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

This publication deals a unprecedented perception into the historical past 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 most suitable scuffling with regiments of the Union military. This number of letters is necessary 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 various tasks, and so they chronicle his interactions with captured accomplice squaddies, his encounters with pro–Southern and pro–Northern civilians in parts occupied through the Union military, his stories with freed slaves and diverse 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 rather as appealing as an English nation apartment in summer time. And there hasn't ever been a summer time particularly like that Indian summer time among the 2 global wars, a interval of mild decline during 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 among the Victorian era’s most famed romances. It used to be one in all passions, tragedy, sickness, and eventually, persistence. the start in their courting was once fortunately documented and preserved through their letters, which were archived at Wellesley collage due to the fact that 1930.