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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Adventures evading Lincoln's strangle hold on the Southern
statesDuring the American Civil Wart the Union blockade operated to
ensure that few trade goods or war materials entered the
Confederacy by way of its Atlantic or Gulf Coast ports. The
'runners' themselves were mostly newly built, high speed vessels,
with a small cargo capacity, which raced between the Confederacy
and neutral ports in the West Indies and Cuba. One thousand five
hundred blockade-runners were destroyed, but still 5 out of 6
runners made it through the Union fleet to safety and the delivery
of their essential cargoes. This book was written by a serving
officer of the Confederate States Navy. He experienced naval
battle, the loss of his ship, capture, release and many
hairsbreadth escapes as he continued his precarious and perilous
vocation until the end of the Civil War.
"The pastoral has always been a civic genre: shepherds' songs
written by city workers dreaming of release, of timely coincidence
between feeling and nature. In Wood Circle, one of Wilkinson's most
powerful poetic books, the green thought in a green shade perishes
- wildfire destroys the canopy, the Calais jungle is cleared by
immigration police. The pathetic fallacy is now literal, dawn
chorus imitating car alarms. And yet, each line of this astonishing
collection offers a new analysis of the earth's fever dreams. If
'None had loved enough what / they must find by losing', in this
book's moratorium we can find time to remember what we never loved
enough. These poems sing for mortal creatures, some human, and
collect their leavings: skin, bees, infants, fruits, tires. Seared
by the world and everything in it, Wilkinson's poems are radiant,
damaging, a consuming memorial fire." (Andrea Brady)
A remarkable record of a pilgrimage through Turkey, Greece and the
Levant. The Introduction examines the historical background to his
travels and life, which ended in poverty and exile. Also included
are a historically annotated gazetteer and extensive bibliography.
Secrecy and the Media is the first book to examine the development
of the D-Notice system, which regulates the UK media's publication
of British national security secrets. It is based on official
documents, many of which have not previously been available to a
general audience, as well as on media sources. From Victorian
times, British governments have consistently seen the need, in the
public interest, to prevent the media publishing secret information
which would endanger national security. The UK media have meanwhile
continuously resisted official attempts to impose any form of
censorship, arguing that a free press is in the public interest.
Both sides have normally seen the pitfalls of attempting to resolve
this sometimes acrimonious conflict of interests by litigation, and
have together evolved a system of editorial self-regulation,
assisted by day-to-day independent expert advice, known
colloquially as the D-Notice System. The book traces the
development of this system from nineteenth-century colonial
campaigns, through two world wars, to modern operations and
counter-terrorism in the post-Cold War era, up to the beginning of
the Labour government in 1997. Examples are drawn from media,
political and official sources (some not yet open), and cover not
only defence issues (including Special Forces), but also the
activities of the secret intelligence services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.
These cases relate principally to the UK, but also to American and
other allies' interests. The story of how this sometimes
controversial institution now operates in the modern world will be
essential reading for those in the media and government
departments, and for academics and students in the fields of
security, defence and intelligence, as well as being an accessible
expose for the general reader. Nicholas Wilkinson served in the
Royal Navy 1959-98, and from 1999 to 2004 he ran the independent
Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee. He was a Press
Complaints Commissioner from 2005 to 2008, and is a Cabinet Office
Historian.
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