The General
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The General
By Robert Muchamore"The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas.
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The General
By Robert Muchamorechanted, and egged one another on, as the BBC cameraman balanced precariously on a concrete bollard, trying to film the chanting crowd from a high vantage point. “Told you it was worth coming down here,” said the lad next to James, ...
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The General: The Ordinary Man who Became One of the Bravest Prisoners in Guantánamo
By Gillian Slovo, Ahmed ErrachidiThis very ordinary, Moroccan-born London chef became a leader of men. Known by the authorities as The General, he devised protests and resistance by any means possible. But then, Ahmed was freed, his innocence admitted. This is Ahm.
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The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved
By Jonathan FenbyThis biography of the former president of France describes his life and career fighting for the country that he loved, in the trenches of World War I, against the Nazi threat in World War II and during a decolonization war in Algeria.
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The General: William Booth
By David Malcolm BennettBentley, Nicolas, The Victorian Scene: 1837-1901 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968). Best, Geoffrey, Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75 (London: Weidenfeld & N., 1971). Blackwell, H. Benjamin, Fighting Sweep: Elijah Cadman (London: ...
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The General: William Levine, Citizen Soldier and Liberator
By Alex Kershaw, Richard Ernsberger, Jennifer N. PritzkerNew York Times best-selling author of the Liberator Alex Kershaw and 20-year veteran Newsweek reporter and editor Richard Ernsberger, Jr. trace the life of Major General Levine from D-day t othe Cold War and into postwar America.
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The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
By Jonathan FenbyThe first was the chief of Chinese detectives in the Concession, Huang Jinrong, known as Pockmarked Huang for the scar on his cheek from an attack of smallpox. Son of a policeman, he entered the service as a young man, but stormed out ...
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The General: Irish Mob Boss
By Paul WilliamsIn a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality, and meticulous planning, Martin Cahill, a k a, The General, netted over 40 million pounds.
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The General: Godfather of Crime
By Paul WilliamsThe General tells the inside story of the Beit robbery - one of the world's biggest art heists; the attempted assassination of a top forensic scientist; the O'Connor Jewellers robbery, netting 3 m[illion pounds]; the tyre-slashing and ...
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The General: A History of the Montreal General Hospital
By Joseph Hanaway, John H. Burgess13 James Preston Robb was born on 14 April 1914. After his McGill MD, CM, Robb interned at the MGH and trained in neurology at the MNI as well as at hospitals in the United States. In 1941, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy and held the ...
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The General
By John BoormanThe screenplay for John Boormans' "The General" follows Martin Cahill, a working class Dubliner who was the mastermind behind a series of daring robberies in the 1980s.
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The General
By C. S. ForesterThe book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’ The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a ...
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The General
By Janet ChartersAfter falling off his horse, General Jodpur discovers the beauty of flowers and nature and vows to change the world around him by bringing peace.
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The General: Irish Mob Boss
By Paul WilliamsA portrait of an Irish mob boss who became a hero to the working class traces Martin Cahill's twenty-year rise through the ranks of the Irish underworld, his role in one of the world's largest gold heists, his personal battles with the ...
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The General: William Booth
By David Malcolm BennettOffers information on William Booth (1829-1912), known as General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army.
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The General: The Caldwell Series
By Dan RyanThe General: is a continuation of the story begun in War of the Nations.
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The General
By Peter KrämerOffering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses its initial critical reception and the thematic and stylistic characteristics of the film that ...
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The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army, 1881-1925
By Allan Reed MillettThe General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army, 1881-1925
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The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
By Jonathan FenbyThis is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself.
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The General
By C. S. ForesterWhile personally courageous and dedicated, Curzon is otherwise unexceptional: an officer like many others, and it is the very ordinariness of Forester's character that serves to give the novel power.