The Englishmans Daughter

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0385336799
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Daughter written by Ben Macintyre and published by Delta. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pass as Picard peasants. The Englishman’s Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret. Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as “The Englishman’s Daughter,” and in an act of unspeakable betrayal, a tragic legacy that would haunt the village for generations to come. Through the testimonies of the villagers and the last letters of the soldiers, acclaimed journalist Ben Macintyre has pieced together a harrowing account of how life was lived behind enemy lines during the Great War, and offers a compelling solution to a gripping mystery that reverberates to this day.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466813040
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Daughter written by Ben Macintyre and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-01-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before told, Ben Macintyre's The Englishman's Daughter is a harrowing tale of love, duplicity and their tragic consequences, which haunt the people of Villeret eight decades after the Great War. "I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western Front, in a tiny village called Villeret. Just a few miles from the Somme, the village would be permanently inundated with German troops for the next four years, yet the villagers conspired to feed, clothe and protect the fugitives under the very noses of the invaders, absorbing the Englishmen into their homes and lives until they could pass for Picardy peasants. The leader of the band, Robert Digby, was a striking young man who fell in love with Claire Dessenne, the prettiest maid in the village. In November 1915, with the guns clearly audible from the battlefront, Claire gave birth to Digby's child, the jealous whispering began, and the conspiracy that had protected the soldiers for half the war started to unravel.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374129851
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Daughter written by Ben Macintyre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This romance flourished under the very eyes of German occupiers, resulted in the birth of a child, and eventually tore a community apart."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466803797
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Ben Macintyre and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movie In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, spiritual and military heir to Alexander the Great. The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before, yet the life and writings of this extraordinary man echo down the centuries, as America finds itself embroiled once more in the land he first explored and described 180 years ago. Soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist, traveler, and writer, Josiah Harlan wanted to be a king, with all the imperialist hubris of his times. In an extraordinary twenty-year journey around Central Asia, he was variously employed as surgeon to the Maharaja of Punjab, revolutionary agent for the exiled Afghan king, and then commander in chief of the Afghan armies. In 1838, he set off in the footsteps of Alexander the Great across the Hindu Kush and forged his own kingdom, only to be ejected from Afghanistan a few months later by the invading British. Using a trove of newly discovered documents and Harlan's own unpublished journals, Ben Macintyre's The Man Who Would Be King tells the astonishing true story of the man who would be the first and last American king.

Author : Peter Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140061734
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Daughter written by Peter Evans and published by . This book was released on 1984-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Englishman: Why, ten years ago, did the privileged Lord Henry Child suddenly betray country, family and friends to flee to Moscow? In so doing, he not only becomes the most astonishing traitor of the twentieth century but eventually endangers the life of the daughter he adores. Lady Pandora Child: At nineteen the world's top model, at twenty an instant film star, a beautiful, sensuous girl. But beneath her success flickers a shadow cast on the day her father deserted her. Nilus Dollsky: An impish, satanic Russian film director of international stature, a self-proclaimed genius, whose appeal to women is legendary. Why is he encouraged to defect to the West, and are there any grounds for the suspicions about his sexual predilections? Mulder Khor: The ruthless head of Department 12 of the KGB. Why and to what end is he being manipulated by the Englishman? Valentin Buikov: A KGB man whose love affair is indirectly responsible for the violent deaths of several people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Rufus Gunn: Playboy, paramour of royalty and Pandora's dearest friend, who in crisis reveals an unexpected strength. These are the main characters of a brilliant, subtle novel of international intrigue that switches effortlessly between Moscow and London, Venice and Leningrad, Buckingham Palace and a Russian dacha, Val d'Isere and the Berkshire countryside. Peter Evans's fast-paced thriller, which examines the duplicities of sexual passion, of loyalty to family and comrades, and of political and personal sacrifice, offers spellbinding storytelling at its best.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711763
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wine Lover's Daughter written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature—was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.

Author : Magdalen Nabb
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569478201
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of an Englishman written by Magdalen Nabb and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio near the Santa Trinita bridge, was shot in the back during the night. He was well-connected and Scotland Yard has despatched two officers to "assist" the Italians in solving the crime. But it is the marshal, a quiet observer, not an intellectual, who manages to figure out what happened, and why.

Author : Eduardo Mendoza
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623657199
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Englishman in Madrid written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duque will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands--ever the fool for a pretty face--vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140883815X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Fatherland written by Ben Macintyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Double Cross the true story of Friedrich Nietzsche's bigoted, imperious sister who founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans.

Author : Malcolm Gaskill
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080863
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Malcolm Gaskill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced -- by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians -- to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence