Publication date: 1998-05
Review Gliding into War: Story of a Territorial Soldier 1930-1945 / Horseshoe Publications:
Publication date: 1991-01
List Price: $148.00
Price: $129.95
Review Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, United States Army, Set (Black Heritage Library Collection) / Reprint Services Corporation:
Publication date: 2001-05-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.25
Review Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) / Greenwood Press:This critical reevaluation of the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death, and burial. Separate chapters discuss the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses, his autopsy and the exhumations. Following the rediscovery of the original Latin autopsy report in 1970, the author has discovered two faulty translations, which he argues contributed to errors in earlier medical assumptions. New evidence disputes earlier assertions that Beethoven's deafness resulted from syphilis. This fascinating account of Beethoven's ailments should appeal to Beethoven enthusiasts and to both the medical and music communities.
Publication date: 1977-06
Dewey code: 973.70924
Price: $66.95
Review Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard (The Black Heritage Library Collection) / Ayer Co Pub:This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Publication date: 2007-11-22
Dewey code: 941.07092
List Price: $145.00
Price: $143.53
Review Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos: Life and Letters / Boydell Press:Cassandra Brydges, née Willoughby (1670-1735), was a remarkable woman; through her marriage at the age of 43 to the immensely wealthy and influential James Brydges (later the first duke of Chandos), she was connected to many of the most important members of society at the time. Unusually for the period, much of her writing survives, including an extensive collection of correspondence, and it is therefore possible to gain a richer picture of her life. This book presents all the known extant letters of the duchess. They reveal a woman engaged in a very wide range of activities - from managing family and the family fortunes, investing on the stock market, socialising with a wide range of important and influential people, to matchmaking, expressing views on social conduct, painting, and researching family history. They are accompanied by an introduction, providing an overview of her life, and full notes. Professor ROSEMARY O'DAY teaches in the Department of History at the Open University.
Publication date: 1995-03
Price: $24.95
Review General Vasey's War / Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center:
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 355.0092
List Price: $75.00
Price: $149.50
Review The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: Embracing His Services in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States / State House Press:The Life of Albert Sidney Johnston, selected by John H. Jenkins III as one of the basic Texas books, reads like a litany of the important events in the life of the Texas Republic and early statehood through the Civil War. A native Kentuckian and 1826 graduate of West Point, and a veteran of the Black Hawk War, Johnston arrived in Texas in 1836 shortly after the battle of San Jacinto and enlisted as a private in the Texas Army. Soon discovered in the ranks, he was immediately appointed the army's adjutant general. His injury from a duel with Felix Huston later prevented his taking command of the army. In 1838 he was appointed Texas' Secretary of War, and later led the expedition against the Cherokee Indians in East Texas. He commanded the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers dring the Mexican War and became a regular officer in the U. S. Army-one of the few Texas military men permitted to do so. At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, Johnston was offered a position second in rank only to the aging Winfield Scott, but he refused the Federal government's offer and instead became commander of the Confederacy's Department No. [+]2, the Western Department. Keenly aware of the military weakness of the South, he issued a call for men at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and formed and drilled his army. On April 6, 1862, Johnston was killed at the battleof Shiloh. The author, Johnston's son, presents "a whole picture of the character of a difficult, generally taciturn man, and defends his actions in a balanced, scholarly manner. " The son, having access to all of his father's private correspondence and papers, including his complete Confederate archives, was able to provide anecdotes only a son could know, and was able to persuade many of his father's associates to submit memoirs about him. Never before reprinted since its last publication in 1878, this new volume is of inestimable value and interest to historians and to other readers of Civil War history and early Texas history. This edition contains a new introduction by Charles P. Roland, author of Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics, and Jefferson Davis's Greatest General: Albert Sidney Johnston (McWhiney Foundation Press, 2000).
Creator: Susan Massotty
Publication date: 1995-09
Dewey code: 940.5318092
Price: $23.95
Review The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (G.K. Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) / G. K. Hall & Company:The compelling diary of a young girl on the brink of maturity as her life draws to toward its tragic end - one of the most moving and vivid documents of the Jewish experience. Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.
Creator: Frederick Burkhardt
Publication date: 2006-04-03
Dewey code: 575.0092
List Price: $155.00
Price: $130.72
Review The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867 (The Correspondence of Charles Darwin) / Cambridge University Press:During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research that were to result in two important publications, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin circulated a questionnaire on human expression, asking his established contacts to pass it on to their acquaintances, with the result that he began to receive letters from an even more diverse and far-flung network of correspondents than had previously been the case. Convinced that human descent was strongly influenced by sexual selection, he also started to ask his correspondents about sexual differences in animals and birds. At the same time, he was working on the proof-sheets of another major work, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, while negotiating almost weekly with French, German, and Russian translators. For information on the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, see http://www. lib. cam. ac. uk/Departments/Darwin.
Authors
- Werner Eck
- Sarolta A. Takacs
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 937.07092
List Price: $75.95
Price: $128.76
Review The Age of Augustus / Blackwell Publishers:In this concise biography, Werner Eck, one of the world's foremost experts on the Roman empire, tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first emperor. Using literary, archaeological, and legal sources, The Age of Augustus traces the history of the 'Roman revolution' in which Rome was transformed from republic to monarchy. The book provides a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to power, from the war against the assassins of Julius Caesar to his struggle against Antony and Cleopatra. It describes the key aspects of his reign, including the expansion of the empire, his relationship with the army and people, and his vast building projects in the city of Rome. In this English language edition, a new translation of Augustus' Res Gestae (with a short introduction) and a substantial bibliography have been added. This straightforward book is organized chronologically around Augustus' own account of his life, making it perfect for anyone approaching the subject for the first time.
Publication date: 1999
Review A HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON POLYBIUS / Clarendon Press - Oxford (special Sandpiper edition):
Authors
- Robert K. Dearment
- Philip J. Rasch
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 364.10922791
Review Desperadoes of Arizona Territory (Outlaw-Lawman Research Series, V. 4) / Texas Assn of Museums:
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 973.7468
Price: $16.45
Review Company Aytch: A Confederate's Memoir of the Civil War / Topeka Bindery:
Creator: Laurence Davies
Edition: Cambridge ed
Publication date: 1983-09-26
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $179.00
Price: $159.00
Review The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 1, 1861-1897 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad) / Cambridge University Press:The first of a projected eight-volume edition of all the surviving letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume One opens with a child, not yet four, writing to comfort his imprisoned father and closes with an author, exile, and master mariner just turned forty.
Publication date: 1994-12
Review Coastal Command Pilot 1939-1945 / Woodfield Publishing:
Creator: Rowena Cooper
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 335
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China / Chivers Audio Books:"This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan. " -Mary Morris. "An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China. " - The New York Times In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents.
Creator: Hazel Moffat
Publication date: 2003-08-23
Review Your Affectionate Brother, Francis Ogley Thompson: A Yorkshire Emigrant's Letters from Canada and the USA 1857-1864 / Write Lines in Print:
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $145.00
Price: $130.50
Review Who Was Who in America: With World Notables and Index Volume (Who Was Who in America with Index Volume) / Marquis Who's Who:
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $92.99
Price: $92.99
Review Memoirs of General William T. Sherman / IndyPublish.com:
Authors
- Burke Davis
- H. B. McClellan
Dewey code: 973.713092
Review I Rode With Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J.E.B. Stuart / Indiana Univ Pr:Major General J. E. B. Stuart (1833–1864) was one of the Confederacy’s greatest horsemen, soldiers, and heroes. As early as First Manassas (Bull Run) he was contributing significantly to the Confederate victory; he subsequently displayed his daring and brilliance in the battles of Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Brandy Station—the most significant cavalry battle of the war, and Stuart’s finest moment. General Lee depended on Stuart for knowledge of the enemy, for, as he said, Stuart never brought him a piece of false information. But Stuart was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern in May 1864. Not since the death of Stonewall Jackson had the South sustained so great a personal loss; his rollicking, infectious gaiety and hard fighting were sorely missed in the grim last days of Lee’s army. By all accounts, I Rode with Jeb Stuart is the most reliable and persuasive portrait of Stuart offered by a contemporary, and it is indispensable for any thorough knowledge of the great Confederate cavalryman.
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Gliding into War: Story of a Territorial Soldier 1930-1945, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, United States Army, Set (Black Heritage Library Collection), Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance), Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard (The Black Heritage Library Collection), Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos: Life and Letters, General Vasey's War, The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: Embracing His Services in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (G.K. 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