“This Terrible Struggle for Life”: The Civil War Letters of a Union Regimental Surgeon

This booklet bargains an extraordinary perception into the historical past of the Civil battle within the western theatre during the eyes of a regimental health care professional. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in a single of the leading struggling with regiments of the Union military. This selection of letters is necessary for 2 purposes: They aspect his 4 and a part yr profession within the military via firsthand bills of many of the campaigns and his a number of tasks, they usually chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice squaddies, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in components occupied via the Union military, his studies with freed slaves and various different day-by-day occasions within the warfare.

Agendine 1911-1929 (Italian Edition)

Dal diario personale delle cose piacevoli o tristi, alle occasioni con personaggi di alta levatura culturale di cui riportare un momento tipico o un capriccio o un motto strano, alla notizia proveniente dal mondo politico o dalla grande storia, al (sempre sobrio) sfogo personale, alla riflessione critica di un pensiero o una lettura o un evento culturale.

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars

‘[A] superbly readable and eternally attention-grabbing ebook… scrumptious, sometimes fantastical, revealing in ways in which Downtown Abbey by no means was once. ’ Rachel Cooke, ObserverA day-by-day Telegraph booklet of the YearThere is not anything fairly as attractive as an English nation apartment in summer time. And there hasn't ever been a summer season really like that Indian summer season among the 2 global wars, a interval of light decline within which the sunlight set slowly at the British Empire and the shadows lengthened at the lawns of 1000 stately houses.

Robert Browning on Love

The affection affair among Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett is among the Victorian era’s most famed romances. It was once considered one of passions, tragedy, disease, and finally, patience. the start in their courting used to be fortunately documented and preserved through their letters, that have been archived at Wellesley collage considering that 1930.