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

This booklet deals a unprecedented perception into the background of the Civil battle within the western theatre throughout the eyes of a regimental health practitioner. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in a single of the superior struggling with regiments of the Union military. This choice of letters is critical for 2 purposes: They element his 4 and a part 12 months profession within the military via firsthand bills of a number of the campaigns and his a variety of tasks, and so they chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice squaddies, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in parts occupied via the Union military, his studies with freed slaves and diverse different day-by-day occasions within the struggle.

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 without end attention-grabbing booklet… scrumptious, sometimes fantastical, revealing in ways in which Downtown Abbey by no means was once. ’ Rachel Cooke, ObserverA day-by-day Telegraph ebook of the YearThere is not anything relatively as attractive as an English kingdom condominium in summer season. And there hasn't ever been a summer time fairly like that Indian summer time among the 2 global wars, a interval of light decline during which the sunlight set slowly at the British Empire and the shadows lengthened at the lawns of one thousand stately houses.

Robert Browning on Love

The affection affair among Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett is likely one of the Victorian era’s most renowned romances. It used to be one among passions, tragedy, affliction, and finally, persistence. the start in their courting was once fortunately documented and preserved through their letters, which were archived at Wellesley collage considering 1930.