Right Man, Right Place, Worst Time
Right Man, Right Place, Worst Time

Author: Betty Lee

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1925877264

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In May 1939, Australia’s Naval Intelligence had the foresight to set up a network of men located on various islands north of Australia to report on suspicious shipping movements near their coast. Only one man was considered ideal for commanding this top secret mission — Eric Feldt. Feldt was given the title Staff Officer Intelligence in Port Moresby. His task — recruit the civilian volunteers to be Coastwatchers. When war came to the Pacific these men were critical to the security of Australia and the US South Pacific Fleet. US Fleet Admiral Halsey told a gathering of the Australian-American Association, ‘I could get down on my knees every night and thank God for Commander Eric Feldt.’ This is the story of Eric Feldt and his Coastwatchers.

The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle

Author: Marcel Proust

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2012-02-06

Total Pages: 4175

ISBN-13: 0679645683

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Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained. Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle. For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.

Nineteen-Gun Salute
Nineteen-Gun Salute

Author: John B. Hattendorf

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2010-04-08

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781884733666

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Product Description: Nineteen-Gun Salute: Case Studies of Operational, Strategic, and Diplomatic Naval Leadership during the 20th and Early 21st Centuries, edited by John B. Hattendorf and Bruce A. Elleman. This collection of brief biographies of nineteen U.S. Navy admirals, from W. S. Sims, to Joseph W. Preuher, with conclusions by the editors focusing particularly on leadership skills in the operational and strategic arenas, is sponsored by the Naval War College’s College of Operational and Strategic Leadership and has been jointly produced by the Naval War College Press and the Government Printing Office.

Making Constitutional Law
Making Constitutional Law

Author: Mark V. Tushnet

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195093143

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Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice. The first book on Justice Thurgood Marshall's years on the Supreme Court based on a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court papers of Justices Marshall and William J. Brennan, this work describes Marshall's special approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It also describes the Supreme Court's operations during Marshall's tenure, the relations among the justices, and the particular roles played by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Justice Brennan, and Justice Antonin Scalia. The book locates the Supreme Court's actions from 1967 to 1991 in a broader historical and political context, explaining how Marshall's liberalism became increasingly isolated on a Court influenced by nation's drift in a more conservative direction.

What He Cost Her
What He Cost Her

Author: James Payn

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 3385548020

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

A Touch of Uncertainty
A Touch of Uncertainty

Author: John Allen

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-07

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0595192084

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Emerging from a crippling divorce settlement that threatens to strip him even of his dignity, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery into a world of enlightenment and hope. Set up to show a young French tourist around town, he agrees reluctantly – until he meets the tourist. From then on, it’s uphill all the way… Against a backdrop of European travel and laced with a wealth of experience, the author opens himself to the possibility of rekindled hope. Taking the first hesitant steps towards a whole relationship, we emerge with him into the uniqueness of life in France, and one French person in particular… Meet the family. Parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, all play their part in this revealing autobiographical novel. From the demise of a bad relationship to the birth of a good one, little is excluded from the author’s perceptive tale. Life beyond city limits has never been this interesting: in a journey both physical and spiritual, love across cultural barriers is brought squarely into the realm of everyday experience and given the treatment it deserves.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume II
In Search of Lost Time, Volume II

Author: Marcel Proust

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2000-11-01

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0679641793

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Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, and the fictional Normandy resort of Balbec become the primary agents of recollection for him. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.