Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son layout d’origine.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son layout d’origine.

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Als der Sommer 1914 mit dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs ein jähes Ende findet und lauter nationalistischer Jubel die leiseren pazifistischen Stimmen überdröhnt, zeigt sich Romain Rolland, dessen a hundred and fifty. Geburtstag 2016 begangen wird, von euphorischem Überschwang wie hasserfüllter Hysterie unbeeindruckt. Vom Kriegsausbruch in der Schweiz überrascht, bleibt er bewusst dort, arbeitet ehrenamtlich beim Roten Kreuz und steht – wie seine legendäre Schrift – «Über dem Getümmel». Alsbald scheiden sich an ihm die Geister: Als Symbolfigur wird er entweder aufs schärfste bekämpft oder respektvoll verehrt.
Ein Echoraum dieser Stimmen ist Rollands Tagebuch der Kriegsjahre, das auf einzigartige, vielschichtige und vielstimmige Weise die Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts dokumentiert. Erstmals erscheint nun eine Auswahl aus den weit über 2000 Seiten umfassenden Aufzeichnungen des Nobelpreisträgers von 1915.

Although his occupation persisted for nearly 3 a long time after the 1939
ebook of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck remains to be so much heavily linked to his
Depression-era works of social fight. yet from Pearl Harbor on, he usually wrote passionate
money owed of America’s wars in keeping with his personal firsthand event. Vietnam was once no
exception.

Thomas E. Barden’s Steinbeck in Vietnam
deals for the 1st time an entire number of the dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war
correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by means of the army as a result of his reputation
as a subversive, and reticent to rfile the warfare formally for the Johnson administration,
Steinbeck observed in Newsday a distinct chance to place his abilities to use.
among December 1966 and will 1967, the sixty-four-year-old Steinbeck toured the most important combat
parts of South Vietnam and traveled to the north of Thailand and into Laos, documenting his
stories in a chain of columns titled Letters to Alicia, in reference to
Newsday writer Harry F. Guggenheim’s deceased spouse. His columns were
debatable, coming at a time while competition to the clash used to be turning out to be or even ardent
supporters have been starting to query its direction. As he dared to enter the sector, rode in
helicopter gunships, or even fired artillery items, many detractors known as him a warmonger and
worse. Readers this day may be stunned that the prestigious writer might threat his literary
recognition to rfile this kind of divisive battle, really on the finish of his
career.

Drawing on 4 primary-source archives—the Steinbeck assortment at
Princeton, the Papers of Harry F. Guggenheim on the Library of Congress, the Pierpont Morgan
Library’s Steinbeck holdings, and the information of
Newsday—Barden’s assortment brings jointly the final released writings
of this American writer of tolerating nationwide and foreign stature. as well as offering
a definitive version of those essays, Barden contains broad notes in addition to an introduction
that offers history at the essays themselves, the army scenario, the social context of
the Nineteen Sixties, and Steinbeck’s own and political attitudes at the
time.

Richard Lane used to be one in all 3 brothers who based Penguin Books in 1935.

But like every nice tales, his existence didn’t commence there.

After crusing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard all started paintings as a boy migrant – a farm apprentice dwelling in rural South Australia as a part of the ‘Barwell Boys’ scheme.

In Australia, he deepened his appreciation for literature, and understood how vital it used to be to make stable writing generally available.

Richard’s diaries – the sincere and relocating phrases of undefined, so very far-off from domestic – catch vividly his lifestyles and loves; the characters he met; the land he labored; the households he relied on; and his coming of age in a brand new land.

A amazing social list and the best first-hand debts of the kid migrant event, the diaries additionally catch the guidelines and the entrepreneurship that ended in the founding of the 20th century’s most famed publishing house.

With a foreword via eminent Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey, Richard Lane’s diaries are a major rfile for the background of rural Australia and international publishing.

‘One of the main revealing tales but written approximately rural existence in Australia.’ —Geoffrey Blainey

Fiona Kells studied paintings historical past on the college of Melbourne. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand organization of Antiquarian Booksellers and edits the association’s magazine, Bookfare. She lives in Melbourne together with her husband, Stuart, and their daughter, Thea.

Stuart Kells is an writer and antiquarian books authority. His past e-book, the significantly acclaimed biography of Kay Craddock, Rare, was once released in 2011. He has a PhD from Monash collage, and lives in Melbourne along with his spouse, Fiona, and daughter, Thea.

Elizabeth Lane, the daughter of Richard Lane, was once born in England right into a relatives of ebook enthusiasts. She now lives in Melbourne, the place she manages The Lane Press and assists with the Scotch university records. She was once lately concerned about the making plans and discovering of Penguin and the Lane Brothers.

Louise Paton is the grand-daughter of Richard Lane, a founding father of Penguin Books, and has labored in electronic ads and method. In 2015 she all started The Lane Press together with her mom, Elizabeth Lane.

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This publication bargains a unprecedented perception into the background of the Civil conflict within the western theatre in the course of the eyes of a regimental health care provider. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in a single of the ultimate struggling with regiments of the Union military. This selection of letters is critical for 2 purposes: They element his 4 and a part 12 months occupation within the military via firsthand debts of a few of the campaigns and his various tasks, they usually chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice infantrymen, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in parts occupied via the Union military, his reviews with freed slaves and various different day-by-day occasions within the struggle. impressive one of the letters is his list of the early Civil conflict in Missouri, the Vicksburg crusade, the conflict of Tupelo and the conflict of Nashville.