Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Author: Robbins James
Today's Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is a temporary celebrity among his classmates. But in the 19th century, he was something of a cult figure. Custer's contemporaries at the Academy b ... |
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Author: Jim Lowe
An exploration, with comments and explanations four decades later, of letters I wrote to my now bride of four-and-one-half decades, during my tour as a Marine first lieutenant, assigned to the State Departmentas Military ... |
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To Which Are Added Letters from the Cape, by Lady Duff Gordon. with a Memoir by Her Daughter, Mrs. Ross.
Author: Lucie Duff Gordon & Janet Ross
Title: Last Letters from Egypt: To which are added Letters from the Cape, by Lady Duff Gordon. With a memoir by her Daughter, Mrs. Ross.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the nati ... |
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Author: Lucie Duff Gordon
Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) was a translator and travel writer. Forced to leave England in 1851 due to tuberculosis, she went first to South Africa and then to Egypt. Her letters home were published with considerable s ... |
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Author: Elsa Barker
Do not fear death; but stay on earth as long as you can. Not withstanding the companionship I have here, I sometimes regret my failure in holding on to the world. But regrets have less weight on this side-like our bodies ... |
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S. O. A., i.e. S. O. Allen.]
Author: Richard Lamb Allen & Sally Outram Allen
Title: Last Letters of R. L. Allen. [With a memoir of the author signed: S. O. A., i.e. S. O. Allen.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. ... |
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Author: DE SILVA
Written from the Tower of London, these letters of Thomas More still speak powerfully today. The story of Thomas More, recently told in Peter Ackroyd's bestselling biography, is well known. In the spring of 1534, Thomas ... |
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New Zealanders Remember the War on the Home Front
Author: Megan Hutching
In the dark days of the Second World War after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor New Zealand stood vulnerable and exposed before numbers in the home Army Navy and Air Force were built up and women joined as WAACs and Wrens ... |
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Memoirs of the Last U.S. Reporter Castro Kicked Out of Cuba During the Cold War
Author: John Fenton Wheeler
Written as a unique firsthand account, this poignant memoir of John Wheeler, the last American journalist in Cuba in the late 1960s, reveals the untold story of Cuba's struggle to reform in the early days of the Cold war ... |
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The 1st Marine Regiment on Peleliu, September 15-21, 1944
Author: Dick Camp
In its time, Operation Stalemate, the code name for Peleliu, was not well known. It had been overshadowed by the summer 1944 Allied breakout from Normandy and the subsequent race across France and liberation of Paris. Si ... |
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Memoirs of a Political Survivor
Author: Jack Straw
As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents, he was bright enough to get a scholarship to a di ... |
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Norman Collins: The Memoirs, Letters, and Photographs of a Teenage Officer
Author: Richard Van Emden
It hardly seems credible today that a nineteenyear- old boy, just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Or that, as the machine gun bullets w ... |
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Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II
Author: Gregory A. Freeman
Military historian Gregory A. Freeman brings to life for the first time the dramatic story of a young American bomber crew that was forced to bail out over Germany in August 1944. After landing, they were captured and ly ... |
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An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War
Author: Dang Thuy Tram
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. Not only is it an important slice of ... |
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Oral Histories of the U.S. Merchant Marine 1927-2000
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Or Resting Places of Our Fallen Heroes in the Crimea and at Scutari
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The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won it
Author: Max Arthur
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt. For the German Army to be landed across ... |
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The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won it
Author: Max Arthur
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt. For the German Army to be landed across ... |
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18 Battle of Britain Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories
Author: Dilip Sarkar
Spitfire and Hurricane fighter pilots recount their experiences of combat during the Battle of Britain. 2,927 aircrew of RAF Fighter Command fought and won the Battle of Britain in 1940, 544 lost their lives in action. T ... |
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The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won it
Author: Max Arthur
For the German Army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies. Britain's air defences were badly battered, but against all odds, 'The Few', as they came to be known, bought Britain's freedom - m ... |
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