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Title: With Stanley's Rear Column ... With illustrations and
map].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++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 Library Troup, John Rose;
Stanley, Henry Morton Sir G.C.B.; 1890. x. 361 p.; 8 .
010096.ee.17.
Title: My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia ... With
two maps and two photogravure portraits.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++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 Library Stanley, Henry Morton
G.C.B.; 1895. 2 vol.; 8 . 010026.ee.48.
Title: Blondelle. A story of the day. By Sir Henry Drummond
Wolff.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++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 Library Anonymous; Wolff,
Henry Drummond; B., G. C.; 1852. viii. 314 p.; 8 . 12626.b.12.
Title: Madrilenia; or, pictures of Spanish life.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++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 Library Wolff, Henry Drummond G.C.B.; 1851. 12 .
10160.c.19.
The creation of the Supreme War Council and the change of Chief of
the Imperial General Staff in late 1917 and early 1918
respectively, ensured that the final step towards Allied unity of
command was easier to accept in high-level British political and
military circles. With the commencement of the great German spring
offensive on 21st March 1918, the necessity for a "Supreme
Commander of the Allied Armies" became patent, and Field Marshal
Sir Douglas Haig readily accepted celebrated French General
Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) in that role. However, when a second
German offensive was launched against the British lines in
Flanders, Haig became anxious then angry about Foch's refusal to
relieve hard-pressed British and Dominion troops in that
strategically vital sector. Accordingly, he demanded the
appointment of a senior British officer to act in an official
liaison role with the Allied high command. Lieutenant-General Sir
John Philip Du Cane (1865-1947) was such an officer. Already
well-known to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and senior members
of his coalition government, Du Cane's intelligence and his
"equable" temperament made him a suitable candidate to act as
liaison to the recently created Allied generalissimo. Remaining at
Supreme Allied Headquarters from April to November 1918, Du Cane
continued in his liaison role throughout 1919. It was during this
period that he wrote a personal account and collected related
documents here published in one volume for the first time. Includes
an extended introduction by editor and translator Elizabeth
Greenhalgh.
"Known Unto God" It was the war to end all wars and became one of
the bloodiest and cruellest conflicts in history. Into the hands of
author Mark Scott came a poignant survivor of those nightmare years
- a notebook carried through the trenches by his great grandfather,
Jimmy Scott, nestled in the pocket of his uniform. In it was a list
of names, written with the tiny pencil still attached to the
fragile cover. With this family heirloom in his hand, the author
vowed to discover the stories of these men who gave their all in
the Great War. Along the way he unravelled a remarkable connection
to the story of the Unknown Warrior, unearthing valuable new
documents that detailed for the first time the full untold story of
this event - and what happened to the bodies of those not selected
for burial in Westminster Abbey in 1920 - those who, like thousands
of others, are "Known Unto God." Reading at times like a detective
story, this is the moving, often heart-breaking, account of the men
whose names Jimmy Scott carefully pencilled into his little
notebook.
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