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Journeying, Albeit Vicariously, with Professor White
Professor White writes from the perspective of a man who, at his chronological prime, embarks on a period of introspection common to most everyone who reaches that station in life.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1924-    2. 20th century    3. Authors, Welsh    4. Biography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Childhood and youth    7. General    8. Homes and haunts    9. Travel - General    10. Wales    11. Wales - History    12. White, Jon Ewbank Manchip,    13. White, Jon Ewbank Manchip   

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An important, interesting book
An eye-opening, multi-perspective book about a topic I hadn't really thought about. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th Century American Literature    2. American - General    3. Ethnic Studies - General    4. Foreign public opinion, Americ    5. Foreign public opinion, American    6. General    7. History    8. History - General History    9. Holocaust    10. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    11. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),    12. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature    13. Jewish Holocaust    14. Literary Criticism    15. Moral and ethical aspects    16. United States    17. American English    18. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    19. English    20. History of ideas, intellectual history    21. Jewish studies    22. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    23. Literary studies: from c 1900 -    24. The Holocaust    25. USA   

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A Child's Story of her Gypsy Ancestors
When I was 8 years old my dotty aunt Stella showed me a very old picture.It looked like something from the London Illustrated News.The picture was of eight harpists playing for Queen Victoria."This is your family" she said, "you must always remember that you're a somebody!"Read more

Subjects:  1. Discrimination & Racism    2. Social Science    3. Sociology    4. British & Irish history    5. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    6. Wales   

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Skeleton of the subject
As an important American figure on the outside of Germany working in Switzerland, Dulles might have given us information not found elsewhere. Instead, he merely provides sketches of the important conspirators, gives some background, explains their part in the plot to kill Hitler or coax the West to support an overthrow of the Nazis, and explains that the conspirators either escaped the ensuing manhunts after July 20, 1944, or that they were tortured and executed. He provides a short description of how the Church was reduced to passive resistance, how the Germans might have chosen the East for salvation rather than the West, and how even Himmler and Goring aspired to step into the Fuhrer's shoes. The book is a mere skeleton of information found in greater detail in other books, especially Hans Gisevius "To the Bitter End." If you need your books brief and to read like outlines, this will serve. If you would prefer to read something like an insider's account, try Gisevius. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1933-1945    2. Anti-Nazi movement    3. Biography    4. Dulles, Allen Welsh,    5. Germany    6. History    7. History - Military / War    8. Intelligence officers    9. Military    10. Military - World War II    11. Politics and government    12. Secret service    13. United States    14. World War, 1939-1945    15. 1893-1969    16. Dulles, Allen Welsh    17. European history: Second World War    18. Military intelligence    19. Second World War, 1939-1945   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. General    4. Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading    5. English    6. English language readers    7. For National Curriculum Key Stage 2    8. Historical fiction    9. Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. 20th century    3. Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union    4. History    5. Literary Criticism    6. Medical    7. Psychiatry    8. Psychiatry (General)    9. Psychiatry - General    10. Psychology    11. Reference    12. Russia    13. Russian literature    14. History of medicine    15. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    16. Literary studies: 19th century    17. Literary studies: from c 1900 -    18. Russian   

Subjects:  1. History    2. History: American    3. Military - General    4. 20th century    5. British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900    6. British & Irish history: from c 1900 -    7. England    8. History / Military / Other    9. Land forces & warfare    10. Modern period, c 1500 onwards    11. United Kingdom, Great Britain    12. Wales    13. War & defence operations   

Subjects:  1. (Frank H.),    2. 1914-    3. Civil War, 1936-1939    4. Ejâercito.    5. Europe - Spain & Portugal    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. Legiâon    10. Military    11. Personal narratives, Welsh    12. Spain    13. Spain.    14. Thomas, Frank    15. Biography: general    16. Civil war    17. European history: from c 1900 -   

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. Authors, Scottish    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881    7. Great Britain    8. Historians    9. Historical - British    10. History    11. Literary    12. Literature: Classics    13. Biography: general    14. Carlyle, Thomas    15. English    16. Friends and associates    17. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    18. Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C    19. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. Cookery    2. Cooking    3. History    4. Medieval    5. Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450)    6. Regional & Ethnic - English, Scottish & Welsh    7. Cookery, English    8. To 1500    9. Cookery, Medieval   

Subjects:  1. NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS    2. Pets    3. Dogs   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Celtic Languages    3. Europe - Great Britain - General    4. Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books    5. History    6. Language    7. Medieval    8. Social aspects    9. Wales    10. Welsh language    11. Historical & comparative linguistics    12. Sociolinguistics    13. United Kingdom, Great Britain    14. Welsh   

Subjects:  1. Europe - Great Britain - General    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500    6. History / Great Britain    7. Wales    8. c 1000 CE to c 1500   

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Subjects:  1. ENGLISH FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_19TH CENTURY    2. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh   

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Subjects:  1. Feminism and literature    2. Feminist    3. Gay & Lesbian    4. Great Britain    5. History and criticism    6. Love stories, English    7. Sociology    8. Women and literature    9. Women's Studies - General    10. ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM    11. LESBIANS IN LITERATURE    12. LOVE STORIES_HISTORY AND CRITICISM    13. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    14. MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN LITERATURE    15. Sociology, Social Studies   

Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. History - General History    4. Social Science    5. Sociology    6. Wales    7. British & Irish history   

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Has value, but also important flaws
William McBride's book is accurately titled, although it needs to be understood that this is a social history of naval technological change, not technological history (nor economic history) per se. However, the little he does say about technology is mostly well informed, at least up to 1945 -- he has avoided the technological know-nothingism of many of the others who write on such subjects. He served as a junior naval officer and this background seems to stand him in good stead in forming his judgements about people and events.
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Subjects:  1. Attitudes    2. Civilian employees    3. History    4. History - Military / War    5. History: American    6. Military - Naval    7. Military Science    8. Naval Organization And Administration    9. Naval art and science    10. Navy    11. Officers    12. Technical Illustration    13. Technological innovations    14. United States    15. United States - General    16. United States.    17. 20th century    18. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    19. American history: from c 1900 -    20. History of science    21. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    22. Maritime history    23. Naval forces & warfare    24. USA    25. Weapons & equipment    26. c 1800 to c 1900   

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The Lives and Deaths of Shelley & Byron
If you're interested in the life of Edward John Trelawny, you'll have to look elsewhere. Suffice it to say that Tre' (as his friends knew him) was a privateer, a scoundrel, a lover of poetry, a freedom-fighter and a loyal friend of the most prolific literary talents of the romantic period."Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author" is an account, not ofTrelawny's extraordinary life & adventures, but of the two men thathelped make that life so extraordinary. In his own words, he tells of thesecret lives of Byron and the Shelley's, their romp through sunny Italy andthe tragic death of Percy in the coast of Spezzia. The tale continues asTre' follows Byron to the bloody civil war in Greece, where Byron too dies.To his credit, though, it is never "Trelawny's tale", but"Byron and Shelley's tale" as told by Trelawny. This deep,insightful book shows the poets as only a close friend could. Yetthroughout, one can not help but love Trelawny himself: the man whosupported the impoverished Mary Shelley to her dying day... the man whobought a slave for $10,000 only to set him free... the man who reached intothe embers of Shelley's pyre, withdrawing his heart. If you love the poetryof Byron and Shelley & have even a passing interest in the men behindthe legends, then Trelawny's memoirs are a must-read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1792-1822    2. 1792-1881    3. 19th century    4. Adventure and adventurers    5. Biography    6. Biography & Autobiography    7. Biography / Autobiography    8. Biography/Autobiography    9. British    10. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824    11. Friends and associates    12. Great Britain    13. Historical - British    14. History    15. Italy    16. Literary    17. Poets, English    18. Shelley, Percy Bysshe,    19. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822    20. Trelawny, Edward John,    21. Biography: general    22. Byron, George Gordon Byron    23. English    24. Last years    25. Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    26. Literary studies: 19th century    27. Shelley, Percy Bysshe    28. Trelawny, Edward John   

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Great structure
One of the most meaningful, descriptful pieces of literature out there

Great structure
One of the most meaningful, descriptful pieces of literature out there ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1843-1916    2. Adolescence in literature    3. American - General    4. Drama    5. Ghost stories    6. Governesses in literature    7. History and criticism    8. James, Henry,    9. James, Henry, 1843-1916    10. Literary Criticism    11. Plays / Drama    12. Turn of the screw    13. What Maisie Knew    14. James, Henry    15. Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh