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

This booklet deals a unprecedented perception into the historical past of the Civil warfare within the western theatre throughout the eyes of a regimental healthcare professional. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in a single of the most advantageous combating regiments of the Union military. This number of letters is necessary for 2 purposes: They aspect his 4 and a part 12 months occupation within the military via firsthand bills of many of the campaigns and his a number of tasks, and so they chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice infantrymen, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in components occupied by way of the Union military, his reviews with freed slaves and diverse different day-by-day occasions within the conflict.

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] beautifully readable and eternally interesting ebook… scrumptious, sometimes fantastical, revealing in ways in which Downtown Abbey by no means used to be. ’ Rachel Cooke, ObserverA day-by-day Telegraph booklet of the YearThere is not anything particularly as appealing as an English kingdom residence in summer season. And there hasn't ever been a summer time really like that Indian summer season among the 2 international wars, a interval of light decline within which the solar 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 without doubt one of the Victorian era’s most famed romances. It used to be one in every of passions, tragedy, ailment, and eventually, persistence. the start in their dating was once fortunately documented and preserved through their letters, which were archived at Wellesley collage due to the fact 1930.