James W Edmonds

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A History of the Civil War in the United States, 1861 - 1865

The Start of Something New

"What is important is that the action took place, at a time when everyone judged it to be unthinkable. If it took place, then it can happen again."- Jean-Paul SartreIt began as a dispute over males visiting female student's dormitories. Disciplinary hearings against students who had been trying to b...

Ozymandias

Ozymandias is the story of a closed world, one that borrows as much from the Ottoman seraglio as the court of Louis XIV. A world where human justice had no place. At its center is a sultan of modern times, whose refinement of cruelty was matched only by his excess. Hassan II built palaces worthy of ...

Early settlers of Alabama

Early settlers of Alabama. 598 Pages.

Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an American Original

Throughout his long life, Gore Vidal waged a one-man campaign against hypocrisy and injustice – skewering the powerful, defending the old Republic, and stretching our notions of sex, religion and politics. Vidal’s death this year brought a wave of tributes. In the big media, one could detect a palpa...

Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915-1948 (Military History and Policy)

Begun within months of the war's outbreak, and not completed for a further 33 years, the writing of the Official Histories of World War I was a venture of unprecedented scale and complexity.Who, then, was responsible for producing such an enterprise? Did it aim to inform or did it have darker politi...

Edmund Allenby 1st Viscount Allenby

… rider; Allenby had already developed a passion for polo.[3] James Edmonds, a contemporary, later claimed that the staff at Staff College thought Allenby dull and stupid but were impressed by a speech he gave to the Farmers Dinner, which had in fact been written for him by Edmonds and anothe...

James Edward Edmds

Brigadier General Sir James Edward Edmonds CB, CMG (25 December 1861 2 August 1956) was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers who...