Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789695287
What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.
Author : Everard Wyrall
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 178150797X
Volume III of III This is an impressive history by the most prolific author of Great War divisional and regimental histories, a fine tribute to a regiment that contributed 49 battalions to the nation's war effort, 26 of them served overseas, including the 2nd Battalion which was in India in August 1914 and remained there throughout the war. It is also a tribute to the author who died in 1933, before he could finish the third volume; the final few chapters were completed by Capt W. Synge of the 1st Battalion. All 23 front line battalions served on the Western Front, one of them (14th) in Salonika as well. The Roll of Honour lists 14,200 dead, six VCs were won, one of them by an officer (Capt O.A.Reid) attached to another regiment, and 58 Battle Honours were awarded. This work is set out in chronological order, each volume dealing with a specific period and ending with the Roll of Honour for that period and citations for any VC. Dates are in the margin and so is the identification of the battalion involved in the action being described. This final volume completes the story beginning with Third Ypres and ending with a very brief chapter on the 2nd Battalion in India. As it may be imagined, there is plenty of detail in a history so generous with space as this, with its three volumes, and the narrative is supported with clear maps.
Author : Everard Wyrall
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1935
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Ivan Van Sertima
Publisher : African classicals
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN :
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents; and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of the explorers themselves, Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus. Combining impressive scholarship with a novelist’s gift for storytelling, Van Sertima re-creates some of the most powerful scenes of human history: the launching of the great ships of Mali in 1310 (two hundred master boats and two hundred supply boats), the sea expedition of the Mandingo king in 1311, and many others. In They Came Before Columbus, we see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of black Africans in pre-Columbian America, and their overwhelming impact on the civilizations they encountered.
Author : William McDowall
Publisher :
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Dumfries (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Cincinnati : American Book Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Northwest, Old
ISBN :
Author : Eugene Basilici
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450216250
Nick Barone, cashiered ex-Special Forces, has spent the last few years glued to a bar stool in a seedy establishment. When Marta, daughter of his old mentor Master Sergeant Manny Fernandez, walks into the bar one evening and reveals that her only child has been brutally murdered and her terminally ill father wants to see Barone right away, he cannot refuse the widows request. After Martas father extracts a promise from Barone to find his grandsons killers and exact revenge, Barone begins a quest that leads him to a gang of small-time drug dealers, corrupt cops, and a radical Muslim Imam. He stumbles upon a connectiona funding of the Imams terrorist training program by an organized, nationwide distribution of drugs. Dozens of hoods are involved, but those odds have never bothered Barone who is a man consumed by a hatred of rats who kill for pleasure. Besides, he is a man of his word and Manny is counting on him. From the crowded streets of Hollywood to the vast farmlands of central Florida, Nick searches for answers and, in the process, finds a measure of personal redemption.
Author : Gavin Mortimer
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2025-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1835980600
The story of the greatest Special Forces unit the world has ever seen, told by the men who fought together. In 1941, maverick officer David Stirling – adventurer, gambler, rake – created the Special Air Service. The soldiers came from all walks of life: miners, desert explorers, Guardsmen, bored clerks in the pay corps. All felt frustrated by the conventional army and were determined to make their mark on the war. Together they created a tradition that would survive the capture of their leader, the death of so many of their comrades and even the disbanding of the SAS after the end of the war. With the co-operation of the regimental association, Gavin Mortimer interviewed nearly sixty veterans, including many of the desert ‘Originals’, many of whom had never before revealed their role. They spoke openly, with honesty and humour, about life in the SAS; the gruelling training that broke all but the toughest; the thrill of raiding desert airfields; the danger of parachuting into occupied France; and the fear of being caught by the Germans, knowing that Hitler had ordered the ‘liquidation’ of captured SAS soldiers. This is the SAS at war, in their own words.
Author : Steve Lawson
Publisher : tredition
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3748203446
Jenny Bell is on death row waiting to be executed for the murder of three US-Army officers. Steve Dennison, her former boyfriend, a freelance journalist, ex-cop, ex-barrister learns of her plight and hurries to Texas to save her from the executioner's deadly injection, unaware of the perils awaiting him. Jenny, a sex-obsessed Englishwoman with a bad reputation, lives in America. Despite it all, Dennison is certain that she is not capable of murder. Soon he finds out about a plot to railroad her and seeks proof for her innocence while exposing the real killer. But matters become even more complicated when help arrives in the shape of beautiful Samantha Collins, niece of Dennison's publisher. With "The Deadlier Sex", Steve Lawson presents a dramatic story of love, revenge and murder in which the protagonists Samantha and Steve must overcome their conflict and cooperate, on the one hand, to prove Jenny's innocence and on the other to fend off attacks on their own lives. And what role does a secret society play in these murders? The reader, as well as Dennison, face a puzzle the overall view of which, is brought to light piece by piece in a gripping story. NB: The manuscript of this book was granted the "Gold Star Award" by The Publishers Desk in New York.
Author : Miles Tripp
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781840222524
Seven men, brought together by chance from the four corners of the earth, wake up day after day aware that the odds on them seeing another sunrise are dramatically shortening. This is the story of a bomber crew in World War II, always accompanied by an eighth passenger - fear.
