Test Match Special

Baxter, Peter

Baxter 1947, Peter

HarperCollins, Publishers

Test Match Special 2

Test match special 2

Queen Anne Press

From Brisbane to Karachi (A Queen Anne Press book)

Macmillan Education Australia

Recalling the great matches and memorable moments in post-war Tests between England and the West Indies, this book contains extracts from contemporary radio commentary provided by the BBC's "Test Match Special" team. Also included are present-day recollections of some of the commentators, among whom are Rex Alston, John Arlott, Trevor Bailey, Henry Blofeld, Tony Cozier, Brian Johnston, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Don Mosey and Fred Trueman. The authors also wrote "The Ashes - Highlights Since 1948". Peter Baxter has been the producer of "Test Match Special" since 1973, and Peter Hayter is the cricket correspondent of "The Mail On Sunday".

England v West Indies: Highlights since 1948 : test match special team

Hayter, Peter

For its 1932 release of Joself von Sternber's Blonde Venus, Paramount trumpeted Marlene Dietrich's role as "fallen woman." Portraying nightclub entertainer Helen Faraday, Dietrich plunges into adultery, loses both husband and child, and is hounded from the stage onto the streets. Like thousands of Americans at the nadir of the Great Depression, she wanders the country without shelter or hope. In a last effort of will, Helen Faraday vows to regain her fame and fortune: "Don't you think I can?" she asks. "Just watch!" 1932 was a key year for Josef von Sternberg, for Paramout Pictures, and for the United States. After three Hollywood films with the star he created in The Blue Angel, Sternberg had reached a creative crossroads. Paramount was at the brink of collapse but hoped Blonde Venus would match the stunning profits realized by Shanghai Express. In a high stakes challenge to his studio and his audience, Sternberg chose a story addressed directly to the social catastrophe that had befallen the U.S. In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Peter Baxter probes the landmark film from every angle. He teases out its relations to Sternberg's life and work, maps the byzantine politics of a major Hollywood studio, and discusses the film's relation to a fragmented society.

Just Watch: Sternberg, Paramount and America

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

British Film Inst

For its 1932 release of Joself von Sternber's Blonde Venus, Paramount trumpeted Marlene Dietrich's role as "fallen woman." Portraying nightclub entertainer Helen Faraday, Dietrich plunges into adultery, loses both husband and child, and is hounded from the stage onto the streets. Like thousands of Americans at the nadir of the Great Depression, she wanders the country without shelter or hope. In a last effort of will, Helen Faraday vows to regain her fame and fortune: "Don't you think I can?" she asks. "Just watch!" 1932 was a key year for Josef von Sternberg, for Paramout Pictures, and for the United States. After three Hollywood films with the star he created in The Blue Angel, Sternberg had reached a creative crossroads. Paramount was at the brink of collapse but hoped Blonde Venus would match the stunning profits realized by Shanghai Express. In a high stakes challenge to his studio and his audience, Sternberg chose a story addressed directly to the social catastrophe that had befallen the U.S. In this highly original and meticulously researched book, Peter Baxter probes the landmark film from every angle. He teases out its relations to Sternberg's life and work, maps the byzantine politics of a major Hollywood studio, and discusses the film's relation to a fragmented society.

Just Watch!: Sternberg, Paramount and America

British Film Institute

Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith. From their widely dispersed origins, Gandhi and Smuts collided over the issue of race and equality in a turbulent province of the empire, each attempting to hold the British to their stated ideals. This insightful book explores attitudes to race, and belonging, in an age when the English speaking peoples straddled the globe, and sought to impose on all of their subject races, basking under the radiance of Britannia, a common ideal of parity, equal opportunity and free movement.

Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire: Of Passive and Violent Resistance

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Pen and Sword History

It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944—long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe—with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was the Middle East … On the afternoon of 6 October, 1973, the colossus of the Israeli Defence Forces was awakened by a wave of airstrikes, followed by an artillery bombardment along the Suez Canal that preceded a meticulously planned Egyptian invasion of the Israeli-held Sinai. Simultaneously, a massive Syrian armored assault bore down on Israeli positions on the Golan Heights. The day was Yom Kippur, the most holy day on the Jewish religious calendar, and the commencement of a war that would bring the young state of Israel to the very brink of defeat. In the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, a stunning Arab reversal at the hands of the untested Israeli Defence Forces, Israel occupied and held Arab territory on the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. These were for the most part territorial buffer zones, retained to protect Israel against an inevitable future war, but their ongoing occupation remained an open diplomatic wound. In the meanwhile, a mood of complacency came to affect the Israeli military machine, in the belief that air and armored dominance of the battlefield would, as had been the case in 1967, guarantee a quick victory in any future war. The Yom Kippur War proved the fallacy of this belief, revealing critical weaknesses in Israeli intelligence capability and battlefield strategy. The ferocity and effectiveness of the combined invasion pushed the much-storied Israeli armed forces almost to the point of collapse. Only the rapid resupply of arms and equipment by the United States, and a display of extraordinary reliance and determination by the fighting forces of Israel, rescued the young state from annihilation. The story of the Yom Kippur War is an object lesson in the dynamism of military thinking, the evolution of battlefield technology and the uneasy alliance of east and west during the Cold War era of détente. Yom Kippur was both a military and political maneuver that adjusted the balance of power in the Middle East, and set the tone for the ideological standoff that continues in the region to this day

Yom Kippur (Cold War 1945–1991)

Religion & Spirituality

Pen and Sword Military

After the Lost Franklin Expedition: Lady Franklin and John Rae

The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalized generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's history of polar exploration. In the aftermath of the crew's disappearance, Lady Jane Franklin, Sir John's widow, maintained a crusade to secure her husband's reputation, imperiled alongside him and his crew in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. Lady Franklin was an uncommon woman for her age, a socially and politically astute figure who ravaged anyone who she viewed as a threat to her husband's legacy.Meanwhile John Rae, an explorer and employee of the Hudson Bay Company, recovered deeply disturbing information from the Expedition. His shocking conclusions embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Lady Franklin which led to the ruin of his reputation and career. Against the background of Victorian society and the rise of the explorer celebrity, we learn of Lady Franklin's formidable grit to honor her husband's legacy; of John Rae being discredited and his eventual ruin, despite later being proven right. It is a fascinating assessment of the aftermath of the Franklin Expedition and its legacy.

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