged from their homes to be murdered in Nazi death camps. We read first-hand accounts of friends disappearing, of betrayal and its dreadful consequences and of the torment of life in Nazi concentration camps. Designed and written to be easily accessible to readers of all ages and backgrounds, this book contains intimate memories of the victims of the worst crime ever committed.
Download or read book Seeing Europe with Famous Authors Vol 1 8 written by Victor Hugo and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 1301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of this book – on the one hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Great Britain and Ireland:_x000D_ London_x000D_ Cathedrals and Abbeys_x000D_ Castles and Stately Homes_x000D_ English Literary Shrines_x000D_ Other English Scenes_x000D_ Scotland_x000D_ Ireland_x000D_ France and the Netherlands:_x000D_ Paris_x000D_ The Environs of Paris_x000D_ Old Provence_x000D_ Cathedrals and Chateaux_x000D_ Various French Scenes_x000D_ Belgium_x000D_ Holland_x000D_ Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland:_x000D_ The Rhine Valley_x000D_ Nuremberg_x000D_ Other Bavarian Cities_x000D_ Berlin and Elsewhere_x000D_ Vienna_x000D_ Hungary_x000D_ Austria's Adriatic Ports_x000D_ Other Austrian Scenes_x000D_ Alpine Resorts_x000D_ Alpine Mountain Climbing_x000D_ Other Alpine Topics_x000D_ Italy, Sicily, and Greece:_x000D_ Rome_x000D_ Florence_x000D_ Venice_x000D_ Three Famous Cities_x000D_ Naples and Its Environs_x000D_ Other Italian Scenes_x000D_ Sicilian Scenes_x000D_ The Mainland of Greece_x000D_ The Greek Islands_x000D_
Download or read book Seeing Europe through the Eyes of the Famous Authors Vol 1 8 written by Victor Hugo and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of this book – on the one hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip. Contents: Great Britain and Ireland: London Cathedrals and Abbeys Castles and Stately Homes English Literary Shrines Other English Scenes Scotland Ireland France and the Netherlands: Paris The Environs of Paris Old Provence Cathedrals and Chateaux Various French Scenes Belgium Holland Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland: The Rhine Valley Nuremberg Other Bavarian Cities Berlin and Elsewhere Vienna Hungary Austria's Adriatic Ports Other Austrian Scenes Alpine Resorts Alpine Mountain Climbing Other Alpine Topics Italy, Sicily, and Greece: Rome Florence Venice Three Famous Cities Naples and Its Environs Other Italian Scenes Sicilian Scenes The Mainland of Greece The Greek Islands
Download or read book A Bloody Day written by Dan Harvey and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the grand narrative of the Battle of Waterloo – one that marks the end of Napoleon’s career as conqueror and the beginning of an extended peace in western Europe – little is known of the formidable efforts made by the Irish who supplemented the strength of the British Army and, in no small measure, directed the outcome of this vital moment in the history of the world. Through empirical research, Dan Harvey has delivered a book that reveals the manoeuvres that the Irish mounted against the French and the courage that they displayed at so many points within the confrontation. Harvey examines attacks from the French infantry, cavalry and Imperial Guard, revealing how Irish soldiers bore the brunt of Napoleon’s frontal assault; they suffered many casualties but were also witness to countless feats of valour. A Bloody Day brings the actions of the Irish at Waterloo into focus, unravelling the true import of their deeds on Sunday, 18 June 1815.
Download or read book Bric Brac Series of Selections from Various Authors written by Richard Henry Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal reminiscences of famous poets, novelists, humorists, actors, musicians, etc.
Download or read book A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young Tragedian written by Julian Charles Young and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memoir of C M Young With Extracts from His Son s Journal With Portraits and Sketches written by Julian Charles YOUNG and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
