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It Had to Be Tough tells the fascinating story of the origins of the Commandos (Britain's first Special Service troops and the forerunners of today's Parachute Regiment, the SAS and the SBS). The Commandos were raised on the specific and personal orders of Winston Churchill in the dark days of the summer of 1940 when these islands faced the real threat of a Nazi invasion. It was a bold, but typically Churchillian, decision.This engaging book traces the formation of the Commandos and the extreme and often unorthodox training methods and techniques used to prepare the volunteers from all branches of the British Army for subsequent world-wide operations. These ground-breaking operations included the 'great raids' on Norway and France, and the full scale invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Burma.Arguably the Army Commandos were disbanded too hastily after the War but their legacy, traditions and fighting spirit live on in those artillery, engineer and corps troops who today win their coveted 'Green Berets' and serve

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ 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 ensure edition identification: ++++ The Genesis Of Shakespeare's Art: A Study Of His Sonnets And Poems Edwin James Dunning Lee and Shepard, 1897

Title: A Manual of the district of Cuddapah in the Presidency of Madras.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 BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++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 Gribble, James Dunning Baker; 1875. 8 . V 3531

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SONNETS. I HAVE said that the Youth of the Sonnets is the poet's guiding Ideal, ? that he is the dear friend and teacher, who is himself an ideal poet. But he is not so described in the first fourteen sonnets. They show him, from the moment of his creation, a youth of peerless beauty and plastic nature. In character he is germinal. Every excellence of virtue and of skill in expression is his in embryo. The poet, writing under the inspiration of his native love of Verse, fills this mould of beauty with the fundamental principles of Poetic Expression, while his lines glow with the emotions which the beauty of these principles excite. The poet figures this process as framing or building. As the work progresses, the fervor increases. But at first it is the poet who teaches, exhorts, and tenderly or passionately remonstrates. At length, in the 14th sonnet, the first symptom of the success of the argument arises. Till then the flow of influence has been from the poet to the Youth; but in the ninth line, " But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive," we have the first formal recognition of the influence of the Youth upon the poet. Yet this is only apparent, for the fervent quality of the 13th sonnet is evidently due to the silent effect of the Youth's beauty upon the poet as the work advances. This first passage of the Sonnets may therefore be termed the building of the poet's Ideal. From fairest creat'1r00 desire increase, That thereby beaut) . se might never die; But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory. But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And onl...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SONNETS. I HAVE said that the Youth of the Sonnets is the poet's guiding Ideal, ? that he is the dear friend and teacher, who is himself an ideal poet. But he is not so described in the first fourteen sonnets. They show him, from the moment of his creation, a youth of peerless beauty and plastic nature. In character he is germinal. Every excellence of virtue and of skill in expression is his in embryo. The poet, writing under the inspiration of his native love of Verse, fills this mould of beauty with the fundamental principles of Poetic Expression, while his lines glow with the emotions which the beauty of these principles excite. The poet figures this process as framing or building. As the work progresses, the fervor increases. But at first it is the poet who teaches, exhorts, and tenderly or passionately remonstrates. At length, in the 14th sonnet, the first symptom of the success of the argument arises. Till then the flow of influence has been from the poet to the Youth; but in the ninth line, " But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive," we have the first formal recognition of the influence of the Youth upon the poet. Yet this is only apparent, for the fervent quality of the 13th sonnet is evidently due to the silent effect of the Youth's beauty upon the poet as the work advances. This first passage of the Sonnets may therefore be termed the building of the poet's Ideal. From fairest creat'1r00 desire increase, That thereby beaut) . se might never die; But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory. But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And onl...

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