Napoleon and wellington, Roberts, Andrew

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Churchill
ISBN: 0141981253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141981253
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill.

Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.

During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'

Автор: Roberts Andrew
Название: Napoleon: A Life
ISBN: 0143127853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143127857
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15330.00 T
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Описание: The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of The Storm of Warwinner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times bestseller

';A thrilling tale of military and political genius Roberts is an uncommonly gifted writer.'
The Washington Post

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.

Andrew Roberts's Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine.

Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.

An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon's sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena.

He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: History of the English Speaking Peoples
ISBN: 0297850768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780297850762
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century

Автор: Roberts, Rachel Preshous, Andrew Gakonga, Joanne
Название: IELTS Foundation Student`s Book
ISBN: 1405013923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405013925
Издательство: Macmillan ELT
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Описание: IELTS Foundation Study Skills are easy-to-use self-study books for students aiming at IELTS band 4-6. They provide clear and practical information on the IELTS exam and teach students and the skills they need to succeed in the general.

Автор: Andrew Roberts
Название: Napoleon the Great
ISBN: 0141032014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141032016
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d`etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Waterloo
ISBN: 0060762152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060762155
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 9750.00 T
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Описание: A brilliant look at the battle that ended Napoleon’s reign and ushered in the modern world, with new evidence of just how the battle was lost.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: George iii
ISBN: 0241413338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241413333
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about all aspects of the history and practice of theatre and performance - including dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, such as carnivals, circus, and public executions. It is also available as an e-reference text from Oxford`s Digital Reference Shelf.

Автор: Roberts, Stephen, Ba Reekes, Andrew
Название: George dawson and his circle
ISBN: 0850367719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850367713
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Описание: `By the gains of Industry, we promote Art` `In Birmingham you may generally recognise a board school by it being the best building in the neighbourhood, with its lofty towers, gabled windows, warm red bricks and stained glass.` So observed the Pall Mall Gazette in 1894. The famous civic gospel shaped Birmingham

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Great commanders of the modern world 1866-1975
ISBN: 0857385917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857385918
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: A magisterial survey of the military giants of the modern world.

Автор: Moore, Lucy Roberts, Andrew
Название: Holy habits in messy church
ISBN: 0857469231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857469236
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Описание: Holy Habits meets Messy Church! Eleven session outlines to help churches explore the Holy Habits in a Messy Church context and live them out in whole-life, missional discipleship.

Автор: Roberts Andrew
Название: Holy Fox
ISBN: 1789546362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789546361
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A reappraisal of one of the most influential - and controversial - British politicians of the 1930s.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: George Iii: The Last King Of America
ISBN: 198487926X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781984879264
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy.

Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck.

In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.