2023, ISBN: 9780712606943

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. 25th Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George S. Patton, Jr. gives us his account of his… Mehr…

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. 25th Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George S. Patton, Jr. gives us his account of his career as a general officer in the U.S. Army. A view you might not have read -- we hear of his men's loyalty to him, but learn of his loyalty to them -- from the top down, as he says. Annotated by Col. Paul D. Hankins and introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. Book is fine - bright, crisp and clean. Dust jacket has minor chipping along edges with 1/2" closed tear on top front. Price clipped., Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975, 4, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr, 1997. 266pp/illus/maps. account of this pivotal period of European history is both fascinating in it's self and of considerable importance to our understanding of Europe as it is today. Clean. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Cornell Univ Pr, 1997, 5, Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2023. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edward S. Prior and Arthur Gardner published An Account of Medieval Figure Sculpture in England with Cambridge University Press in 1912. This became the foundational book for the study of medieval figure-sculpture in England (and Wales). The authors' presuppositions about the materials they discuss, their inclusions and omissions, their focus on chronological sequencing, and analytical organisation, as well as their strongly nationalistic tone, all receive thorough scrutiny for the first time in this new study, based on a Cambridge conference celebrating the centenary of the Account. Prior and Gardner's work is contextualised within the history of scholarship devoted to medieval sculpture in France, Germany, Hungary and Ireland, revealing how European nationalism has affected (and continues to affect) both the study and the reception of the medieval past. Many of Prior and Gardner's contemporaries in Britain and Ireland also receive attention and the networks of scholars and contacts who contributed to their book are revealed. Medieval patronage and funerary sculpture, photographic recording and scientific conservation are also discussed in this striking new assessment of the context, accomplishment and legacy of Prior and Gardner's great Account. 256pp., Shaun Tyas, 2023, 6, Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Three years into Jean Chretien's mandate, Canadians are still unsure just what to make of his government. Elected on a traditional Liberal platform of government intervention and strong federalism, the Liberals in power have presided over an astonishing revolution in public finances while tripping over one another in their haste to cede federal power to the provinces. More surprising still, a prime minister from Quebec has badly misread his native province and Canada finds itself on the brink of possible break-up. Now two of Canada's most respected and well-connected journalists bring us a compelling inside account of the high drama that is being played out in Ottawa. They focus on two powerful personalities, the prime minister and his minister of finance, surely the most remarkable governing partnership in Canadian history. First there is Jean Chretien; not the amiable Uncle Jean who wears his heart on his sleeve in public, but the steely political operator and stern leader whose instincts are near perfect - except when it comes to Quebec. Second, but almost equal, is Paul Martin; not just the carefully scripted public performer in Bay Street pinstripes, but the swashbuckling firebrand who has driven the government forward in a savage fight against the deficit - a man whose early months in office left the top Finance Department bureaucrats scuttling for cover. Chretien and Martin, opposites in personality, are both torn between two Liberal traditions: that of the social Liberals with their vision of activist government and the social safety net, and that of the renascent business Liberals, apostles of free trade and balanced budgets. But the two men have forged nonetheless a powerful working partnership that has radically remade the government of Canada - and indeed the country itself. Not since Stevie Cameron's On the Take has a book on Canadian politics dug so deeply or revealed so much. But beyond the delicious gossip lies a penetrating analysis of a government in office. The authors reveal a party often divided in its reactions to Quebec and on financial issues - a party in search of its soul. Double Vision is a dramatic story, full of passion and confrontation, and a vivid portrait of Ottawa as it really is. It's a book that will make you think twice - then think again - about the art of government and the politics of the possible. Edward Greenspon, former managing editor of Report on Business and a former European correspondent for The Globe and Mail, is currently the paper's Ottawa bureau chief. Anthony Wilson-Smith, a former Montreal Gazette journalist and Maclean's correspondent based in Moscow, is Ottawa bureau chief of Maclean's magazine. Both live in Ottawa, publish regularly in their respective publications, and appear frequently on radio, TV and public platforms.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Doubleday Canada Limited, 4, London, United Kingdom: Pimlico, 2003. 308pp/maps. This volume gives a full account of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, when the Red Army was crushed by a devasting Polish attack. The author draws on documentary material and shows how this episode largely determined the course of European history for the next 20 years. A neglected event in history, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was not the final episode in the wars of intervention, but an independent enterprise on the Polish side with minimal support from the Entente Powers. In many English history books, it appears under the erroneous title of the 'Russo-Polish War', and is treated as just one spot in the rash of border conflicts which broke out all over Europe at this time. As far as Soviet history is concerned, the war with Poland represents the first occasion when the Red Army set out to revolutionise the whole of Europe - for the Poles, it was an occasion when they finally justified their claim to independent statehood. Has some light yellow hilighting otherwise clean.. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Pimlico, 2003, 3<