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Chapters: Hill Forts in Greater Manchester, Manchester Regiment Officers, Wilfred Owen, Frederick George Jackson, John Gellibrand, Mellor Hill Fort, Manchester and Salford Yeomanry, Jack Churchill, Charles Henry Pepys Harington, A. E. W. Mason, Rex King-Clark, Wilfrid Freeman, Reginald Essenhigh, Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman, Harold Thomas Cawley, John Broadbent, George Stuart Henderson, Henry James Knight, Norman Whitley, John Mason, William Thomas Forshaw, Wilfrith Elstob, Willoughby Gwatkin, Hubert Worthington, Charles Harry Coverdale, James Leach, Athol Alexander Stuart, James Kirk, Alfred Robert Wilkinson, Douglas Glover. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 98. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier, and one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known worksmost of which were published posthumouslyinclude "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity". He was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre a week before the war ended. In a moment of ghastly irony, the telegram from the War Office announcing his death was delivered to his mother's home as her town's church bells were ringing in celebration of the Armistice. Wilfred Owen was born the eld...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=46525 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Alfred Redl, Wilfred Owen, Curt Wittje, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Blomberg-Fritsch-Krise, Ian McKellen, James Barry, Kießling-Affäre, Don't ask, don't tell, Imke Duplitzer, Stephanie Hollenstein, Oliver Sipple, Balian Buschbaum, Margarethe Cammermeyer, Leonard Matlovich, Jin Xing, Catharina Margaretha Linck, Homosexualität in den Streitkräften der Vereinigten Staaten, Homosexualität in der Bundeswehr, Homosexualität in den Israelischen Streitkräften,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Alfred Redl (* 14. März 1864 in Lemberg, Galizien, Österreich-Ungarn (heute Lwíw, Ukraine); † 25. Mai 1913 in Wien) war zuletzt Oberst der österreich-ungarischen Armee und Generalstabschef des VIII. Korps (Prag). Während des größten Teils seiner vorhergehenden Dienstzeit war er in leitender Stellung im Evidenzbüro (Militärischer Nachrichtendienst) tätig. Aufgrund seiner Homosexualität konnte Redl schon früh vom russischen Geheimdienst erpresst und als Spion angeworben werden. Aufgrund seines Zuganges zu fast allen geheimen Unterlagen der Armee wurde er zum wichtigsten Spion des russischen Zarenreichs. Zuletzt lieferte er diese Unterlagen auch dem italienischen und französischen Geheimdienst. Nach seiner Enttarnung wurde er zum Selbstmord gezwungen. Alfred Redl Redl wurde 1864 als Sohn von Franz und Mathilde Redl in Lemberg, der damaligen Hauptstadt des österreichischen Kronlandes Galizien, geboren. Sein Vater hatte zunächst den Offiziersberuf ergriffen, musste jedoch die Armee mit 31 Jahren verlassen, weil er die für eine standesgemäße Hochzeit erforderliche Heiratskaution nicht aufbringen konnte. Es gelang ihm eine adäquate Anstellung bei der k.u.k. Carl Ludw...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=520153 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Hedd Wyn, Alfred Edward Housman, Wilfred Owen, G. K. Chesterton, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Laurence Binyon, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Julian Grenfell, Isaac Rosenberg, Hilaire Belloc, Herbert Read, Walter de La Mare, Vera Brittain, Jessie Pope, Ivor Gurney, Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Owen Rutter, Edgell Rickword, Gilbert Waterhouse, Eva Dobell, May Wedderburn Cannan, W. N. Hodgson, Gilbert Frankau, Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Arthur Graeme West, William Hamilton, Robert Nichols, Anna Gordon Keown, Roland Leighton, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Dyneley Hussey, Jeffery Day, John Crommelin-Brown, Walter Lyon, T. P. Cameron Wilson, R. E. Vernède, Herbert Asquith, Geoffrey Faber, Geoffrey Dearmer. Excerpt:Alfred Edward Housman (pronounced /hasmn/ ; 26 March 1859 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman , was an English classical scholar and poet , best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad . Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early twentieth century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War . Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later, at Cambri... ... Read more

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Chapters: William Morris, Desmond Llewelyn, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Barnes Wallis, Noël Coward, Edward Burne-Jones, Bear Grylls, David Davis, A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, Charles Sargeant Jagger, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, John William Waterhouse, George Frederic Watts, Richard Tomlinson, William Ernest Staton, Roy Henderson, John Leech, Lance Sieveking, John Crocker, Cedric Morris, John Nash, Aston Webb, R. C. Sherriff, Paul Nash, Charles Keene, Edgell Rickword, Peter Lewis, Maxwell Ayrton, Simeon Solomon, Wilfrid Lawson, Michael Goodliffe, William Frederick Yeames, Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, Hamo Thornycroft, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Eric Blore, Luke Fildes, Brandon Thomas, Edwin Campion Vaughan, Edward Poynter, Edward Mellish, Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, Vincent Harris, Bernard Vann, Eugene Paul Bennett, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Bruce White, Geoffrey Cather, David Wilkie Wynfield, Tom Purvis, Edwyn Bevan, George Kruger Gray, Clive Brook, John Millar Watt, Montague Glover, Rupert Price Hallowes, William Blake Richmond, Howard Marion-Crawford, Martin Armstrong, Arthur Fleming-Sandes, Frederick Pepys Cockerell, Donald John Dean, George Price Boyce, Edwin Long, Stephen Courtauld, Frank Dobson, John Barraclough, Percy Thomas, Edward Shanks, Adrian Scott Stokes, George Edward Cates, Carl Haag, Eric Forbes-Robertson, Marcus Stone, George Vicat Cole, Frederick Walker, Ernest Albert Waterlow, Roy Horniman, Alfred Leete, Meredith Frampton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 404. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyan...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16764285 ... Read more

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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times.This Naxos AudioBook cassette recording is appropriate for use with the Cambridge Literature edition. ... Read more

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Chapters: Henry Moseley, Saki, Hedd Wyn, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, William Hope Hodgson, Charles Sorley, Julian Grenfell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sidney James, Roderic Dallas, Albert Ball, Frederick Selous, Leigh Richmond Roose, Jimmy Speirs, John Aidan Liddell, Tom Kettle, Thomas Crisp, Willie Redmond, A. E. J. Collins, Robert A. Little, Tony Wilding, Noel Godfrey Chavasse, Walter Tull, Thompson Capper, Louis Lipsett, William Denis Browne, Horace Hood, Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet, Arthur Rhys-Davids, Francis Ledwidge, Sir Walter Barttelot, 3rd Baronet, Donald Hankey, Lanoe Hawker, Hubert Hamilton, Eddie Latheron, George Mcelroy, Cecil Rawling, Harold Forster, Paul Hartley Raney, Jack Cornwell, Richard Garnons Williams, Colin Blythe, Frederick Septimus Kelly, George Thesiger, James Williams, Theodore Hardy, David Bedell-Sivright, George Prowse, Charles Taylor, Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Alexander Todd, George Archer-Shee, Raymond Asquith, Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, Duncan John Glasfurd, Fred Griffiths, James Richardson Spensley, Major Booth, Samuel Lomax, Dai Westacott, Cecil Banes-Walker, Wilbur Taylor Dartnell, George Butterworth, Frank Arthur Brock, William Burns, Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas, Frank Costello, John Gough, John Raphael, John Harrison, Wyndham Halswelle, Frederick Thayre, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Charles Fitzclarence, Charlie Pritchard, Gilbert Waterhouse, Fred Perrett, Charles James Mott, Horace Thomas, William Edward Sanders, Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, James Fynn, Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand, Donald Cunnell, William Shakespear, Thomas Mottershead, Ronald Lagden, Francis Octavius Grenfell, Wilf Toman, Alfred Edwin Mckay, Charlie Adamson, Christopher Collier, Sir Evelyn Bradford, 2nd Baronet, T. E. Hulme, Joseph Smith, Ronald Poulton-Palmer, Dick Thomas, Edward Henry Trotter, W. N. Hodgson, Daniel Joseph Sh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=69718 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World War I Reference Library, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1378 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Presents comprehensive coverage of the World War I period. The Almanac covers major topics related to the period, including the root causes of the war and U.S. involvement. Biographies profiles the major players of the period, including Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II and many others. ... Read more

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"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton. Wilfred Owen was born in 1893, the son of a Shropshire railway-worker. He enlisted for army service in 1915, was commissioned and sent to the front. At first conventionally patriotic, he was soon reporting home on the "most execrable sights on earth". Wounded on the Somme he was invalided to Craiglockheart Hospital near Edinburgh, where he met Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon vigorously criticized his early work (Owen had been writing verse since childhood) and encouraged him in the belief that poets should tell the truth about the conduct of the war. In 1918, Owen returned to France, and won the Military Cross for bravery. He was killed just a week before the Armistice, aged 24. ... Read more