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 Ordre des livres (chronologique)
30 juillet 1909 – 9 mars 1993
Cyril Northcote Parkinson était un historien naval et auteur d'une soixantaine de livres. Il est principalement connu pour ses travaux approfondis en tant qu'universitaire dans le domaine de l'administration publique. Sa contribution la plus célèbre est la Loi de Parkinson, qui décrit avec humour la tendance du travail à s'étendre pour remplir tout le temps disponible. L'analyse perspicace de Parkinson sur les principes organisationnels et la nature humaine offre des observations intemporelles aux lecteurs.
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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
- 75pages
- 3 heures de lecture
Podnik - to sú ľudia
- 126pages
- 5 heures de lecture
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