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

This booklet bargains an extraordinary perception into the background of the Civil struggle within the western theatre during the eyes of a regimental health care provider. The newly graduated Dr. Thomas S. Hawley served in a single of the most efficient scuffling with regiments of the Union military. This selection of letters is necessary for 2 purposes: They aspect his 4 and a part 12 months profession within the military via firsthand debts of many of the campaigns and his a number of tasks, they usually chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice infantrymen, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in parts occupied through 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] beautifully readable and perpetually attention-grabbing ebook… scrumptious, sometimes fantastical, revealing in ways in which Downtown Abbey by no means used to be. ’ Rachel Cooke, ObserverA day-by-day Telegraph ebook of the YearThere is not anything fairly as attractive as an English state apartment in summer season. And there hasn't ever been a summer time rather like that Indian summer time among the 2 international wars, a interval of mild decline during which the solar 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 among the Victorian era’s most renowned romances. It used to be one in all passions, tragedy, sickness, and finally, patience. the start in their courting used to be fortunately documented and preserved through their letters, that have been archived at Wellesley university on account that 1930.