Author: Peter Cameron
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365686930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A History of Loudon, Massachusetts located in the Berkshires, current day Otis, Massachusetts based on the lives of the residents of its oldest cemetery Norton Cemetery. The Book tracks the founding fathers of this town and their families from Europe to the colonies to Loudon in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. It traces the town's history, through it's people from its inception and formation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, through the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars to a new nation. It describes the area's part in Shays Rebellion which sparked the writing of our Constitution through the 1800 and 1900's to the 21st century. All of this is based around those families that wrote the towns history and are buried in Norton Cemetery. This offers a chance to combine political and social histories offering a unique historical perspective. The history itself highlights several trends that our contrary to contemporary historical outlooks.
Author: Robert R Owens
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591602890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Peter Cameron
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312428716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A man leaves his American life behind him and travels to La Plata, Andorra where he settles and gradually meets the city's most prominent citizens. As he becomes involved in their lives, the mystery surrounding his deepens.
Author: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 36th (1862-1865)
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: Wilson Waters
Publisher:
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Category : Chelmsford (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Author: Peter Cameron
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374287392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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In the woods of upstate New York, three friends gather on the anniversary of a man's death who was related to them by blood or love. Their idyll is disturbed by the presence of two outsiders, an Italian dinner guest and a young gay man, now involved with the dead man's lover. Thus each event is charged with the tension of trying to recapture something lost.
Author: Army Center of Military History
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944961404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Author: Lucy Jane Cutler Kellogg
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Category : Bernardston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Author: Frances Manwaring Caulkins
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Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Author: Peter Cameron
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429927151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, now a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gund's authorized biography. His request is refused, but Omar has already accepted a fellowship from the university, and with his girlfriend's vehement encouragement, he goes in person to Uruguay to petition to Gund's three executors. Although Caroline Gund, Jules' wife, and Arden Langdon, Jules' mistress and mother of his child, are initially opposed to the idea of a biography, Omar has the support of Adam, Jules' older brother, and hopes to be able to persuade the two women. Omar's unexpected arrival in Uruguay reverberates through this odd and isolated little family group, and his stay in the languid, dreamy Ochos Rios makes him question his former life in Kansas, and his ability-even his desire-to write an "authorized" life.
