[PDF] Death Of A Hero eBook

Author : Richard Aldington
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101602937

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One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : John Flanagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101577797

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Ranger Will's past is revealed in this story from the New York Times bestselling Ranger's Apprentice. Halt reveals to Will the story behind his parents' deaths and how he came to live at the Castle Redmont Ward.

Author : John C. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781571780430

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John Robinson presents the compelling journey from youth to middle age in this study of the spiritual and psychological realities of male midlife.

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Metro Publishing, Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Northern Ireland
ISBN : 9781900512527

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Captain Robert Nairac was a brilliantly successful undercover operative in the British Army, with a string of intelligence coups in the war against the IRA. But, until this book, the nature of his operations and the story of his betrayal and murder have remained shrouded in mystery. John Parker - author of a bestselling official history of the Special Boat Section - has obtained unprecedented co-operation from very senior Army sources, and from Nairac's friends and family, to reveal the truth behind the secret war in Northern Ireland - and the ferocious rivalry between MI5 and MI6 that contributed to Nairac's death. This book is a tribute to the heroism of Nairac and all those in Northern Ireland who gave their lives in the battle against terrorism.

Author : Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Kashmir
ISBN : 9788170173298

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Epitaph for Maqbool Sherwani is the harrowing true story of a poet who was crucified by wild Pathan terrorists sent to capture Kashmir, a few days after the Maharaja’s accession to free India in 1947. Rising above the dangers of his return to his hometown, Baramula, on the behest of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah and his patriotic council, who had preferred liberty in secular Indian rather than join Pak theocracy, Maqbool Sherwani goes through terror, unleashed by mercenary guerillas, to face nightmare of loot and killing of the invaders. Betrayed by the greedy little men who have succumbed to lure of money and power, he is caught after a chase, to face his tormentors. He is shot after a mock trial and leaves behind a tender letter to his sister about his belief in future of the struggle for hope against despair. This short novel has been called by an eminent critic as one of Mulk Raj Anand’s “highest achievements†.

Author : Ricardo Sanchez
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 9781631404993

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"The Hero died twenty years ago but her death still haunts one young reporter. Now, on the anniversary of her death, the reporter digs in to find out the truth about what really happened."--Page 4 of cover

Author : Michael Ausiello
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501134965

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Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.

Author : Emily R. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674026834

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Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.