Anthony Dawson: 10 books
Letters from the Light Brigade
The British Cavalry in the Crimean War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale actions in military history. Over the 160 years since the event, and since it was immortalized in Tennyson's poem, it has generated a stream of writing and debate. Yet, as this new book by Anthony Dawson...
Working on the Victorian Railway
Life in the Early Days of Steam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The quarter-century after the Rainhill Trials was an exciting period of growth and experimentation on the railways. The railway locomotive evolved from a lumbering curiosity to being indispensable – changing every aspect of daily life, from food (and how it was cooked), to heating and clothing –...
The Siege of Sevastopol 1854 - 1855
The War in the Crimea Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The Crimean War, the most destructive and deadly war of the nineteenth century, has been the subject of countless books, yet historian Anthony Dawson has amassed an astonishing collection of previously unknown and unpublished material, including numerous letters and private journals. Many untapped...
Indirections
Shakespeare and the Art of illusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the relation between audience and stage life is crucial. The plays constantly remind the audience of the complex...
Travelling on the Victorian Railway
Travel in the Early Days of Steam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
‘The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now near.’ So wrote Henry Booth of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The early...
Unfettered III
New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III.
Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to...
Real War Horses
The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
From the Library of C. S. Lewis
Selections from Writers Who Influenced His Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Discover great truths from C. S. Lewis’s mentors
C. S. Lewis was perhaps the greatest Christian thinker of the twentieth century. He delighted us in The Chronicles of Narnia, intrigued us in The Screwtape Letters, mystified us in The Space Trilogy, and convinced us in Mere Christianity. His...
by Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted...