The Very Best Of The Daily Telegraph Books Of Obituaries
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Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan Adult |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780330484701 |
The five Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries have been both a critical and a popular success, winning plaudits from readers and reviewers alike. Here, gathered in one volume, is the very best of the witty, waspish and often wildly funny biographical short stories that are the mark of a Telegraph Obituary. Together they offer a richly unpredictable medley of twentieth-century lives, a deliciously idiosyncratic study in miniature, reflecting the last century at its most picturesque, poignant and absurd.
Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan Adult |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : 9780330349796 |
This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : 9780330352987 |
Author | : Hugh Massingberd |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan Adult MM |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : 9780330371117 |
In the DAILIY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF OBITUARIES series. A selection of obituaries from the DAILY TELEGRAPH. The obituaries are a sympathetic and often hilarious celebration of individual human diversity. Includes a medley of larger-than-life characters whose largely unsung contribution deserves to be recorded.
Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : 9780333739990 |
Author | : David Twiston Davies |
Publisher | : Daily Telegraph Book of Obitua |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781904010340 |
In the 17 years since The Daily Telegraph started to take its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1,000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found here, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience. They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, such as the New Zealander Charles Upham, who won the Victoria Cross twice in North Africa, the commando leader "Mad Jack" Churchill and Drum Major Buss, the bugler who rallied the Glosters and the Imjin river in Korea. Among the senior figures are General Mazek, who commanded the Polish 2nd Corps in Normandy, the rigorous Field Marshal Lord Carver and General Sir Walter Walker, who won three DSOs and remained an unflinchingly outspoken critic of Britain's postwar society. But not every soldier is called upon to concentrate on fighting. Kenneth Merrylees spent his career searching for water on behalf of the Army. James Drew was General Montgomery's postmaster. Among those who enjoyed the high noon of British India are Tony 'Raj' Fowler, who was engaged in operations against the Fakir of Ipi on the border of Afghanistan, and that great character Sir 'Honker' Henniker, Bt, who remembered being smartly saluted by elephants. David Twiston Davies, is the Chief Obituary Writer of The Daily Telegraph.
Author | : The Daily The Daily Telegraph |
Publisher | : Frontline Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781526794987 |
From its somewhat inauspicious early days in North Africa in 1941, the Special Air Service went on to become one of the most respected and elite military formations in the world. Its activities during the Second World War, and after, have become the stuff of legend and numerous books have been dedicated to the astonishing exploits of the men in its ranks.No more so is the case then for Colonel Sir David Stirling, whose obituary understandably features in this book. The creator of the SAS, Stirling was nicknamed the 'Phantom Major' by the Germans for his remarkable exploits far behind their lines in the Western Desert. In the fifteen months before he was captured, he and his desert raiders destroyed aircraft, mined roads, derailed trains, fired petrol dumps, blew up ammunition depots, hi-jacked lorries and killed many times their own number. Rommel admitted that Stirling's men caused more damage than any other British unit of equal strength.In 1942 the SAS was given the status of a full regiment. Montgomery said of its creator: 'The boy Stirling is quite mad. However, in war there is a place for mad people.' Whilst Stirling was awarded a DSO in 1942 and was appointed OBE in 1946, he was once described as 'one of the most under-decorated soldiers of the Second World War'.Stirling himself designed the Regiment's cap badge, which carries the world-famous motto, 'Who Dares Wins'. These words not only summed up Stirling's philosophy perfectly, but also that of many of the men who served in the regiment.The individual members of the SAS have generally kept a low profile while serving with the regiment, which makes their obituaries so interesting - revealing much about the men whose actions are as relevant in the dangerous world of today as they have been throughout the decades since the Second World War.
Author | : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : 9780333675069 |
Selected obituaries of entertainers from 1986-1994.
Author | : Bridget Fowler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2007-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113421801X |
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Author | : David Twiston Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : 9781848325241 |
"For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. The stories of these characters beautifully illustrate the way the Imperial influence spread British culture around the world in the form of practices, traditions and history, sometimes positively and deliberately, often unconsciously and sometimes even in the face of considerable hostility. This compilation is divided up by regions, beginning with India, followed by the dominions Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and concluding with the individual colonies in Africa and the South Seas, as well as the North and South Poles."--Jacket.