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Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ian Beckett

The First Battle 1914 Ian Beckett. trying to dig in ... Bythis time, however, thebattlewas effectively over.39 Notes and References 1 IanF.W.Beckett (1985),' The Nation in Arms, 1914–18' in Ian F.W. Beckett and Keith Simpson(eds.),A Nation in ...
Riflemen form: a study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, ...

Riflemen form: a study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, ...

Ian Frederick William Beckett

Summary: Is a poignant story of a soldier's love in wartime.
The Victorians at War

The Victorians at War

Ian Frederick William Beckett

The men of the Victorian army were involved in wars and policing wherever British interests demanded it, whether in Canada, the Crimea, Afghanistan or the Sudan.
Victorians at War

Victorians at War

Ian Beckett

Ian Beckett's book is already established as the definitive history of the Victorian army. >
Discovering Famous Battles - Marlborough's Campaigns

Discovering Famous Battles - Marlborough's Campaigns

Ian Frederick William Beckett

Kort gennemgang af slagene ved Schellenberg, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde og Malplaquet under Den Spanske Arvefølgekrig 1700-1714.
Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ian Beckett

In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.
Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare

Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare

Ian Frederick William Beckett

An encyclopedia of articles examining guerrilla warfare throughout the world, focusing on military tactics utilized by minority groups within a state or indigenous population to oppose the ruling government or foreign occupying forces.
The Great War, 1914-1918

The Great War, 1914-1918

Ian Frederick William Beckett

... eds, Karl Kraus in neuer Sicht (Munich, 1986) J. Schencking, 'Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and Japan's Southern Advance: The Imperial Navy's Seizure of German Micronesia in World War P, WH 5 (1998), 308-26 J. Schencking, ...
A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the ...

A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the ...

Ian Frederick William Beckett

The attitude of the wartime officer corps to the learning process and to change has been examined by T. H. E. Travers, ... 531-53; Tim Travers, 'The hidden structural problem in the British officer ccfrps, 1900-1918', Journal of Contemporary ...
Modern Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies: Guerrillas and ...

Modern Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies: Guerrillas and ...

Ian Frederick William Beckett

Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies explores how unconventional warfare tactics have opposed past and present governments all over the world, from eighteenth-century guerrilla warfare to the urban terrorism of today.
Understanding Contemporary Strategy

Understanding Contemporary Strategy

Thomas M. Kane

41 Westfall, Mozambique,, p.16. 42 IanF. W. Beckett,'The Portuguese Army: TheCampaignin Mozambique, 1964–74', in Ian F.W. Beckett and John Pimlott( eds), ArmedForces andModern Counterinsurgency, London: Croom Helm, 1985, p.139.
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

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Œuvres complètes, vol. II, edited by Bertrand Marchal. Paris: Gallimard. Maude, Ulrika. 2008. '“A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going”: Beckett and Tourette's'. Journal of Beckett Studies 17.1–2: 153–68. 2011. Beckett, Technology and the Body.
Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Interventions

Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Interventions

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G. Kennedy(New York: Routledge,2008), 172, and IanF.W. Beckett, “ TheRhodesian Army; Counter Insurgency, 1972–79,” in Armed Forces and Modern CounterInsurgency, ed. Ian F. W. Beckett and John Pimlott (Beckenham: Croon Helm, ...
Beckett and Religion: Beckett/aesthetics/politics

Beckett and Religion: Beckett/aesthetics/politics

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THE DOUBLE IMAGE OF MUSIC IN BECKETT'S EARLY FICTION Catherine Laws Recent Beckett criticism has increasingly turned its attention towards the early prose, frequently in an attempt to locate the 'origins' of the author's later ...
The British Olympic Association: A History

The British Olympic Association: A History

K. Jefferys

... McWhirter); Sir Theodore Andrea Cook (Ian Buchanan); William Hayes Fisher, Baron Downham (Martin Pugh); William Grenfell, Lord Desborough(IanF.W. Beckett);Sir Arthur Gold (Wray Vamplew); Denis Howell(Tam Dalyell); Robert Stuart ...
Beckett and Musicality

Beckett and Musicality

Sara Jane Bailes

Chapter 14 Music in Beckett's Nacht und Träume: Vocality and Imagination1 Catherine Laws Introduction: Beckett, Schubert and Romanticism Beckett's love of music is frequently commented upon, and Schubert is the composer to whom he ...
Scattered seeds: the descendents of Rabbi Israel, one of the ...

Scattered seeds: the descendents of Rabbi Israel, one of the ...

George I. Sackheim

I MARTIN ZACK IAN 11.709 I WILLIAM ZACK IAN 11.710 I I I I I LEWIS ZACK IAN 11.711 I I I I I BONNIE CHERYL STEVE VICTOR TANTA ZACK IAN ZACK IAN ZACK IAN ZACK IAN KLEIN wife of wife of wife of SEYMOUR RICHARD 12.1031  ...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Birkett

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's ...
Traces

Traces

Ian Beckett

A collection of 151 poems from my travels and a title poem.
Beckett and Phenomenology

Beckett and Phenomenology

Ulrika Maude

A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's ...
Samuel Beckett's Endgame

Samuel Beckett's Endgame

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... plays in Spain are from my paper 'Beckett in Spain: Theater and Politics,' originally written in English and published in Italian in a special number of Drammaturgia devoted to Beckett and edited by Anna Maria Cascetta and S. E. Gontarski.
1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the ...

1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the ...

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... in MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray (eds), The Dynamics of Military Revolution 1300–2050, Cambridge University Press, 2001; Ian Beckett and Steven J. Corvi (eds), Haig's Generals, Pen and Sword, 2006; Ian Malcolm Brown , British ...
Beckett's Art of Mismaking

Beckett's Art of Mismaking

Leland de la Durantaye

Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or ...
The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

P. McTighe

Marks, Laura.The Skin oftheFilm. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Maude, Ulrika.Beckett, Technology andthe Body. Cambridge: Cambridge ———. “' AStirring Beyond Coming and Going': Beckett and Tourette's.” Journal.
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

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51 In fact before 1885, sufferers of Tourette's symptom were classified as hysterics: for an analysis of Beckett's writing and Tourette's syndrome, see Ulrika Maude, '“A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going”: Beckett and Tourette's', Journal ...
50 Is Only Half Way To 100

50 Is Only Half Way To 100

Ian Beckett

Poems written around the world - this edition a birthday present for Stewart Sherriff

who called from an unknown number?