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January 8, 2024

Who Is Ralph Lauren

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Free Download Jane O’Connor, Stephen Marchesi, "Who Is Ralph Lauren?"
English | 2017 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0606405046, 1524784036, 1524784028 | EPUB | 21,8 mb
The polo player with the raised mallet-everyone knows the Ralph Lauren logo. Learn the amazing story of the man who is a true American fashion icon.

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December 25, 2023

General Sir Ralph Abercromby and the French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1801

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Free Download General Sir Ralph Abercromby and the French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1801 by Carole Divall
English | April 5, 2019 | ISBN: 1526741466 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3.94 Mb
The French Revolutionary Wars of 1793-1801 are less well known than the Napoleonic Wars that followed, but they represent a critical stage in the political and diplomatic history of Europe, and Sir Ralph Abercromby played a leading role in the British military campaigns that were part of them. Carole Divall in this absorbing and perceptive study throws new light onto Britain’s position during the late eighteenth century, focusing on its military affairs and the expeditionary forces led by Abercromby during the conflict.As tension between Britain and France grew after the convulsions of the French revolution, the British decided to wage an economic war by attacking French colonial possessions, and money and men were sent to campaign on the continent. Abercromby was the most notable British general to exercise command of these expeditions, and his actions and experiences are central to the narrative. He led British forces during the disastrous campaign in Flanders, achieved some success in St Lucia and Trinidad, failed at Den Helder and finally triumphed in Egypt where he lost his life in 1801.

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September 28, 2023

Ralph Ellison A Biography

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Free Download Arnold Rampersad, "Ralph Ellison: A Biography"
English | 2008 | pages: 704 | ISBN: 0375707980, 0375408274 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary heritage. Starting with Ellison’s hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject’s troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model of literary biography.

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