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Gladstone (Paperback)
Erich Eyck; Translated by Bernard Miall
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R1,510
Discovery Miles 15 100
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Originally published in 1966 and translated by Bernard Miall,
Gladstone traces William Gladstone's career from his election to
Parliament in 1832, to his funeral in Westminster Abbey. The book
portrays Gladstone as a firm adherent of Toryism and it describes
his relations with Peel and Palmerston, as well as giving a
well-founded account of his growing Liberalism and his rivalry with
Disraeli. Eyck has written a generous and perceptive account of
Gladstone's life and career which since its first publication in
1938 has become generally recognized as a valuable contribution to
the history of the nineteenth century.
In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author,
recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European
politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the
real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year
of his life. Utilizing an enormous mass of largely unpublsihed
documents he reconstructed a living Stalin with all his qualities
and faults, crimes and achievements. He tells the secrets of
Stalin's rise to power and of the extraordinary complexity and
effectiveness of his tactics which can be seen in his attitude
towards the problems of Marxist philosophy, in his attitude towards
the German Question and his role as military commander.
A preface from the pen of the late Marshal Lyautey introduces this
book, which is an abridged translation of the Chronicales of Gomes
Eannes de Azura, recording the siege and capture of Ceuta by the
Portuguese, and the discovery of Guinea. Ceuta was captured because
of the sons of John I--who had married the daughter of John of
Gaunt--were ripe for knighthood , and rebelled against the
bourgeois notion of receiving the acolade during a series of State
banquets. Nothing less than the taking of a city from the Infidels
would serve their turn; their knighthood must be truly earned and
so Portugal became posessed of Ceuta. The second part of the book
deals with the discovery of Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone by
Lancarote and others. The Chronicles, which made most excellent
reading, have been edited by Senhora Virgina de Castro e Almeida,
who is compiling an anthology of contemporary accounts of the great
Portuguese navigators and colonists of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries.
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Gladstone (Hardcover)
Erich Eyck; Translated by Bernard Miall
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R4,732
Discovery Miles 47 320
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Originally published in 1966 and translated by Bernard Miall,
Gladstone traces William Gladstone's career from his election to
Parliament in 1832, to his funeral in Westminster Abbey. The book
portrays Gladstone as a firm adherent of Toryism and it describes
his relations with Peel and Palmerston, as well as giving a
well-founded account of his growing Liberalism and his rivalry with
Disraeli. Eyck has written a generous and perceptive account of
Gladstone's life and career which since its first publication in
1938 has become generally recognized as a valuable contribution to
the history of the nineteenth century.
A preface from the pen of the late Marshal Lyautey introduces this
book, which is an abridged translation of the Chronicales of Gomes
Eannes de Azura, recording the siege and capture of Ceuta by the
Portuguese, and the discovery of Guinea. Ceuta was captured because
of the sons of John I--who had married the daughter of John of
Gaunt--were ripe for knighthood , and rebelled against the
bourgeois notion of receiving the acolade during a series of State
banquets. Nothing less than the taking of a city from the Infidels
would serve their turn; their knighthood must be truly earned and
so Portugal became posessed of Ceuta. The second part of the book
deals with the discovery of Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone by
Lancarote and others. The Chronicles, which made most excellent
reading, have been edited by Senhora Virgina de Castro e Almeida,
who is compiling an anthology of contemporary accounts of the great
Portuguese navigators and colonists of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries.
In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author,
recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European
politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the
real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year
of his life. Utilizing an enormous mass of largely unpublsihed
documents he reconstructed a living Stalin with all his qualities
and faults, crimes and achievements. He tells the secrets of
Stalin's rise to power and of the extraordinary complexity and
effectiveness of his tactics which can be seen in his attitude
towards the problems of Marxist philosophy, in his attitude towards
the German Question and his role as military commander.
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Tolstoy (Hardcover)
Romain Rolland, Bernard Miall
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R956
Discovery Miles 9 560
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Tolstoy (Paperback)
Romain Rolland, Bernard Miall
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R666
Discovery Miles 6 660
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Russia and Europe
Gregor Alexinsky, Bernard Miall
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R1,006
Discovery Miles 10 060
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