The Old Service

The Old Service
Author: P. R. Newman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1993-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719037528

Newman examines why this high profile group of Royalists took the risks they did and explores how their role in the Civil Wars is an important key to our understanding of the wider questions of Royalist ideology and allegiance.

The Alley

The Alley
Author: João Calazans Filho
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1547532785

It is increasingly rare to find writers working on such good quality romances, with all the good qualities of the Literary Genre. And here it comes, the Literary voice, straight from within the remote corners of Bahia, Brazil, somewhat surprising for its intensity and audacity. João Calazans Filho was made in Literature by Poetry, by which he developed his Literary vocation and extravagance. Verses of passion, verses of a word lover. From this passion, then, the novelist emerges, inexpectedly, able to rescue the tradition of the romance, so undeniable and so forgotten. His prose is vigorous and does not negate all the dramatic features of the novel genre: remarkable characters, vividness, personalized dialogs, with their own expressions; and well-designed narrative structure. Besides all these qualities, Calazans also rescues the scenarios of the cacao farms, of the prosperity and conflicts brought by the golden fruit of Bahia, in a kind of second cycle of that repeats the secular history. Nothing was changed as time went by, for from it, the truth emerges. That’s the way the talented, vigorous and intense novelist emerges. Trying to rescue his roots and culture, facing his fears and daring – revisiting the past is Always challenging. In the novel universe, Calazans came to stay.

The Colonels

The Colonels
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1986-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440636095

They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come...

Admiral's Son General's Daughter

Admiral's Son General's Daughter
Author: Dan Ryan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-06
Genre:
ISBN: 1452031266

Admiral's Son General's Daughter: is a continuation of the story begun in Admirals and Generals. This second book describes in vivid detail what may have occurred in the United States Military under the Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harison, McKinley and Roosevelt Presidential administrations. The narration is by the son of a career naval officer, born in Beaufort, South Carolina. He will also serve in the Army Navy Building and the White House, Washington D.C. The historical events of 1877 through 1913 are carefully followed. The imagination of the author provides rich characters in powerful settings from the harbors of Alaska to the ports of the Balkan countries just prior to World War I. The time old love story between a man and a woman is woven throughout the book when the naval officer, marries the daughter of a general. They have four children, the oldest girl becomes a college professor, the oldest son enters the US Naval Academy, like his father and grandfather. The twins, a boy and a girl graduate from William and Mary and go on to law school in Washington D. C. Scenes are set carefully with attention to accurate research of the low country of South Carolina as well as our Nation's Capital circa 1877- 1913. The People's Standard History of the United States written by Edward S. Ellis and published in 1895 by Western Book Syndicate and copyrighted by the Woolfall Company have provided background materials, maps of the period and needed information on how the federal government was organized and functioned during this period of history.

The Colonels' Texas Promise

The Colonels' Texas Promise
Author: Caro Carson
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488041806

A marriage pact, sixteen years in the making, is taking two friends to the altar—for better or worse—in this delightful military romance. Winner of the 2020 HOLT Medallion Winner of the 2020 Book Buyers Best Finalist for the 2020 Maggie Award The vow was simple. If they were single by the time they made lieutenant colonel, they’d marry. On the day of her promotion, Juliet Grayson is at Evan Stephens’s door to ask him to keep his promise. Juliet only needs a father figure for her son, but Evan hopes to be so much more. Can he convince a woman who’s been burned before to get close to the flame once again?