A World Lit Only By Fire
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A History Of Medieval Europe
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Author : R.H.C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-16
A History Of Medieval Europe written by R.H.C. Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-16 with History categories.
R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and ‘A’ level students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. His book has been important grounding for both modernists required to take a course in medieval history, and those who seek to specialise in the medieval period. In updating this classic work to a third edition, the additional author now enables students to see history in action; the diverse viewpoints and important research that has been undertaken since Davis’ second edition, and progressed historical understanding. Each of Davis original chapters now concludes with a ‘new directions and developments’ section by Professor RI Moore, Emeritus of Newcastle University. A key work updated in a method that both enhances subject understanding and sets important research in its wider context. A vital resource, now up-to-date for generations of historians to come.
Goodbye Darkness
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Author : William Manchester
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2008-12-02
Goodbye Darkness written by William Manchester and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times. The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer
The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill
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Author : William Manchester
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-03-26
The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill written by William Manchester and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 is the second volume of the outstanding three volume The Last Lion, the ultimate Churchill biography from the award-winning historian, William Manchester. In this triumphant biography, William Manchester, contends that Churchill's lonely battle against appeasement, even more than his leadership in war, was the Last Lion's finest hour. Politically isolated in Parliament, sometimes jeered at and scorned when he warned of the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone, a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm.
A Distant Mirror
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Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
language : en
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date : 1987-07-12
A Distant Mirror written by Barbara W. Tuchman and has been published by Random House Trade Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-07-12 with History categories.
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary
The Worlds Of Medieval Europe
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Author : Clifford R. Backman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Worlds Of Medieval Europe written by Clifford R. Backman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This second edition updates the traditional representations of the Middle Ages. The traditional focus on the political affairs of Northern Europe is balanced by an equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. The author integrates Islamic and Byzantine history into the narrative.
The Bright Ages
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Author : Matthew Gabriele
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2022-12-06
The Bright Ages written by Matthew Gabriele and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with categories.
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing--a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."--Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." --The Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word "medieval" conjures images of the "Dark Ages"--centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante--inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy--writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world "lit only by fire" but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.
The Alteration
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Author : Kingsley Amis
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2013-05-07
The Alteration written by Kingsley Amis and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Fiction categories.
BOOKER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick). In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice. In the audience is a select group of experts whose job is to determine whether that faultless voice should be preserved by performing a certain operation. Art, after all, is worth any sacrifice. How Hubert realizes what lies in store for him and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in are the subject of a classic piece of counterfactual fiction equal to Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. The Alteration won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel in 1976.
A Beginner S Guide To Dante S Divine Comedy
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Author : Jason M. Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2018-03-20
A Beginner S Guide To Dante S Divine Comedy written by Jason M. Baxter and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Religion categories.
Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. It captures centuries of thought on sin, love, community, moral living, God's work in history, and God's ineffable beauty. Like a Gothic cathedral, the beauty of this great poem can be appreciated at first glance, but only with a guide can its complexity and layers of meaning be fully comprehended. This accessible introduction to Dante, which also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, helps readers better appreciate and understand Dante's spiritual masterpiece. Jason Baxter, an expert on Dante, covers all the basic themes of the Divine Comedy, such as sin, redemption, virtue, and vice. The book contains a general introduction to Dante and a specific introduction to each canticle (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), making it especially well suited for classroom and homeschool use.
The Arms Of Krupp 1587 1968
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Author : William Manchester
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1970
The Arms Of Krupp 1587 1968 written by William Manchester and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Death dealers or super patriots? For four hundred years, the Krupp family stormed through history, supplying arms and money to Germany's leaders and using their immense power for their private gratifications. The story of this infamous dynasty is one of the most fascinating chronicles of our age, documented for the first time by the eminent historian, William Manchester. - Publisher.
Fahrenheit 451
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Author : Ray Bradbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Book burning categories.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn the most illegal of commodities, books, along with the houses in which they are hidden.