Creator: Neil Wright
Publication date: 2007-11-15
Dewey code: 942.010922
List Price: $95.00
Price: $87.10
Review The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae) (Arthurian Studies) / Boydell Press:Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur, rapidly became a bestseller in the British Isles and Francophone Europe, with over 200 manuscripts surviving. Yet no critical edition of the main version has appeared since 1929. This new text, for which 14 manuscripts have been collated in full, rests on a survey of the entire tradition; it is accompanied by a facing English translation, prepared especially for this volume. A comprehensive introduction discusses the status of variant versions, the shape of the main tradition, and many questions of editorial principle; critical notes analyse some problems raised by the transmitted text; and there is a full index of names. Professor MICHAEL REEVE is a Director of Research at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge; Dr NEIL WRIGHT is a Senior Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Price: $14.50
Review The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson / electricUmbrella Publishing:Robert Southey, English poet laureate and Peer of Lord Admiral Nelson, vividly describes the strong nature of Nelson's character and the atmosphere of his times. Son of a minister, and not of strong body, young Nelson ships off to sea at the ripe age of twelve years old. He becomes ultimately one of the great naval leaders and strategists of all time, and one of England's undisputed revered heroes. electricUmbrella Publishing is proud to bring this masterpiece of British biography, first published in 1843, back into print.
Creator: Salem Press
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 920.00904
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.96
Review World Leaders of the Twentieth Century 2 Volume set (Magill's Choice) / Salem Press:This set offers coverage of approximately 125 key global leaders for librarians needing essential, up-to-date bibliographical reference. Leaders examined include the most famous of this century; giants of the U. S. presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt; such warmongering dictators as Stalin and Hitler; as well as other revolutionaries and contemporary figures.
Publication date: 2008-05-01
List Price: $13.37
Price: $87.24
Review The Dead Man in the Bunker / Faber and Faber:Gerhard Bast was found shot in an abandoned bunker in northern Italy close to the Austrian frontier in April, 1947. Martin Pollack, his son, was then three and has no memories of his father. A middle-ranking SS officer, Bast had been on the run since the end of the war. He was an early member of both SS and Nazi Party and during the war commanded small Einsatzkommandos in the Caucasus and in Poland. He ends the war involved in murderous rear guard actions and atrocities in Slovakia. In attempting to piece together his father's life, Pollack assembles the memories of family and friends - who all remain extreme German nationalists until they die - and confronts the past by carefully reconstructing their lives with an extraordinary historical investigation. Pollack digs deeply into the archives and travels to the places important in the history of the Bast family and in his father's Nazi career. It is a painful personal journey which Pollack describes, one he had put off for a long time, until he was well into his 50's. The result is remarkable both as history and as a family memoir.
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: $9.95
Review Legal Lynching: The Plight of Sam Jennings / Perry T. Ryan:
Publication date: 2008-12-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $21.95
Price: $87.13
Review Sunrise West / Brandl & Schlesinger Book Publishers:Navigating between the two worlds of wartime experiences in Europe and new life in Australia, this moving memoir of a Holocaust survivor is imbued with an element of fiction. This deeply personal narrative travels from darkness to hope as the author loses his family at Auschwitz, spends the war in concentration camps, and ultimately emigrates to Australia with his wife, leading to an eventual restoration that remains colored by a tragic past.
Creator: Salem Press
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 920.00904
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.96
Review World Leaders of the Twentieth Century 2 Volume set (Magill's Choice) / Salem Press:This set offers coverage of approximately 125 key global leaders for librarians needing essential, up-to-date bibliographical reference. Leaders examined include the most famous of this century; giants of the U. S. presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt; such warmongering dictators as Stalin and Hitler; as well as other revolutionaries and contemporary figures.
Creator: Frank J. Williams
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 973.702
List Price: $86.95
Price: $86.95
Review Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln: Competing Perspectives on Two Great Presidencies (M. E. Sharp Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt Studies) / M.E. Sharpe:Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are widely considered the two greatest presidents of the past two centuries. How did these two very different men rise to power, run their administrations, and achieve greatness? How did they set their policies, rally public opinion, and transform the nation? Were they ultimately more different or alike? This anthology compares these two presidents and presidencies, examining their legacies, leadership styles, and places in history.
Publication date: 1998
Review Bara Brith I De / Gwasg Gwynedd:
Publication date: 2008-05-01
List Price: $13.37
Price: $87.24
Review The Dead Man in the Bunker / Faber and Faber:Gerhard Bast was found shot in an abandoned bunker in northern Italy close to the Austrian frontier in April, 1947. Martin Pollack, his son, was then three and has no memories of his father. A middle-ranking SS officer, Bast had been on the run since the end of the war. He was an early member of both SS and Nazi Party and during the war commanded small Einsatzkommandos in the Caucasus and in Poland. He ends the war involved in murderous rear guard actions and atrocities in Slovakia. In attempting to piece together his father's life, Pollack assembles the memories of family and friends - who all remain extreme German nationalists until they die - and confronts the past by carefully reconstructing their lives with an extraordinary historical investigation. Pollack digs deeply into the archives and travels to the places important in the history of the Bast family and in his father's Nazi career. It is a painful personal journey which Pollack describes, one he had put off for a long time, until he was well into his 50's. The result is remarkable both as history and as a family memoir.
Creator: Neil Wright
Publication date: 2007-11-15
Dewey code: 942.010922
List Price: $95.00
Price: $87.10
Review The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae) (Arthurian Studies) / Boydell Press:Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur, rapidly became a bestseller in the British Isles and Francophone Europe, with over 200 manuscripts surviving. Yet no critical edition of the main version has appeared since 1929. This new text, for which 14 manuscripts have been collated in full, rests on a survey of the entire tradition; it is accompanied by a facing English translation, prepared especially for this volume. A comprehensive introduction discusses the status of variant versions, the shape of the main tradition, and many questions of editorial principle; critical notes analyse some problems raised by the transmitted text; and there is a full index of names. Professor MICHAEL REEVE is a Director of Research at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge; Dr NEIL WRIGHT is a Senior Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Publication date: 2008-12-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $21.95
Price: $87.13
Review Sunrise West / Brandl & Schlesinger Book Publishers:Navigating between the two worlds of wartime experiences in Europe and new life in Australia, this moving memoir of a Holocaust survivor is imbued with an element of fiction. This deeply personal narrative travels from darkness to hope as the author loses his family at Auschwitz, spends the war in concentration camps, and ultimately emigrates to Australia with his wife, leading to an eventual restoration that remains colored by a tragic past.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-07-27
Dewey code: 962.03
List Price: $90.00
Price: $87.24
Review The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882 (Middle Eaststudies-History, Politics & Law) / Routledge:Written to set the record straight about Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his activities in Egypt's 'Urabi Revolt of 1882, The Accidental Traveler shows how Blunt-with the access to leaders on both sides-attempted to mediate the crisis behind the scenes in both Cairo and London. Labeled a traitor in Parliament for his association with 'Urabi, Blunt was further discredited by a government cover-up. Since then, both man and his published works relating to the subject have been routinely characterized as inconsequential and self-promoting. Regardless, most who write on the subject of the 'Urabi Revolt quote Blunt and rely on him for insights and material otherwise unavailable. This work will show how the well-connected Blunt became a dauntless fighter for Egyptian freedom. Moreover, it will show how Blunt's actions had a major impact on decisions at the highest levels of power in 1882. The author contends that Blunt was ultimately successful in his appeals on behalf of the Egyptians-although not how he intended.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-07-27
Dewey code: 962.03
List Price: $90.00
Price: $87.24
Review The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882 (Middle Eaststudies-History, Politics & Law) / Routledge:Written to set the record straight about Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his activities in Egypt's 'Urabi Revolt of 1882, The Accidental Traveler shows how Blunt-with the access to leaders on both sides-attempted to mediate the crisis behind the scenes in both Cairo and London. Labeled a traitor in Parliament for his association with 'Urabi, Blunt was further discredited by a government cover-up. Since then, both man and his published works relating to the subject have been routinely characterized as inconsequential and self-promoting. Regardless, most who write on the subject of the 'Urabi Revolt quote Blunt and rely on him for insights and material otherwise unavailable. This work will show how the well-connected Blunt became a dauntless fighter for Egyptian freedom. Moreover, it will show how Blunt's actions had a major impact on decisions at the highest levels of power in 1882. The author contends that Blunt was ultimately successful in his appeals on behalf of the Egyptians-although not how he intended.
Publication date: 1995-12
Review Life on the Trent and Humber Rivers (Vernacular History) / Richard Kay Publications:
Creator: Frank J. Williams
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 973.702
List Price: $86.95
Price: $86.95
Review Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln: Competing Perspectives on Two Great Presidencies (M. E. Sharp Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt Studies) / M.E. Sharpe:Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are widely considered the two greatest presidents of the past two centuries. How did these two very different men rise to power, run their administrations, and achieve greatness? How did they set their policies, rally public opinion, and transform the nation? Were they ultimately more different or alike? This anthology compares these two presidents and presidencies, examining their legacies, leadership styles, and places in history.
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: $9.95
Review Legal Lynching: The Plight of Sam Jennings / Perry T. Ryan:
Publication date: 1995-12
Review Life on the Trent and Humber Rivers (Vernacular History) / Richard Kay Publications:
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Price: $14.50
Review The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson / electricUmbrella Publishing:Robert Southey, English poet laureate and Peer of Lord Admiral Nelson, vividly describes the strong nature of Nelson's character and the atmosphere of his times. Son of a minister, and not of strong body, young Nelson ships off to sea at the ripe age of twelve years old. He becomes ultimately one of the great naval leaders and strategists of all time, and one of England's undisputed revered heroes. electricUmbrella Publishing is proud to bring this masterpiece of British biography, first published in 1843, back into print.
Publication date: 1998
Review Bara Brith I De / Gwasg Gwynedd:
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