The first novel of the EUROPA Trilogy, Europa: Dreams is 634 pages long. The story begins as Sarah Green faces the most difficult decision of her life. "If someone told you your life was going to end then offered you an olive branch to save it, would you take it?" This is the question Sarah asks the reader after a chance sequence of events, culminates in her opening an email in her spam from a Commodore Adrian Reese, who leads her to an unknown RAF base at an undisclosed location in Englan...

" In the darknes you will see the stars Fairest One; they will shine for you in a place you thought would never contain life"I had grown up hearing these words uttered by my father. Now, here on Europa, a planet full of wonder and mistery, I've discovered the caves my father of actually do exist. Trouble is, nothing's gone to plan since we've been here. What's more, now that the Youphelons, our ancestors, have trethened my life; the race to get to Allieasure and the Court of The Fi...

It was with much difficulty that I was induced to give to the public a narrative of my experience as a scout and spy. It was the intense interest with which the people have listened to my narratives, whenever I have related them, and their earnest entreaties to have them published, that have prevailed upon me to do so.I entered the army from purely patriotic motives. I had no vain ambition to gratify, but simply a desire to sustain and perpetuate the noble institutions that had been...

"Four Years a Scout and Spy" by E. C. Downs is a gripping memoir that recounts the author's experiences during the tumultuous years of the American Civil War. Downs, who served as a scout and spy for the Union Army, provides a firsthand account of the dangers and challenges faced by those who operated behind enemy lines. His narrative is filled with vivid descriptions of battles, espionage, and the complexities of war, offering readers a unique perspective on a pivotal moment in American h...

In "Four Years a Scout and Spy: General Bunker," E. C. Downs provides a gripping firsthand account of espionage and reconnaissance during the American Civil War. Written in a candid and evocative style, Downs's narrative captures the harrowing realities faced by scouts and spies in the field, blending historical detail with personal anecdotes. The book is rich in descriptions of military strategy, the landscape of war, and the moral complexities of intelligence work, offering readers a nua...

This capacious anthology charts espionage as lived experience, historical record, and popular legend. Its twenty memoirs and biographical sketches move across military intelligence, clandestine travel, counterespionage, disguise, interrogation, and political intrigue, combining firsthand testimony with Victorian and early modern biographical narration. Civil War adventures, accounts of revolutionary loyalties, and reflections on the professionalization of secret service emerge as especiall...

Hidden Heroes: 20 Riveting Spy Memoirs & Biographies gathers nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writings on espionage, military intelligence, disguise, reconnaissance, and clandestine service. Combining memoir, biography, historical narrative, adventure writing, and reflective portraiture, the volume situates the spy at the meeting point of warfare, journalism, imperial expansion, and popular romance. Its most compelling accounts trace Civil War infiltrations, diplomatic intrigue, sco...

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...

Autobiographical works can take many forms, from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to a formal book-length autobiography.Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own — and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction. Take a glimpse into the lives of some of the wor...

Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer—a man with Twain-like talents who served as a foot soldier for four long years in the Confederate army....

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”― Winston S. Churchill.An eyewitness account of life in ancient Egypt from the Father of History, legendary Greek historian Herodotus; a concise biography of Marie Antoinette by John Abbott; a look at the private life of Horatio Nelson in Lord Nelson & Lady Hamilton; one of the most important Civil War memoirs penned by a soldier in the field - Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwri...

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...