PETER ROOS

The prehistoric sites of Britain and Ireland are places of wonder and wondering Who made these structures What did they mean to them And what do they mean to us now Bestselling author Peter Ross journeys from midwinter at Stonehenge to midsummer at Sycamore Gap Along the way he encounters bog bodies in Dublin a wooden goddess in Edinburgh and a chalk giant in Dorset He asks what it is like to live within the great stone circle at Avebury what rituals occurred in an Anglesey tomb and what draws volunteers to care for the Uffington White Horse These objects and structures speak of the long human story They offer the comfort of recognition and the pleasure of mystery There is something about ancient places that fills a hollow in our souls Upon A White Horse is a celebration of landscape and people and all that is beautiful strange and old PRAISE FOR STEEPLE CHASING A delicious treat Financial Times A charming odyssey The Times Lovely lyrical whimsical elegiac TLS Engaging New Statesman A wonderful book Daily Telegraph

For many of its participants, the Second World War was the most intense period of their lives with horizons widened by grief, strangeness and excitement. Peter Ross, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, to become a troop commander in Montgomerys Eighth Army. He took ship to Egypt and was active in the Western Desert campaign, concluding with El Alamein, a memorable and historic battle which marked the turning-point of the war. Hospitalized and awarded the Military Cross, Ross returned to take part in the D-Day landings, the liberation of Brussels and the advance on the Rhine. All Valiant Dust is a young Irishmans experience of war, vividly recounted with compassion and humour. Its painfully realized remembrance of the din and tempo of desert conflict, and much besides, documents extraordinary times.

Adéntrese en un nuevo mundo de fascinación y deleite a medida que el galardonado escritor Peter Ross descubre las historias y las glorias de los cementerios. ¿Quiénes son los muertos marginados de Londres y por que David Bowie es su angel de la guarda? ¿Cual es la extraordinaria verdad sobre Phoebe Hessel, que se disfrazo de hombre para luchar al lado de su amor, y llego a vivir en los reinados de cinco monarcas? ¿Por que un cementerio de Bristol es el lugar perfecto para las bodas de los goticos?Todos estos dolorosos misterios -y muchos mas- tienen respuesta en Una tumba con vistas, un libro para cualquiera que haya paseado alguna vez por un campo de lapidas torcidas y se haya preguntado por las vidas y las muertes de quienes yacen debajo.Asi que abre la puerta oxidada, aparta la hiedra y echa un vistazo al interior..

With these books an effort has been made to present the history of the whole of Long Island in such a way as to combine all the salient facts of the long and interesting story in a manner that might be acceptable to the general reader and at the same time include much of that purely antiquarian lore which is to many the most delightful feature of local history. Long Island has played a most important part in the history of the State of New York and, through New York, in the annals of the Nation. It was one of the first places in the Colonies to give formal utterance to the doctrine that taxation without representation is unjust and should not be borne by men claiming to be free-the doctrine that gradually went deep into the hearts and consciences of men and led to discussion, opposition and war; to the declaration of independence, the achievement of liberty and the founding of a new nation. It took an active part in all that glorious movement, the most significant movement in modern history, and though handicapped by the merciless occupation of the British troops after the disaster of August, 1776, it continued to do what it could to help along the cause to which so many of its citizens had devoted their fortunes, their lives. This is volume two out of three, covering the history of Kings County, Brooklyn and Queens.

With these books an effort has been made to present the history of the whole of Long Island in such a way as to combine all the salient facts of the long and interesting story in a manner that might be acceptable to the general reader and at the same time include much of that purely antiquarian lore which is to many the most delightful feature of local history. Long Island has played a most important part in the history of the State of New York and, through New York, in the annals of the Nation. It was one of the first places in the Colonies to give formal utterance to the doctrine that taxation without representation is unjust and should not be borne by men claiming to be freethe doctrine that gradually went deep into the hearts and consciences of men and led to discussion, opposition and war; to the declaration of independence, the achievement of liberty and the founding of a new nation. It took an active part in all that glorious movement, the most significant movement in modern history, and though handicapped by the merciless occupation of the British troops after the disaster of August, 1776, it continued to do what it could to help along the cause to which so many of its citizens had devoted their fortunes, their lives. This is volume one out of three, covering the general history of Long Island.

With these books an effort has been made to present the history of the whole of Long Island in such a way as to combine all the salient facts of the long and interesting story in a manner that might be acceptable to the general reader and at the same time include much of that purely antiquarian lore which is to many the most delightful feature of local history. Long Island has played a most important part in the history of the State of New York and, through New York, in the annals of the Nation. It was one of the first places in the Colonies to give formal utterance to the doctrine that taxation without representation is unjust and should not be borne by men claiming to be free-the doctrine that gradually went deep into the hearts and consciences of men and led to discussion, opposition and war; to the declaration of independence, the achievement of liberty and the founding of a new nation. It took an active part in all that glorious movement, the most significant movement in modern history, and though handicapped by the merciless occupation of the British troops after the disaster of August, 1776, it continued to do what it could to help along the cause to which so many of its citizens had devoted their fortunes, their lives. This is volume three out of three, covering the history of Nassau County, Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Suffolk County, Huntington and many towns more.

Daniel Corkerys The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, has had sustained appeal since its publication in 1925. There Corkery used literary evidence to sustain a picture of relieved poverty and oppression, spiritual counterpart to the social and economic conditions described by the Victorian chroniclers Froude and Lecky. In 1969 Professor Louis Cullen exposed Corkerys uncomplicated view of the period, coloured by the early twentieth-century national revival, in this classica revisionism (the name whereby historians interpret Irelands mythologies). Here Cullen suggests a closer investigation of the Irish poets milieux, from which emerges a richer, more subtle pattern than that imposed by earlier generations. This important text, supplemented with a new Postscript and English-language translations of the poetry cited, is now available to the general reader, literary critic, historian and student of Irish affairs alike.

Adéntrese en un nuevo mundo de fascinación y deleite a medida que el galardonado escritor Peter Ross descubre las historias y las glorias de los cementerios. ¿Quiénes son los muertos marginados de Londres y por que David Bowie es su angel de la guarda? ¿Cual es la extraordinaria verdad sobre Phoebe Hessel, que se disfrazo de hombre para luchar al lado de su amor, y llego a vivir en los reinados de cinco monarcas? ¿Por que un cementerio de Bristol es el lugar perfecto para las bodas de los goticos? Todos estos dolorosos misterios -y muchos mas- tienen respuesta en Una tumba con vistas, un libro para cualquiera que haya paseado alguna vez por un campo de lapidas torcidas y se haya preguntado por las vidas y las muertes de quienes yacen debajo. Asi que abre la puerta oxidada, aparta la hiedra y echa un vistazo al interior...