In the Footsteps of William Wallace In Scotland and Northern England
In this volume, historical narrative, quotations, colour photographs and archive illustrations take the reader on a journey through the short, but spectacular, career of the Scotsman, William Wallace. Wallace burst from obscurity into the war against Edward I's England in 1297, winning a remarkable victory against the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on 11 September. Less than eight years later, Wallace was betrayed, captured, then tried and savagely executed in London.
Leon Uris: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers)
The first full-length critical study of Leon Uris, who in eleven novels written over four decades, has chronicled the unceasing fight of dedicated individuals against the forces of oppression.
The Three Edwards - War and State in England 1272 - 1377
This book is an excellent introduction to this eventful period in history, offering students of history and the Middle Ages a fascinating insight into the reigns of three very different sovereigns: * Edward I – a confident and masterful conqueror of Wales * Edward II – defeated by the Scots, humiliated and deposed * Edward III – triumphant against the French, but reigned through the ravages of plague.
Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, "The Confessions" is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his "Confessions" he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of "Emile".
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Adventures of Major Gahagan
William Makepeace Thackeray's The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (1838) is a satirical novel about Anglo-Indian culture and life. The main character and narrator, Major Gahagan, is serving in India with the British Army. The story tells his adventures and portrays the various battles in which he single-handedly fights against entire armies of rampaging natives and defeats, even killing one hundred and thirty four elephants with a single shot.
