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Heroic Failure and the British

2016-01-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Heroic Failure and the British by : Stephanie L. Barczewski

Download or read book Heroic Failure and the British written by Stephanie L. Barczewski. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aan de hand van heroïsche mislukkingen zoals de Charge van de Lichte Brigade en Captain Scott wordt licht geworpen op het Brits zijn.

Heroic Failure

2019-09 European Union countries
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Release : 2019-09
Genre : European Union countries
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Heroic Failure by : Fintan O'Toole

Download or read book Heroic Failure written by Fintan O'Toole. This book was released on 2019-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the English that I've read for ages'Billy Bragg. A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism. Trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact came to define the style of an entire political elite; a country that once had colonies redefined itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation. Fintan O'Toole also discusses the fatal attraction of heroic failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster. Now failure is no longer heroic - it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters. A new afterword lays out the essential reforms that are urgently needed if England is to have a truly democratic future and stable relations with its nearest neighbours.

The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures

2011-10-20 Humor
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Release : 2011-10-20
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 306/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures by : Stephen Pile

Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile. This book was released on 2011-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES HUMOUR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the few books to make me laugh out loud' Sunday Express With Stephen Pile's The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures, celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures. Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ('I'm a winner, Lord Sugar') to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Failure is everywhere. The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. From the most driving test failures (959), the most pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted), the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250 better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to make you feel better about yourself and the world around you.

Heroic Failure and the British

2016-03-22 History
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Release : 2016-03-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Heroic Failure and the British by : Stephanie Barczewski

Download or read book Heroic Failure and the British written by Stephanie Barczewski. This book was released on 2016-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain’s embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humorous stories from history, Barczewski’s survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.

The Book of Heroic Failures

1999 Curiosities and wonders
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Release : 1999
Genre : Curiosities and wonders
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Book Synopsis The Book of Heroic Failures by : Stephen Pile

Download or read book The Book of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to be really bad at something, but the people in this book manage to succeed The book features tales of drivers who can't drive, travellers who get lost all the time and policemen who can't catch criminals.

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