The Glamour Boys

Author : Chris Bryant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526601737
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glamour Boys written by Chris Bryant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY'Superb' Stephen Fry'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor'Astonishing' Peter FrankopanWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the Second World War. Having witnessed the Nazis' brutality first-hand, these men were some of the first to warn Britain about Hitler, repeatedly speaking out against their government's policy of appeasing him. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hated them. Branding them 'the glamour boys' to insinuate something untoward about them, he had their phones tapped and threatened them with deselection and exposure. At a time when even the suggestion of homosexuality could land you in prison, the bravery these men were forced to show in their personal lives gave them extraordinary courage in public. Undaunted, they refused to be silenced and when war came, they enlisted. Four of them died in action. And without them, Britain would never have faced down the Nazis.A Guardian Book of Autumn 2020

Author : Sally Jeffrie
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545368863
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls' Book of Glamour: A Guide to Being a Goddess written by Sally Jeffrie and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a glamour goddess has never been so easy! Transform yourself from drab to fab with this nifty guide to all things glamorous! Whether you want to have the shiniest hair or convince people you're a celebrity, this book will show you how! Being a glamour goddess has never been so easy. Inside this handy guide you'll find instructions on how to host a spa party, create your own style, exit a limo gracefully, make your own body glitter, persuade your best friend to lend you her clothes, put on a fashion show, make your own jewelry box, and much, much more

Author : Steven Cojocaru
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345453792
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Carpet Diaries written by Steven Cojocaru and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: No celeb was spared during the writing of this tongue-in-cheek stroll down the red carpet of fashion, fame, ego, and blinding glitter. Written by the man who isn’t afraid to tell Christina Aguilera her hairdo is a disaster, Red Carpet Diaries could make you feel you know more about Hollywood shtick than Nicole Kidman’s stylist. If you begin to get too much pleasure from Cojocaru’s lizard-skin-jumpsuited journey from ridiculed misfit to #2 on Cynthia Rowley’s speed dial, put the book down and turn on an episode of Antiques Roadshow to calm your heart rate.Imbued with style that is pure Steven, and packed with insider gossip from a man who spends his days chatting with the stars, this irresistible memoir is a peek behind the glamorous façade to the real deal—the dirt beneath the red carpet.

Author : Malina Saval
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 078674460X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Lives of Boys written by Malina Saval and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage boys have come a long way since the staid 1980s when they were all lumped into the Breakfast Club categories of Brains, Druggies, and Jocks. Crisscrossing the country -- meeting with boys from different cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds -- journalist Malina Saval introduces readers to the next generation of male teens by creating new archetypes and redrawing the ever-expanding social map. The Secret Lives of Boys offers an uncensored look into boyhood that reveals the spine-tingling confessions, heartrending sadness and isolation, unbridled optimism, and seemingly boundless resilience of male teens today. Saval asks the pertinent questions: Who are these boys? What do they think of themselves? A compelling and candid look at male adolescence in the twenty-first century, The Secret Lives of Boys uncovers what our young people want you to know.

Author : Belisa Vranich, Psy.D.
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0757313647
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys Lie written by Belisa Vranich, Psy.D. and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guys Can Be Dogs . . . So consider this book the ultimate BS detector. In today's hookups without-heart society, this brutally honest guide reveals the most common lies boys tell and the truths behind them so you and your friends can separate the good guys from the bad. 'Everyone else is doing it.' 'I won't show anyone these pictures.' 'If we get pregnant, we could take care of it on our own.' Lies like these get lots of girls in trouble, especially when they cast aside their doubts and make poor choices in the heat of the moment. Written by psychologist Belisa Vranich and former Seventeen magazine editor Holly Eagleson, this provocative book sets the record straight with a 'cheat sheet' on what guys lie about, why they lie, and how you can respond. By learning how to react before embarrassing or volatile situations arise, you will be more confident and more likely to enjoy healthier, honest, and more fulfilling relationships. Have You Ever Been Played? Lie #8: I can't wear a condom. Lie #2: Guys are built to cheat. Lie #17: I'll love you forever. Lie #3: You're a slut if you've had sex with lots of guys. Yes, boys lie. But now you and your friends have the anti-get-played book.

Author : Kristin Lambert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593113683
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy in the Red Dress written by Kristin Lambert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.

Author : Andy Taylor
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1409111164
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Boy written by Andy Taylor and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first member of Duran Duran to write his memoirs tells the full story of the excesses, glamour and excitement they lived through in the 1980s. When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in April 1980 asking for a 'live wire guitarist' to audition in Birmingham, he saw his chance. Even he could not have predicted what happened next. The group, Duran Duran, released their first single, 'Planet Earth', ten months later and soon became the biggest band since the Beatles. Emerging in the post-punk era, Duran headed the New Romantic movement and with their stunning videos and style consciousness, they set the trend for the consumerist 1980s. Popular with everyone from rockers to Princess Diana, they had a string of massive worldwide hits such as 'Rio', 'The Reflex' and 'A View to a Kill'. They won Grammys and an Ivor Novello award among many other things. By Live Aid, in 1985, they were at their very pinnacle of success - and then the band began to fall apart. At the centre of it all, giving the group its musical pulse, was lead guitarist Andy Taylor. In this revealing and raw memoir, Taylor recalls the highs and lows of an unbelievable period where the squeaky clean facade hid the truth of wild partying as five young men took just about every opportunity that was offered to them. Andy Taylor's story is of an era when MTV was new, the media allowed superstars to get away with lots and rock stars knew how to party like there was no tomorrow. Wild Boy is a book that millions of fans of Duran Duran around the world will want to read to know the full story of what really happened.

Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773527720
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of the Boys written by Paul Jackson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations. He argues that even though homosexual men were often accepted and popular within their units, if they were accused of homosexual behaviour, they were subjected to psychiatric assessments, courts-martial proceedings, prison terms, and dishonourable discharges. An influential and eye-opening study, the author has updated this critically acclaimed work with a new preface that considers depictions of soldiers serving in the war in Afghanistan and the continued silence about homosexual servicemen and women.

Author : Jo Ann Beard
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316091863
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boys of My Youth written by Jo Ann Beard and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful" collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death. The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today. "A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments." --Harper's Bazaar

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500284889
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy written by Germaine Greer and published by . This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genuinely groundbreaking work which has changed the way we look at boys in art, in literature and in life. In a series of carefully constructed and dazzlingly illustrated themes, ranging from the boy as a passive love object to soldier boys, from the boy under the female gaze to what is a boy?, Germaine Greer opens our eyes and invites us to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, flirtatiousness and vulnerability.