When Private Breckles Enlisted
When Private Breckles Enlisted

Author: Donald Sinclair

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1504972368

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When Carl Breckles joined the army to serve his mandatory two years, he takes an extra year on his enlistment to ensure he will serve in Europe and not Korea. During basic training at Ft. Riley, Kansas, Carl befriends Lasslett, a former air force enlistman who joined the army to support his new wife and child. The two buck against army regulations, but for different lifestyles, while servicing in the German town Bamberg, Germany. Lasslett goes to prison for disobeying orders after bringing his wife and child to Bamberg and going AWOL when the child becomes sick. Breckles is convinced he is sick while living a life of exceptions to military regulations but cannot convince the camp doctor of his malady. Lasslett dies in prison. Breckles gets admitted to an army hospital and is invalided home. While in Chicago a year later, Breckles is discharged from the hospital and the army and travels to Wisconsin to visit Lassletts wife. He wants to help her when he meets her at her family farm but grows unsure at what to do.

The Portable Queen
The Portable Queen

Author: Mary Hill Cole

Publisher:

Published: 2011-01-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558498679

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Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I (1533?1603) insisted that her court go "on progress," a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England. These trips provided the only direct contact most people had with a monarch who made popularity a cornerstone of her reign. Public appearances gave the queen a stage on which to interact with her subjects in a calculated effort to keep their support. The progresses were both emblematic of Elizabeth's rule and intrinsic to her ability to govern. In this book, Mary Hill Cole provides a detailed analysis of the progresses. Drawing on royal household accounts, ministerial correspondence, county archives, corporation records, and family papers, she examines the effects of the visits on the queen's household and government, the individual and civic hosts, and the monarchy of the Virgin Queen. Cole places the progresses in the sixteenth-century world of politics and images, where the queen and her hosts exchanged ceremonial messages that advanced their own agendas. The heart of the progresses was the blend of politics, socializing, and ceremony that enabled the queen to accomplish royal business on the move while satisfying the needs of those courtiers, townspeople, and country residents who welcomed her into their communities. While all Renaissance monarchs engaged in occasional travel, in Elizabeth's case the progresses provided the settings in which she crafted her royal authority. Although the trips inconvenienced the government and strained her treasury, Elizabeth found power in the turmoil of an itinerant court and in a continuing ceremonial dialogue with her subjects.