Books with author Charles Morley

Charles Moore's masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall.How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs?Charles Moore's full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers, and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement, and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the fall of the Berlin Wall, which she had fought for, and the rise of the modern EU that she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination.Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling story.

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."―The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth―and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.

This story tells of the experiences of a young sailor during World War II, aboard an Attack Transport in the Pacific theater. For the first time in our history we would be fighting a two front -conflict. The war fronts were widely separated and would require different types of fighting and planning. Europe would require a large scale amphibious attack (the Normandy landings) because most of the continent was held by the enemy. But in the Pacific theater, with its many islands, both large and small, the conditions necessitated an almost continuous amphibious war, for which we were not prepared.The United States had not fought an amphibious battle since the 1898 Spanish American War. We were a little rusty in this type of warfare, to say the least. Our British Ally had not fought an amphibious campaign since their ill-fated Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I, a battle in which they had suffered a disastrous and humiliating defeat.Neither we nor our Allies possessed suitable landing craft for large-scale amphibious operations of this type. But in this aspect of the war we “lucked out”, for a man by the name of Andrew J. Higgins, founder and president of Andrew J. Higgins Industries New Orleans, Louisiana, had developed a prototype landing craft that would win the war for the Allies--- the famed Higgins boats of World War II.But as good as these landing craft might be, they could not cross oceans or other large bodies of water under their own power. These boats required mother ships (transports and cargo ships) capable of carrying troops and all their equipment and supplies and all the other things needed for a successful invasion. Just any old ship wouldn’t do; amphibious operations required a special type of ship. These transport and cargo ships needed to be able to load and unload all their troops and all the troop’s equipment using only their own boats and their own crew members as stevedores, thus giving birth to the Attack Transports (APAs) and Attack Cargo Ships (AKAs). Later, LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) and LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) were added to the mix. Warships could shell enemy positions and warplanes could bomb enemy positions, but in the Pacific theater it took ground troops (Army or Marines), carried there by APAs and AKAs, to finish the job. Although, we never received the recognition and glory given the “Glamour Ships”, we wore our Bell Bottom Trousers with just as much pride and luster as our comrades who served on the warships.

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth—and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.

“Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.”—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth—and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.

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The year 1914 will stand out prominently in future history as the date of the most stupendous war in the history of mankind. In its special character, also, it may come to be regarded as the most atrocious of all wars, at least of all fought by civilized nations. Flashing out suddenly like a bolt from the blue, unannounced, unexpected, unexplained, unprecedented in suddenness and enormity, it hurled nearly the whole of Europe within a week's time from a state of profound peace into one of continental war. The ringing of church bells was drowned by the roar of cannon, the voice of the dove of peace by the blare of the trump of war, and throughout the world ran a shudder of terror as these unwonted and ominous sounds greeted men's ears.But in looking back through history, tracing the course of events during the past century, following the footsteps of men in war and peace from that day of upheaval when medieval feudalism went down in disarray before the arms of the people in the French Revolution, some explanation of the great European war of 1914 may be reached. Every event in history has its roots somewhere in earlier history, and we need but dig deep enough to find them.Such is the purpose of the present work. It proposes to lay down in a series of apposite chapters the story of the past century, beginning, in fact, rather more than a century ago with the meteoric career of Napoleon and seeking to show to what it led, and what effects it had upon the political evolution of mankind. The French Revolution stood midway between two spheres of history, the sphere of medieval barbarism and that of modern enlightenment. It exploded like a bomb in the midst of the self-satisfied aristocracy of the earlier social system and rent it into fragments which no hand could put together again. In this sense the career of Napoleon seems providential. The era of popular government had replaced that of autocratic and aristocratic government in France, and the armies of Napoleon spread these radical ideas throughout Europe until the oppressed people of every nation began to look upward with hope and see in the distance before them a haven of justice in the coming realm of human rights.These new conceptions took time to disseminate themselves. The oppressed peoples had to fight their way upward into the light, to win their progress step by step to the heights of emancipation. It was a hard struggle. Time and again they were cast downward in their climb. The powers of privilege, of the "divine right of kings," fought hard to preserve their ascendency, and only with discouraging slowness did the people move onward to the haven they so earnestly sought. The story of this upward progress is the history of the nineteenth century, regarded from the special point of view of political progress and the development of human rights. This is definitely shown in the present work, which is a history of the past century and of the twentieth century so far as it has gone. Gradually the autocrat has declined in power and authority, and the principle of popular rights has risen into view. But the autocrat has not been fully dethroned. Medievalism still has its hold on a few of the thrones of Europe, notably those of Germany, Russia and Austria. Is the present war a final effort of medievalism to regain its hold, to put down the doctrine of popular rule and replace it by the old system of absolute government? This, at least, in the absence of apparent causes for the present war, may be offered as one conceivable explanation. If so, we can but hope that the prediction given at the end of this work may come true, and that the close of the war may witness the complete downfall of autocracy as a political principle and the rise of the rule of the people in every civilized nation of the earth.

• Illustrated• Author’s biography is includedThis is the digital edition of Charles Morris’ ‘Historical Tales, The Romance of Reality’ first published in 1893. There are fifteen volumes in Charles’ Historical Tales; this edition contains volume 1 to 14. Volume 15 is ‘Reading courses and Helps’ and therefore is excluded from this collection. The stories complied by Charles in 'Historical Tales' were mainly for entertainment rather than formal studies. TABLE OF CONTENTSABOUT THE AUTHOREDITOR’S NOTEVOLUME I – AMERICAN IVOLUME II – AMERICAN IIVOLUME III – SPANISH AMERICANVOLUME IV – ENGLISHVOLUME V – GERMANVOLUME VI – FRENCHVOLUME VII – SPANISHVOLUME VIII – RUSSIANVOLUME IX – SCANDINAVIANVOLUME X – GREEKVOLUME XI – ROMANVOLUME XII – JAPANESE AND CHINESEVOLUME XIII – KING ARTHUR IVOLUME XIV – KING ARTHUR II

The 10 Characteristics of a Spirit-Filled Church, Book 1 of The Spirit-Filled Life Bible Study, answers many questions concerning the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit both in our personal lives and in the church. This book helps us answer,What does it mean to be Spirit-filled?What is a Spirit-filled church, and how do I find a Spirit-filled church near me?What is a Spirit-filled person or Christian, and what does living a Spirit-filled life look like?What are Spirit-filled preachers? What are Spirit-filled prayers?What are Spirit-filled Bible studies? What is a Spirit-filled church fellowship?Charles reveals to us in his book the characteristics of the first century church that should be the norm in our churches today. We need to practice these Spirit-Filled traits with our children, our teens, our young adults, and our adults if we want true Biblical revival in our church. Revival starts here in these ten characteristics taken from Acts 2 with the beginning of the first church. This writing is genuinely a great Revival Bible study book that you will find inspirational. This book will ask if your church is an apostolic church, a word church, a fellowshipping church, a giving church, a communing church, a praying church, a supernatural church, a joyful church, an evangelistic church, a praising church, and a worshipping church. If not, there is a good chance your church is more religious than Spirit-filled. A church led by and filled with the Holy Spirit is a church that finds a fountain of praise and victory in praise coming forth to bless God and others. “The 10 Characteristics of a Spirit-Filled Church” is a great Christian Pastoral resource and counseling tool to assist in Christian personal growth. This book will help churches and church leadership in evangelism and the ministry of discipleship and spiritual growth.

"The world of Charles Dickens was the world of nineteenth century England, full of extraordinary and shocking contrasts. Boys with bare feet swept the snow away for ladies who thought it immodest to show an ankle. Men were hardworking, women pure, and children innocent, but these were the values of the middle class, not of the filthy slums, where children stole, girls turned to prostitution from hunger and desperation, and the only refuge of the sick and the unemployed was the inhuman and degrading workhouse.Yet England as a whole was extremely wealthy. Dickens’ own life reflected these contrasts: it was a fascinating mixture of the respectable and the shady. He became successful and prosperous, but as a boy he had slunk through the gates of a debtor’s prison to visit his father, lodged alone in the mean back streets of Camden Town, and worked in a factory. Though his novels emphasised the sanctity of the home, in middle-age he deserted his wife, the mother of his nine children, and took up with a young actress.With enormous energy Charles Dickens managed to hold all these elements together and weld them into the fabric of his writing. In this celebratory volume Charles Mosley, a specialist in the history of the period, traces the course of Dickens’ life and the development of his writing, from the cheery fun of Pickwick Papers and A Christmas Carol, through the social indignation of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, to deeper novels like Great Expectations and Little Dorrit."