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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Percy Anecdotes: Fidelity. Honour
Author: Honour and Fidelity: India's Military Contribution to the Great War 1914-1918
Author: Captain Amarinder SinghPublisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9351940543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
When the First World War raged from 1914 to 1918, hundreds of thousands troops fought valiantly and millions of lives were lost. Much has been written about the allies (Britain, France and other European powers, Russia, the United States, Canada) battles with the opposing central powers (Germany, Austria - Hungary, Italy, Turkey) but few know that 1.38 million men from India were also sent to various theatres of war. As many as seven Indian expeditionary forces fought battles far from home. Whether it was the damp, flat fields of Flanders or the burning sands of Mesopotamia, the rocky, cold and windy hills of Gallipoli or unhealthy uplands and stifling jungles of East Africa, Indian soldiers left indelible imprints of their heroism, winning world-wide acclaim. For the first time, this book fills in the abysmal gap in the records of the war. Drawn from archives, regimental histories and other sources, this book tells the story of the tremendous contribution of the Indian corps to the victory of the allied forces.
Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: James FairbairnPublisher:
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Category : Crests
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Path to Honour
Author: Hilda Caroline GreggPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Text
Author: James FairbairnPublisher:
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Category : Crests
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Pannell's Reference Book for Home and Office
Author: PannellPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
A Handbook of Proverbs
Author: MairProverbs and Family Mottoes with the Names of the Families by Whom They are Adopted
Author: James Allan MairPublisher:
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Category : Mottoes
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A Handbook of Proverbs: English, Scottish, Irish, American, Shakspearean, and Scriptural; and Family Mottoes, with Names of the Families by Whom They are Adopted
Author: James Allan MairPublisher:
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Category : Mottoes
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Honour is in Contentment
Author: William LancasterPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110223392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Based on interviews and field research, the authors explore the sets of ideas Arab tribespeople from Ras Al-Khaimah had about tribe and community; social and economic networks, and jural contracts for livelihoods and profits; their uses of their environments; the moral relations of credit, debt and labour; ruling; economic and political transformations; and ideas of regional history where conflicts were regarded as disputes over sets of ideas, and informal accounts of tribal and local histories. Their lively descriptions and explanations of life before oil portrayed tribal societies whose relationships were moral rather than political and were between jurally equal persons. All lived from their own resources; 'wealth' was material self-sufficiency; 'riches' the richness of social relationships. Political arenas were decentralised and underpinned by common cultural and moral values. Published sources give a wider context to these ideas and events which show the great complexity and differing perspectives of 'life before oil' in the Gulf.