Автор: Butler, Smedley D Название: War is a racket ISBN: 1939438586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939438584 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8190.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: This historical series really puts the story back into history! Each exciting bookbrings the past alive by linking key events to a fast moving narrative. The series is characterised by short chapters, wonderful illustrations, a glossary of unfamiliar terms and a What Happened Next? chapter.Find King Alfred!begins with the Viking`s winter invasion of Wessex. The Saxon kingdom crumbles before them, until Alfred, one of England`s true hero-kings, raises his standard amid the marshy wastes of Somerset...
A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power--and how its legacies shape our world today--told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.
The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler's career and the American ambitions it represented. --The Washington Post
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went--serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantбnamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism. Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world--from China to Guantбnamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal--and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.
Автор: Thomas Lowell Название: Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler ISBN: 1387724541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781387724543 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Old Gimlet Eye is the autobiography of early U.S. Marine Corp legend Smedley Butler who, at the time of his death in 1940, was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler joined the Corps at age 16 and took part in critical military actions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Central America, Mexico and France. A veteran of both the Spanish-American War and World War I, Butler's candid narrative (assisted in the writing by author Lowell Thomas) offers unique insight into the early history of the Marine Corps, making Old Gimlet Eye essential reading for military scientists and fans of military biographies.
Автор: Thomas Lowell Название: Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler ISBN: 1387725025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781387725021 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 41670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Old Gimlet Eye is the autobiography of early U.S. Marine Corp legend Smedley Butler who, at the time of his death in 1940, was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler joined the Corps at age 16 and took part in critical military actions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Central America, Mexico and France. A veteran of both the Spanish-American War and World War I, Butler's candid narrative (assisted in the writing by author Lowell Thomas) offers unique insight into the early history of the Marine Corps, making Old Gimlet Eye essential reading for military scientists and fans of military biographies.
Автор: Butler Smedley D. Название: War is a Racket ISBN: 1482393018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781482393019 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
When you are poor everything seems harder, takes longer, and costs more. In fact, bad circumstances are just plain exhausting Embracing Your Story is an honest depiction of a child experiencing the emotional, spiritual, and financial toll that poverty exacts. Smedley shares moving stories about growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother taught her that "tomorrow is your sacred armor against the hopelessness of today." Tomorrow holds your destiny. That is why surviving the obstacles of today is imperative. Embracing Your Story is a blueprint for how to survive hardships. In ten short chapters, Smedley shares stories, lessons learned, and provocative questions to ponder if you are trying to do better in life.
Автор: Smedley Nick, Sturges Tom Название: Preston Sturges - End of a Legend: The Last Years of Hollywood`s First Writer-Director ISBN: 1783209925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783209927 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 31610.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. This book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges` whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new primary sources.
Автор: Smedley Zack Название: Deposing Nathan ISBN: 1624147356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781624147357 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German exchange in the Sattelzeit. It offers new perspectives on the movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.
Автор: Smedley Stephanie Название: Feel Empty Inside?: The God-Shaped Void ISBN: 1973625822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781973625827 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Smedley Richard Название: The Life and Times of Joseph Smedley ISBN: 1912562847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912562848 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This is the true story of the life of Joseph Smedley.
He was an actor, initially with the Lincoln theatre and its circuit from just after the turn of the nineteenth century, and covers his decision to form his own company, with his new wife, and to tour theatres in Humberside and the East Midlands.
The Life And Times Of Joseph Smedley looks at what it was like to be a strolling player in the first half of the nineteenth century, how he used his growing family to fill roles in his repertoire of plays, and the problems he faced in making a living as an actor. The book examines the people of the day, including the Robertsons who ran the theatres in Lincoln, Nottingham and Derby and their circuits; the actors, and those who contributed to his work, and his efforts from the beginning both to survive, and to build one of the largest touring circuits in the country; and looks at events of those times which affected him, his family and his company of actors.
The Life And Times Of Joseph Smedley shows how he tried to treat people fairly, and how he tried to achieve a reputation for honesty and good behaviour in members of his company, and how he attempted to elevate his profession from its maligned reputation for drunkenness and debauchery into one of a "school of eloquence, a Temple of the Arts."
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