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Автор: Hoare Adrian John Название: A Shilling on Good Friday: Volume One: A Lesson Learnt ISBN: 0993336906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993336904 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3669.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A novel based on the short, eventful and tragic life of Englishman William Reynolds as it unfolds against that of Prussian immigrant to the USA, George Atzerodt.
Автор: Hoare Adrian John Название: A Shilling on Good Friday: Volume Two: A Dream Fulfilled ISBN: 0993336914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993336911 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3669.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Continuing the story based on the brief, eventful and tragic life of Englishman William Reynolds and the parallel exploits of the furtive Atzerodt.
Автор: Eich Raymund Название: Take the Shilling ISBN: 0615979467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615979465 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Military science fiction concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."-Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. "Taking the shilling"-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promised both. But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain, combat still threatened to destroy him, in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by a spiral of atrocities, could Tomas learn what he needed to survive, before facing his war's ultimate challenge?
Автор: Tey Josephine Название: A Shilling for Candles ISBN: 0684842386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780684842387 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actress is found lying dead on the beach one bright summer's morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive--just like murder...
Описание: The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke's own words - ""scum of the earth"" - and assumed to have been society's ne'er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted the duke's derision. Driven into the army by unemployment in the wake of Britain's industrial revolution, they confronted wartime hardship with ethical values and became formidable soldiers in the bargainThese men depended on the king's shilling for survival, yet pay was erratic and provisions were scant. Fed worse even than sixteenth-century Spanish galley slaves, they often marched for days without adequate food; and if during the campaign they did steal from Portuguese and Spanish civilians, the theft was attributable not to any criminal leanings but to hunger and the paltry rations provided by the army.Coss draws on a comprehensive database on British soldiers as well as first-person accounts of Peninsular War participants to offer a better understanding of their backgrounds and daily lives. He describes how these neglected and abused soldiers came to rely increasingly on the emotional and physical support of comrades and developed their own moral and behavioral code. Their cohesiveness, Coss argues, was a major factor in their legendary triumphs over Napoleon's battle-hardened troops.The first work to closely examine the social composition of Wellington's rank and file through the lens of military psychology, All for the King's Shilling transcends the Napoleonic battlefield to help explain the motivation and behavior of all soldiers under the stress of combat.
Автор: Tey Josephine Название: Shilling for Candles ISBN: 0099556685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099556688 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...
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