God Save the King The ‘common colonial’ Passage to England Growing Pains Diagnosis Court Dress with Feathers The Calm Before the Storm Edward VIII’s 327 Days In the Shadow of the Coronation After the Coronation The Path to War ‘Kill the Austrian House Painter’ Dunkirk and the Dark Days The Tide Turns Victory The Last …
Prelude A Grand Symphony with Many Voices 1824, or How Artists Internalize Revolution Imagining the Ninth To Begin Anew Postlude
Author’s Note Gregory Burke Director’s Note John Tiffany Forward the Forty-Second! Lt Col Matt Whitney (retd, US Army) Perspective Power Empathy for the Warrior Production Timeline Awards for Black Watch The National Theatre of Scotland Cast, Creative and Production Teams Thanks Characters Black Watch
Act I: “House of Cards”, December 1941-June 1942 Act II: “Even Up and Squared Off”, May 1942-December 1942 Act III: “The Pause that Refreshes”, Christmas 1942-Christmas 1943 Act IV: “Haze Gray and Underway”, December 1943-June 1945 Act V: Legacies
Turning Back the Clock, 1660-1662 The Triumvirate Forged, 1663 Balance of Power, 1663-1666 Lauderdale Triumphant, 1666-1667 The New Brooms, 1667-1668 Tweeddale and Work, 1668-1669 Supremacy and Union, 1669-1670 The Triumvirate Comes Apart, 1670-1671 Family Feud, 1672-1673 Dearest Brothers No More, 1673-1674
Meet the authors Introduction How to use this book What this book can do for you What you must do for yourself Sorting out your priorities Handwriting problems Self-diagnosis How to begin diagnosing your writing problems More about self-diagnosis Practical matters Help for left-handers Steps to writing more clearly Research into left-handers’ hand positions More …
Undertones of War: Introduction Hew Strachan Guide to further reading Glossary Preliminary Preface to the Second Edition The Path without Primroses Trench Education The Cherry Orchard The Sudden Depths Contrasts Specimen of the War of Attrition Steel Helmets for All The Calm The Storm A Home from Home Very Secret Caesar Went into Winter Quarters …
Gobowen Newton-Le-Willows The Death of a Dithering Politician … And the Birth of a Very Strange Relationship Penzance First-class, Second-class, 143rd class The Slow Train North The Even Slower Train Further North In Breach of Regulations Blisworth Spoiling the Shires, Ruining the Squires The Great Wall of China? A Doddle! And the Dust Gathered on …
Introduction Arrival The Man Scott’s Edinburgh Ossian Reputation Monument Royal Mile Nation The Borders Scott Country Scott’s Minstrelsy Rhymer Last and Latest Minstrel Toponymy The Heights of Parnassus ‘Laying a Trap for Jeffrey’ ‘Some satrical flings at Scott’ Tourism Heritage Waverley ‘The Author of Waverley‘ A Digression on Secret Identities Putting a Country in a …
Preface Note on Currencies Prologue: WIth Albemarle to Havana, 1762 The English Expedition The Spanish Colony Sugar and Society The Victors and the Creoles Book One: The Great Leap Forward, 1763-1825 Enter North America The Challenge of Haiti Rebellion in South America The Ever-faithful Isle Book Two: The Golden Age, 1825-68 The World of Sugar …