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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
We think we know the story of the Titanic--the once majestic and
supposedly unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg on its maiden
voyage from Britain to America--but very little has been written
about the vessel's 705 survivors. How did the events of that
horrific night in the icy waters of the North Atlantic affect the
lives of those who lived to tell the tale?
Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs,
diaries, and interviews with their family members, award-winning
journalist Andrew
Wilson brings to life the survivors' colorful voices, from the
famous, like heiress Madeleine Astor, to the lesser known
second-and third-class passengers, such as the Navratil brothers,
who were traveling under assumed names because they were being
abducted by their father.
More than one hundred years after that fateful voyage, "Shadow of
the Titanic" adds an important new dimension to this enduringly
captivating story.
A personal account of a career soldier, his early life in the
1920's in a rural working-class family, orphaned at 13 years of age
and enlistment into boy-service of the British Army one year later.
Sent to India at 15 years of age, narrating an insight into
military life in Pre-Independence India. An individual perception
of the military pre-war years in India and Burma and his
experiences during the war with the great retreat from Burma by a
fragmented battalion. Post war military life and steady progression
in rank and responsibility through to his retirement at 55 years in
1972. He passed away at 99 years and was buried in Stillingfleet,
the Yorkshire village where he was born.
The towering figure who remade American politics--the champion of
the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they
were distrustful of the common people, having designed a
constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as
the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a
new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered
force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who
had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes
of ordinary Americans. Raising his voice against the artificial
inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and
political privilege, Jackson brought American politics into a new
age.
Sean Wilentz, one of America's leading historians of the
nineteenth century, recounts the fiery career of this
larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in
equal measure by his failures and moral blind spots, a man who is
remembered for the accomplishments of his eight years in office and
for the bitter enemies he made. It was in Jackson's time that the
great conflicts of American politics--urban versus rural, federal
versus state, free versus slave--crystallized, and Jackson was not
shy about taking a vigorous stand. It was under Jackson that modern
American politics began, and his legacy continues to inform our
debates to the present day.
ROBERT MERRY'S BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL
EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY.
In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of
America's Manifest Destiny--extending its territory across the
continent by threatening England with war and manufacturing a
controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.
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