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Wives and Sweethearts

Love Letters Sent During Wartime

By: Alastair Massie

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Wives and Sweethearts

Love Letters Sent During Wartime

By: Alastair Massie

What is it like to fall in love with a soldier? What is it like to be a soldier in love? Throughout history, those serving in the British Army have combined romantic relationships with their military duties. In wartime especially, all the usual emotions experienced by men and women in love are felt to a heightened degree. The sense of danger, and the sometimes years of separation imposed by service abroad, make the heartache of loss and the joy of reunion all the greater. For loved ones parted by war, writing has always been of crucial importance in maintaining contact. Even when it was difficult to send a letter, or not easy to explain feelings when one could, soldiers - be they generals, young officers or privates - have persevered. In a celebration of love on the frontline during the First and Second World Wars, the archives of the National Army Museum, replete with letters, diaries and photographs, are thrown open to reveal fascinating stories of soldiers, their wives and sweethearts. Love found, love lost and love enduring all have their place in the pages of this book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471125998

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500-1: The Miracle of Headingley '81

By: Rob Steen,Alastair McLellan

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500-1: The Miracle of Headingley '81

By: Rob Steen,Alastair McLellan

No season exerts a grip on the hearts of English cricket followers quite like the summer of 1981. For the first time in a generation, the whole country was transfixed by a Test series. What made it all the more remarkable was that the fortunes of the national team, not to mention those of the game in general and the country itself, seemed at rock bottom. During the course of an Ashes series that shifted from the mundane to the fantastical with breathtaking speed, the third Test at Headingley proved to be the turning-point. Amid record unemployment and the worst outbreak of civil unrest in a century, England, 500-1 against at one stage (odds taken by two members of the Australian team), achieved the most improbable sporting triumph of the 20th century, mounting a dramatic comeback to beat Australia by 18 runs. The names of Ian Botham, Bob Willis and Mike Brearley duly became forever entwined with what readers of the Observer recently voted 'Most Memorable Sporting Moment'. 500-1 recreates the match with the aid of those who were there - players, officials, groundstaff, spectators and media - while placing events in their full context, tracing a timeless tale in rich, vivid and unprecedented detail. As the thirtieth anniversary approaches, 500-1: The Miracle of Headingley has been fully updated to reflect the impact that Test had on the game and those who watched it, at a time of struggle in both the game and society as a whole.

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A&C Black

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1408166062

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9781408166062

Winning the Knowledge Game

By: Alastair Rylatt

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Winning the Knowledge Game

By: Alastair Rylatt

Winning the Knowledge Game focuses on the thinking and attitudes required to remain knowledgeable, competitive and high performing. Topics include: having a winning strategy, improving collaboration and teamwork, creating a smarter business, competitive intelligence, protecting intellectual property, keeping talent, leveraging the latest digital technology, increasing customer loyalty and measuring the impact of your people on performance, market value and society. Winning the Knowledge Game provides practical advice on the strategies, tactics and systems you need to remain capable and agile in this rapidly changing business world. To help you meet this challenge, Winning the Knowledge Game explores three questions: * How do you open the hearts and minds of people to smarter learning? * How do you grow competitive advantage? * How do you sustain and ensure lasting success? All managers need to learn the skill of acquiring and putting knowledge to work if they are to successful. Most of all they need to learn how to play the knowledge game every day of their life. Do not leave things to chance discover the ideas and tips that will deliver a measurable improvement to your business leadership, performance and career.

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Routledge

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1136348581

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9781136348587

Remembered Words

Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems

By: Alastair Fowler

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Remembered Words

Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems

By: Alastair Fowler

Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over that period. Specifically, it shows how genre has come to be understood in terms of family resemblance theory. Remembered Words argues that realism can be seen as altering historically, so that Renaissance realism, for example, differs from those of later periods. Similar changes are traced in the emblem, which Fowler shows to be not only a particular genre, but an element of various kinds of realism. Famous passages in ancient literature are remembered in the familiar emblems of the Renaissance; and Renaissance emblems form the basis of metaphors in later literature. Meanwhile, the general approach of the critic and the reader has been altering over the years—as becomes evident when one takes into account the time-scale of sixty years (an unusually long working life for a critic). Modern theoretical approaches—which are often casually regarded as self-evident—may appear less inevitable and more arbitrary. This is not to say that they are necessarily wrong, just that they need to be argued for. Remembered Words is intended for senior undergraduates and for graduate students, who may use it to form ideas of Fowler's approach and that of his contemporaries and predecessors over the last half century.

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Oxford University Press

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019259902X

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9780192599025

Border Bloodshed

Scotland and England at War, 1369-1403

By: Alastair J. Macdonald

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Border Bloodshed

Scotland and England at War, 1369-1403

By: Alastair J. Macdonald

Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and, in the reign of Robert II, involved close co-operation with France. They succeeded militarily, encouraging the Scots to the point where they were willing to engage in attacks on England beyond the ambition of their French allies. However, diplomatic gains fell well short of forcing English recognition of Scottish independence. Hopes of achieving this by military means were ended in the reign of Robert III when the Scots were heavily defeated in 1402. War was not solely fought with political objectives in mind or other 'rational' factors such as the quest for financial gain. The Scots went to war for emotive reasons too, such as hatred of the English, the search for renown and the sheer enjoyment of fighting. All these factors inspired the Scots to launch a series of bloody, brutal and ultimately futile offensives against England.

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857907743

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9780857907745

Spenser's Images of Life

By: C. S. Lewis,Alastair Fowler

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Spenser's Images of Life

By: C. S. Lewis,Alastair Fowler

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

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159

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Cambridge University Press

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1107691133

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9781107691131

The Burden of Power

Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries

By: Alastair Campbell

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The Burden of Power

Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries

By: Alastair Campbell

The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, and it ends on the day Campbell leaves Downing Street. In between there are two wars: first Afghanistan, and then, even more controversially, Iraq. It was the most difficult decision of Tony Blair's premiership, and almost certainly the most unpopular. Campbell describes in detail the discussions with President Bush and other world leaders as the steps to war are taken, and delivers a unique account of Blair as war leader. He records the enormous political difficulties at home, and the sense of crisis that engulfed the government after the suicide of weapons inspector David Kelly. And all the while, Blair continues to struggle with two issues that ran throughout his time in government - fighting for peace in Northern Ireland, and trying to make peace with Gordon Brown. And Campbell continues to struggle balancing the needs of his family with one of the most pressurised roles in politics. Riveting and revelatory, The Burden of Power is as raw and intimate a portrayal of political life as you are ever likely to read.

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Random House

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140904968X

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9781409049685

Wives and Sweethearts

Love Letters Sent During Wartime

By: Alastair Massie

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Simon and Schuster

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The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War

The Untold Story

By: Alastair Massie

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The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War

The Untold Story

By: Alastair Massie

This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private soldiers to the voluminous correspondence of commander-in-chief Lord Raglan. The whole experience of fighting in the Crimea is captured here: the thrill of combat, the men's impressions of their allies--French, Turkish and Sardinian--the horrors of their first winter in the Crimea, the scandalously inadequate medical arrangements and the impact made by Florence Nightingale. Written by a leading authority in this field, this is a colorful, fresh account of one of nineteenth century's most famous conflicts.

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Pan Macmillan

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0330491741

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9780330491747

Boy on the Wire

By: Alastair Bruce

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Boy on the Wire

By: Alastair Bruce

He is a man who lied, who told a story, a wild, fanciful story, about the death of a child, a hard and unyielding story. It is that, he finds, that he hates most. The story that was told.' In 1983 Paul Hyde, aged ten, dies falling from a ledge in the mountains of the Karoo. His older brother Peter, who falls at the same time, survives but loses all memory of the event. The youngest brother, John, is the only witness. Many years later, John is living in London. He and his wife Rachel, who knows nothing of the tragedy of his past and nothing of his family, make plans to have children of their own. Their life together is disrupted when Peter arrives in London and claims his memory is returning. Pulled back in spite of himself, John returns to South Africa and the home he grew up in. His return makes him question his recollection of the tragedy. Can we ever be certain of events that happened that far in the past, certain we have not completely changed their meaning and our part in them?

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Profile Books

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1782831614

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9781782831617

Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover

By: Alastair Hannay

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Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover

By: Alastair Hannay

Ranging from astrology to neuroscience and cosmology, from homelessness to love and the fragility of human fellowship, the scope of Horace Hardcover's browser is unusually wide for a philosopher these days. His iconoclastic message is that uncertainty reveals more than the elimination of doubt. The light irony of Alastair Hannay's novella hands on this truth to the reader: Does it matter that we cannot decide whether its portrait of a philosopher is pure fiction, drawn from life or not even fictionally real? One thing is made clear: the dynamic of doubt and certainty when ripped from the deadpan pages of philosophy can play havoc with a life.

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1849212295

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9781849212298

The Third Norn

at Bennibister

By: Alastair Macleod

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The Third Norn

at Bennibister

By: Alastair Macleod

The saga of Bennibister continues. There are tensions in the marriage of Isobel and Charles as the the land loses its total grip on him and the sea beckons. Near death brings love and new blood. Enter the third Norn, teller of tales, giver of wise council, guider of the fates. There are three novellas in the Bennibister series; Bennibister (the Place of the Horse), The Wedding at Bennibister, and the last in the series, The Third Norn (at Bennibister).

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3730978527

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Book's by Alastair Massie

Wives and Sweethearts

Wives and Sweethearts

500-1: The Miracle of Headingley '81

500-1: The Miracle of Headingley '81

Winning the Knowledge Game

Winning the Knowledge Game

Remembered Words

Remembered Words

Border Bloodshed

Border Bloodshed

Spenser's Images of Life

Spenser's Images of Life

The Burden of Power

The Burden of Power

Wives and Sweethearts

Wives and Sweethearts

The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War

The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War

Boy on the Wire

Boy on the Wire

Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover

Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover

The Third Norn

The Third Norn

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