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Author | : Adrian Phillips |
Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785901575 |
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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.
Author | : Dave Eggers |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 034580760X |
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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.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
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Author | : Fred Gwynne |
Publisher | : Aladdin |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-05-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781416918585 |
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A king who rained for forty years? A coat of arms? Boars coming to dinner? No wonder a little girl is confused by the things her parents say. With his hilarious wordplay and zany illustrations, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia, ' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied
Author | : Stephen King |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 645 |
Release | : 2009-01-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416592369 |
Download Stephen King Goes to the Movies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
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A collection of forty-one fairy tales from the folklore of Japan, Scandinavia, Sicily, Africa and Spain.
Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0393070255 |
Download The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Author | : Debbie Singleton |
Publisher | : Andersen Press USA |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1467744298 |
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There once was a king who wouldn't sleep—not even a wink!—until he found the perfect prince for his lovely daughter. Princes came from all around. Not one of them was right. But there was someone else watching with an unexpectedly cunning plan up his not-so-royal sleeve...
Author | : Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2024-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387315368 |
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