Ronald Clark was born in London in 1916 and educated at King”s College School. In 1933 he chose journalism as a career; during the Second World War, after being turned down for military duty on medical grounds, he served as a war correspondent. During this time Clark landed on Juno Beach with the Canadians on D-Day and followed the war until its end, then remained in Germany to report on the major War Crimes trials.Clark returned to Britain in 1948 and wrote extensively on subjects ranging from mountain climbing to the atomic bomb, Balmoral Castle to world explorers. He also wrote a number of biographies on a myriad of figures, such as Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, and Bertrand Russell. Clark died in 1987.
18 Ebooks by Ronald Clark
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn & Ronald Clark: Der Garten als Modell
Die „Herrenhäuser Schriften’ sind eine Schriftenreihe der Freunde der Herrenhäuser Gärten e.V. Ein wesentliches Ziel des Vereins ist die Unterstützung zur Erhaltung und Entwicklung dieses Kulturdenkm …
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€39.99
Ronald Clark: Sir Edward Appleton G.B.E., K.C.B., F.R.S.
Sir Edward Appleton G.B.E., K.C.B., F.R.S is a 12-chapter text about the life of Sir Edward Appleton. Born on September 6, 1892, Sir Edward Appleton was a Principal of the Edinburgh University, a Bra …
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€56.40
Clark Ronald Clark: Life of Bertrand Russell
The eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, …
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€21.39
Clark Ronald Clark: Bertrand Russell and his World
First published in 1981, this is about the life of Bertrand Russell, born when Queen Victoria had nearly three decades still to reign, was one of the most influential of the twentieth century, as wel …
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€6.43
Clark Ronald Clark: Life of Ernst Chain
A Jew who left Germany when Hitler came to power, Sir Ernst Chain was a winner, with Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Florey, of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945. Later he was a sign …
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€6.38
Clark Ronald Clark: War Winners
War Winners is a fully illustrated description of the impact of science and technology on war from the days of the American Civil War to Vietnam. The rise of the machine-gun and the attempts to count …
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€6.37
Clark Ronald Clark: Works of Man
Works of Man is a chronicle of man’s attempts from prehistoric times to the space age to exploit for his own purposes the slowly discerned laws of nature. Exciting, instructive, and eminently readabl …
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€18.38
Clark Ronald Clark: Alps
The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique …
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€6.40
Clark Ronald Clark: Queen Victoria’s Bomb
A sudden intolerably bright fireball lights up a remote and deserted Indian plateau. Searing heat melts rock into incandescent pools of glowing liquid. The earth heaves. A monstrous thunderclap of so …
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€6.36
Clark Ronald Clark: Balmoral
First published in 1981, this is Ronald Clark’s engagingly readable account of Queen Victoria’s relationship with "Our dear Balmoral" and the life that went on there. The biography of Balmo …
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€12.14
Clark Ronald Clark: Einstein
First published in 1972, Ronald W. Clark’s definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-mi …
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€20.32
Clark Ronald Clark: Edison
It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world’s greatest inventor, gave the world electric light – and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunne …
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€6.41
Clark Ronald Clark: Lenin
In this accomplished biography of Vladimir Lenin, Ronald Clark fills in the gap left by political, economic and social historians: Lenin’s personality. Clark introduces readers to Lenin, the man: an …
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€22.58
Clark Ronald Clark: J.B.S
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) was one of the most brilliant of British scientists – and one of the most controversial. A trail-blazing geneticist and physiologist, who used himself as his own guinea-p …
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€16.30
Clark Ronald Clark: Man Who Broke Purple
Purple The Code used by the Japanese prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbour . . . Did the Americans have advance information of the devastation to come? Had they cracked Purple . . ? Colonel William F …
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€6.35
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn & Ronald Clark: From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture
Originally, the area of responsibility for landscape architecture was based on the premise that the planning and creating of open spaces such as parks and gardens was the business of garden artists. …
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€49.99
Theresa Beeton & Ronald Clark: Assessing Family Relationships
Assessing Family Relationships shows mental health professionals how to utilize the Family Life Space Drawing (the FLSD), a family assessment tool that incorporates information from multiple family m …
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€46.21
Theresa Beeton & Ronald Clark: Assessing Family Relationships
Assessing Family Relationships shows mental health professionals how to utilize the Family Life Space Drawing (the FLSD), a family assessment tool that incorporates information from multiple family m …
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€46.40
