The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War (Gorra Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War (Gorra Michael)(Pevná vazba)

William Faulkner, one of America's most iconic writers, is an author who defies easy interpretation. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such classic novels as Absolom, Absolom! and The Sound and The Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha county one of the most memorable gallery of characters ever

The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War (Gorra Michael)(Paperback)

With this 'rich, complex, and eloquent' (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author through his most cherished--and contested--novels. Given the undeniable echoes of 'Lost Cause' romanticism in William Faulkner's fiction, as well as

Secrets of the U.S. Civil War (Leboutillier Linda)(Pevná vazba)

The U.S. Civil War was a war that changed the face, body, and heart of the United States forever. Secrets of the U.S. Civil War reveals little-known stories of the people, weapons, and battles that have affected the maps on our walls and the allegiances in our

Short History of The American Civil War (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Faces of Civil War Nurses (Coddington Ronald S.)(Pevná vazba)

During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies, becoming nurses, or even marching off to war as vivandi res, unofficial attach s to the

The Civil War: A Concise History (Masur Louis P.)(Pevná vazba)

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and

The War on Drugs (Kerrigan Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Devil's Charge - Book 2 of The Civil War Chronicles (Arnold Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The Second in The Civil War Chronicles featuring Captain Stryker - 'the Sharpe of the Civil

The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (Gallagher Gary W.)(Pevná vazba)

In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War,

Civil War London: Mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5 (Downs Jordan S.)(Pevná vazba)

London's mobilisation proved crucial to parliament's success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army

American Civil War Visual Encyclopedia (DK)(Pevná vazba)

William Empson: The Structure of Complex Words (Empson William)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the classics of literary criticism. William Empson was among the two or three most important and influential literary critics and theorists of the twentieth century. He has long been celebrated as one of the most fertile (as well as one of thefunniest)

Russian Civil War: Red Terror, White Terror, 1917-1922 (Foley Michael)(Paperback)

Explores the terror of the Russian Civil

Universal War One (Bajram Denis)(Pevná vazba)

2058. Humanity has colonized our entire solar system. In the middle of a civil war between the core planets and distant outlying planetary settlements, an immense black wall appears, cutting our solar system in two. The black wall absorbs all light and matter, and it's up to a band of disgraced

A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War (Maizlish Stephen E.)(Pevná vazba)

Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy (Tomblin Barbara B.)(Pevná vazba)

The Civil War is often considered a 'soldiers' war,' but Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy acknowledges the legacy of service of the officers and sailors of the Confederate States Navy. In this full-length study, Barbara Brooks Tomblin addresses every aspect of a Confederate seaman's life, from the

Civil War (Caesar)(Pevná vazba)

Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked

Poems of the American South(Pevná vazba)

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically

The Devil's Dictionary (Bierce Ambrose)(Pevná vazba)

Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp in 1881, and later for the San Francisco Examiner, launching a journalistic career that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure and earn him the

Our World in Crisis: Civil War and Genocide (Watts Franklin)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II (Rosen Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Abandoned Spain (Lens Fran)(Pevná vazba)

Towns bombed during the Spanish Civil War that were never rebuilt; an international railway station once teeming with Nazi and Allied double agents, now concealing a state-of-the-art dark matter research laboratory; a former munitions dump hewn out of the mountainside; a winery whose vast tanks

The Rose of Versailles Volume 4 (Ikeda Ryoko)(Pevná vazba)

France spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar Fran ois de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek escape, while Robespierre and the National

Ho Chi Minh: A Life (Duiker William J.)(Pevná vazba)

To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the Soviet and Chinese roles in