Pistols at Dawn, Again and Again
Author : Diane Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 197?
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Pistols at Dawn
Author : NDWT Archives (University of Guelph)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 1980
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Pistols at Dawn
Author : John Norris
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 075249659X
Book Description
When fighting for honour has tragic consequences...
Pistols at Dawn
Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Dueling
ISBN : 9780749929961
Book Description
After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.
Pistols at Dawn and Other Short Stories
Author : Dick Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9780954481933
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Gentlemen's Blood
Author : Barbara Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2008-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1596918098
Book Description
"Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.
Pistols at Dawn
Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
Pistols at Dawn (Intrepid Heroines Series, Book 4)
Author : Andrea Pickens
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1614175306
Book Description
Eliza Kirtland will do anything to see the man who cruelly assaulted her sister brought to justice—even point a pistol at the notorious Lord Killingworth. But her mistaken accusations result in grave injury to the earl's nephew. Now Eliza's sister—a noted healer—feels obliged to nurse the young man back to health, and Eliza has no choice but to help. Killingworth is not pleased with the arrangement. Tensions swirl between the four of them, until new bonds are discovered when evil strikes again and they must work together to fight a relentless enemy, who will stop at nothing to drive Killingworth away from his estate. INTREPID HEROINES SERIES, in order Code of Honor The Hired Hero A Stroke of Luck Pistols at Dawn SCANDALOUS SECRETS SERIES, in order The Banished Bride Lady of Letters The Major's Mistake LESSONS IN LOVE, in series order The Defiant Governess Second Chances The Storybook Hero
Urban Australia and Post-Punk
Author : David Nichols
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9813297026
Book Description
Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut. This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.
Touché
Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674504380
Book Description
Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
