Описание: This original and ';meticulously researched retelling of history's most infamous voyage' (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. ';While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite' (Voyage).
In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxuryfirst class passage on ';the ship of dreams,' the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American captain of industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish-American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Within a week of setting sail, they were all caught up in the horrifying disaster of the Titanic's sinking, one of the biggest news stories of the century.
Today, we can see their stories and the Titanic's voyage as the beginning of the end of the established hierarchy of the Edwardian era.
Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history. Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness.
Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, this is ';a beautiful requiem' (The Wall Street Journal) in which ';readers get the story of this particular floating Tower of Babel in riveting detail, and with all the wider context they could want' (Christian ScienceMonitor).
Автор: Russell, Gareth Название: Do let`s have another drink ISBN: 0008542627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008542627 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. `Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!`
Автор: Russell Gareth Название: Young and Damned and Fair ISBN: 0008128286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008128289 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017
Автор: Russell, Gareth Название: Popular ISBN: 0141334533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141334530 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 646.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a fabulously witty and entertaining teen read, perfect for fans of "Gossip Girl" and "The Gallagher Girls". Meredith Harper is rich, popular, manipulative and almost unnaturally beautiful. At the age of sixteen, she's already a social legend.
Imogen Dawson, beautiful and sexy-chic, she's Meredith's best friend and a total bombshell. And doesn't she just know it. Then there's ...Kerry Davison, daddy's little princess with a passion for pink and a penchant for Fabulous Induced Breakdowns.
Now meet Cameron Matthews, six-feet tall, blue-eyed and the most popular guy in school. Together they're unfathomably gorgeous and like, totally beau. But under the glamorous surface of parties and spa-days is a wealth of comforting lies and convenient silences, bitching, break-ups and scandal.
Описание: Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is "a stunning achievement" (The Sunday Times, London), and "a masterly work of Tudor history that is engrossing, sympathetic, suspenseful, and illuminating" (Charlotte Gordon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography). On the morning of July 28, 1540, a teenager named Catherine Howard began her reign as queen of an England simmering with rebellion and terrifying uncertainty. Sixteen months later, she would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been convicted of adultery and high treason. The broad outlines of Catherine's career might be familiar, but her story up until now has been incomplete. Unlike previous biographies, which portray her as a naпve victim of an ambitious family, Gareth Russell's "excellent account puts the oft-ignored Catherine in her proper historical context" (Daily Mail, London) and sheds new light on her rise and downfall by showing her in her context, a milieu that includes the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her. By illuminating Catherine's entwined upstairs/downstairs world as well as societal tensions beyond the palace walls, Russell offers a fascinating portrayal of court life in the sixteenth century and a fresh analysis of the forces beyond Catherine's control that led to her execution. Including a forgotten text of Catherine's confession in her own words, color illustrations, family tree, map, and extensive notes, Young and Damned and Fair is "a gripping account of a young woman's future destroyed by forces beyond her control...an important and timely book" (Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire). This account changes our understanding of one of history's most famous women while telling the compelling and very human story of complex individuals attempting to survive in a dangerous age.
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