Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battlefields - S. Emma E. Edmonds

Nurse and Spy is a record of events which transpired in the experience of military life in Camp, Field and Hospital during the Civil War. The autho...

Reducere. Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir r...

Reducere. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is one of the earliest autobiographies of a mixed-race woman. In her autobiography, Seaco...

This 1913 work by writer Marion Cran combines prescriptive gardening advice with autobiography: 'I knew nothing at all of gardening; never did anyo...

Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief, Paperback

Reducere. Description1861: as America erupts into civil war, Emma Edmonds is roused to such intense patriotism that she joins the Union army...as a man. Rais...

DescriptionIsabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her destinations included...

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Reducere. Similar in scope to H. H. Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, George Worthington Adams' Doctors in Blue, originally published more than forty years ago a...

Reducere. DescriptionVice Admiral Albert Gleaves offers his first-hand account of naval troop transports during World War One, showing how crucial these were...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Henry M CistNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. Dra...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944.Publ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MS Sibel D. EdmondsIn this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds-the most classified woman in U.S. history-takes us on a surr...

Reducere. Lillian Smith Book AwardsNorthern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the mo...

Reducere. A gold mine for fans of Greek history This work engages the reader in Greek culture and the history of Alexander the Great and his invasion of Pers...

"...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been ass...

Reducere. Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25, 000 casualt...

DescriptionThis book is dedicated to opening the minds of young students to help them understand that there are many choices available to them and ...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce upon a time... A town will only suffer the presence of a witch for as long as she is useful. Aisling watches the flames lick her th...

Reducere. DescriptionScarlet to Green details the 'boom and bust' cycles of the Canadian Army's intelligence organization from its inception in 1903 to 1963,...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Richard B IrwinNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

From what I can remember, this whole writing thing began around 2009-2010. It all started as a trickle of Facebook postings. Mostly uplifting messa...

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EUPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Nils RingeNumber of pages: 288Publication...

Colonel Moses Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first "national" regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it...

Reducere. During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff a...

Reducere. In her book, midwife Ruth Ehrhardt very simply explores, as the title suggests, how the basic needs of labouring women can be met. It takes into co...

The Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. In this comprehensive reassessment of the army's politics, Zachery...

Reducere. The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fish...

Reducere. When she was 18, Barbara Hesselman joined the Army to finance her nursing education. A little more than four years later, and with less than six mo...

Reducere. "Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Readi...

Intermediate-Advanced user levelIllustrations: 168 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 287 p. 168 illus.

A story about political organizing and the power of communityVal rie Plante stood up to the patriarchal power system of her city, took down an incu...

Reducere. Swimming the Volga is a personal eyewitness account of day-to-day life in a provincial Russian city during a remarkable period in world history jus...

Reducere. Within a Budding Grove beautifully examines the complex adolescent relationships that the unnamed young narrator begins to witness all around him, ...

Reducere. By Clint Lacy. Deep in the eastern Ozarks of Missouri, a battle still rages about a massacre that happened on Christmas Day of 1863. While some cal...

An overview of what Civil War soldiers and veterans chose to record and share about their experiences in the years after the war.Publisher: Casemat...

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Reducere. Of all the memoirs of the wild West, Frank Crampton's autobiography of his youth in the mining camps ranks with the very best.Scion of a wealthy Ne...

Reducere. August 1990. Iraq invades Kuwait. During the invasion, an intrepid band of Kuwaiti aviators evacuate twenty A-4 Skyhawk attack jets to Saudi Arabia...

The story of Mrs. Gordon Baillie is stranger than anything to be met with in the field of fiction.Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as...

Reducere. DescriptionDetective Philip Trent investigates the mysterious murder of a leading financier. Despite the title, Trent's Last Case is the first nove...

DescriptionHistories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line....

Reducere. Startling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White house Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the ...

Reducere. All aspects of safe, effective, holistic care for birthing mothers, newborns, and their families are included in this easy-access guide for new ant...