Author: Alice Marie O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340272
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The lively and revealing letters of a woman who, with thousands of others, volunteered for service in World War I Europe, taking on jobs that freed men for the trenches.
Alice in France
Author: Alice Marie O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340272
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The lively and revealing letters of a woman who, with thousands of others, volunteered for service in World War I Europe, taking on jobs that freed men for the trenches.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681340272
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The lively and revealing letters of a woman who, with thousands of others, volunteered for service in World War I Europe, taking on jobs that freed men for the trenches.
I Remain Yours
Author: Christopher Hager
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents, and siblings at home—letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these Union and Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people who had to figure out how to salve the emotional strain of war and sustain their closest relationships using only the written word. Christopher Hager presents an intimate history of the Civil War through the interlaced stories of common soldiers and their families. The previously overlooked words of a carpenter from Indiana, an illiterate teenager from Connecticut, a grieving mother in the mountains of North Carolina, and a blacksmith’s daughter on the Iowa prairie reveal through their awkward script and expression the personal toll of war. Is my son alive or dead? Returning soon or never? Can I find words for the horrors I’ve seen or the loneliness I feel? Fear, loss, and upheaval stalked the lives of Americans straining to connect the battlefront to those they left behind. Hager shows how relatively uneducated men and women made this new means of communication their own, turning writing into an essential medium for sustaining relationships and a sense of belonging. Letter writing changed them and they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents, and siblings at home—letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these Union and Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people who had to figure out how to salve the emotional strain of war and sustain their closest relationships using only the written word. Christopher Hager presents an intimate history of the Civil War through the interlaced stories of common soldiers and their families. The previously overlooked words of a carpenter from Indiana, an illiterate teenager from Connecticut, a grieving mother in the mountains of North Carolina, and a blacksmith’s daughter on the Iowa prairie reveal through their awkward script and expression the personal toll of war. Is my son alive or dead? Returning soon or never? Can I find words for the horrors I’ve seen or the loneliness I feel? Fear, loss, and upheaval stalked the lives of Americans straining to connect the battlefront to those they left behind. Hager shows how relatively uneducated men and women made this new means of communication their own, turning writing into an essential medium for sustaining relationships and a sense of belonging. Letter writing changed them and they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.
A Year for France
Author: Houston Woodward
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333716745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from A Year for France: War Letters Prepared for college at Chestnut Hill Academy and Taft School. Spent one year and a half at Yale, resigned after the mid-year examinations, February, 1917, entered the American Ambu lance Field Service, sailed for France February lgth, 1917, and later became an aviator in the French army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333716745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from A Year for France: War Letters Prepared for college at Chestnut Hill Academy and Taft School. Spent one year and a half at Yale, resigned after the mid-year examinations, February, 1917, entered the American Ambu lance Field Service, sailed for France February lgth, 1917, and later became an aviator in the French army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Intimate Letters from France During America's First Year of War (Classic Reprint)
Author: Elizabeth H. Ashe
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331078944
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Excerpt from Intimate Letters From France During America's First Year of War These letters, written without thought of publication, are now printed in the belief that the reader may find in them a source of inspiration and comfort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331078944
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Excerpt from Intimate Letters From France During America's First Year of War These letters, written without thought of publication, are now printed in the belief that the reader may find in them a source of inspiration and comfort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Classic essays on America's Civil War
Author: Lawrence L. Hewitt
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater ultimately comprise several volumes that promise a host of provocative new insights into not only the South's ill-fated campaigns in the West but also the eventual outcome of the larger conflict. --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Confederate Generals in the Western Theater ultimately comprise several volumes that promise a host of provocative new insights into not only the South's ill-fated campaigns in the West but also the eventual outcome of the larger conflict. --Book Jacket.
How We Are Changed by War
Author: D.C. Gill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135148945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"How We Are Changed by War examines the changes to Americans during wartime through the medium of their diaries and correspondence, beginning with the colonial period of the early seventeenth century, and ending with diaries and letters from Iraq War veterans. The book clearly discusses and describes the universal themes of war such as reintegration to society and the horrors of war through private writings regardless of the narrator's historical era. This allows the writers to "speak" to each other across time to reveal a profound commonality of cultural experience." "How We Are Changed by War is a fascinating look at the writings of individuals who served their military in different eras, and a great example of how history is shaped by both memory and experience."--Jacket.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135148945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"How We Are Changed by War examines the changes to Americans during wartime through the medium of their diaries and correspondence, beginning with the colonial period of the early seventeenth century, and ending with diaries and letters from Iraq War veterans. The book clearly discusses and describes the universal themes of war such as reintegration to society and the horrors of war through private writings regardless of the narrator's historical era. This allows the writers to "speak" to each other across time to reveal a profound commonality of cultural experience." "How We Are Changed by War is a fascinating look at the writings of individuals who served their military in different eras, and a great example of how history is shaped by both memory and experience."--Jacket.
All for the Union
Author: Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England
Author: Helen Maria Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : 1791
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : 1791
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Athenæum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description