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by Brenda Chambers McKean
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
"Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly stand
by as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into patriotic
exhaustion through Aid Societies. Civilians with different means of support from the
lower class to the plantation mistress...
by C. Kay Larson
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
In Civil War author C. Kay Larsons new work of fiction, South Under a Prairie Sky: The Journal of Nell Churchill, U.S. Army Nurse & Scout, our teenaged heroine grows up in Monmouth, Illinois in the antebellum era. Nell begins her journal entries in 1856, as unrest breaks out in Kansas over the...
As Near Hell as I Ever Expect to Be…
The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant John V. Patterson of the 21St Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
As near Hell as I ever expect to be is the biography of a Civil War soldier from Ohio. In September 1861 twenty-seven-year-old John Vanetton Patterson left his young wife and two babies on their farm near Pemberville. Patterson and thousands of other Ohioans answered Lincoln's call to save the Union....
Comes the Millennium: It's Still Tough to Be Jewish!
100 Years in the Life of an Immigrant Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
The stories begin over 100 years ago in Sokolka, Poland, when my father escaped via an underground route, from his forced conscription into the Czar's Russian Army. The stories continue through the ensuing decades after he immigrated to America. The anecdotes describe how the family coped with the...
by Charles Phillip Rider
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The book The Right Wing: the Good, the Bad, and the Crazy discusses the political right in the United States from Prohibition through recent speculation concerning the presidential campaign of 2016. A chapter is devoted to each U.S. President from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Many...
Hannah Turner’S Journal
A Novel of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Hannah Turner could never have imagined that the squabbles of Boston merchants with England over tea and taxes would disturb her quiet, comfortable life in Philadelphia. When British and Hessian soldiers occupy her native city in 1777, Hannahs world is turned upside down. Hannahs father, Jacob, a...
Glorious Recollections
J. Howard Wert's Lost History of the 209Th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1864-1865, Including the Defense of Bermuda Hundred, the Battle of Fort Stedman and the Storming of Petersburg with Additional Documents
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Glorious Recollections: J. Howard Wert's Lost History of the 209th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1864-1865, including the Battles of Bermuda Hundred, Fort Stedman, and Petersburg is a Civil War regimental history originally written in 1894. It was not published at the time and has now...
by Jawad Mella
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Since the end of World War I, the Kurds have had no national rights, and their country Kurdistan was divided and occupied by Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and former Soviet Union as an international colony, and the Kurds have been prosecuted, massacred, assimilated and denied the very basic human rights....
by Farad Khan
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This story, A True Love Story, was first published in a local magazine in Afghanistan in ten parts during ten weeks time, and more than 1.4 million readers graded it 9 out of 10 stars. Voice of Women Organization (VWO) in Afghanistan has appreciated my story. And it has been a very popular story in...
Mahmood Tarzi
Independence of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Compelling, provocative and informative, Mahmood Tarzi Diplomacy and Journalism is an eclectic set of events, media happenings, and political developments in Afghanistan from the rise of the power of Amir Abdul Rahman Khan to the downfall of the reign of Amanullah Khan. Written by Dr. M. Halim Tanwir,...
by Timothy L. Sanford, Patrick Richard Carstens
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The quest to write a geographical book leading up to the two-hundredth anniversary of this conflict, known as the War of 1812, that created two North American countries we enjoy today, began in 2006, with the goal to visit as many historical sites as possible. We started searching for roadside markers,...
by Willard D. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
When will the war finally come to an end? Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War recounts the private ordeals of several families who bore the brunt of Americas war in Viet Nam. Their experiences, an ongoing tragedy since the last U.S. soldiers left Vietnamese soil, reveal the physical and psychological...
Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam and South Alabama
The "Deans": We Execute the Plan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2000
The "innocence lost" - never to be regained - by America's youth during the Vietnam War lies strewn across America's landscape in the form of shattered lives and minds. We were sent there by U.S. government officials who played recklessly with our young lives; however, we did not know to...
On My Own
Gettin' Past the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This is the story of a once lost black man, giving compelling details of the trials, tribulations, and the ever changing circumstances surrounding him. Cursed from birth with unusual attributes; early on, he was faced with ridicule and constant criticism from not only peers, but also his parents....