Jorun Lem Book Archive

Paru en mai 1871 en Angleterre, l’ouvrage The conflict of Dorking connut un retentissement remarquable et donna lieu à l’édition de nombreuses brochures qui le réfutaient, le complétaient ou le critiquaient. Dès août 1871, il est traduit en français et longuement préfacé par Charles Yriarte. Signe de l’intérêt que l’Europe toute entière prend à cette myth qui, après los angeles foudroyante victoire allemande sur l. a. France, en 1870, trouve toute sa raison d’être.

Cette courte nouvelle d’uchronie se présente sous l. a. forme d’un récit : en 1921, un ancien volontaire anglais raconte à ses enfants remark, 50 ans auparavant, après l’annexion du Danemark et de l. a. Hollande par le Reich allemand, l. a. flotte anglaise a été défaite sur mer par l. a. flotte prussienne. Puis remark l’Angleterre envahie est définitivement battue lors de l. a. bataille de Dorking, malgré le braveness et los angeles détermination des miliciens et des volontaires, par les armées prussiennes. Et simultanément le monde se recompose : les Etats-Unis absorbent le Canada ; l’Espagne, Gibraltar...

A l. a. fois récit d’anticipation, texte politique et prémonitoire, destiné à faire prendre judgment of right and wrong à tous du threat que représente, à terme, l’émergence de los angeles puissance allemande en Europe, voilà bien un texte à découvrir...

It used to be the struggle that opened the deadliest century in human historical past. the tale follows Vickers laptop gun groups of British squaddies via their education to the battlefields of WWI. whilst the warriors arrive in Belgium they're initiated right into a mystery society, the “Golden Arrows of God”, and are guaranteed of St. George’s defense. Over 4 days, together with their first actual conflict opposed to the Germans, they're stored through apparition after apparition of angels.
Meanwhile in London, vital participants of esoteric societies (William Butler Yeats and Sir Conan Doyle) obtain messages in regards to the visual appeal of those angels. Invocations, visions, computerized writing and visitations by means of spirits carry the scoop of the surprising rescues of the 1st days of WWI.

"The Angel of Mons is a meditative and transcendent trip right into a battle we will be able to by no means research an excessive amount of approximately, or from."
Kevin Coyne, writer of Marching domestic

This is the start line for Metz’s wide-ranging, unique booklet: St. George, the Angel of Mons, appears to be like out of an unfurling cloud over the Mons-Condé canal, saving Lt. Dease’s Vickers machine-gun workforce. The saint assaults the Germans and saves the BEF from annihilation. a number of days, later Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s and W.B. Yeats’ studies ensure this to be so. old characters rub shoulders with women and men of the author's creation.

Steeped within the Edwardian Age’s ideals concerning the psychic phenomena and spiritualism, the unconventional exhibits that luck within the conflict is greater than an issue of well-sited computer weapons and resolute crews; within the Angel of Mons St. George determines the destiny of the “Golden Arrows of God,” and the British Expeditionary strength.

Antony chicken writer of gents, we are going to Stand and struggle: Le Cateau 1914.

Long after the conflict is over, and the proof of it were recorded in histories, the most widely recognized occasions often is the visual appeal of St. George and angel-warriors combating in safeguard of the British through the retreat from Mons. The papers are filled with it and testimony pours in from both sides.

Harold Begbie “On the facet of the Angels” 1915.

That used to be the conflict of Mons. because the establishing British engagement of what used to be to turn into the good struggle, it grew to become endowed looking back with each caliber of greatness and was once given a spot within the British pantheon equivalent to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it.

Barbara Tuchman, The weapons of August

Virginia armed forces within the progressive conflict : McAllister's data
by ,McAllister, J. T. (Joseph Thompson) 1866-1927
Published 1913
Topics Virginia. defense force, usa -- historical past Revolution, 1775-1783 Regimental histories, Virginia -- background Revolution, 1775-1783, Virginia -- Biography

»Dort wo die Stadt ihren Namen verliert« beginnen jene dunklen Viertel Barcelonas, in denen die Ärmsten der Armen in Hütten und Baracken ihr Leben fristen. Mit unbekümmerter Offenheit, rauhem und zärtlichem Humor prangert Francisco Candel in seinem Roman die sozialen Mißstände jener Viertel, in denen er selbst aufgewachsen ist, an. Sein expertise, den Leuten »aufs Maul zu schauen«, uns ihr wirbelndes, tragisches und komisches Schicksal mit all seinen Geheimnissen preiszugeben, führt uns mitten auf diesen Jahrmarkt des Lebens.
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entire novels in a single volume—
the starting of the Belisarius saga.

An indirect Approach: In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed via an intelligence from past time, with new guns, outdated treachery, and an implacable will to strength, the Malwa will sweep over the complete Earth. simply 3 issues stand among the Malwa and their plan of everlasting domination: the empire of Rome within the East, Byzantium; a crystal with imaginative and prescient; and a guy named Belisarius, the best commander Earth has ever known.

In the guts of Darkness: Having conquered 6th century India, the Malwa Empire is forging the subcontinent's great inhabitants into an invincible weapon of tyranny. Belisarius, the best basic of his age, needs to shop the realm. Guided by means of visions from a destiny that could by no means be, he and a band of affiliates penetrate the Malwa heartland, looking the middle of the enemy's energy. And while Belisarius leads the forces of fine, just a idiot could facet with evil.

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Vietnam veteran, former attorney, former bus motive force, and now bestselling writer, David Drake tells an army tale like no different. His readers realize that he can take them the place nobody else can, with gut-wrenching description that places them face-to-face with the enemy, and in the middle of the motion correct at the battlefield. He helped create the viewers for mercenary army technology fiction together with his best-selling "Hammer's Slammers" books. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the college of Iowa, majoring in background (with honors) and Latin. His stint at Duke collage legislation college used to be interrupted for 2 years via the U.S. military, the place he served as an enlisted interrogator with the eleventh Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Drake has a spouse, a son, and numerous pets.

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts unternimmt der »Zeitreisende« – ein nicht namentlich genannter Erfinder – einen Ausflug in das Jahr 802.701, wo er zwei verschiedene Menschenrassen antrifft: die scheinbar sorgenfrei und glücklich an der Erdoberfläche lebenden Eloi und die unterirdischen Morlocks. Erst mit der Zeit findet er heraus, dass zwischen den Eloi und den Morlocks ein Anhängigkeitsverhältnis besteht, das seine schlimmsten Befürchtungen übertrifft!

Nach einem Abstecher in die ferne Zukunft, wo über der stillstehenden Erde ein riesiger roter Feuerball lodert, kehrt er in die Gegenwart zurück. Da ihm jedoch niemand Glauben schenken will, begibt er sich erneut auf die Reise …

Diese Ausgabe enthält neben einem Nachwort des Wells-Experten Elmar Schenkel die gestrichenen Passagen ›Die Rückkehr des Zeitreisenden«; drei Vorworte der Ausgaben der Jahre 1924, 1931 und 1934; den Vorläufer: ›Die Chrononauten‹ aus dem Jahr 1888 sowie die Essays aus dem Jahr 1893 ›Der Mann aus dem Jahr 1.000.000. Eine wissenschaftliche Vorausschau‹ und›Das Aussterben des Menschen. Einige spekulative Gedanken‹ von 1894.