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Proud Shoes: Pauli Murray
$85.00First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray - legendary civil rights activist, a lawyer and a priest (one of the first women ordained in the United States) this is a chronicle of the lives of her maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near-murder, to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, who grew up free in the North, joined one of the first black regiments to fight in the Civil War despite the fact that he was already going blind from an injury and went south after the war to educate freed slaves in the face of white opposition and whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, this autobiography offers a revealing glimpse of America's history. -
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Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 –1980): English fashion, portrait and war photographer; painter; diarist and Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer. In short, a cultural icon. For almost as long as he could write, Cecil Beaton kept his diaries. They accumulated year after year, and from a formidable pile of notebooks he extracted enough to fill six volumes. Like any young man, he had his set-backs; growing up in a much-changed England post-World War I; differences with his devoted but at times unsympathetic family; his doubts and failures; he describes his friendships with famous men and women, artists, writers, actors, film stars and celebrated socialites; the friends of his youth and childhood, his parents and relations against the background of an ordinary English household. This first volume covers seventeen years from 1922 to 1939 and is a fascinating and disarming book covering the fascinating times of World War II and the Golden Age of Hollywood. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Frank Dell's experience as a Second World War pilot with the Royal Air Force's Light Night Striking Force took an even more dramatic turn when his Mosquito was shot down over Germany on the night of 14/15 October 1944. Frank recounts his escape from the disintegrating aircraft, his descent by parachute, and how, battered and bruised, he finds himself in a field adjacent to a German V2 rocket launch pad. Determined to avoid capture Frank crosses Nazi Germany and finds refuge in Holland with a Dutch Resistance group. A schoolboy when the conflict broke out, Frank Dell's extraordinary war takes him from a Home Guard unit defending the English coast against enemy invasion in 1940, to a tragic incident leading to the execution of Dutch civilians only weeks before the end of the hostilities. Frank's observant eye gives insight into what it is like to train and fly operationally with RAF Bomber Command, followed by the even greater challenges he confronts as he narrowly escapes capture while on the run from the Germans. -
Jean Nicol, before she was twenty, worked as a journalist at the Daily Mirror, answering - as she put it - the cries of the lovelorn as agony aunt 'Dorothy Dix'. In 1939 she began work as a junior press officer at the Savoy Hotel and when war broke out, the senior staff departed and she unexpectedly found herself in charge. Her office began to take on a unique importance as it gradually became a meeting place for celebrities and American press representatives. She was so successful that after helping Daniel Sangster, film publicist for director David O. Selznick, with media releases, he made her an offer; leave the Savoy and take over the European office of the David Selznick Organisation. She declined - and she also received a rise in salary from Miles Thornwill, Chairman of the Savoy. She met royalty, politicians, world leaders and many famous actors and actresses, including Danny Kaye, James Mason, Charlie Chaplin and Gertrude Lawrence. She first met Derek Tangye in 1941 when he asked her to stock his book, Time Was Mine in the hotel book stall. They became engaged in the winter of 1942 and married in February 1943. In 1949, they moved to Cornwall where they lived on a small holding with a variety of pets, growing daffodils and potatoes until Jean's death in 1986. Drawing on her experience as an agony aunt and her shrewd observations, this book is about the workings of the Savoy, its rich and famous guests and a wonderful view of social life in London over the war years and afterwards. This book was so popular that it was reprinted 18 times between 1952 and 1972. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Witch-Children: Hans Sebald
$95.00The period of persecution and execution of so-called witches is a venomous chapter of Western civilisation. The hunt extended from the Middle Ages into the early modern era, and from the Old World to the New. Although efforts have been made to understand this hysterical mass murder, many disturbing aspects are still shrouded in mystery. The participation of small children and adolescents, whether as the accused or as accusers, is crucial. Dr. Sebald examines a number of historic witch trials, including the infamous events at Salem, in England, Sweden, Austria and Germany. -
Dickens' Mr Micawber solved his problems by emigrating to Australia; his example was followed by Dickens' own sons. Alfred arrived in 1865 and younger brother Edward three years later. They both became managers and part-owners of stations in the far west of New South Wales, and stock and station agents. Alfred moved to Victoria and lectured both in Australia and overseas. Edward went to live in Wilcannia which he represented in Parliament. They may not have won fame or fortune, but their story, partly told through family letters, is still absorbing and would be of interest to any fan of Dickens. -
A fabulous compilation of political cartoons from a variety of sources world wide. In this volume: Europe Before The Great War; The First World War; The Uneasy Peace; Depression And Disarmament; The Rise Of The Nazis. With a chapter on Background and guide to cartoon analysis. -
In her early years as a sex worker, having more sex than ‘most people have had hot dinners; Biggs’ sexual exploits were legendary – once advertising for a sugar daddy. Since then, she has found the way to deeply fulfilling sex, Barbara also draws on the grass roots wisdom from her mother’s 30 years in the fantasy phone call business. Here she tells us why people read finance and sex books, but don’t follow the advice. Because making money (and sex) isn’t about strategies, it’s about emotional qualities like fear, risk taking ability, going against the crowd and your underlying beliefs. She goes where others fear to tread – and this book just might change your life. Biggs has been a writer for the Australian Financial Review and Melbourne Herald-Sun finance section. She became a millionaire through property investment.
