Letter, Diaries

Experience romance and wartime London in the collected letters between two English lovers separated while serving their country during World War II.On July 17, 1939, Eileen Alexander, a recent Cambri …

A selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life. There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . rejoice in what is yours. What …

‘Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It’s a lovely LOVELY book’ Marian Keyes’This book made me cry’ Sara Cox After Emma Kennedy’s mother Brenda passed away, she found herself flounder …

Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one …

*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor’s Pick* ‘Terrific’ SARAH DUNANT ‘Lively and intriguing … You’ll never look at Renaissance portraits in th …

Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on …

During World War I, Dr. Mary M. Crawford spent nearly a year volunteering at the American Ambulance Hospital in France. Among the first American physicians to join the Allied war effort in 1914, she …

A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadnessand the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustr …

This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898), the elder daughter of the Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. The correspo …

Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virginia Cavalry, which fought in battles in the Eastern Theater, from First Manassas/Bull Run to the defe …