Originally published in 1949, Portsmouth Point: The British Navy in Fiction, 1793-1815 is a captivating look into the naval experience during the Napoleonic wars. The author, C.N. Parkinson, uses excerpts from the writings of real officers, midshipman and crew members during the late 18th and early 19th centuries to create a semi-fictitious collection of naval stories. The dialogue, characters, and events within the book are not historical fact, but as Parkinson writes in the preface, a truly good novelist "writes boldly the sort of talk there might have been and so creates-- as compared with the biographer-- an impression more vivid, and in a sense, more true."
C. Northcote Parkinson Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
30 luglio 1909 – 9 marzo 1993
Cyril Northcote Parkinson fu uno storico navale e autore di circa sessanta libri. È noto soprattutto per il suo vasto lavoro come studioso nel campo dell'amministrazione pubblica. Il suo contributo più famoso è la Legge di Parkinson, che descrive umoristicamente la tendenza del lavoro ad espandersi per riempire tutto il tempo disponibile. L'acuta analisi di Parkinson sui principi organizzativi e sulla natura umana offre osservazioni senza tempo per i lettori.
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblower--the man who rose from Midshipman to Admiral of the British Fleet? Using Hornblower family papers discovered in the 1970s, C. Northcote Parkinson has set the record straight in this authoritative biography.
xiv,178p. : 25cm
Základy managementu
- 75pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Podnik - to sú ľudia
- 126pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
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