Mary Boykin Chesnut 
Mary Chesnut’s Diary [EPUB ebook] 

Even after fifty years, and in spite of the reams of documents now available, it remains difficult-especially in France-to form an objective view of what things were like in the period between the wa …

Contains letters from Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). The letters in this title present a personal and intellectual narrative of nineteen …

First Published in 1968. Including a translators preface, and two volumes, Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation (J. G. H.) at the Court of Czar Peter the Great is translated from the Original L …

During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway“s Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into monthl …

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occu …

First published in 1968. This is a volume of selected passages from the extensive diary of General Gordon: the soldier of fortune, whose memoirs are now introduced to the Spadling Club, who had been …

“A compelling, absorbing account of a most vivid period in our cultural history, both high-minded and full of high gossip … a rare treat“ Melvyn Bragg The first volume of David Plante“s extraord …

In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and “Globe“ Magazin …

Diary of a Currency Trader is Samuel J Rae’s no-nonsense, full disclosure look at his approach to the retail foreign exchange markets. Samuel takes you through his personal journey and how he got to …

First published in 1995. Here, republished for the first time, is the first edition text of Jane Austen“s much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the fir …