Author : Robert Munter
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A collection of extracts from the writings of 39 travellers - explorers, colonists, exiled monarchs, soldiers of fortune - both for their intrinsic value and for their representation of the development of travel writing as a literary genre.
Author : Gianluca Barneschi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1472835476
Based on 20 years of research, Gianluca Barneschi has uncovered the true story of a real-life James Bond. The debonair Special Operations Executive agent Richard 'Dick' Mallaby was the first Briton to be sent to Italy as an SOE operative, parachuted unceremoniously into Lake Como in August 1943. Arrested and initially tortured by the Italian authorities, he managed to sweet-talk his way out of trouble, and helped Marshal Pietro Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III escape to the Allied lines. He also helped negotiate the armistice with Italy, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He was back in action in 1945, when he crossed into Fascist-controlled northern Italy from Switzerland but was swiftly captured and interrogated by the SS. Narrowly avoiding a firing squad once again, he helped to secure the surrender of 800,000 German forces in Italy in May 1945.
Author : Xavier Guégan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1137304154
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.
Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780838634318
The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is examined in this volume.
Author : Xavier Guégan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1137304189
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750931694
The British Abroad is illustrated throughout with a superb collection of photographs and maps, many previously unpublished. This book will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century travel and the social intricacies of travelling abroad in that era.
Author : Thomas Alfred Walker
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1893
Category : International law
ISBN :
Author : Herbert Wolcott Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1896
Category : International law
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 1867
Category :
ISBN :
Author : International Law Association
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 1909
Category : DVD-ROMs
ISBN :
The association's Report of the executive council, 1913/15, includes papers prepared for a proposed 1914 conference at the Hague.
