Fatal purity, Scurr, Ruth

Автор: Scurr, Ruth
Название: Napoleon
ISBN: 1784704032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784704032
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade

Автор: Scurr, Ruth
Название: Napoleon
ISBN: 1784741000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784741006
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Scurr, Ruth
Название: John Aubrey: My Own Life
ISBN: 0099490633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099490630
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: `A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive` Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name.

Автор: Scurr Ruth
Название: Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
ISBN: 0805082611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805082616
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: "Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read."
--Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first modern dictator or the earliest democrat? Was his extreme moralism a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw?
Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Ruth Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from provincial lawyer to devastatingly efficient revolutionary leader, righteous and paranoid in equal measure. She explores his reformist zeal, his role in the fall of the monarchy, his passionate attempts to design a modern republic, even his extraordinary effort to found a perfect religion. And she follows him into the Terror, as the former death- penalty opponent makes summary execution the order of the day, himself falling victim to the violence at the age of thirty-six.
Written with epic sweep, full of nuance and insight, "Fatal Purity" is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.

Автор: John Scurr
Название: The Malayan Campaign 1948–60
ISBN: 085045476X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850454765
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: In June 1948 Communist insurgent forces commenced a guerrilla war to end British rule in Malaya. During the ensuing 12 years of conflict there were 8750 reported 'contacts' between units of the Security Forces and the Communist enemy. Eventually Malaya was made independent, and the British and their Commonwealth allies emerged victorious.

Written and illustrated by infantry veterans of the campaign, this book examines the Malayan Emergency, detailing the forces involved and the harsh jungle conditions in which they fought. The text is complete with firsthand accounts from the contributors themselves and numerous illustrations depicting the forces' uniforms.

Автор: John Scurr
Название: Germany`s Spanish Volunteers 1941–45
ISBN: 0850453593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850453591
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Global warming is among the more pressing issues in ecology and environmental science, and the role of biotic feedback in global warming has not previously been addressed in a book. George Woodwell, a leading worker on global warming, and one of the most influential environmental scientists, has drawn together a superb group of authors to present the current scientific understanding of this issue.

Автор: Scurr Ruth
Название: Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
ISBN: 1631492411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631492419
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Описание: "How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?" --Charlotte Bront , "The Death of Napoleon"

The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) has for centuries attracted eminent male writers. Since Thomas Carlyle first christened him "our last Great Man," regiments of biographers have marched across the same territory, weighing campaigns and conflicts, military tactics and power politics. Yet in all this time, no definitive portrait of Napoleon has endured, and a mere handful of women have written his biography--a fact that surely would have pleased him.

With Napoleon, Ruth Scurr, one of our most eloquent and original historians, emphatically rejects the shibboleth of the "Great Man" theory of history, instead following the dramatic trajectory of Napoleon's life through gardens, parks, and forests. As Scurr reveals, gardening was the first and last love of Napoleon, offering him a retreat from the manifold frustrations of war and politics. Gardens were, at the same time, a mirror image to the battlefields on which he fought, discrete settings in which terrain and weather were as important as they were in combat, but for creative rather than destructive purposes.

Drawing on a wealth of contemporary and historical scholarship, and taking us from his early days at the military school in Brienne-le-Ch teau through his canny seizure of power and eventual exile, Napoleon frames the general's story through the green spaces he cultivated. Amid Corsican olive groves, ornate menageries in Paris, and lone garden plots on the island of Saint Helena, Scurr introduces a diverse cast of scientists, architects, family members, and gardeners, all of whom stood in the shadows of Napoleon's meteoric rise and fall. Building a cumulative panorama, she offers indelible portraits of Augustin Bon Joseph de Robespierre, the younger brother of Maximilien Robespierre, who used his position to advance Napoleon's career; Marianne Peusol, the fourteen-year-old girl manipulated into a Christmas-Eve assassination attempt on Napoleon that resulted in her death; and Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, the atlas maker to whom Napoleon dictated his memoirs. As Scurr contends, Napoleon's dealings with these people offer unusual and unguarded opportunities to see how he grafted a new empire onto the remnants of the ancien r gime and the French Revolution.

Epic in scale and novelistic in its detail, Napoleon, with stunning illustrations, is a work of revelatory range and depth, revealing the contours of the general's personality and power as no conventional biography can.

Автор: John Scurr
Название: The Spanish Foreign Legion
ISBN: 0850455715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850455717
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Although overshadowed by its French counterpart, the Tercio de Extrangeros, 'Regiment of Foreigners' has a rich and eventful history beginning with its formation in 1920. Under the command of LtCol Mill n Astray and Comandante Francisco Franco, the Spanish Foreign Legion developed into a formidable force, led by Astray's belief that 'to die in combat is the greatest honour.' This book examines the main campaigns in which the Legion participated, from Melilla in 1921-23 until its withdrawal from the Sahara in 1976. A wealth of contemporary photographs and colour plates detail the uniforms and insignia of the Spanish Foreign Legion.