By the age of 12, Leslie Thomas, third of four sons of an unsettled family in a Welsh seaport, had lost both parents, and was sent off to a series of Barnardo homes, an experience evoked in this book. From the author of Orders for New York and The Virgin Soldiers
In this outstanding and beautiful book Leslie Thomas, bestselling author of The Magic Army, brings all his skill as a hugely successful novelist to the creation of an evocative picture of the British countryside.
Up the Line to Death. The War Poets 1914-1918 — 1980
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914—1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I.A significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing in English, it was backed up by strong biographical research on the poets included. Those were mainly British and Irish combatants of World War I; but there are also Australian, Canadian and American poets. The poems are arranged roughly in chronological order, from the start of the war to the end. Some contemporary poems by major poets not involved in the fighting are also given. The title of the anthology comes from the Siegfried Sassoon poem Base Details.
The Idea of Literature. The Foundations of English Criticism — 1979
Статьи сборника дают представление о формировании литературно-критической мысли в Англии на протяжении четырех столетий - от эпохи Возрождения до наших дней. Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей, справками об авторах и комментариями к тексту. В сборник вошли критические очерки крупнейших английских писателей и литературных критиков: Сиднея, Филдинга, Диккенса, Теккерея, Шоу и др.
In the spring and early summer of 1944 a huge force, a million and a half strong, spread across Southern England, awaiting the greatest adventure in military history. The invasion of Occupied Europe. This army, mainly Americans, British and Canadians, most of whom had no experience of battle, was to be transported across the English Channel. No one knew how. This is the story of the American "occupation" of a wide district of South Devon to permit realistic war games. Its characters range from the Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery to the village simpleton. The Magic Army is an impressively moving, often very funny novel, which recreates the astonishing operation which preceded the Allied landing in France.
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