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The German victory in France at the onset of the Second World War was sudden, brutal and brilliant; by contrast the British and French preparations were miserable, faulty, badly carried through and fraught with mistrust. In the midst of these Allied responses was the eminent liaison officer Major-General...

Sir, William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE (1878-1931) was an Irish-born British portrait painter. He studied art at the Metropolitan School and at the Slade School in London where, at the time, great emphasis was put on the study of old masters. He was a fine draughtsman and a popular painter of the...

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Account of the work at G.H.Q. by an officer (Australian Sir Frank Fox) who served there attached to the Quartermaster-General’s Branch. “His account of the conditions in which a junior administrative...

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity,...

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity,...

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Adventure IX - The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb, one of the most important works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Adventure XI - The Adventure Of The Beryl Coronet, one of the most important works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Adventure I - A Scandal In Bohemia, one of the most important works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now in an epub3 AudioeBook version based on LibriVox audio and Project Gutenberg texts. Proudly brought to you for free by ReadBeyond

The Mysterious Universe is a science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans. It is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930, and begins with a full-page citation of the famous passage in Plato’s Republic, Book VII, laying out the allegory...

In addition to being among the twentieth century’s major scientific figures, Sir James Jeans (1877–1946) was also one of the greatest modern science expositors. His classic introduction to mechanics endures as a clear and concise presentation of first principles.Although brief, it encompasses a remarkably...

Originally published in 1930, Sir Oliver Lodge proposes a connection between physics and philosophy, or as he describes it, a key to unlock the intricate connection between mind and matter. A response to early twentieth century mathematically-led philosophy, Lodge looks at physics from a physical...

Most readers know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the rational detective who epitomized deductive logic. Who could have guessed that Doyle also wrote some of the most wildly imaginative tales of horror and supernatural published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? The...

As opposed to memorizing German phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry German grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader (DLR) will keep you excited to get to the next page of the story, while you simultaneously absorb and learn the German language! This compilation features Sir...

Me hallaba en Edimburgo, en el cuerpo de ingenieros, cuando se me propuso hacerme cargo de una compañía cuyo objeto era explotar minas de oro y plata en las provincias del Río de la Plata; y, en consecuencia, con aviso de poquísimos días, zarpé de Falmouth y llegué a Buenos Aires una semana después...