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Letters are dwindling with time, but their beauty and authenticity remains timeless. People have been writing letters for ages, countless letters expressing distress, conveying happiness, delivering …

The cultural and political history of the watershed decade of the 20th century, as told by the New Yorker.The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli …

‘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 …

On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." …

Some art lessons can inspire. Others are useless or even harmful. Eli Levin has written an amusing recollection of his art-student years and subsequent development. We witness his struggles to overco …

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 …