Churchill Collected Essays

Churchill, Winston S. The collected works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 Bde. compl.). Dazu: The collected essays of Sir Winston Churchill (4 Bde. compl.) (Insgesamt also 38 Bde.). London, Library of Imperial History, 1973-76
Auflage 3000 Exemplare (1,5 meter Buch). Die ulltimative Ausgabe der Schriften des grossen Staatsmanns. Entsprechend bombastisch auch die Aufmachung der Ausgabe.I: My early life; My african journey; II: The story of the Malakand field force; III: The river war; IV: The boer war; V: Savrola; VI: Lord Randolph Churchill; VII: Mr. Brodricks army and other early speeches; VIII-XII: The world crises I-V; XIII: Thoughts and adventures; XIV-XV: Marlborough - His life and times I u II; XVI: Great contemporaries; XVII: Arms and the convenant; XVIII: Step by step; XIX-XXI: War speeches I-III; XXII - XXVII: The second world war I-VI: XXVIII- XXX: Postwar speeches I-III; XXXI+-XXXIV: A history of english speaking peoples I-IV; The collected essays of Sir Winston Churchill: I.: Churchill on war; II.: Ch. and politics; III.: Ch. and people; IV.: Ch. at large

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Chandler, D. G. Blenheim Preparation. The English Army on the March to the Danube. Collected Essays,

Diese Aufsatzsammlung beschäftigt sich mit dem Werden der englischen Armee unter dem 1688 auf den Thron gekommenen Wilhelm III. von Oranien und seinem besten Befehlshaber John Churchill, erster Herzog von Marlborough. Betrachtet werden dabei die Kunst des Fortifikationswesens und die Techniken des Belagerungskrieges genauso wie die Versorgung und Heereslogistik sowie die Finanzierung der Armee. Ebenfalls eingegangen wird auf den Einsatz der englischen Armee im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg, und hier besonders auf Marlboroughs Fähigkeit, die Möglichkeiten von Infanterie, Kavallerie und Artillerie geschickt miteinander zu verbinden. Zeitzeugenberichte geben außerdem einen interessanten Einblick in das Leben der Soldaten auf den Feldzügen des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Englischer Text, 19 sw-Abb. auf Tafeln, 5 sw-Karten. Staplehurst: Spellmount Ltd. 2004. 340 Seiten. Ohne Schutzumschlag.

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Lamb, Brian. Booknotes America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas, New York: Random House, 1997. ISBN: 0812928474

First edition FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. 423 pages with index plus 32 pages color photos. Dust jacket notes read: "For nearly a decade, Booknotes has been an oasis of book programming on television, the only place where Americans can regularly find in-depth, quality discussion of books. As Jerry Landay has written in The Christian Science Monitor, 'C-SPAN's literary interviews are among the few surviving expressions of sheer intelligence that television has to offer.' For one hour, on a set that consists of two chairs, a black backdrop, and a coffee table, C-SPAN host Brian Lamb talks with authors about their latest books, about writing, and about the power of ideas and the written word. Now, in celebration of over eight years of Booknotes, Lamb has collected the program's most interesting, revealing, and memorable moments. In essays that Jet the authors speak for themselves, Booknotes includes David Halberstam, who explains how he readies himself to write by having 'a very lazy cappuccino;' Doris Kearns Goodwin, on spending six years working on her Roosevelt book in a study filled with pictures of FDR and Eleanor; Civil War historian Shelby Foote, explaining why he has to sleep in the room he writes in; Stephen Ambrose, on why he became a historian instead of a doctor; Norman Mailer, on why he never gets writer's block. David McCullough tells us about meeting Harry Truman; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., describes the difference between memoir and autobiography; Paul Kennedy speaks about suddenly being a best-selling author; Tina Rosenberg tells us how she selected her book title; Martin Gilbert discusses Churchill's laundry list; Robert Caro considers the ways in which writers document the lives of the powerful; Howell Raines reveals all about fly-fishing. These are just a few of the authors that can be found in Booknotes. The result is a collection that any reader or writer will savor, a peek behind the curtain and into the minds of some of our finest contemporary authors. Booknotes goes beyond the works of academics, historians, and journalists to explore the writings of world leaders. In fact, Booknotes is the only television show ever to feature interviews with the heads of all three branches of government: from the chief justice of the United States, to the president, to the speaker of the House. Inside, you can read all of them in their own words. With thirty-two pages of color photos of some of the world's most notable storytellers, Booknotes is a feast for the eye as well as the mind. Opening it up is like sitting down for coffee with some of the most famous writers in the world. If you love books, you'll love every page of Booknotes." 1/4 cloth condition: Fine in Fine DJ

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Brown, Peter Megargee: Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET, 2010

Brown, Peter Megargee. Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Clark: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd, 2010. xii, 305 pp. Foreword by Alexandra Stoddard, author of Living a Beautiful Life. ISBN-13: 9781616190361; ISBN-10: 1616190361. Hardcover with dust jacket. New. * "Often we come to a point in our lives when we dispense with the trivial and tire of ordinary superficialities," writes Peter Megargee Brown in Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Here he has collected some of the most profound statements of all time, and gathered them into topical sections reflecting the depth of the thinker behind the trial lawyer. Sprinkled with his comments on the quotations he has carefully selected over many years, sparkling anecdotes and essays complement the quotations and provide a complete and thought-provoking portrait of each subject. Contains two comprehensive indexes: Authors and Sources Index and a Subject Index that will help readers locate concepts. Brown leads you through the great subjects mankind has grappled with since the beginning-spirituality, love, life, death, friendship-and offers much more-his appraisal of the complexities of character, writing, history, memory, privacy, travel-drawing on the wisdom of great philosophers including Aristotle, Hillel, Voltaire and Hegel, Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo and Joseph Story, the late Tony Snow, writers such as George Bernard Shaw, Ayn Rand, Maureen Dowd and Malachy McCourt, politicians Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt, painter Henri Matisse and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A collection that can be read cover-to-cover or flipped through for a moment of illumination, Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom will entertain and enlighten seekers of truth. Turn to this treasury for inspiration, as Alexandra Stoddard says in the Foreword, "Whether you are a reader, a writer, a historian, a philosopher, or a speaker at important events-even making a toast-this personal selection will delight you, uplift you, and help you to Figure It Out." Peter Megargee Brown began his legal career as assistant counsel to John Marshall Harlan on the New York State Crime Commission. After Mr. Harlan was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Brown went on to become chief litigator for the New York firm of Cadwalader, Wi

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