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OUR BOOKSHELF: THE WOMAN'S VICTORY

... OUR BOOKSHELF THE WOMAN'S VICTORY The Woman's Victory, by Maarten Maartens (Constable and Co.), is one of those deceptive volumes which, on the surface, appear to be one long tale, but dipped into reveal themselves as collections of short tales. The ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1906
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3171 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Our Bookshelf: THE BRITISH ARMY, 1763-1793

... 0 it f d 0 0 It sit c I f TIIF. T1RITJSH ARMY, 1763-1793 THE third volume of A History of the British Army (Macmillan and Co.), by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue, opens at the end of the Seven Years' War, and takes us down to the Second Peace of 1793. These ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3187 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

WAR by LAND and by SEA--Another General Commits Hara-Kiri

... WAR by LAND and by SEA-- Another General Commits Hara-Kiri By CECIL ROBERTS Gradually we are being compelled to ask our selves, has this age produced a truly great man? All the giants of the War era have steadily committed suicide. They will write memoirs ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2553 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Books to order this Week: A Land that Lives in Fear

... Cuirassier. By I h'lip L. Stevenson. (Hurst I vl and Blackett 6j.) Nm The High Toby. By H. B. Marriott Watson (Methuen: 6s.) P A Land that Lives in Fear It is delightful to find the thorny problem of the Balkan revolt against Turkish mis rule set forth in ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1780 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

A REMARKABLE PICTURE OF SOUTH AMERICA: R. W. Thompson's Land of To-morrow-- and some New Sporting Annuals

... moving picture of that land of promise. We are left to draw our own conclusions. Just as a reflection in a mirror is an improvement on a photograph, so is Mr. Thompson's book better than most contemporary studies of foreign lands. He started this trip ...

THE GREAT WARSAW UPRISING: General Bor-Komorowski Tells the Story of The Secret Army, a Sombre Chapter in ..

... 1939, when Poland was overrun, some of the Polish Army officers, the General among them, escaped to France, and from there began to organise small groups of resistance. Ol this underground army he was one of the principal figures, and from 1943 its comm ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1795 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A SELECTION FOR THE SERIOUS-MINDED: The Friendship of Keats and Severn; The Nazis on Land and Sea; Twelve ..

... A SELECTION FOR THE SERIOUS-MINDED -Bv Vernon Fane The Friendship of Keats and Severn The Nazis on Land and Sea Twelve Religious Plays by Dorothy Sayers Past and Present Lives and Loves THERE was once a man, an artist, who, while still very young, accom ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1801 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

AN AMERICAN COLONEL LOOKS at the WAR: Essays on Persons, Plays and Places by Alan Dent; Colonel Kernan, ..

... that sea power is indecisive without land power. He holds defensive land power to be doomed, and in this connection he drives home the hard lessons of France, Manila and Singapore. He believes that offensive land power can only be effective by dis posing ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1647 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A JOURNEY THROUGH OPPRESSED EUROPE: A Brilliant Description of a Woman's Wartime Odyssey; Virginia in the Days ..

... Europe --By Vernon Fane A Brilliant Description of a Woman's Wartime ^Odyssey Virginia in the Days of Slaves Peter Cheyney s Tough Egg Snakes and Tfazis in Dutch Guiana IN April 1940 Miss Polly Pea body landed at Bergen with an American field hospital on its ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1390 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

LITERARY TOPOGRAPHY: A guide to writers and places; descriptive account of Shaw's plays; and this week's list ..

... our troops a contemp tible army in 1914, and, in 1778, George Washington's force was called an army of scarecrows. Mr. Charles Flood in BARREN HILL (Cassell. 21s.), has followed the fortunes of Washington's Continental Army in the individual terms of ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1472 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS IN PERFORMANCE: BILLINGHAM 'UNDERGROUND'

... the train guard, another fine study (Jeffrey Hol land), a singer (Gemma Craven), an elderly woman visiting Lon don (Carmen Silvera), a fin ance for Gareth Forwood (Pat Hassell) and a nondescript ex- Army man (David Henry). Praise for a really fine pro ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1974
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 13 | Tags: review