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A Classic Compilation Of Viceroy Wavell`S Private Correspondence, Papers And Field Notes Of His Raj Years. Without Dust Jacket.
Author : Archibald Percival Wavell Earl of Wavell
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1973
Category : India
ISBN :
A Classic Compilation Of Viceroy Wavell`S Private Correspondence, Papers And Field Notes Of His Raj Years. Without Dust Jacket.
Author : Archibald Percival Wavell Wavell (1st Earl of)
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1973
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ISBN : 9780019560849
The Journal Is Of Unique Value As A Record Of Events, The Consequences Of Which Continue Have International Importance. Viceroy Wavell`S Activities And Impressions Are Set Down With Disarming Immediatly And Directness.
Author : Archibald Percival Wavell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
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Author : Archibald Percival Wavell
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 1973
Category : India
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Author : Mohammad Iqbal Chawla
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199062751
Wavell's era provides the backdrop for the finale which so historically, and tragically, unfolded under his successor and the last British viceroy, Mountbatten. No understanding of Mountbatten's era and the last days of the Raj in India could be complete without a deeper and proper understanding in all its complexities, of the Wavell's time as the second-last viceroy of India (October 1943-March 1947).
Author : Bruce Chatwin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 1988-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101503211
Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel: “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
Author : Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004308792
In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early eighteenth century.
Author : Charles F. Walker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822341895
A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.
Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780225741
The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra ('Baba'), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie's early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, and the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at 'the Dorch' (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene and Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.