1999, ISBN: 9780907590422

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William Morrow & Co, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. For his first novel, author Adrian McKinty has chosen Northern Ireland's age-old conflict between Protestant… Mehr…

William Morrow & Co, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. For his first novel, author Adrian McKinty has chosen Northern Ireland's age-old conflict between Protestant and Catholic as his stage and peopled it with two unnamed narrators, a violent Protestant paramilitary man and his hunchbacked teenage daughter. The story opens with the man breaking out of a New York mental hospital and proceeds on a violent, bloody path back to Ireland. Alternating with this killer's progress are chapters describing his daughter's daily life in working-class Ulster. Given the harrowing lives these characters lead and the graphic depictions of violence throughout the book, Orange Rhymes with Everything can prove a disturbing read., William Morrow & Co, 1997, 3, Pimlico. Very Good. 1999. Soft Cover. 0712666451 500 pages clean and tight. The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twenieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society. An event of this scale and complexity needs a great historian to portray it, and in his new book, John Keegan fulfils a life-long ambition to write the definitive book on the war. It was of course foremost a fascinating new interpretations of the military events. But the war also acted as a formidable engine for social change throughout the world, and this too is brilliantly conveyed in Keegan's fascinating and magisterial work. ., Pimlico, 1999, 3, W&N. Paperback. Very Good. 1.1024 9.2126 5.9843. Light shelfwear. Pages clean and intact. Remainder marking., W&N, 3, W&N. Paperback. Very Good. 1.1024 9.2126 5.9843. Remainder mark on page edges. Otherwise, very clean. No bends, rips, or markings inside or out., W&N, 3, Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invaded to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit - in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. But he gradually comes to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them, eventually discovering a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict., Penguin Books, 0, Heath, 1972. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Cover has a one inch closed tear at spine. Owners inscription on front endpaper& inside front cover. Some underlining. us history., Heath, 1972, 3, Stevenage, England: SPA Books. Fine. 1992. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 090759042X . 64 color, 15 b&w photos. Unread with minor shelf wear, and no creases to wraps. The book was printed on high wood content paper and has tanned heavily. The wars in what was formerly known as Yugoslavia started on June 27, 1991, when the Serbian Federal forces moved to secure Slovenia's borders, and the next day launched an aerial attack on Ljubljana's airport. Within a month, both Federal and irregular forces were engaged in all-out war in neighboring Croatia. By March 1st, 1992, the conflict had been extended to Bosnia Herzegovina as Croats and Muslims voted in referendum for independence. Author Paul Harris was there. His eyewitness reports and photographs from the front line in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia reflect many and different facets of a bloody series of wars fought with a particularly medieval , tribal brand of ferocity and hatred while involving the indiscriminate use of modern weapons of war. Despite a succession of images of horror and brutality not witnessed in Europe since the Second World War, the bloody conflicts were, during that first year of year war, perceived by the outside world as somebody else's war. This book is about that year of war: somebody else's war. It is not armchair reporting. It is from the first line: from the children's hospitals, from refugee columns under fire, and even from the mortuaries in Christmas Week.; 164 pages ., SPA Books, 1992, 5<

1999, ISBN: 9780907590422

Gebundene Ausgabe

Pimlico. Very Good. 1999. Soft Cover. 0712666451 500 pages clean and tight. The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European e… Mehr…

Pimlico. Very Good. 1999. Soft Cover. 0712666451 500 pages clean and tight. The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twenieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society. An event of this scale and complexity needs a great historian to portray it, and in his new book, John Keegan fulfils a life-long ambition to write the definitive book on the war. It was of course foremost a fascinating new interpretations of the military events. But the war also acted as a formidable engine for social change throughout the world, and this too is brilliantly conveyed in Keegan's fascinating and magisterial work. ., Pimlico, 1999, 3, William Morrow & Co, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. For his first novel, author Adrian McKinty has chosen Northern Ireland's age-old conflict between Protestant and Catholic as his stage and peopled it with two unnamed narrators, a violent Protestant paramilitary man and his hunchbacked teenage daughter. The story opens with the man breaking out of a New York mental hospital and proceeds on a violent, bloody path back to Ireland. Alternating with this killer's progress are chapters describing his daughter's daily life in working-class Ulster. Given the harrowing lives these characters lead and the graphic depictions of violence throughout the book, Orange Rhymes with Everything can prove a disturbing read., William Morrow & Co, 1997, 3, W&N. Paperback. Very Good. 1.1024 9.2126 5.9843. Light shelfwear. Pages clean and intact. Remainder marking., W&N, 3, W&N. Paperback. Very Good. 1.1024 9.2126 5.9843. Remainder mark on page edges. Otherwise, very clean. No bends, rips, or markings inside or out., W&N, 3, Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invaded to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit - in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. But he gradually comes to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them, eventually discovering a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict., Penguin Books, 0, Heath, 1972. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Cover has a one inch closed tear at spine. Owners inscription on front endpaper& inside front cover. Some underlining. us history., Heath, 1972, 3, Stevenage, England: SPA Books. Fine. 1992. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 090759042X . 64 color, 15 b&w photos. Unread with minor shelf wear, and no creases to wraps. The book was printed on high wood content paper and has tanned heavily. The wars in what was formerly known as Yugoslavia started on June 27, 1991, when the Serbian Federal forces moved to secure Slovenia's borders, and the next day launched an aerial attack on Ljubljana's airport. Within a month, both Federal and irregular forces were engaged in all-out war in neighboring Croatia. By March 1st, 1992, the conflict had been extended to Bosnia Herzegovina as Croats and Muslims voted in referendum for independence. Author Paul Harris was there. His eyewitness reports and photographs from the front line in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia reflect many and different facets of a bloody series of wars fought with a particularly medieval , tribal brand of ferocity and hatred while involving the indiscriminate use of modern weapons of war. Despite a succession of images of horror and brutality not witnessed in Europe since the Second World War, the bloody conflicts were, during that first year of year war, perceived by the outside world as somebody else's war. This book is about that year of war: somebody else's war. It is not armchair reporting. It is from the first line: from the children's hospitals, from refugee columns under fire, and even from the mortuaries in Christmas Week.; 164 pages ., SPA Books, 1992, 5<

ISBN: 9780907590422

Paperback. Very Good., 3