Lettere, diari

"One day you will know that the world is a beautiful place to be and that you are so loved."A 10 year-old holds a letter to the light, trying to read the handwritten scrawl that looks so fa …

A profoundly moving and historical record—letters sent by sixteen fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children during the 1930s–1950s.“They will live as human beings and …

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 …

Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one …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

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 …