Maps John Gilkes (6 results)
Published by Fount/HarperCollins 1995, 1995
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Charley Boorman With Robert Uhlig ; ( Foreword ) Ewan McGregor ; ( Maps ) John Gilkes
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Published In 2006 : Reprinted Edition : : Time Warner Books : Overall , A Very Nice Book .
Language: English
Published by Harper Collins Publishing, 2019
Series: Book 12 of 13 - The Last Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Published In 2019 : 1st. Edition : 1st. Printing : Harper Collins Publishing : Overall , A Very Nice Book .
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Published by Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], New York, 2015
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xii, [2], 382, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Select Bibliography. Index. Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 - 25 May 2017) was a British historian and academic best known for his works about armed conflicts involving 19th- and 20th-ce…ntury France, including his classic about the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace. A former spy and journalist, Horne wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography. Horne became a senior member at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1970 and a fellow of the college in 1978. He was made an honorary fellow in 1988, a position he held until his death. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2003 for services to Anglo-French relations. Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955, stationed in Berlin. In 1953, he was recruited by MI6 and used his job as a journalist as a cover for his spying. "EMINENTLY PROVOCATIVE AND READABLE."-THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris. In Greek tragedy, hubris is excessive human pride that challenges the gods and ultimately leads to total destruction of the offender. From the 1905 Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, to Hitler's 1941 bid to capture Moscow, to MacArthur's disastrous advance in Korea, to the French downfall at Dien Bien Phu, Horne shows how each of these battles was won or lost due to excessive hubris on one side or the other. In a sweeping narrative written with his trademark erudition and wit, Horne provides a meticulously detailed analysis of the ground maneuvers employed by the opposing armies in each battle. He also explores the strategic and psychological mindset of the military leaders involved to demonstrate how devastating combinations of human ambition and arrogance led to overreach. Making clear the danger of hubris in warfare, his insights hold resonant lessons for civilian and military leaders navigating today's complex global landscape. A dramatic, colorful, stylishly-written history, Hubris is a much-needed reflection on war from a master of his field. First U.S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. John Gilkes (Maps) and Shiela Peczenik (Author pho (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xxv, [3], 399, [3] pages. Guest List. Illustrations. Note on Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor corner crease at several back pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Sarah Bartlett Churchwell… (born May 27, 1970) is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her expertise is in 20th- and 21st-century American literature and cultural history, especially the 1920s and 1930s. She has appeared on British television and radio and has been a judge for the Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She is the director of the Being Human festival and the author of three books: The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe; Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby; and Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream. She has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, the New Statesman,[3] The Guardian and The Observer, the Financial Times, Prospect, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, the Independent on Sunday, as well as international newspapers including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Blätter, the Times of India, The Hindu Times, and many others. The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age. A spokesman for America's carefree younger generation, Fitzgerald found a home in the glamorous and reckless streets of New York. Here, in the final incredible months of 1922, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald drank and quarreled and partied amid financial scandals, literary milestones, car crashes, and celebrity disgraces. Yet the Fitzgeralds' triumphant return to New York coincided with another event: the discovery of a brutal double murder in nearby New Jersey, a crime made all the more horrible by the farce of a police investigation, which failed to accomplish anything beyond generating enormous publicity for the newfound celebrity participants. Proclaimed the crime of the decade even as its proceedings dragged on for years, the Mills-Hall murder has been wholly forgotten today. But the enormous impact of this bizarre crime can still be felt in The Great Gatsby, a novel Fitzgerald began planning that autumn of 1922 and whose plot he ultimately set within that fateful year. Careless People is a unique literary investigation: a gripping double narrative that combines a forensic search for clues to an unsolved crime and a quest for the roots of America's best loved novel. Overturning much of the received wisdom of the period, Careless People blends biography and history with lost newspaper accounts, letters, and newly discovered archival materials. With great wit and insight, acclaimed scholar of American literature Sarah Churchwell reconstructs the events of that pivotal autumn, revealing in the process new ways of thinking about Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Interweaving the biographical story of the Fitzgeralds with the unfolding investigation into the murder of Hall and Mills, Careless People is a thrilling combination of literary history and murder mystery, a mesmerizing journey into the dark heart of Jazz Age America. Derived from a Kirkus review: Churchwell has written an excellent book on a novel that remains a favorite in English courses in American high schools and colleges. Surprisingly, she even manages to find fresh facts that escaped previous scholars, including one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's own published comments about his novel, a book that, as Churchwell notes, neither sold well nor received uniformly favorable reviews. Churchwell weaves together a variety of strands: a summary of the novel (including its earlier drafts), a biographical account of the. John Gilkes (Maps) and Wynn Richards (Jacket photo (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A personally inscribed and signed First Edition of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by bestselling historian Erik Larson. This copy is warmly inscribed "To Francy", signed by Erik Larson, and dated 2/3/20 on… the title page. In this acclaimed work of narrative history, Larson chronicles Winston Churchill's first year as Prime Minister during the Blitz, drawing upon diaries, newly available archival material, and firsthand accounts to portray both the political leadership and the personal lives of Churchill and his family during Britain's darkest hours of World War II. Published by Crown Publishers in 2020, this copy is a stated First Edition and retains its original dust jacket. The personal inscription makes it especially appealing to collectors seeking more than a standard signed copy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From The Noble Quill: Rare Signed Books We believe every signed book has a story beyond its pages. Each volume is carefully inspected, accurately described, and securely packaged so it can be enjoyed by its next collector for years to come. Books are shipped in protective packaging with the utmost care to help ensure safe arrival. Maps by John Gilkes (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
