Richard Cobb: 8 books

A Classical Education was first published in 1985. It followed immediately after Still Life and is again autobiographical though of a somewhat more macabre hue. At the centre is a murder committed by a school friend of Richard Cobb's. 'What gives A Classical Education its fascination is the author's...

Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood (the sub-title is important) was first published in 1984. It won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Literary Biography in that year. It is a classic among middle-class memoirs. In twenty-one short chapters the town is vividly anatomized. So too are its...

Richard P. Cobb tells the story of his great-grandfather, Ambrose Lambert Cobb, in this true account of the Civil War. Ambrose Lambert Cobb witnessed wonders and horrors that were sweeping in scope, including four long years as a Union soldier during the Civil War, which resulted in the deaths of...

The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the...

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...

The book titled Charming Little Billy, The Saga of Billy the Kid, What Really Happened is an interesting concept of the old story of the famous outlaw from New Mexico.It goes beyond the grave into a new area of history. The book titled Legends of Sam Bass, The Denton Mare and Longhorn Caverns opens new doors to this famous Texas robber and the hidden treasure of his loots.

The book titled Love and Country, a saga of the Last Era of the Old West is a story of Quanah Parker, Buffalo Bill, Anne Oakley and many of the other noted heroes. The book titled Medina is the story of the young son of a captured soldier of the Texas Revolution and his life in Mexico to become...

The book titled Call of the Wild Wolf gives a concept of some of the problems and policies of our wonderful national parks. The book titled Lost and Found Mines, West of the Pecos and in Big Bend gives an insight of most of the mines in the area, and the hidden treasures therein.