For King and Another Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For King and Another Country write by Shrabani Basu. This book was released on 2015-10-22. For King and Another Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and travelled from remote villages in India to fight in the muddy trenches in France and Flanders. Many went on to win the highest bravery awards. For King and another Country tells, for the first time, the personal stories of some of these Indians who went to the Western Front: from a grand turbanned Maharaja rearing to fight for Empire to a lowly sweeper who dies in a hospital in England, from a Pathan who wins the Victoria Cross to a young pilot barely out of school. Shrabani Basu delves into archives in Britain and narratives buried in villages in India and Pakistan to recreate the War through the eyes of the Indians who fought it. There are heroic tales of bravery as well as those of despair and desperation; there are accounts of the relationships that were forged between the Indians with their British officers and how curries reached the frontline. Above all, it is the great story of how the War changed India and led, ultimately, to the call for independence.
For King and Country
For King and Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For King and Country write by Heather Jones. This book was released on 2021-09-23. For King and Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.
King of Another Country
King of Another Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King of Another Country write by Fiona French. This book was released on 1997. King of Another Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an African village lived a young drummer called Ojo. He never helped anybody. He always said "no', and never said "yes". Then Ojo met a fierce creature in the forest, became king of another country, and found a strange carved door. Should he open it?
Neither KIng Nor Country
Neither KIng Nor Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neither KIng Nor Country write by Alan N Kay. This book was released on 2019-06-21. Neither KIng Nor Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When teacher/hockey player Rob Callahan discovers an old family letter written by Ben Franklin's son, William, his search for more information begins a quest that takes him, two women, two sons, and a litany of others chasing them across the border into Canada.
Ed King
Ed King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ed King write by David Guterson. This book was released on 2011-10-03. Ed King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling, darkly funny, compulsively readable retelling of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex that takes us from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair to the twenty-first century headquarters of an Internet search giant. 'Superbly organised and sophisticated ... Excellently entertaining' Sunday Times 'A great story and a riveting read' Daily Mail In 1962, when Walter Cousins sleeps with his British au pair, Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error: this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles's immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King, an infant given up for adoption who becomes one of the world's most powerful men. But beneath the gripping story of Ed's seemingly inexorable rise to fame and fortune is a dark and unsettling destiny, one that approaches with ever-increasing suspense as the novel reaches its shattering conclusion.
