The King Who Had To Go
Title | The King Who Had To Go PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Phillips |
Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2016-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785901575 |
The previously untold story of the hidden politics that went on behind the scenes during the handling of the Royal abdication crisis of 1936. The King Who Had to Go describes the harsh realities of how the machinery of government responds when even the King steps out of line. It reveals the pitiless and insidious battles in Westminster and Whitehall that settled the fate of the King and Mrs Simpson. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had to fight against ministers and civil servants who were determined to pressure the King into giving up Mrs Simpson and, when that failed, into abdicating. Dubious police reports on Mrs Simpson's sex life poisoned the government's view of her and were used to blacken her reputation. Threats to sabotage her divorce were deployed to edge the King towards abdication. Covert intelligence operations convinced the hardliners that the badly coordinated and hopeless attempts of the King's allies, particularly Winston Churchill, to keep him on the throne amounted to a sinister anti-constitutional conspiracy. The book also shows how the King doomed his chances of keeping the throne by wildly unrealistic goals and ill-thought -out schemes. As each side was overwhelmed by desperation and distrust, Baldwin somehow held the balance and steered the crisis to as smooth a conclusion as possible.
A Hologram for the King
Title | A Hologram for the King PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Eggers |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 034580760X |
A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.
The Donkey Who Carried a King
Title | The Donkey Who Carried a King PDF eBook |
Author | R. C. Sproul |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781567692693 |
"Davey the donkey was never chosen to do anything, until the day he found himself carrying the King. After that, he felt proud of himself, until he saw what the King had to carry"--Page 4 of cover.
Where Do We Go from Here?
Title | Where Do We Go from Here? PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
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The Player King
Title | The Player King PDF eBook |
Author | Avi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1481437704 |
“Swiftly moving and utterly engrossing.” —Shelf Awareness Parents’ Choice Recommended From Newbery Award–winning author Avi comes the gripping and amazingly true tale of a boy plucked from the gutter to become the King of England. England, 1486. King Henry VII has recently snatched the English Crown and now sits on the throne, while young Prince Edward, who has a truer claim, has apparently disappeared. Meanwhile, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is slaving away at a tavern in Oxford—until a mysterious friar, Brother Simonds, buys Lambert from the tavern keeper and whisks him away in the dead of night. But this is nothing compared to the secret that the friar reveals: You, Lambert, are actually Prince Edward, the true King of England! With the aid of the deceitful Earl of Lincoln, Brother Simonds sets out to teach the boy how to become the rightful English king. Lambert has everything to gain and nothing to lose, or so he thinks. Yet in this dangerous battle for the throne, Lambert is not prepared for what’s to come—or for what it really means to play at being a king.
Stephen King Goes to the Movies
Title | Stephen King Goes to the Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen King |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 645 |
Release | 2009-01-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416592369 |
A collection of five short stories that have been made into movies includes "The Mangler," in which a skeptical writer investigates a supposedly haunted hotel room that has apparently caused at least forty-two deaths.
I Served the King of England
Title | I Served the King of England PDF eBook |
Author | Bohumil Hrabal |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811216876 |
Chronicles the experiences of Ditie, who rises from busboy to hotel owner in World War II Prague, and whose life is shaped by the fate of his country before, during, and after the conflict.