Francis: 3998 books
by Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
At the beginning of 1806, Napoleon could feel rather satisfied with his conquests, although the Russian Bear had been brutally beaten and the Austrian Eagle damaged beyond repair after the carnage of Austerlitz. However lurking to the north were the inheritors of Frederick the Great’s legacy of...
Shadows in the Fog
The True Story of Major Suttill and the Prosper French Resistance Network
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In May 1940, Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and after being trained during the summer of 1942, Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in northern France, based in Paris,...
by Francis Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Collected articles from theweeklygardener.com - July through December 2012. For current articles visit The Weekly Gardener blog
Recollections of the Great War
Three Years on Campaign in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This rare primary source account is the story of the hard fighting battalion of the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers, which saw action on the Somme, Passchendaele and in the Battle of Arras. This wonderfully detailed account provides a rare insight into the experiences of the common soldier on the front...
Aristocracy in America
From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between...
The Difference God Makes
A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Penned by the leading intellectual in the American Catholic hierarchy, this debut brings together some of the most influential writings on the Catholic vision-not just the Church itself but of the relation and unity of all people. Weaving together intellectual insight and personal wisdom, this investigation...
The Catonsville Nine
A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
In the spring of 1968, a group of Catholic antiwar activists barged into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records, and burned the documents in a fire fueled by homemade napalm. The bold actions of the ''Catonsville Nine'' quickly became international news, and...
by Ernest Francis Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900.
by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book is the joint production of two brothers, who are constantly being mistaken for one another, who happened to be present together in the same campaign and to both act as correspondents of the Times in that campaign. The chapters (III. IV. and V.) on Sir Robert Low's advance are by Captain...
by Francis Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Francis Ripley was a frequent giver of parish retreats: a series of sermons and liturgies run by a visiting preacher to renew the spiritual life of the parish. This is his background; to modern ears, he can seem a touch brisk. We may think Letter to the Lapsed dismisses objections and problems a little...
by Francis Cottam
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
They were just like the beaches at Normandy, Slapton Sand. That's why they trained them there - an army of invasion secluded in sleepy south Devon. But fifteen hundred soldiers perished at Slapton Sands, and no one seems to want to know why.
Thirty-two years later, in the long hot summer of...
Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable
Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material...
by Francis William Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Donald MacTavish is the newly appointed head commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company. This promotion infuriates MacTavish's rival Angus Fitzpatrick who had wanted the job. Fitzpatrick takes his anger and resentment out on MacTavish and then sets out to get MacTavish fired. On the other hand, Fitzpatrick...
Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong
The Power of a Critical Event
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest? What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement?...