![]() ![]() As such, the book offers a fascinating insight into one of the most important yet least understood military forces of the twentieth century. ![]() As such it makes a substantial contribution across a range of subject areas, presenting a compendium of chapters examining Indian Army participation in the Second World War from North Africa to Burma, plus a variety of other topics including the evolution of wartime training, frontier operations, Churchill and the Indian Army, the Army's role in the development of post-war British counterinsurgency practice, and of particular note, several chapters examining aspects of the partition in 1947. With contributions from many of those at the forefront of the study of the Indian Army and Commonwealth history, the book focuses upon a period of Indian Army history not well covered by modern scholarship. ![]() This volume presents a range of papers examining the Indian Army experience from the outbreak of world war in 1939 to the partition of India in 1947. The sheer size and influence of the British Indian Army, and its major role in the Allied War effort between 19 on behalf of a country from which it was seeking independence, maintains its fascination as a subject for a wide variety of historians. ![]()
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![]() There were things about this romance that I liked and things I didn’t. However, after having to come to his ex-boyfriend’s rescue, Trig decides the waiting is over and it is now time for him to reclaim his man, and make El see that they can have a life together, even though Trig is now a steady part of the very same Coffin Nails MC that El despised so much. Trig never stopped loving El, and always kept the hope alive that they would someday get back together. ![]() As it turns out, Trig had been stalking El all these years without El’s knowledge. The actual book begins five years after the break-up, and El is in a lot of trouble due to some nasty business with a drug cartel, but luckily Trig comes in to save him from imminent death. They fall in love while moving around from place to place, getting into fights with other punks, having to scrunch up food just to survive, but overall still being happy because they had each other.Įventually, though, Trig became involved with a motorcycle club, trying to look for a better life for both of them, but El wanted nothing to do with any of that, so they broke up after El gave Trig an ultimatum where he said Trig had to either choose the motorcycle club or him. The story is about two childhood lovers, Trig and El, who met each other when they were both homeless and living on the streets, having to fend for themselves. ![]() The writing was engaging enough, and so were the characters, even if they frustrated me a lot. ![]() ![]() This wasn’t great, but it definitely wasn’t awful either. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mathilde changes from a woman who spends her time dreaming of all the riches and glory she doesn’t have, to realizing that she overlooked all the riches she did have. ![]() She and her husband are forced to live a life of hard work and struggle because of her own selfish desires. This change comes about when she has to learn one of life’s little lessons the hard way. In the story, we see a change in her attitude about life. Looking at Guy De Maupassant’s piece “The Necklace”, we see a very clear development of the main character Mathilde. These lessons are usually brought out by the events that take place within the story. Character development gives the reader insight into the more important meanings or lessons of the story. It is also necessary to develop these characters throughout the story. In any literacy work, it is absolutely essential to have characters, whether major or minor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interviews with colleagues and fans of Thurber pay tribute to one of America's leading humorists and establish his place among American writers of the 20th century. Their book Is Sex Necessary was the first prose work published by either writer, and their alliance continued as both worked for The New Yorker under founding editor Harold Ross. Van Doren follows Thurber and his wife, Althea, when they leave the Midwest for the sophistication of New York City and Thurber's eventual friendship and collaboration with E.B. He begins with Thurber's childhood in Columbus, OH, where a game of William Tell with his brother Robert left Thurber with damaged vision. ![]() In this engaging documentary, filmmaker Van Doren draws a picture of Thurber that captures the essence of the man. ![]() Humorist James Thurber (1894–1961) wanted to write serious literature such as that of Henry James, and he spoke mockingly of his own work. ![]() ![]() And if he’d listened to them you wouldn’t have had your favorite movie made and think of how many people would never have heard the phrase 'May the Force be With You. ![]() They told George Lucas that he was a fool for making Star Wars – they used to even call it Lucas’s Folly. Look at me, Torimou, people laugh at me all the time and say that I’m chasing rainbows. Your own self-respect and sense of purpose. ![]() Your mother’s love and the love of your family and true friends. In this collection, Sherrilyn Kenyon takes listeners from the Dark-Hunters to witches to demons and everything in-between as she explores the darkest parts of human nature. You hold your head high and know that you have the one thing they can never take away from you. Don’t let those people steal your day, baby. ![]() They’re so unhappy with themselves that the only way they can feel better is by making everyone as unhappy as they are. Realize that it’s their own insecurities that make them attack you and others. “No one can ever make you feel inferior without your permission, Tory. ![]() |