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The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...

“William Wilson Chamberlaine’s Memoirs of the Civil War, though relatively little known because of its rarity in the original edition, contains much valuable information and engaging narrative passages. A Virginian whose Confederate career included service in an infantry regiment early in the...

The personal adventures of a soldier in a Canadian Armoured Brigade during World War II from training to VE Day In Chariots of Iron is the personal memoir of Corporal Ray W. Lane, an Alberta boy, during WW II in the Canadian Army. It begins with his training on Vancouver Island, an eye-opening view...

One survivor tells of the fire bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes. These are typical in the stories collected in The War...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 10324 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Essays of Michel de Montaigne • Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • The Book-Collector •...

The 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.[1][2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery,...

Through the lens of more than forty speeches from his presidency, George H. W. Bush takes a special look back on the momentous global events of 1989-1992 -- the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the liberation of Kuwait, to name a few -- and reminisces about what it was...

"A certain seer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides; and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: 'Well, the Ides of March are come,' and...

"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read." —San Francisco Chronicle Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German...

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with...

Obra-prima de Robert W. Chambers, O Rei de Amarelo é uma coletânea de contos de terror fantástico publicada originalmente em 1895 e considerada um marco do gênero. Influenciou diversas gerações de escritores, de H. P. Lovecraft a Neil Gaiman, Stephen King e, mais recentemente, o escritor, produtor...

“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker   German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges....

Painted Windows Elia W. Peattie, american author, journalist and critic (1862-1935) This ebook presents «Painted Windows», from Elia W. Peattie. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- FOREWORD -03- NIGHT -04- SOLITUDE -05- FRIENDSHIP -06- FAME -07- REMORSE -08- TRAVEL

In June 1934, W. B. Yeats gratefully received the award of a Goethe-Plakette from Oberburgermeister Krebs, four months after his early play The Countess Cathleen had been produced in Frankfurt by SS Untersturmfuhrer Bethge. Four years later, the poet publicly commended Nazi legislation before leaving...