In a broadcast to the nation in September 1940 King George VI announced the institution of the George Cross
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Master watch designer & inventor George Daniels was regarded as the finest exponent of his craft in the world. Over the course of his career he laboriously constructed just 25 watches using antiquated tools creating almost every component by h&. Experts appreciate these watches as milestones in the art of watchmaking & the timepieces now change hands for sums of up to GBP200 000. This volume features comprehensive images of all of the unique watches Daniels produced in his career. Meticulous photography captures not only each masterpieces distinctive face but also the detail behind the dial & the intricate workings that power the watch itself. Rare & previously unseen images from Danielss own archive of photographs & working drawings are also reproduced. Michael Clerizo worked closely with George Daniels in the preparation of this book the craftsman recounting his life & career over their innumerable conversations at his home on the Isle of Man. That ample biography is also contained herein ensuring that the book is a fitting & authentic tribute to the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. ...

Brilliantly observed funny bittersweet Joyce Grenfell's witty sketches & songs never fail to entertain. This edition contains all the material in the original volumes of George Don't Do That & Stately as a Galleon including the bloodthirsty ' Ethel' & the unforgettable nursery school monologues. ...

GEORGE FOREMANS GRILLING MADE EASY helps you get the freshest healthiest most flavourful food possible from your indoor electric grill. Approx. 100 recipes will emphasize tasty meals made from handy ingredients & cooked on the George Foreman Grill in no-time flat. Recipes will be naturally low-carb (after all George Foreman is one of the worlds most celebrated carnivores) but will also have plenty to keep a carb lover sated. The recipes will include all meals & all phases of the meal from appetizers to entrees sides & desserts. There will even be menus for parties with all the food cooked on the Foreman grill. Georges new cookbook will address the broader concerns of feeding a growing family as well as lots of cool food for people going it on their own. Recipes will feed four but can easily be halved or doubled. The Georges -- some of George Foremans many sons named George -- will lend their voice (representing the younger side of the Foreman clan) to their fathers & will assist in promotion. In addition the book will cover the basic workings of the grill address how to prepare delicious healthy food under time constraints work with tight budgets & emphasize the joy of sharing meals with family & friends. ...

This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers & establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created some of the most beloved music of the twentieth century & along with Jerome Kern Irving Berlin & Cole Porter helped make the golden age of Broadway golden. Howard Pollack draws from a wealth of sketches manuscripts letters interviews books articles recordings films & other materials
- including a large cache of Gershwin scores discovered in a Warner Brothers warehouse in 1982
- to create an expansive chronicle of Gershwin's meteoric rise to fame. He also traces Gershwin's powerful presence that even today extends from Broadway jazz clubs & film scores to symphony halls & opera houses. Pollack's lively narrative describes Gershwin's family childhood & education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships & romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; & his tragic death at the age of 38. Unlike Kern Berlin & Porter who mostly worked within the confines of Broadway & Hollywood Gershwin actively sought to cross the boundaries between high & low & wrote works that crossed over into a realm where art music jazz & Broadway met & merged. The author surveys Gershwin's entire oeuvre from his first surviving compositions to the melodies that his brother & principal collaborator Ira Gershwin lyricized after his death. Pollack concludes with an exploration of the performances & critical reception of Gershwin's music over the years from his time to ours.

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George Lucas (born 1944) is a producer screenwriter & director who played a major role in the anti-establishment New Hollywood movement of the 1970s & helped define the blockbuster era of the 1980s. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars space opera & the producer of the iconic Indiana Jones adventure film series. Lucas had directed THX 1138 (1971) & American Graffiti (1973) before launching in 1977 the first film in the Star Wars franchise. Rapidly a worldwide pop culture phenomenon this was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) & Return of the Jedi (1983). Sixteen years later a new trilogy The Phantom Menace (1999) Attack of the Clones (2002) & Revenge of the Sith (2005) was released. The Star Wars series has spawned a range of other media including TV series video games & comic books. With this simple yet powerful saga Lucas has created a brand a business empire & a technological revolution. ...

George Mackay Brown was one of Scotlands greatest twentieth-century writers but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes & Charles Causley & hailed by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies as the most positive & benign influence ever on my own efforts at creation he was also an accomplished novelist (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize for Beside the Ocean of Time) & a master of the short story. When he died in 1996 he left behind an autobiography as deft as it is ultimately uninformative. The lives of artists are as boring & also as uniquely fascinating as any or every other life he claimed. Never a recluse he appeared open to his friends but probably revealed more of himself in his voluminous correspondence with strangers. He never married
- indeed he once wrote I have never been in love in my life. But some of his most poignant letters & poems were written to Stella Cartwright the Muse of Rose Street the gifted but tragic figure to whom he was once engaged & with whom he kept in touch until the end of her short life. Maggie Fergusson interviewed George Mackay Brown several times & is the only biographer to whom he a reluctant subject gave his blessing. Through his letters & through conversations with his wide acquaintance she discovers that this particular artists life was not only fascinating but vivid courageous & surprising.
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George Michael is an enigma. While he is one of the most open & vocal pop superstars on the planet he also fiercely protective of his privacy. From the formation of Wham! In 1981 he immediately found fame & fortune beyond his wildest dreams. His music formed the soundtrack to the 1980s & he achieved all of this despite growing up in a dysfunctional family where his father openly proclaimed that George had no talent. Wham! Split in 1986 but Michael went on to greater things as a solo artist. Along the way he has been embroiled in several controversies but in a refreshing change to other superstars he has been happy to address his issues head-on in the media. A court case with Sony; an arrest in a Los Angeles public toilet; minor run-ins over class-C drugs; & traffic offences in London. Rob Jovanovic's new biography of George Michael tackles the issues that formed the superstar today & his place as a cultural icon. It also for the first time analyses Michael's musical output & groundbreaking videos right up to his triumphant 2006 tour the first in 15 years as Michael returned from the music wilderness. ...

Personal as well as political Orwells letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richards developing teeth the death of his wife Eileen & his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War his opinions on bayonets & on the chaining of German prisoners display his magnificent talent as a political writer & letters to friends & his publisher provide a unique insight into the development & publication of some of the most important novels in the English language. A Life in Letters" features previously unpublished material including letters which shed new light on a love that would haunt him for his whole life as well as revealing the inspiration for some of his most famous characters. Presented for the first time in a dedicated volume this selection of Orwells letters is an indispensable companion to his diaries." ...

A lifelong Tory but a man of few fixed convictions the author of the most dramatic austerity programme this country has seen since the war the most aristocratic member of an unusually privileged government & a ferociously ambitious moderniser with aspirations for the premiership George Osborne is perhaps the most modern & metropolitan figure in British public life. This is the story of Osborne & the era he helped to shape. The Age of Osborne charts the mixture of rare brilliance deadly opportunism & extraordinary good fortune that propelled his vertiginous ascent through British politics from journalist fresh out of university to the youngest Chancellor in over a century. In doing so it paints a portrait of that rare thing in the coalition government: a compelling character. New Labour teemed with big complicated personalities such as Tony Blair Gordon Brown & Peter Mandelson. By contrast the coalition's dramatis personae contain a surfeit of blandly well-rounded types including David Cameron & Nick Clegg. Osborne is an exception & yet the public only have the faintest sense of the man. His story is the story of the past two decades of British politics from the revival of the Tories to the reformation of the state. ...