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Charles Horace Snow

    1. leden 1877 – 1. leden 1967

    Britský spisovatel a historik Charles Allen se ve své práci zaměřuje na Indii a Jižní Asii. Jeho psaní proniká do historie Britského impéria a odhaluje životy těch, kteří sloužili v koloniální správě. Allen zkoumá komplexní vztahy mezi Východem a Západem prostřednictvím pečlivého historického výzkumu. Jeho díla nabízejí poutavý pohled na formování moderní Indie a její bohaté kulturní dědictví.

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    • Soldier Sahibs

      The Men who Made the North-West Frontier

      • 368 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      SOLDIER SAHIBS is the astonishing story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to the most notorious frontier in the world, the North-West Frontier, which today forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as 'Henry Lawrence's young men', each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab before going on to make his name as a 'political' on the Frontier - Herbert Edwardes, who 'pacified' Bannu; John Nicholson, a forebear of the author who became the terror of the Sikhs as 'Nikkal Seyn'; 'Uncle' James Abbot of Hazara, and many others.Drawing extensively on their journals, diaries and letters, as well as his own recent travels in their footsteps, Charles Allen, acknowledged master story-teller of imperial history, weaves the individual stories of these soldier sahibs into an extraordinary tale that climaxes on Delhi Ridge in 1857, when the brotherhood came together to 'save' India.

      Soldier Sahibs
    • Bikers

      • 128 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení

      Since the 1950s, the leather-clad motorcyclist has been the most potent image of the archetypal bad boy, popularized by Hollywood stars such as Marlon Brando and James Dean. Now this painstakingly detailed chronicle of biker culture delves into the early town-sieges of America's mid-West in the 1940s, through to the British Mod and Rocker coastal clashes of the 1960s, the Easy Riders of the 1970s and the Street Fighters of the 21st century, as well as investigating the many misconceptions surrounding the most feared of subcultures.

      Bikers