During the Crusades, a family is displaced.Fielo, the father, his wife, Elizabeth, and young sons; Erik, Andre and Paul must leave.They lead aherd of horses east to find a home in the forest Fie had visited long ago.Fielo instructs his sons and friends in archery.Skill with bow and arrow is paramount for survival.The young people learn the craft of making equipment from materials found in the forest.Popularity of archery increases after Erik impresses villagers at a local contest.S...

Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

110 Voices of the Civil War: Personal Accounts from the Frontlines assembles an expansive polyphony of witness, joining battlefield reminiscence, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, military reportage, and reflective memoir. Its accounts range from terse descriptions of combat to elaborate retrospective meditations on command, fear, endurance, emancipation, and loss. The collection's signal achievement is its juxtaposition of Union and Confederate perspectives, officer...

An English colonel chronicles three months behind Confederate lines at the height of the American Civil War—edited by a #1 New York Times –bestselling author."Richly rewarding. . . . Takes its rightful place among the standard works on the Civil War." — The Christian Science MonitorThree hours after stepping onto American soil, James Fremantle saw his first corpse: that o...

An eye-witness account of the Civil War, from the Confederate perspective. This brigade was part of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment. According to the Preface: "I consider Kershaw's Brigade ... one of the best eye-witness accounts of its kind, complete, trustworthy, and intensely interesting. Beginning with the secession of South Carolina onDecember 20, 1860, Dickert describes in detail the formation, organization, and myriad military activities of his brigade until its surrender at Durh...

At the age of eighteen I was a member of the Junior Class at Washington College at Lexington, Virginia, during the session of 1860-61, and with the rest of the students was more interested in the foreshadowings of that ominous period than in the teachings of the professors. Among our number there were a few from the States farther south who seemed to have been born secessionists, while a large majority of the students were decidedly in favor of the Union. Our president, the Rev. Dr. George...

70 Civil War Memoirs of Union Soldiers assembles a capacious documentary portrait of the Union war effort, bringing battlefield recollection into conversation with camp life, military command, naval service, imprisonment, medicine, espionage, and emancipation. Its styles range from terse campaign narratives and tactical analyses to reflective autobiographical sketches and vivid eyewitness testimony. Accounts of major engagements stand beside less familiar records of marching, hunger, fear,...

A marvellous book which chronicles the major events in the lives of Ulysses Simpson Grant 18th American president and General Robert Edward Lee a leading figure in the American Civil War. Hill does not present them as awe-inspiring leaders but as human beings one can relate to. He narrates how they achieved greatness by overcoming obstacles through their relentless efforts. Inspirational!

Civil War Four Pack presents four key primary texts for Civil War buffs and historians:Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy - A private soldier’s experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear and Florence by John McElroy.Co. Aytch - A Side Show of the Big Show by Samuel R. Watkins.Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higgin...

In 'Civil War Live' by Charles Carleton Coffin, readers are treated to a gripping account of the American Civil War through the lens of a seasoned journalist. Coffin's vivid and immersive writing style plunges readers into the heart of the battlefield, providing a real-time experience of the war's most crucial moments. The book captures the bravery, chaos, and tragedy of war, making it a valuable historical resource for those interested in the Civil War era. Coffin's journalistic backgroun...

In The Citizen Soldier, John Beatty examines the civic meaning, institutional formation, and practical obligations of military service performed by ordinary members of the polity. The book places the soldier not simply within the machinery of war but at the intersection of citizenship, national defense, discipline, and democratic responsibility. Its manner is didactic and analytical, combining historical reflection with a strong public-minded argument; in this respect, it belongs to the tr...