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The Extraordinary Story of a Young Winston Churchill in the Boer War, as Told by His Granddaughter
In this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfather's adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War-events that took him from the bivouacs and battle sites of Transvaal to his incarceration as a prisoner of war in Pretoria and ultimately...
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"Gregorio tells [Katharine] Clark's story in engaging, well-researched and vivid detail...an eloquent tribute." —Wall Street Journal
If you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls, Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, or Rebecca Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, you'll be enthralled with this untold true story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world.
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1950s Britain - when life was great if you had the guts to live it. Murder, lurid courtroom dramas, gypsy horse fairs, eccentric admirals, child brides, and falling in love - it's all in a day's work for cub reporter John Bull. Meet a cast of characters - from the parish clerk who dresses like a French resistance fighter, complete with rifle over her shoulder, to the medium whose spirit guide (her soldier boyfriend killed in World War II) gets in...
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Klaus Mann: Der Wendepunkt Autobiographie Neu editierte Ausgabe 2020 Mit 95 erklärenden Fußnoten Klaus Manns Rückschau gehört zu den bedeutenden Autobiographien des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist eines der spannendsten Zeitdokumente über die Literatur- und Kunstszene im Deutschland der 1920er Jahre und über das Leben der deutschen Intellektuellen während des Exils in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Klaus Mann hatte schon alleine durch seine Herkunft...
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After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three continents, reporting on some of the most memorable events in the Middle East. Now, Kubic tells this fascinating story in depth. Kubic describes his escape to the US Zone in West Germany, his life in the...
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In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that "Doder must be smoking pot." When Soviet authorities...
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How the US Army developed historical programs since World War I-sending combat historians into the fray to interview soldiers and collect documents for the benefit of history.
In World War I, Major General Pershing proposed the idea of establishing a historical office within the AEF headquarters. The War Department reorganized the General Staff to include a Historical Branch. Evidence shows that soldiers acting as historians went "down range,"...
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This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr., just 15, flees Italy and his domineering father, sailing to America with only pennies in his pockets. He passes through Ellis Island in 1906 and soon finds work in the sand pits of Long Island, just as this coarse sand, mixed with cement, is becoming New York City’s key building block. He becomes foreman, then president of a company supplying material for landmarks like Radio City Music Hall and...
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An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story.
Thanks to one reporter's skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at President Kennedy's motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite was the first to tell America about the assassination. But...
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Crónica de los excesos de la época de las vacas gordas en el Mediterráneo.
En 2008, Íñigo Domínguez viajó en descapotable por el Mediterráneo para tomarle el pulso a un país que llevaba una década comportándose como un nuevo rico con gomina. España era una falla hortera a punto de arder. Con el asombro de un marciano recién aterrizado en la tierra, fue descubriendo los hitos del milagro económico español: jóvenes ingleses borrachos...
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Extrait : "Pour charmer les loisirs que la justice a bien voulu me faire en m'octroyant un mois d'emprisonnement, j'ai résolu de raconter à mes lecteurs du Figaro, d'esquisser les portraits des rédacteurs qui s'y sont succédé dix-huit ans, et de choisir dans la collection de mon journal toutes les boutades, les mots d'esprit et les nouvelles à la main qui ont contribué pour une bonne part à son succès."
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Extrait : "Avant de commencer la nouvelle série de mes notes, je dois prévenir ceux qui veulent bien me lire, qu'ils ne doivent pas s'étonner de ne pas voir paraître ces Mémoires à époques fixes. J'ai pour coutume de n'écrire dans le Figaro que lorsque les évènements importants se taisent, et je me serais bien gardé d'élever la voix au moment o la politique, les inondations et autres fléaux avaient droit à l'attention de tout le monde."...
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"A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish...
16) On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer
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Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.
Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, “On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of...
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Extrait : "La première partie de ces mémoires, ou plutt de ces notes, a été consacrée aux portraits à la plume de la plupart de ceux qui, de près ou de loin, ont joué un rle au Figaro. Mon but est de compléter cette collection en faisant de nouveaux croquis de mes rédacteurs présents ou passés, en citant, comme échantillon de leur savoir-faire, leurs meilleurs articles, boutades ou nouvelles à la main."
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Extrait: "Je viens de passer quinze jours au bord de la mer: je ne les regrette certainement pas; pendant ce temps-là on a beaucoup parlé de la fusion sous toutes les formes, peut-être même s'est-on un peu trop emballé ( style de sportman) sur cette question, dont je voudrais, on le sait depuis longtemps, voir la solution définitive."
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Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later-after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to the capital city of Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen's people and culture, and even found herself the star of a local TV soap opera.
When antigovernment...
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Jacques Schiffrin changed the face of publishing in the twentieth century. As the founder of Les Éditions de la Pléiade in Paris and cofounder of Pantheon Books in New York, he helped define a lasting canon of Western literature while also promoting new authors who shaped transatlantic intellectual life. In this first biography of Schiffrin, Amos Reichman tells the poignant story of a remarkable publisher and his dramatic travails across two continents.
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