Duel in the Snows
Title | Duel in the Snows PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Allen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | British |
ISBN | 9780719554292 |
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest. Leading the mission was the charismatic Francis Younghusband. Commanding the army escort was an officer determined to do things by the book: General James Macdonald. The result was conflict at every level. Drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished first-hand accounts, Charles Allen reveals not only the true character of one of Britain's great imperial heroes but also the calamitous outcome for the Tibetan people of Britain's last attempt at empire-building.
Duel in the Snows
Title | Duel in the Snows PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Allen |
Publisher | John Murray |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473627540 |
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest. Leading the mission was the charismatic Francis Younghusband. Commanding the army escort was an officer determined to do things by the book: General James Macdonald. The result was conflict at every level. Drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished first-hand accounts, Charles Allen reveals not only the true character of one of Britain's great imperial heroes but also the calamitous outcome for the Tibetan people of Britain's last attempt at empire-building.
Duel in the Snow
Title | Duel in the Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Otto Meissner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | German fiction |
ISBN | 9780583128100 |
Duel in the Snow
Title | Duel in the Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Otto Meissner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780432093214 |
Novel, based partly on fact, of the Japanese occupation of Attu in the Aleutians during World War II, and a group of Japanese geurillas dropped into remote Alaska.
Christmas Eve, Or, The Duel in the Snow
Title | Christmas Eve, Or, The Duel in the Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Fitzball |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Duel in the Wilderness
Title | Duel in the Wilderness PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Clafford Farley |
Publisher | Colonial Williamsburg |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780879351304 |
Based on George Washington's own journal, Duel in the wilderness tells the true story of his journey in 1753-1754 into the Ohio country.
In God We Trust
Title | In God We Trust PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Shepherd |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2010-10-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 030776866X |
A collection of humorous and nostalgic Americana stories—the beloved, bestselling classics that inspired the movie A Christmas Story Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage “You can never go back.” Bending the ear of Flick, his childhood-buddy-turned-bartender, Shepherd recalls passionately his genuine Red Ryder BB gun, confesses adolescent failure in the arms of Junie Jo Prewitt, and relives a story of man against fish that not even Hemingway could rival. From pop art to the World's Fair, Shepherd's subjects speak with a universal irony and are deeply and unabashedly grounded in American Midwestern life, together rendering a wonderfully nostalgic impression of a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth. A comic genius who bridged the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.