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One's Company: A Journey to China (London: Cape, 1934) is a travel book by Peter Fleming, correspondent for The Times, describing his journey day-by-day from London through Moscow and the Trans-Siberian Railway, then through Japanese-run Manchukuo, then on to Nanking, the capital of China in the 1930s, with a glimpse of “Red China”.
Peter Fleming (1958) is an emeritus professor of medieval history [1] at the University of the West of England, who specialises in the history of migration, urban history and the development of Bristol during the Middle Ages.
Walter Lynwood Fleming was born on a plantation at Brundidge, Alabama, on April 8, 1874, the son of William LeRoy and Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming.Both his parents were born in Georgia and had migrated west with their families to Alabama in the ante-bellum period as cotton was developed as the area's commodity crop.
A history textbook for school students in China has mentioned the country's "war" on Covid-19 for the first time, triggering a debate on the administration's response to the pandemic.. The Xi ...
The Peter Fleming Award, worth £9,000, is given by the Royal Geographical Society for a "research project that seeks to advance geographical science". [20] Fleming's book about the British military expedition to Tibet in 1903 to 1904 is credited in the Chinese film Red River Valley (1997).
Finally Holt covers the work of Peter Fleming, also collaborating with Wavell, and 'D Division' in the Far East. [5] The book contains four appendices (listing all of the Allied deception operations, double agents, fictional divisions and regional maps) which, along with the footnotes, account for a fifth of the material. [6] [7]
The college offers a range of foundation and further education courses including NVQs, GCSEs, A Levels, BTECs and Access courses.The College also offers Teacher Education higher education courses in conjunction with Canterbury Christ Church University, Higher Education Studies with Birkbeck, University of London and a degree in Counselling with Middlesex University.
Fleming also spent ten years as chairman of the New York American Revolution Round Table and was an Honorary Member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati from 1975. He lived in New York with his wife, Alice, a writer of books for young people. [2] Fleming published books about various events and figures of the Revolutionary era. He ...