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In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling
under German occupation and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old
refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, made a curious offer to
British Intelligence. Based on the widely-held belief that Hitler's
every action was guided by his horoscope, de Wohl claimed he could
reveal precisely what advice the Fuhrer's astrologers were giving
him. Rather than being dismissed out of hand as a crank, Churchill
could see de Wohl's worth for himself. He was subsequently made an
army captain and quartered in the Grosvenor House Hotel, from where
he passed detailed astrological readings to the War Office and
Naval Intelligence, before being transferred to work for the SOE in
the United States. Was it possible that senior military and naval
intelligence officers could take the ancient and arcane practice of
astrology seriously? And was de Wohl genuine or merely a charlatan?
In The Astrologer, author James Parris examines the evidence,
including recently released files, and reaches remarkable
conclusions about this bizarre aspect of the war.
On 16 July 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on
London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King
Edward VIII as he rode past. The monarch was moments from death.
But MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch had known for
three months an attack was planned: the man in the brown suit
himself had warned them. This mysterious man, lost to history, was
George McMahon, a petty criminal with a record of involvement with
the police. He was also an MI5 informant, providing intelligence on
Italian and possibly German espionage in Britain. Dismissed by the
rest of the world as a drunken loser and fantasist, he saw his life
as an epic drama. Why did MI5 and the police fail to act? Was it a
simple blunder on the part of the security services, or was
something far more sinister involved? In this first full-length
study of the threat to the life of Edward VIII, James Parris uses
material from MI5 and police files at the National Archives to
reach explosive conclusions about the British Establishment's
determination to remove Edward from the throne.
In one of the most remarkable artistic pilgrimages in history, the
nineteenth century saw scores of Western artists heading to the
Middle East. Inspired by the allure of the exotic Orient, they went
in search of subjects for their paintings. Orientalist Lives looks
at what led this surprisingly diverse and idiosyncratic group of
men-and some women-to often remote and potentially dangerous
locations, from Morocco to Egypt, the Levant, and Turkey. There
they lived, worked, and traveled for weeks or months on end,
gathering material with which to create art for their clients back
in the drawing rooms of Boston, London, and Paris. Based on his
research in museums, libraries, archives, galleries, and private
collections across the world, James Parry traces these journeys of
cultural and artistic discovery. From the early pioneer David
Roberts through the heyday of leading stars such as Jean-Leon
Gerome and Frederick Arthur Bridgman, to Orientalism's post-1900
decline, he describes how these traveling artists prepared for
their expeditions, coped with working in unfamiliar and challenging
surroundings, engaged with local people, and then took home to
their studios the memories, sketches, and collections of artifacts
necessary to create the works for which their audiences clamored.
Excerpts from letters and diaries, including little-known accounts
and previously unpublished material, as well as photographs,
sketches, and other original illustrations, bring alive the
impressions, experiences, and careers of the Orientalists and shed
light on how they created what are now once again recognized as
masterpieces of art.
Set in the beautiful Gloucestershire Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle
exemplifies popular perceptions of the romantic English country
house. The final resting place of King Henry VIII's last wife,
Katherine Parr, it is partly castellated and its centuries-old
ruins are festooned with roses. This book, the first comprehensive
publication about this remarkable castle, traces over 1,000 years
of illustrious history from the time of King Aethelred the Unready
through the castle's Tudor heyday and its subsequent decline and
fall, before its dramatic rescue during the second half of the 19th
century by the Dent-Brocklehurst family, whose descendants still
live there. Sudeley's architectural heritage, art and gardens are
all described and illustrated by historical material as well as
stunning new photography.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Huntington
Library<ESTCID>N014080<Notes>Miss - of Monmouthshire =
Miss Powell.<imprintFull>London: printed for J. Lever, 1770.
<collation>2v.: ill., port.; 12
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Huntington
Library<ESTCID>N014080<Notes>Miss - of Monmouthshire =
Miss Powell.<imprintFull>London: printed for J. Lever, 1770.
<collation>2v.: ill., port.; 12
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT144533Running title:
Memoirs of the life of James Parry. Miss - of Monmouthshire = Miss
Powell.London: printed for the author; and sold by the book-sellers
in town and country, 1742. 359, 1]p.: ill., port.; 12
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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