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To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
The programs were so well received by the British public that the arguments have been published in a totally engrossing little book called, `` Rival Theories Of Cosmology ''.
Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.
Liberal in its use of statistics to make its arguments, the book argued his view that the American republican system of government was superior to the British monarchical system.
The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.
A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.
The fifth book brings the story up to Bede's day, and includes an account of missionary work in Frisia, and of the conflict with the British church over the correct dating of Easter.
The British Museum was run from its inception by a ' Principal Librarian ' ( when the book collections were still part of the Museum ), a role that was renamed ' Director and Principal Librarian ' in 1898, and ' Director ' in 1973 ( on the separation of the British Library ).
Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.
In 1973, British psychologist Glenn Wilson published an influential book providing evidence that a general factor underlying conservative beliefs is " fear of uncertainty ".
Carol Thatcher wrote in her book Below the Parapet that her parents, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis used to joke that CHOGM stood for " Coons holidaying on government money ".
According to the 19th-century book, English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants:
In this case the profits made by a defecting spy, George Blake, for the publication of his book, were awarded to the British Government for breach of contract.
The book itself won the 1997 British Book of the Year award.
After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).
A British scholar, Samuel Brittan, concluded in 2010, " Hayek's book Constitution of Liberty is still probably the most comprehensive statement of the underlying ideas of the moderate free market philosophy espoused by neoliberals.
A subplot in the book is Peter Wimsey's role as an informal envoy of the British Foreign Ministry, called upon to help defuse international crises where more conventional diplomats have failed.
Famous visitors, including the British Royal family have signed the visitor book here.
James Stirling, a British writer who visited the Southern United States in 1857, described the distinction between slaves who were house servants and slaves who were field hands in his book, Letters from the Slave States:
In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.
This is an essential reference book which attempted to list every known British coat.
In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century, wrote in his book The Nature of the Physical World ; " The stuff of the world is mind-stuff ";

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He has condemned the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in drug trafficking ( in connection with the Iran-Contra scandal, as documented in the Kerry Committee report and elsewhere ) on tracks such as " This One's for Me " and " Message to the Soldier ", in sections of his book.
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.
He also wrote about his pre-war service in a book called Old Soldier Sahib.
Before the war, in 1912, he had published the book The Good Soldier Švejk and other strange stories ( Dobrý voják Švejk a jiné podivné historky ) where the figure of Švejk appeared for the first time ; but it was only after the war in his famous novel that Švejk became a sancta simplicitas, a cheerful idiot who joked about the war as if it were a tavern brawl.
In his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier, Ishmael Beah chronicles his life during the conflict in Sierra Leone.
The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel ( she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier ).
This mountain site ".. a stark barren monolith .." is also mentioned in the recent book by Pete " Snapper " Winner, Soldier ' I ' - The Story of an SAS Hero as part of Sickener 2, his Selection for the SAS.
The RUF's activities also formed the central focus of the autobiographical book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah which was published in 2007.
Spicer recounted his experiences with Sandline in the book An Unorthodox Soldier.
Edmonds ' book was reprinted again in 1999 with a new title, Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy.
The subsequent book, Soldier Five by patrol member Mike Coburn ( Kiwi Mike ), was released in 2004.
* W. A. Harbinson under the writing pseudonym " Shaun Clarke " presents a strikingly similar story to that told in the accounts of McNab and Ryan in the first book of his SAS adventure series, " Soldier A: SAS-Behind Iraqi Lines " ( ISBN 1-898125-00-7 ).
Regnery responded by offering to print and distribute a reply book by Kerry, suggesting " Winter Soldier " on the same subject matter that Kerry authored in the 1970s.
* Ratu Sukuna Soldier, Statesman, Man of two worlds-a book by Deryck Scarr
His book The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq is the result of their interviews and meetings.
The series ran from May 1993 until August 2003, including the revamping of the book to Soldier X, and the book initially had trouble finding a stable creative team.
The book offered four historical examples of a Political Soldier, i. e., the Spartans, the Roman Centurion, the Crusaders and the Iron Guard of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian movement of fascism and religion.
He has published a book called " Easy Company Soldier ".
* A non-fiction book, Barefoot Soldier, written with Johnson Beharry, was published in October 2006.
Soldier X is a young adult war drama book written by Don Wulffson about a half-German and half-Russian boy named Erik Brandt who is unwillingly recruited into the Wehrmacht, Hitler's army, during World War II.
They first met in 1964 while Butler was a reporter and photographer, and published a book together (" The New Soldier ," about Vietnam vets and the Anti-war Movement ) in 1971.
With # 205 ( May 1977 ), the book changed its title to The Unknown Soldier, continuing the numbering and running for another 64 issues, ending with # 268 ( October 1982 ).
The New Soldier was published as both a hard and soft cover book in October, 1971, by Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

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