Word: hussar
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...19th century's great year of revolutions, Milan staged its famed Five Days' revolt against the Austrian rulers of northern Italy. Stepping out into the clamorous street, Hussar Colonel Angelo Pardi, youthful hero of Jean Giono's new novel, suddenly saw his fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself...
Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a hussar's busby...
...past, it has been said, is the only thing man can change. Winston Churchill, the incredible ex-Hussar officer, has taken full reign over the terrible past. As he tells it, history becomes a matter not of blind forces but of men and the principles that animated them; schoolbook events take on the Shakespearean splendor of character and fate...
This novel is the work of a high-spirited Hussar officer of 23, caught temporarily between campaigns. It would not be uncharitable to say that its author should adopt some other line of work. This, to the great benefit of history and humanity, is what the author...
...husband's court, Caroline at last decided to take her show on the road. Trailing a retinue of doubtful characters through Europe in a refurbished stagecoach, she established her own royal residence in a gleaming white palace on the shores of Lake Como, with a dashing Italian hussar named Bergami as pro tem king of her heart. Caroline's philandering might well have gone unnoticed by Prinney, who was then Prince Regent, except that when she returned to London, vast crowds of the common people, who hated him and his gross excesses, cordially claimed Caroline as their...