Just Heaps Surprised to be Alive
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Page : 34 pages
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Release : 2010
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Page : 34 pages
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Release : 2010
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Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Chips Channon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1473567203
The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister so admired by Chips was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.' For much of this period, Channon is genuinely an eye-witness to unfolding events. He reassures Neville Chamberlain as he fights for his political life in May 1940. He chats to Winston Churchill while the two men inspect the bombed-out chamber of the House of Commons a few months later. From his desk at the Foreign Office he charts the progress of the war. But with the departure of his boss 'Rab' Butler to the Ministry of Education, and Channon's subsequent exclusion from the corridors of power, his life changes - and with it the preoccupations and tone of the diaries. The conduct of the war remains a constant theme, but more personal preoccupations come increasingly to the fore. As he throws himself back into the pleasures of society, he records his encounters with the likes of Noël Coward, Prince Philip, General de Gaulle and Oscar Wilde's erstwhile lover Lord Alfred Douglas. He describes dinners with members of European royal dynasties, and recounts gossip and scandal about the great, the good and the less good. And he charts the implosion of his marriage and his burgeoning, passionate friendship with a young officer on Wavell's staff. These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life.
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0802718663
In Among the Dead Cities, the acclaimed philosopher A. C. Grayling asks the provocative question, how would the Allies have fared if judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Trials? Arguing persuasively that the victor nations have never had to consider the morality of their policies during World War II, he offers a powerful, moral re-examination of the Allied bombing campaigns against civilians in Germany and Japan, in the light of principles enshrined in the post-war conventions on human rights and the laws of war. Grayling begins by narrating the Royal Air Force's and U. S. Army Air Force's dramatic and dangerous missions over Germany and Japan between 1942 and 1945. Through the eyes of survivors, he describes the terrifying experience on the ground as bombs created inferno and devastation among often-unprepared men, women, and children. He examines the mindset and thought-process of those who planned the campaigns in the heat and pressure of war, and faced with a ruthless enemy. Grayling chronicles the voices that, though in the minority, loudly opposed attacks on civilians, exploring in detail whether the bombings ever achieved their goal of denting the will to wage war. Based on the facts and evidence, he makes a meticulous case for, and one against, civilian bombing, and only then offers his own judgment. Acknowledging that they in no way equated to the death and destruction for which Nazi and Japanese aggression was responsible, he nonetheless concludes that the bombing campaigns were morally indefensible, and more, that accepting responsibility, even six decades later, is both a historical necessity and a moral imperative.
Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804172706
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author : Paul M. Hedeen
Publisher : BHC Press/Gelan
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948540606
In THE BUTTERFLY, Paul M. Hedeen takes us back to the fall of 1963, a few weeks before President Kennedy’s assassination. An obscure émigré Russian professor dies of a stroke—or so it is believed. The professor’s eccentricities and complicity create both mystery and jeopardy as his documents lead his student backward into a century of famine, political terror, and war and forward into a bewildering underworld of malevolent opportunists, unstable identities, and improvised histories. When the student falls in with the troubled daughter of the Nazi elite, she becomes his lover, guide, and tormentor as both are irresistibly drawn into the dark aftermath of World War II. Memoirs, fairy tales, fiction, and scenarios interweave and reveal the postwar fate of Eva Braun and secrets concerning the famous Holocaust photo, “The Last Jew in Vinnitsa.”
Author : Lee Duigon
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1891375563
Can Obann be saved? Must the West's great city fall to the barbarians? The Thunder King's vast army encamps against the city, a ring of fire and steel. But treason brews inside the city walls... The tiny army of the Lord is on the march against the undefeated horde, in bold obedience to a divine command; but the boy king, Ryons, marches all alone across an empty land. The Lost Book of Scripture have been found, but they may be lost again before the human race can read them. And Jack and Ellayne have been captured by the Heathen. Prophets rise up in unexpected places, unlikely men and women perform deeds of desperate courage, and fantastic monsters stalk the night -- while the Thunder King stretches forth his hand to seize the world.
Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451697732
Jack Sawyer, who traveled to a parallel universe to save his mother and is now a retired homicide detective, helps a Wisconsin policeman track down a serial killer, who abducts and murders children.
Author : Martin Andersen Nexo
Publisher : Mondial
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1595690336
A long, rich work in three volumes, full of poetic detail, this novel interprets a working womans life. In the first volume of the trilogy, Ditte is a girl alive to all the bittersweet experiences of life in a poor family struggling for survival.
Author : R.R. Hunsinger
Publisher : Four Fools Press
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
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Wessex, Mercia, Danelaw: what will one day become England. Celts, Danes, Saxons, Norse: all are forging their own paths, each paved with blood and faith, both Pagan and Christian. Black Erlik, the Kinslayer, ventures below Hadrian's Wall with Byzantine nobleman Palladius Mauricius Veratius, his blood brother from his distant past. The warriors confront a horrific winged evil from Palladius's own eastern lands. Together, the men must face the terror that plagues the small village of Edenston, as well as the long-ago events which brought them together in a haze of blood and battle. As boys, they had paid a heavy price in blood. As men, they exact their own blood price.