David C. Parker Knihy

Over nearly fifty years, the author has built up an extensive collection of memorabilia from the First and Second World Wars. This book looks at selected items, providing a narrative about the original artefacts that also gives an insight into the life of the individuals who owned them.

This book charts the lives and service careers of the three Muller-Rowland brothers. All three flew RAF low-level operations and all three gave their lives for their country.

Der über 1600 Jahre alte griechische Codex Sinaiticus ist die wahrscheinlich älteste erhaltene Handschrift der Bibel. Darüber hinaus enthält der Kodex Texte, die nicht in den Kanon der Bibel aufgenommen wurden, aber dennoch großen Einfluss in der Geschichte der frühen Christenheit hatten, nämlich den Barnabasbrief und den 'Hirt des Hermas'. David Parker zeichnet kenntnisreich und allgemein verständlich die Geschichte des Kodex von seiner Entstehung bis zu seiner Digitalisierung nach.

Ramcon is an American consultant firm located in Egypt to plan and develop the Egyptian government's proposed new city of "Ramses," fifty miles north of Cairo. A lengthy series of errors in soil and survey data from Egyptian government sources has been hindering the Ramcon team's progress for several months. Ramcon's head office in New York sends a senior engineer to Cairo with a technical solution for this problem, but he inexplicably disappears after landing at Cairo airport, and Egyptian police are baffled by his disappearance. Next morning, Ramcon Manager Mike Harrington receives an unexpected phone call from an engineer friend in Scotland, claiming he has vital information on Ramcon's problem, which is too delicate for phone or telex communication. This is the start of the exposing of a revolutionary scheme against all the countries of the Middle East. More Ramcon professionals are kidnapped in this harrowing story prior to the surprising climax involving all 22 Arab nations and Israel.

Exmoor is a place full of contrasts, from a dramatic coastline, with some of the highest cliffs in England, to steeply wooded river valleys and rare and nationally protected stunning heather moorlands. Over the years Johnny Kingdom, Exmoor born and bred, has walked and filmed most of it, across all four seasons. This book, which accompanies the television series of the same name, takes the reader further in to parts of the moor Johnny loves so much, to encounters with the animals, birds, and flowers that make Exmoor a special place for him.

Devon's upper-, middle- and lower-class schools perfectly reflected the Edwardian social hierarchy, but as the county's elections revealed, society was being torn asunder by bitter controversies over exactly who should have the vote, rule the country, and control the Empire.

Early Victorian Devon examines the tumultuous early decades of young Victoria¿sreign when the country was on the threshold of the modern world and besiegedwith radical new ideas and emerging technologies. It uses numerous contemporaryprints to illustrate its stories.It describes Devon¿s great estates and their glittering receptions, liveried servants,and deferential tenants, and also the unrest across the county bred ofpoverty and hunger, and social and political inequality. Reverberating acrossDevon were the national controversies over the problems of the poor, mass education,and the franchise, and the equally contentious Acts of Parliament thatsought solutions.And technology was changing the world. Horse power was being overtakenby steam power, and the steel rails gouging their way across Devon were transformingcountless lives. And the steam boats, telegraph and newspapers werebringing back horrifying stories of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny in whichso many Devon men served.This remarkable book is a riveting history and visual feast, offering fresh insightsinto the story of Devon and its people.

"The eloquent and powerful letters that make up this volume tell the extraordinary story of how two men who never met or spoke to each other became the closest of friends. It was all the more extraordinary given that Leslie was a veteran member of the British Communist Party whilst Paul was a disillusioned former Communist struggling to cope under the Stalinist regime imposed on his native Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in August 1968.. The relationship began inauspiciously when Leslie saw a letter from Paul in the Times Newspaper and wrote to berate him for it. The unexpected result was an epistolary journey, conducted in defiance of the censors and concluded only by Leslie's death, through which in Paul's words they 'became friends by wrestling with each other'. This remarkable collection presents two very different yet complementary minds. Paul's letters offer an incomparable insight into the processes of 'normalisation' whereby an entire country was disciplined; Leslie's reveal his efforts to sustain his friend's morale with humour and domestic reportage as well as incisive political commentary. Both men had an instinctive flair for juxtaposing the personal and political, blending the mundane and the philosophical in a literary discourse as moving as it is instructive"--Back cover

This book discusses how the ideas, expectations and mind-sets that formed within different US foreign policy making institutions during the Cold War have continued to influence US foreign policy making vis-à-vis Russia in the post-Cold War era, with detrimental consequences for US-Russia relations. It analyses what these ideas, expectations and mind-sets are, explores how they have influenced US foreign policy towards Russia as ideational legacies, including the ideas that Russia is untrustworthy, has to be contained and that in some aspects the relationship is necessarily adversarial, and outlines the consequences for US-Russian relations. It considers these ideational legacies in depth in relation to NATO enlargement, democracy promotion, and arms control and sets the subject in its wider context where other factors, such as increasingly assertive Russian foreign policy, impact on the relationship. It concludes by demonstrating how tension and mistrust have continued to grow during the Trump administration and considers the future for US-Russian relations. rump administration and considers the future for US-Russian relations.