Using firsthand accounts—journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies—Michael Pearson has provided a contemporary report of the Revolution as the British witnessed it. Seen from this perspective, some of the major events of the war are given startling interpretations: For example, the British considered their defeat at Bunker Hill nothing more than a minor setback, especially in light of their capture of New York and Philadelphia. Only at the very end of the conflict did they realize that the Yankees had lost the battles but won the war. From the Boston Tea Party to that day in 1785 when the first U.S. ambassador presented his credentials to a grudging George III, here is the full account of "those damned rebels" who somehow managed to found a new nation.

Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes

History

PEARSON, MICHAEL

Americas

Da Capo Press

1979, American hardcover edition, Doubleday, NY. 337 pages. Black and white photo galleries. Maps. Americans rightly celebrate the famous last stand at the Alamo. It remains a story of courage and fortitude. Here is another place, another time, 6 weeks in 1944, in the mountain fortress of the Vercors. Here, 4,000 French partisans fought a courageous battle against 20,000 German troops, artillery, tanks, and aircraft. Very well written; extremely well done.

Tears of Glory

Pan.

A widow fights to protect her son's and her own rights as her husband's family tries to deny them their deserved fortune in turn-of-the-century London and New York

The Keys of the City

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

WARNER BOOKS

The sealed train

Military

Macmillan

Tears of glory: The betrayal of Vercors 1944

Chronicles the life of the Kingston family--Thomas Kingston's rise from draper's assistant to wealth and knighthood and the development of the store he founds into a world-famous institution--and late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century events seen through their eyes

The Store

Contemporary

Macmillan, London, 1980

Archaeology in Antarctica

Archaeology in Antarctica outlines the history of archaeology in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. The book details for the first time all past archaeological work in Antarctica, relating to both its use for conservation and research purposes, drawing on published, unpublished and oral information. This work has addressed historic and current scientific bases, explorers' huts, whaling stations and sealing shelters. The ongoing and long-term research on the sealing shelters and sites in the South Shetland Islands features prominently. The archaeology enables new perspectives on the impact of global modernity and empire in the Antarctic, and challenges established dominant discourses on the 'heroic' nature of human interaction with the continent. The work on sealing sites gives voice to the experiences of the sealer as a subaltern group previously largely overlooked by historical sources. This book will appeal to students and researchers in archaeology, history, and heritage as well as readers interested in the human and historical aspects of Antarctica's past and present.

Politics & Social Sciences

Zarankin, Andrés

Salerno, Melisa A.

Archaeology

Routledge

From the acclaimed author of The Sealed Train and Those Damned Rebels comes the definitive biography of Inessa Armand: revolutionary, tactician, and confidante and mistress of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Although she is little known today, after the October Revolution in 1917, Armand became the most powerful woman in Moscow. The illegitimate daughter of a Parisian opera singer, Armand was fortunate to marry into a wealthy Moscow family, yet she left home after ten years and four children to live openly with her husband’s much younger brother, through whom she became deeply embroiled in Russia’s growing anti-tsarist underworld. By the time she met Lenin in Paris, Armand had been imprisoned four times and had escaped Arctic exile, making her a fugitive in her homeland. Lenin soon recognized her talents, and Armand became his lieutenant, organizer, and lover. Through seven years of exile, she helped Lenin hone the Bolshevik Party, despite bitter internal strife, into the disciplined unit that would gain him immense power. Following the February Revolution in 1917, Armand supported Lenin in his greatest gamble: She accompanied him from their latest exile in Switzerland through Germany—still at war with Russia—to St. Petersburg via the legendary “sealed train.” It was a journey that would shape the twentieth century. Armand was soon appointed chief of the Woman’s Section of the Central Committee, with unique access to Lenin and the power to make legislative decisions. Her relationship with Lenin was profound yet volatile. The demands of revolution were great on both of them, but an attempt on Lenin’s life in 1918 brought a renewed closeness. In 1920, Armand died of cholera after taking a holiday in the Caucasus at Lenin’s insistence, and at her state funeral, an extremely rare honor for a woman, Lenin’s visible distress shocked his comrades. Michael Pearson, with access to family papers (including 150 letters from Lenin to Armand), previously censored materials from Russian archives, and interviews with Inessa Armand’s descendants, brings her to life with precision and insight—as a wife and devoted mother, political standard-bearer, and woman in love.

Lenin's Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Random House]

Tears of glory: The heroes of Vercors, 1944

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