Richard Barber
Author
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Description
Protector of Diana's memory or thoughtless adulterer. The Earl's funeral speech single-handedly crystallised the public mood, the grief and devastation at the tragic death of the world's best-known woman. Yet Earl Spencer once represented only an alien upper class to the British public. He has blackened the press, yet also worked as one of them, spoken movingly of blood ties yet been unfaithful to the mother of his children. Barber follows Charles...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"Barber traces the history of the stories surrounding the Holy Grail, beginning with Chretien de Troyes, who in the twelfth century first imagined the famous scene in which a mysterious golden vessel adorned with jewels was paraded before the eyes of an untested youth. The author died before he could complete his tale, and the unsolved mystery of the Grail has haunted us ever since. By a long series of imaginative transformations, the grail has moved...
4) 9/11
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
On the morning of September 11, 2001, brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet were working on a documentary about a rookie New York City firefighter. Hearing a roar in the sky, Jules turned his camera upward - just in time to film the only existing image of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center Tower 1. With cameras rolling, the Naudets follow NYC firefighters into the heart of what would be known as Ground Zero. A striking tribute to real-life...
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