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Title: The Glorious Cause: The American
Revolution,1763-1789 ( First Edition)
(Collectible Copy)
Author: Robert Middlekauff
ISBN:0-19-502921-6
Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press, New York
Copyright: 1982
Condition: USED-Excellent. Dust jacket
has 1 tiny shelfwear tear. Binding/spine
are tight. Hardcover is LIKE NEW. Pagees
are pristine.Gilt lettering on hardcover.
TYPE: Hardcover
Price: $50.00
Description:Many histories of the
American Revolution are written as
if on stained glass, with George
Washington's forces of good battling
King George III's redcoat devils. The
actual events were, of course, far
more complex than that, and Robert
Middlekauff undertakes the difficult
task of separating the real from the
mythic with great success. From him we
learn that England taxed the colonials
so heavily in an attempt to retire the
massive debt incurred in defending
those very colonials against other
powers, notably France; that the
writing of the Constitution was delayed
for two years while states argued among
themselves in the face of massive
military losses; and that demographic
shifts during the Revolution did much
to increase America's ethic diversity
at an early and decisive time. Vividly
told, this is a superb account of the
nation's founding.
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Title: The Kennedys An American Drama
(FIRST EDITION copy)(Collectible Copy)
Author: Peter Collier & David Horowitz
ISBN:0-671-44793-9
Publisher:Summit Books, New York
Copyright: 1984
Condition: USED-EXCELLENT. There are a
couple of small tears in the dustjacket.
Spine & Binding are tight. Hardcover in excellent
condition. Pages are pristine.UNABRIDGED
EDITION. WITH TERRIFIC PHOTOGRAPHS!
HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING.
Type: Hardcover
Price: $50.00
Description:Peter Collier and David
Horowitz have done their homework in
creating this candid portrait of the
Kennedy family. Written with neither
malice nor favoritism, this book is
about as honest a look at the Kennedy
family as one can buy. As they write
well, it was a pleasure to read
(with photographs and a family tree
included, too).
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Title: Schindler's List(Collectible paperback)
Author: Thomas Keneally
ISBN:0-671-88031-4
Publisher:Touchstone, New York
Copyright:1993
Type: Paperback
Condition: Used-Excellent he binding and
spine are tight and the pages are pristine.
Cover shows very mild shelfwear.
Price: $12.00
Description: I believe this is an 8th printing
of this book the print run numbers listed are
9 10 8, if that helps.How the German
Oskar Schindler came to save more than
one thousand Polish Jews during the
Holocaust is one of the most
fascinating stories of the century.
Although millions are now learning
about Schindler through Steven
Spielberg's recent Academy Award-winning
film, his achievement first gained
prominence with Keneally's 1982
"facticious" novel (which is also
the basis for the film). Keneally's
account is less melodramatic than
the motion picture, and although he
does not fully explain how a hedonistic
German could have been so altered by
the plight of the Jewish workers in
his factory, he does make Schindler
less enigmatic than the big-screen
version.
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Title: The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an
American Family(First Edition-Stated)
Author: laurence Leamer
ISBN: 0-679-42860-7
Publisher: Villard Books, New York
Copyright: 1994
COndition: USED-LIKE NEW! 'Nuff Said.
Type: Hardcover
Price:$25.00
Description:Five generations of
Kennedys are chronicled in this
unauthorized biography of the women
who helped shape the image of this
enduring dynasty.
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Title: Remember The Morning(First Edition-Stated)
Author: Thomas Fleming
ISBN: 0-312-86308-X
Publisher:Tom Doherty Associates, New York
Copyright: 1997
ondition: Used-Very Good. This is a library
copy which is in amazing condition. There's
a library decal on the dustjacket and a couple
of library stamps inside but other than that
this is a very clean, tight, copy with its
original dustjacket.
Type: Hardcover
Price: $15.00
Description:Reaching deeply into the
Colonial past of the United States,
this sixth volume in the Stapleton
series chronicles the turbulent life
of Catalyntie Van Vorst; her fated
friend and ex-slave, Clara; and their
mutual lover, Malcolm Stapleton.
Kidnapped as youngsters by the Seneca,
Catalyntie and Clara are returned to
their Dutch family at age 17, but they
can never totally shed their Indian
personas. Forced by circumstances to
become self-sufficient, Clara becomes
half-owner of a tavern where
anti-monarchical conspiracies are
hatched. Catalyntie is a businesswoman,
too, trading with Indians and setting
up a store in New York City. Malcolm
successfully lives his life as a
fearsome warrior or soldier,
depending on which affiliation
brings him closer to his lifetime goal
to build an American consciousness.
Infused with Fleming's (Loyalties:
A Novel of World War II, LJ 5/1/94)
thorough command of history and his
stereotype-smashing insights into
the psychology of ambitious,
conflicted young people, this
historical saga is a marvelously
fresh reinterpretation of an era.
For all general fiction collections.
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Title: The Soong Dynasty (Collectible copy)
Author: Sterling Seagrave
ISBN:0-06-015308-3
Publishers: Harper & Row
Copyright: 1985
Condition: Used-Excellent There are a couple of
small shelfwear tears of the dustjacket.
The hardcover, binding, spine, pages are
in LIKE NEW condition>
Type: Hardcover
Price: $20.00
Description: Sterling Seagrave,
a decent China scholar, has produced a
punchy history of the Soong family and
its marriages to the rich and powerful
of republican China. This includes
Chiang Kai Shek (Jiang Jie Shi,
actually, aka CKS) and Sun Yat Sen.
The work is generally accurate
about the dynasty's incredible greed,
the tales of the three sisters
including Dragon Lady Madame Chiang.
The mainland Chinese still like to sum
them up with the bon mot, "there were
three sisters; one loved power, one
loved money, and one loved China."
This volume explains why.
The book is a splendid introduction to
modern Taiwan and why it is as it is,
why the Chinese Republic failed, and
how drug dealing and corruption brought
it down. It is a wonderful introduction
to Tuchmann's classic "Stilwell and
the American Experience in China."
The book is perhaps too hard on old
CKS who had great strengths as an
organizer and mollifier, and did
make some attempts at land and fiscal
reform. But it is broadly accurate and
is a must read for any scholar of
modern China.
The Soong Dynasty is why the mainland
and Taiwan are what they are today!
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Title: Lincoln: A Novel (Random House
First Edition)(Collectible Copy)
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 0-394-52895-6
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1984
Condition: USED-Very Good. The dustjacket has a tear
at the bottom about 1/2inch long and the jacket needs
to be wiped off.The hardcover is in excellent
condition and the spine and binding are
nice and tight.Coffee brown clothboards with
red metallic rules, gold lettering on the hardcover.
The pages are pristine.NOT A BOOK CLUB EDITION!
Type: Hardcover
Price:$35.00
Description:Lincoln is a masterwork of
historical fiction, in which Gore
Vidal combines a comprehensive
knowledge of Civil War America with
20th-century literary technique,
probing the minds and motives of the
men surrounding Abraham Lincoln,
including personal secretary John Hay
and scheming cabinet members William
Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as
his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book
monumental in scope that never loses
sight of the intimate and personal in
its depiction of the power struggles
that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to
preserve the Union at all costs--efforts
in which the eradication of slavery was
far from the president's main
objective. As usual, there's plenty of
room for Vidal's wickedly humorous
deflation of American icons, including
a comic interlude in a Washington
bordello in which Lincoln's former
law partner informs Hay that Lincoln
had contracted syphilis as a young man
and had, just before marrying Mary
Todd, suffered what can only be
described as a nervous breakdown.
(Protestors should note that Vidal is
only passing along what that former
partner had written in his own
biography of Lincoln.) Don't be
intimidated by the size of Lincoln;
if you like historical fiction, you
should read this book at the first
opportunity.
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Title: The Man Who Kept The Secrets
Author: James Spada
ISBN: 0-553-07185-8
Publisher: Bantam books
Copyright: 1991
Condition: USED-Excellent. There is one
tiny tear on the dustjacket. The spine,
binding are tight; the hardcover is in
excellent condition; pages are pristine.
Type: Hardcover
Price: $20.00
Description:Lawford starred in
surprisingly few grade-A films.
Nevertheless, the charm he displayed in
movies such as Good News (1947) and
Little Women (1949), as well as in
clubs and television made him a
household name. Biographer Spada
( Monroe, Her Life in Pictures ,
LJ 10/1/82) balances Lawford's
professional and personal lives as
the ultimately self-destructive actor
never could. Spada chronicles Lawford's
British heritage, marriages to Pat
Kennedy and less famous women, close
friendships with Marilyn Monroe, Judy
Garland, and Jackie Kennedy, and his
descent into alcohol and drug abuse.
This excellently written, thoroughly
researched and documented portrait is
as compelling as it is distressing.
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Title:Falls The Shadow(First Edition - Stated)
Author: Sharon Kay Penman
ISBN:0-8050-0300-2
Publisher: Hnery Holt & Co., Inc., New York
Copyright: 1988
Condition: USED-Good . This is a stated first edition
in good condition. It is a Library copy
and has all the atendant library stamps.
The hardcover is in very good condition.
The first 6 pages have come loose from the glued
binding but the remainder are fine. Those pages
can be reglued. The spine is in good condition.
Pages have yellowed but except for the library
markings are in good clean condition.
Type: Hardcover
Price: $12.00
Description:For her third historical
novel, Penman focuses on the
mid-13th-century reign of England's
Henry III and stories of those who
opposed that inept king. A main
detractor is French-born Simon de
Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who
leads the fight for parliamentary
restrictions on the monarch, and
later becomes Henry's brother-in-law
through marriage to Eleanor, Countess
of Pembroke. She emerges as a major
figure, as does a distant relative
by marriage, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd,
who fights for supremacy in Wales.
A promised genealogy should sort
out the family relationships as
well as the Welsh names. Penman's
authentic historical treatment and
characterizations capture the
imagination and leave the characters
well poised for an intended sequel.
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Title: Montaillou The Promised Land of Error
(First Edition-Stated)
Author: LeRoy Ladurie
ISBN: 0-8076-0875-0
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc., New York
Copyright: 1978
Condition: USED-LIKE NEW 'Nuff Said
Type: Hardcover
Price:$20.00
Description: The year is 1300, and the
village of Montaillou in the south of
France is full of heretics. One brave
man, Jacques Fournier, Bishop of
Pamiers, embarks on a brave Inquisition
to get rid of them. For years, he
interviews everyone in the village and
keeps meticulous notes. The everyday
gossip, scandal and concerns of the
common medieval man are documented here
in a detail unsurpassed in any other
primary source. In this book, French
Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
studies these documents and presents
an incredible portrait of everyday
life: 'love and marriage, gestures
and emotions, conversations and
gossip, clans and factions, crime and
violence, concepts of time and space,
attitudes to the past, animals, magic
and folklore, death and beliefs
about the other world.' An astounding
book sitting on the border between
history and anthropology.
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Title: Grace
Author: Robert Lacey
ISBN: 0-399-13872-2
Publisher:G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Copyright;1994
Condition: USED-LIKE NEW 'Nuff Said.
Type: Hardcover
Price:
Description:After Hollywood stardom in
the Fifties, Grace Kelly, daughter
of a wealthy Philadelphia businessman,
retired while still glamorous to
become Her Serene Highness, Princess
Grace of Monaco. Her death in a 1982
automobile accident has never been
explained. The fairy tale that was-or
seemed to be-Kelly's life has already
served as the basis of several popular
biographies; the only well-written,
critical biography available is James
Spada's Grace: The Secret Lives of a
Princess (LJ 5/1/87). Historian and
journalist Lacey (Ford: The Men and
the Machine, LJ 9/1/86) owes much
to Spada, but Lacey's own prestige
as a writer has shaken loose many
new interviewees around the world.
The serious work that results is
rich in anecdote yet captures the
broad story of an outwardly controlled
"ice princess" whose promiscuous habits
were the natural result of the
affection withheld by the men she loved.
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Title: A Parchment of Leaves(First Edition-Stated)
Author: Silas House
ISBN: 1-56512-367-0
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill, NC
Copyright: 2002
Condition: USED-LIKE NEW
Type: Hardcover
Price: $20.00
Description:In 1917 rural Kentucky,
a young Cherokee woman named
Vine, rumored to cast spells on
unsuspecting men, falls in love with
local Irishman Saul Sullivan, whom she
eventually marries. This second novel
by Appalachian writer House (Clay's
Quilt) tells the story of Vine and
Saul's tender relationship and the
prejudice they face and eventually
overcome. While Vine was not raised
according to Cherokee customs, she
is still aware of being seen as an
outsider when she leaves her Cherokee
community to be with her husband.
People are drawn to her gentle and
generous personality, however, and
soon she forms enduring friendships
with her hard-working mother-in-law,
Esme, and feisty and independent
midwife Serena. When World War I
erupts and Saul temporarily takes a
better-paying job far from home, Vine
finds herself trying to ward off
the unwanted advances of Saul's
restless younger brother, Aaron,
who declares his own love for Vine.
A deep respect for the natural world
and the enduring spirit of the human
heart are what make this book worth
reading and remembering.
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Title: The Bonesetter's Daughter
Author: Amy Tan
ISBN: 0-399-14543-1
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, NEw York
Copyright: 2001
COndition: Used-LIKE NEW
Type: Hardcover
Price: $12.00
Description:In its rich character
portrayals and sensitivity to the
nuances of mother-daughter relationships,
Tan's new novel is the real successor
to, and equal of, The Joy Luck Club.
This luminous and gripping book
demonstrates enhanced tenderness
and wisdom, however; it carries the
texture of real life and reflects
the paradoxes historical events
can produce. Ruth Young is a 40-ish
ghostwriter in San Francisco who
periodically goes mute, a metaphorical
indication of her inability to express
her true feelings to the man she
lives with, Art Kamen, a divorced
father of two teenage daughters.
Ruth's inability to talk is subtly
echoed in the story of her mother
LuLing's early life in China, which
forms the long middle section of the
novel. Overbearing, accusatory, darkly
pessimistic, LuLing has always been
a burden to Ruth. Now, at 77, she has
Alzheimer's, but luckily she had
recorded in a diary the extraordinary
events of her childhood and youth
in a small village in China during the
years that included the discovery
nearby of the bones of Peking Man,
the Japanese invasion, the birth of the
Republic and the rise of Communism.
LuLing was raised by a nursemaid called
Precious Auntie, the daughter of a
famous bonesetter. Once beautiful,
Precious Auntie's face was burned in a
suicide attempt, her mouth sealed
with scar tissue. When LuLing
eventually learns the secrets of
Precious Auntie's tragic life, she is
engulfed by shame and guilt. These
emotions are echoed by Ruth when she
reads her own mother's revelations,
and she finally understands why LuLing
thought herself cursed. Tan conjures
both settings with resonant detail,
juxtaposing scenes of rural domestic
life in a China still ruled by
superstition and filial obedience,
and of upscale California half a
century later. The novel exhibits
a poignant clarity as it investigates
the dilemma of adult children who must
become caretakers of their elderly
parents, a situation Tan articulates
with integrity and exemplary
empathy for both generations.
Agent, Sandy Dijkstra. (Feb. 19)
Forecast: With a readership already
clamoring for the book, and Tan
embarking on a 22-city tour, this
novel will be a sure hit; its terrific
sepia-tinted cover photo of a woman in
old China only adds to its allure.
Moreover, readers will be intrigued
by Tan's hint that this story about
family secrets is semi-autobiographical.
The dedication reads: "On the last day
my mother spent on earth, I learned
her real name, as well as that of my
grandmother."
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Title: The Seat of the Soul(FIRST Fireside
Edition 1990)
Author: Gary Zukav
ISBN: 0-671-69507-X
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Copyright: 1989
Condition: USED-LIKE NEW
Type: Paperback
Price:$12.00
Description:Ready to attain a higher
level of understanding? Author Gary
Zukav can help you evolve into a
multisensory being, one who "values
love more than the physical world." As
shown in The Dancing Wu Li Masters,
his bestselling exploration of physics,
Zukav has a gift for presenting
complex, even mind-boggling concepts
in clearly worded and reasoned logic.
In Seat of the Soul, he leads you on an
inspirational and potentially
life-changing journey into the
seemingly intangible realm of the
spirit. Reading in a calm, soothing
voice he explains why increased sensory
perception will mark the next phase
of human evolution, how the power of
choice can change your existence, and
what you can do to infuse your life
with more compassion, trust, and
understanding.
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Title: The Big Sky(copy is considered
collectible)
Author: A.N. Guthrie, Jr.
ISBN:
Publisher: Time-Life Books, INc.,Alexandria,VA
Copyright: 1964 reprinted 1980
Condition: USed-LIKE NEW!
Type: Paperback
Price:$10.00
Note: This is part Time-Life Books,
Time Reading special Edition Series
books published in paperback. This is now
considered a collectible series of books.
Description:The Big Sky is the first of
A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of
America's vast frontier. It is a story
as great as the land that inspired it,
sweeping westward from Kentucky, up
the Missouri River into Indian Country.
Towering above the novel is Guthrie's
unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a
true mountain man driven by a raging
hunger for life and a longing for the
blue sky and brown earth of the big,
wild places. A legend before he turns
20, Boone becomes a powerful White
Savage, an untamed life force that
only one woman, the beautiful daughter
of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to
love. It is this magnificent spirit
that Guthrie celebrates with his vivid
storytelling--the glory of the bigness,
the wildness, the freedom and undying
dream of the West.
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Title: Napoleon's Russian Campaign(copy is
considered collectible)
Author: Count Phillipe-Paul De Segur
ASIN: B000H2H324
Copyright: 1965
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA.
Condition: USED-Like New
Type: paperback
Note:This is part Time-Life Books,
Time Reading special Edition Series
books published in paperback.This is
now considered a collectible series
of books.
Price: $10.00
Description: This is a raw account of
Napoleon's Russian 1812 Russian
Campaign from not just an eye witness,
but a French officer and aide to
Napoleon. Phillipe-Paul de Segur was
rarely more than a few feet from
Napoleon's side throughout this
campaign and doesn't swerve from
making observations on Napoleon both
positive or negative. But a great deal
of the power of this book comes from
the stark observations of the horror
this heedless march into Russia caused.
There is good reason that this account,
first published in 1824, has been
republished so many times - It is very
good - and was used as a main source
for a number of authors including
Tolstoy (who cobbled a number of events
for War and Peace from it), Victor
Hugo and Chateaubriand. Interestingly
it was not until 1965 that the first
English version was published.
It is such a short period of history,
fewer than six months, but the foolish
action cost Napoleon his dominance in
Europe and marked his turn in power.
For it is here that he lost thousands
of men, and showed just how vulnerable
he could be.
In the Spring of 1812, Napoleon, angry
that the Russian Emperor had deifed the
Treaty of Tilsit and ignored his
Continental system, decided to throw
all his forces into invading Russia.
The Russian Army met and tried to stop
the relentless onslaught of the French
at the River Neimen, but defeated they
fell back in retreat burning everything
as they went.
Napoleon pushed hard on to Moscow -
thinking the Russians would sue for
peace once he was in that all important
city. They didn't - and by October 19th
with a huge army, few supplies and the
harsh winter approaching her realised
he had to retreat through the burnt
decimated country back to the safety
of the west. But Napoleon knew, as all
the army did, it was already too
late....yet they had to go.
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Title: Kabloona(considered a collectible
edition)
Author: Gontran De Poncins
ASIN: B000HV6YFW
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc., Allexandria,VA
Copyright: 1965 reprinted 1980
Condition: USED-Like NEW
Type: paperback
Note:This is part Time-Life Books,
Time Reading special Edition Series
books published in paperback. This
is now onsidered a collectible series
of books.
Price: $10.00
Description:Kabloona is a book by
French adventurer Gontran De Poncins,
written in collaboration with Lewis
Galantiere, first published in English
in 1941. It recounts Poncins solo
unsupported journey in the Canadian
arctic near King William Island where
he lived with the Inuit (in those days,
still generally called the Eskimos)
for about 15 months during the period
1938 to late 1939. Poncins was a French
aristocratic Count of about 40 years
old. The book contains many drawings
by the author and 10 pages of black
and white photographs, and it is
considered a classic in travel
literature and anthropology.
Poncins explores Inuit culture and the
Inuit world view, leaving the reader
with a deeper understanding of such
things as wife-swapping, living in an
igloo at 40 degrees below zero, why and
how Inuit have feasts lasting 20 hours
at a stretch, their concepts of time
and family life, their perspectives on
Europeans and European food and gear,
the Inuit diet, hunting techniques,
wildlife, nomadic life, dogs, weather,
clothing, communal sharing of goods and
notions of private property.
Poncins was not a scientist and did not
study the Inuit from a scientific
perspective. Rather, he provides his
own stylized personal points of view
and descriptions of Inuit life. In the
book, he is initially disparaging of
the Inuit way of life, seeing it as
primitive and often using the
description "cave man". Indeed,
a clear theme of racial superiority,
described in terms of innate
intelligence and physical appearances,
and cultural superiority in terms of
morals and ethics pervades the first
part of his work. As the book
progresses and his hardships in the
harsh Arctic environment take their
toll (at one point Poncins runs 1400
miles behind a dogsled), he begins to
find a new appreciation for the Inuit
way of life, for their intelligence and
resourcefulness, and experiences to a
spiritual awakening; ultimately
reaching a point where he discovers
that he himself has become so well
adapted to the Inuit way of life that
he is no longer a "Kabloona" and has
become one of them.
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Title: The Reason Why(considered collectible edition)
Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith
ISBN:ISBN-10: 0094648301
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc., Allexandria,VA
Copyright: 1962 reprinted 1982
Condition: USED-LIKE NEW
Note:This is part Time-Life Books,
Time Reading special Edition Series
books published in paperback. This
is now onsidered a collectible series
of books.
Price: $10.00
Description: Woodham-Smith presents, in
minute detail, the wages of placing
social rank over experience, and even
competence. British military history
follows a disturbing trend. War starts,
Brits get trounced upon, influx of
fresh talent and new ideas comes
(along with, sometimes, timely
intercession by allies), British
return to triumph. Woodham-Smith
attributes this pattern to the notion
in the higher ranks of the army
(a notion espoused by the Duke of
Wellington himself, pip pip!), that
nobility ensures, if not competence,
at least loyalty.
The price of this notion, is, of
course, massive death, but because
the massive death does not happen
to the nobility, nobody important
really minds. This is one reason
the Charge of the Light Brigade,
with which _the Reason Why_ primarily
deals, was so different, and worthy of
eulogizing in prose and song (Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, by the way, appears
absolutely nowhere in this text)--
those dying, those paying the price for
the Army's obsession with aristocracy,
were aristocrats themselves.
Woodham-Smith manages to trace the
careers of two utterly unsympathetic
characters--Cardigan and Lucan--in a
fascinating manner. This is no small
feat, considering the reader will
probably want, by the end of _the
Reason Why_ to reach back in time and
shake both of them, and maybe smack
them around a bit.
Again, Cecil Woodham-Smith proves
herself a master of the historian's
craft, and produces a well-researched,
thorough and driving account of what is
probably the stupidest incident in
modern military history.
The Crimean War changed so much about
how war is waged--the treatment of
prisoners and wounded being tops on the
list of reforms brought about in the
wake of the debacle. _The Reason Why_
is an excellent account, and should be
required reading for anybody with even
a remote interest in military history,
or European history in general.
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Title: Reveille In Washington 1860-1865
(copy is considered a collectible edition)
Author: Margaret Leech
ASIN: B000GRJS1O
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc. Alexandria,VA
Copyright: 1962 reprinted 1980
Condition: USED-Excellent
Type: paperback
Note:This is part Time-Life Books,
Time Reading special Edition Series
books published in paperback. This
is now onsidered a collectible series
of books.
Price: $9.00
Description:Margaret Leech's 1941 masterwork,
Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865,
presents the Civil War from the unique
viewpoint of Washington, D.C. According
to one reviewer, Ms. Leech's Washington
is more than just the seat of
government. "It was a southern city in
which loyal men labored to save the
Union while secessionist neighbors
openly jeered at their efforts. It was
at once a seat of bumbling bureaucracy,
a training ground for raw recruits, a
giant hospital, the habitat of
Confederate spies, and, finally, the
scene for the assassination of the one
man who might have diminished the
residue of the war's bitterness."
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Title: Disraeili (considered collectible edition)
Author: Andres Maurois
ASIN: B000CD581Q
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc., Alexandria,VA
Copyright: 1965 reprint 1980
Condition: USED-LIKE NEW
Note:This is part Time-Life Books,
Time Reading special Edition Series
books published in paperback. This
is now onsidered a collectible series
of books.
Price: $16.00
Description: Maurois writes in a lovely,
almost poetic, style. He is able to
present the flow of Disraeli's life
very clearly and prettily. He picks
lines from letters or snippets of
conversation that are evocative, so
the book presents Disraeli's life in
a warm, non-pedantic manner. It may be
a bit old fashioned, but it is very
easy to read and rich in word pictures.
He presents the historic debates and
decisions of Parliament and does not
get bogged down in background
information
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