Gary W. Gallagher 
Fighting for the Confederacy [PDF ebook] 
The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander

The acclaimed author of The Magnetic Girl delivers “an elegy for her dead sisters . . . a heartfelt, painful family saga, skillfully told by a survivor” (Kirkus Reviews).   When J …

A true story about a troubled boy growing up with an extremely distressed family and an untamed mother who suppressed and self medicated her mental illness by inflicting pain on her children! …

Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarka …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 »A manifesto for recalibrating» DAILY MAIL »I can»t think of many books where the reader feels so passionately on the side of the narrator» GUARDIAN »A …

Chris Corcoran opens his mind to share every thought he»s ever had, in his own random order. There are insights into his life as he takes readers back to his Eighties school disco days to reveal how …

Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemis …

Aim High is an inspirational book written by the UK’s leading wheelchair athlete, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson. She has won 16 medals, eleven of which are gold, countless European titles, six London Mara …

Paul David Wellstone Jr., or ?Dave as he is known to his friends, fell into a zombie-like state of shock when he first got word that the eleven-seater plane carrying his parents and sister couldn t b …

Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile ce …

In this award-winning memoir, a poet recalls his difficult childhood as the son of a poor lay preacher in a Pennsylvania mountain town.   In Spellbound, David Mc Kain brings readers inside the s …