Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780340534885
Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393342255
Lovell presents the epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill.
Author : Donat Gallagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611470498
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1135302057
These essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole. They then consider the key areas of current controversy - the pressure on the Army caused by changes in society, the Army's "right to be different", race, homosexuality and gender.
Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307428370
The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately, led to the Second World War. In this sweeping history, Piers Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life. From Stalinist pogroms to New Deal programs, Brendon re-creates the full scope of a slow international descent towards war. Offering perfect sketches of the players, riveting descriptions of major events and crises, and telling details from everyday life, he offers both a grand, rousing narrative and an intimate portrait of an era that make sense out of the fascinating, complicated, and profoundly influential years of the 1930s.
Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643133772
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford’s two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade.
Author : Artemis Cooper
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590176995
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally happy in caves or country houses, among shepherds or countesses. At the outbreak of war he left his lover, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene, in Romania and returned to England to enlist. Commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, he became one of the handful of Allied officers supporting the Cretan resistance to the German occupation. In 1944 he commanded the Anglo-Cretan team that abducted General Heinrich Kreipe and spirited him away to Egypt. A journey to the Caribbean, stays in monasteries, and explorations all over Greece provided the subjects for his first books. It was not until he and his wife had moved to southern Greece that he returned to his earliest walk. In these books, which took many years to write, he created a vision of a prewar Europe, which in its beauty and abundance has never been equaled. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Leigh Fermor and his closest friends, and has had complete access to his archive. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts—no one wore their learning so playfully nor inspired such passionate friendship.
Author : Donat Gallagher
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9401211825
Evelyn Waugh at war is an irresistibly fascinating subject, as are his war novels and diaries. Drawn to units offering the greatest danger, but often frustrated in his search for action, Waugh served in multiple regiments, saw battle on Crete and worked behind the lines in occupied Croatia. In the Picture traces Waugh’s experiences, both vivid and mundane, with a completeness never before attempted and shows how they come alive in Sword of Honour. It also illuminates the brief hints within the narrative of key events of the war, while highlighting its strategic direction. Waugh’s individualistic relationships with superiors, subordinates and public opinion led to blame and controversy. Working mainly from archival sources, In the Picture examines Waugh’s fitness to be an officer, his conduct on Crete, his being sacked from the Special Service Brigade, and his service in Croatia. New, very surprising discoveries dispel entrenched myths.
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400040779
In four short key works, an African state goes into a political tailspin, journalism comes under scrutiny, the California mortuary business is shown in a comic light, and a man goes mad on board an ocean liner.