Patrick Crowley is a historian and battlefield tour guide whose extensive military career has equipped him with unique insights into historical conflicts. He writes with an authority and perspective forged through years of service, offering readers a vivid and informed exploration of military history. His approach is characterized by a directness and a profound understanding of his subject matter.
Rose, Castle and Crown is a unique history of the part-time soldier of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, from the time of the militia, yeomanry and volunteer, through to the Territorial Army and today's Army Reserve. This is all placed in the wider context of the British Army's history.
By 1916 the force had not been relieved, and on 29 April 1916 the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in military history. His other publications include A Guide to the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, Kut 1916 and Loyal to Empire (The History Press, 2016). číst celé
Referring to Monro's brave decision to recommend a withdrawal from the Gallipoli disaster, Churchill said: `He came, he saw, he capitulated.'Monro was one of a handful of senior officers selected to command a division with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and also led a corps on the Western Front as the war progressed.
Designing Connected, Pervasive, Media-Rich Systems
Focusing on the platform architecture of modern embedded computing systems, this book delves into the development of frameworks for embedded systems-on-chips. It highlights practical examples, including the Intel Atom processor, which powers a range of high-end mobile devices like e-readers, Internet-enabled TVs, tablets, and netbooks. The content is designed to provide a deep understanding of designing connected, pervasive, and media-rich systems, making it a valuable resource for developers in the field.
Pierre Michon is one of France’s most significant contemporary writers. Since the publication in 1984 of his first book, Vies minuscules, Michon’s work has never ceased to evade generic classifications. His work ingests books, lives and thought and probes their complex interrelationship and those moments of convergence that transform an ordinary name into that of an ‘Author’ or of an ‘Artist’. The contents of Michon’s work are well documented: they are drawn from canonical novels, chronicles, archives and the biographies of artists’ lives and are worked into cross-generic forms that revive names and make us rethink the uncertainty of literature. Less has been written of his engagement with avant-garde thought. The legacy of French avant-garde thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular the work of Roland Barthes, informs Michon’s work. Barthes’s notions of the referent, of intertextuality and of authorship, for example, are transposed, reconfigured and sometimes contested within Michon’s work. In this way, Barthes’s name, the afterlife of his thought, remains encrypted within Michon’s prose. This book situates and reads Michon’s texts through the complex inscription and transformation of names drawn from the Creuse, literature, art and avant-garde thought. And it is within this matrix that Michon puts in play his own name and its uncertain relation to literature.