Lettere, diari

‘The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.’ Philip Haythornthwaite&# …

The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of th …

A "poignant" collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus-a town in Indiana-from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times).For countless Ch …

Entering the unforgiving drug underworld of South Freeland, Sonny, a former narcotics cop, is reinstated and dispatched to penetrate the city’s prominent dope circle where he will uncover a new threa …

How will the Covid-19 pandemic be remembered? What did it mean to people? How did it feel? This book provides a compelling account of the pandemic as it was experienced in the UK. Everyday Life in th …

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known, …

An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years.In the public imagination, …

Maurice Baring OBE was born on 27th April 1874 in Mayfair, London. He was the fifth son of eight children to Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife …