2009, ISBN: 9781855323490

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. 257 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations - photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans. "(T)he Charge (of the Light B… Mehr…

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. 257 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations - photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans. "(T)he Charge (of the Light Brigade) was only a vivid firework display on the fringe of the main action. It was the Highland Brigade and in particular the 93rd Highlanders, the 'Thin Red Line' of the title, under the inspiring leadership of Sir Colin Campell who really saved the day. This new narrative of the battle, based exclusively on eye-witness reports from British, French and Russian sources, presents the conflict as a coherent whole. Here are Raglan, Cardigan, Lucan, Campbell and Scarlett; Bosquet and Canrobert; the staff officers, the surgeons, the lady spectators, the war corres-pondents, the ordinary soldiers on both sides. The political manoeuvring, the armies arriving in the Crimea, the Allied success at Alma, the ravages of cholera, Inkerman 'the soldier's battle', Tchernaya, the storming of the Redan, the siege of Sebastopol, the influence of Florence Nightingale and Maitre-chef Soyer - this is the Crimean War, a struggle which need not have taken place, which produced no decisive solution, and which demonstrated with appalling clarity the inefficiencies of the British High Command." Light edge wear - mainly on bottom edge of boards, a few tiny shallow bumps to bottom edge of boards, small bump at bottom corner of rear boards - migrates into corner of approx. last 12 page leaves, minor browning to top edge of boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, one or two tiny edge tears, very light browning on spine and at top edge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good-., Hamish Hamilton, 1970, 2.75, Paperback / softback. New. An LA Times Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Editors' Pick * A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books * A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year &quot;Gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States.&quot; -Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and Dimed An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato's memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time-and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten. The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he lost friends to the escalating violence, and survived acts of brutality himself. He eventually traded the violence of the streets for human rights advocacy in wartime El Salvador where he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed, fascist military government responsible for some of the most barbaric massacres and crimes against humanity in recent history. Roberto returned from war-torn El Salvador to find the United States on the verge of unprecedented crises of its own. There, he channeled his own pain into activism and journalism, focusing his attention on how trauma affects individual lives and societies, and began the difficult journey of confronting the roots of his own trauma. As a child, Roberto endured a tumultuous relationship with his father Ramon. Raised in extreme poverty in the countryside of El Salvador during one of the most violent periods of its history, Ramon learned to survive by straddling intersecting underworlds of family secrets, traumatic silences, and dealing in black-market goods and guns. The repression of the violence in his life took its toll, however. Ramon was plagued with silences and fits of anger that had a profound impact on his youngest son, and which Roberto attributes as a source of constant reckoning with the violence and rebellion in his own life. In Unforgetting, Roberto interweaves his father's complicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. In doing so he makes the political personal, revealing the cyclical ways violence operates in our homes and our societies, as well as the ways hope and tenderness can rise up out of the darkness if we are courageous enough to unforget., 6, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, (1993). Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), viii + 169 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during the war with Mexico. Dead at twenty-three in a remote desert, his promise outweighing his accomplishments, Chadbourne slid into obscurity. But his lapse was not immediate, nor was it complete; clues to Chadbourne lay scattered about the historical landscape. Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne is Jim W. Corders account of his obsessive search for information about this solider, whose name he first read on a historical marker beside a highway in Texas. A thoughtful mediation on the connectedness of history and the possibilities of recovering and understanding the past, the book reveals as much about Corders literary and historiographical preocuupations as it does about the life of his subject. Rather than order his material into a linear, chronological narrative, Corder presents it in much the same sequence and form as it came to him. The effect is to dramatize the historical process and allow the very details that Corder collects, rather than his manipulations of those details, to reveal Chadbourne to the reader. At the same time, Corder shares the thoughts and poses the questions that each discovery about the lieutenant elicits from him. Chadbourne is led a step further out of anonymity, and the reader is drawn a step closer to the essential messiness of history experienced firsthand -- where emotions, inclinations, and countless other external and internal forces mold the subject and color every instance of the biographers reading and writing, remembering and forgetting. Corders hunt takes him to the ruins of a frontier fort named after Chadbourne, and to a community museum that houses Chadbournes sword, uniform belt, and personal copy of Virgils selected writings. Queries, notes, and other documents and records carry the search back in time and across the country -- to Maine, where Chadbourne was born and reared; to West Point, where his military career began; to Washington, D.C., where government archives preserve his official portrayal; and to such places as Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Iowa, where Chadbournes family extended itself through migrations and marriages. Corder also explores the historical voids. Why were Chadbournes fellow West Pointers so silent about his death? His classmate Ulysses S. Grant wrote about his own experiences at Resaca de la Palma but said nothing of Chadbourne. Another classmate and veteran of the battle wrote only that Chadbourne was a subaltern of merit. What did Chadbournes hometown newspaper, the Eastport, Maine, Sentinel, report about his death? No copies of the paper published between 1832 and 1853 can be found. How well did Susan Miles of the Tom Green County, Texas, Historical Association, come to know Chadbourne? She, too, had hunted for him almost forty years before Corder... And finally, what about Chadbourne, who by the books end emerges as a kind literary/historical everyman? Was he killed by grapeshot just as his unit moved into position to charge, or by two enemy lancers after he led his men over the top of a Mexican battery? Both eyewitness accounts exist. Were his dying words, as recalled by a comrade, really Im gone? Who was he, and can we ever really know. If Corder has any answers, they lie in his subtext of unertainty., The University of Georgia Press, (1993)., 1993, 0, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1959. 290 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "Leslie Roberts begins his history of the RCAF with an account of (the first flight in Canada on Baddeck Bay in 1909). Five and one-half years later the first World War broke out and (he) records the exploits in that conflict of the Canadians who took to the air in such numbers that in 1918 they constituted more than fifty percent of the flying personnel of the RAF. He describes the protracted and painful birth of the RCAF, its struggles for survival during its early days, when to justify its existence a succession of economy-minded governments assigned it such employment as flying fire-spotting patrols, carrying out search-and-rescue and mercy missions in the North, timber cruising for the provinces and photography and mapping tasks in the high Arctic. When a second World War broke out (these airmen) passed on their accumulated knowledge and experience to the young Canadians who, with their colleagues from the other Commonwealth countries, met and turned back the challenge of Hitler's Luftwaffe and shattered the wall of his European Fortress. (Roberts includes an) account of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan; of the RCAF 's participation in the Korean conflict; its contribution to NATO and the United Nations Emergency Force; and its present status as guardian of Canada's three shorelines, and our first line of defence. (A)n excellent record of flight in Canada, and of the dedicated service of the RCAF to its country in the cause of freedom." Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown, bump at top corner of front board - migrates lightly into first 150 pages, bump at top corner of rear board - migrates slightly into last few pages, light fading to top of spine and top of boards - also to bottom edge of spine, two very small foxing marks on front free endpaper, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, some darkening to edges of text block. Dust jacket has edge wear, creasing, tears and chips; fading to spine colour - lettering still legible; protected in a mylar sleeve.. Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/Fair., Clarke, Irwin, 1959, 2.25, Toronto: Natural Heritage, 2009. 236 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, (this book) is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783, as well as those who had come with their masters as early as 1767. Their migration to a new home did little to improve their overall living conditions, a situation that would persist for many years throughout Yarmouth County. By drawing on a comprehen-sive range of sources that include census and cemetery records, church and school histories, libraries, museums, oral histories, newspapers, wills, 'The Black Loyalist Directory', and many others, this is a history that has been overlooked for far too long. " Inside - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine., Natural Heritage, 2009, 5, Rushden: Forces & Corporate Publishing, 1997. 72 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). B&w and color illustrations. Contents: The Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment; Origins; First Campaigns; Minorca; The America War of Independence; The Napoleonic Wars 1794-1815; The Americas; Australia and New Zealand; China; India - Sikh Wars and the Indian Mutiny; The Crimea; Afghanistan; Cardwell Reforms and the Militia; Egypt and the Sudan; Africa and the Boer War; The Territorial Army; The Great War 1914-18; Between the Wars; The Second World War; Reductions in the Army; Korea; Kenya, South Arabia, Bahrain and Cyprus; The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire); The Wessex Volunteers; Peacekeeping; Northern Ireland; Postscript. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft crease at top corner with slight migration into pages. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+., Forces & Corporate Publishing, 1997, 3, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, (1944), Ist edition. 60 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "Prepared for the Ministry of Labour and National Service by the Ministry of Information." B&w photographs. Contents: "Each to Our Part, Each to Our Station"; The Plan Emerges: The Fighting Man; New Millions for the War Industries; Women Called to War; Balance Sheet of Mobilisation; Wages and Working Conditions; Welfare: Making the Best of It; Mobile Labour Comes to Rest; When Free Men Fight for Freedom; The Right to Appeal; Employers and Employed Take Counsel. Interior - small area of waviness on page 29/30, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - mainly on spine, small soft crease at top of front cover - migrates lightly into first few pages. VG., His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, (1944), Ist edition., 0, Burleigh Heads, Qld.: Zeus Publications, 2004. 247pp, map, 2 bw ills. Or card. Near new. Novel reconstructing the last 4 years before union in Italy. Covers the political, economic and military history of Italy from the mid-1860s and highlights the unknown southern civil war that caused the massive migration by Italians to other parts of the world.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo., Zeus Publications, 2004, 3, Washington, D.C. / London: Government Printing Office / His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943. 103 pp, 9 11/16" H. British reprint of the United States Government Printing Office edition. Contents: Introduction; Findings and Recommendations: Plans for Transition from War to Peace / Plans for Development of an Expanding Economy / Plans for Services and Security / Plans for Action by State and Local Governments and Regions. Supporting Technical Material: Demobilization of Plant and Controls; Promotion of Free Enterprise; Ubran Conservation and Development; Rural Land Improvements; Valley Development; Energy Resource Development; Public Construction Program Planning; Equal Access to Health; Equal Access to Education; Equal Access to Economic Security. Interior - very small crease at bottom corner of last half of pages, very small dent in bottom margin of last few pages, wrinkling due to bump at top of page gutters. Exterior - large bump at top of spine/hinges, some wrinkling/waviness to coveredges and corners, areas of very light browning, a few tiny dents on front cover - migrate into first few pages, small dent and 3" red crayon line on rear cover, wear at top of spine, light soiling.. Soft Cover. Good-., Government Printing Office / His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943, 2.5, Botley, Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 1993. New book, 64 pages, WAR005. The collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe as a long and drawn-out decline. The 'Celtic' Britons retreated gradually to the highland areas of Wales, Cornwall and the south-west of Scotland. Control of the fertile eastern lowlands was lost to warriors of Germanic origin who migrated from the Continent. These Germanic conquerors have become known to history as the 'Anglo-Saxons'. They were to dominate the lowland zone of Britain until their final defeat at Hastings in 1066. This title gives an insight into the everyday life, equipment, dress, battle tactics and life on campaign of the typical Anglo-Saxon warrior of this period - the thegn.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall., Osprey Publishing, Limited, 1993, 5<

1993, ISBN: 9781855323490

Werdenfelser LandAUTHOR: Roland DiechtlTRANSLATOR: Renate SandnerPublisher: Fotoverlag HuberThree languages: English, German, French Stiff paperback9.5 x 12.7 inches (32 cm x 24 cm), 66… Mehr…

Werdenfelser LandAUTHOR: Roland DiechtlTRANSLATOR: Renate SandnerPublisher: Fotoverlag HuberThree languages: English, German, French Stiff paperback9.5 x 12.7 inches (32 cm x 24 cm), 66 pages - with color photosWerdenfelser Land - GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN GRAINAU / MITTENWALD-KRÜN-WALLGAU / LOISACHTAL-ETTAL / OBERAMMERGAU MURNAUThe Werdenfelser Land is a region of Upper Bavaria that extends from Mittenwald in the south to Farchant. It includes parts of the Bavarian Alps. From the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War, the Werdenfelser Land was subject to the Prince-Bishop of Freising, not the Duke of Bavaria.The region derives its name from the medieval Werdenfels Castle north of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The castle acted chiefly to secure the military and trade route that ran through the Loisach valley and linked trading posts in Italy and Upper Bavaria. It is sometimes called the Goldener Land after the wealth derived in the Middle Ages and Renaissance from the traffic along this Rottstraße, the main route over the Alps to Augsburg.The southern Werdenfelser Land is bordered by the Wetterstein Mountains and the Karwendel. The Zugspitze lies southwest of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and, at 2,962 m above sea level (NN), is the highest peak in Germany. Both the valleys and the Alpine Foreland have been heavily influenced by the last ice age. The lakes were partially formed by groundwater filling the hollows carved out by the glaciers. Later the lakes silted up and formed moors like the Murnauer Moos.In the early Iron Age the Werdenfelser Land was settled by Illyrians. Even at this early stage there were close contacts with Upper Italy over the route of the present-day Brenner-Scharnitz road. From about 500 B.C. Celts invaded this region and mixed with the indigenous population. The Romans in turn conquered the Celts around 15 B.C. and annexed the region to the Province of Raetia. Occasionally the Romans adopted settlement and river names of Veneto-Illyrian or Celtic origin, some of which have survived to the present day (Partenkirchen Partanum, Isar Isara). The trade route that was already established by 195 A. D. was upgraded. The Via Claudia Augusta now ran from Augsburg via Partenkirchen and Mittenwald to the Brenner Pass and continued to Bozen (Pons Drusi), where it formed a junction with the older Reschen Pass branch. The Roman road station of Partanum was the predecessor of modern-day Partenkirchen. After the collapse of the Roman Empire and the end of the Migration Period, Bajuwaren settled from about the 6th century A.D. in the valleys.Werdenfels Castle, erected by Duke Otto of Wittelsbach in 1180 northwest of Partenkirchen, was transferred in 1294 to the Prince-Bishopric of Freising. Control of the northern approaches of the important European trading route by the Freising archbishopric enabled the population of the County of Werdenfels to become relatively wealthy over a long period of time.With the onset of the Modern Period there was a significant economic boom as a result of stronger trade relations with Italy (see also: Fugger, Welser). The nickname Goldenes Landl ("Little Golden Land") for the Werdenfelser Land comes from this period. This development was ended by the Thirty Years' War and the population became impoverished. Later wars, such as the Wars of the Spanish and Austrian Succession in the early 18th century and Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century, also severely affected the population. In 1803, as a result of Napoleonic rule, the Prince-Bishopric of Freising was toppled and the Werdenfelser Land was given to Bavaria.1889 saw the advent of a new source of income as the new railway link with Munich brought tourists to the region., Fotoverlag Huber, 0, Botley, Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 1993. New book, 64 pages, WAR005. The collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe as a long and drawn-out decline. The 'Celtic' Britons retreated gradually to the highland areas of Wales, Cornwall and the south-west of Scotland. Control of the fertile eastern lowlands was lost to warriors of Germanic origin who migrated from the Continent. These Germanic conquerors have become known to history as the 'Anglo-Saxons'. They were to dominate the lowland zone of Britain until their final defeat at Hastings in 1066. This title gives an insight into the everyday life, equipment, dress, battle tactics and life on campaign of the typical Anglo-Saxon warrior of this period - the thegn.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall., Osprey Publishing, Limited, 1993, 5<