Letter, Diaries

Although Ruth Pitter (18971992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total s …

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of soc …

IN DECEMBER 1940, as the coldest winter in living memory fastened its grip on war-torn France, the Nazi conquerors rounded up nearly 5, 000 people, mostly women and children, and sent them to an inte …

‘There was a blinding flash and an ear-splitting report and the "prisoner" fell across me. The bullet had caught him full in the chin and passed out at the base of his skull.’ In A Tommy at …

Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler’s last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hi …

The memoir of a man who was a member of the Nazi Party—and ultimately became a martyr to the resistance.   Ulrich von Hassell began working for the German Foreign Office in 1909, then aged …

Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl, " this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews, and contai …

Joseph J. Dimocks descriptions of Cuba in his travel diary provide a remarkable firsthand view of a fascinating period in the islands history. In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was pur …