1901. Justin Huntly McCarthy, Irish politician, journalist, novelist, and historian. After a long career in journalism, he entered the British Parliament, advocating home rule for Ireland. He was at first a supporter of, then head of the opposition to, Charles Parnell. He is best known for his novel If I Were King, which he based on the life of the vagabond poet, Francis Villon. His later dramatization of the novel became the basis for the operetta The Vagabond King. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
ISBN: 1-417923-08-3
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Дата выхода: июль 2010
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carroll Ballard is an American film director. He started out making documentaries for the U.S. information agency, Beyond This Winter's Wheat and Harvest; the latter was nominated for an Academy Award. He also made the documentaries The Perils of Priscilla, and Rodeo. He was second unit director on George Lucas' Star Wars for which he handled many of the outdoor desert scenes. His first solo directing job came when Francis Ford Coppola, a former UCLA classmate, offered him the job of directing The Black Stallion, an adaptation from the novel of the same name by Walter Farley. He went on to direct Never Cry Wolf, a film based on Farley Mowat's autobiographical book of the same name, detailing...
ISBN: 978-6-1337-1214-0
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Дата выхода: июль 2011
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gardens of Stone is a 1987 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Proffitt. It tells the story of a hardened Korean and Vietnam War veteran Sergeant First Class Clell Hazard; he would rather be an instructor at the U.S. Army School of Infantry, at Fort Benning, Georgia, to train soldiers for Vietnam but instead he is assigned by the Army to the 1st battalion 3d Infantry Regiment at Fort Myer, Virginia. The Old Guard is U.S. Army's Honor Guard. It provides the ceremonial honor guard for the funerals of fallen soldiers and guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Hazard calls them the "toy soldiers" and hates his job until...
ISBN: 978-6-1341-0458-6
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Дата выхода: июль 2011
