Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history.
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When her suitcase is discovered and taken to Frank’s parents house, Frank begins to realize that Rosie’s disappearance might not have been of her own choosing. For twenty-two years Frank and everyone else of Faithful Place believe Rosie to have left for England in search of a new life. He waits for her for hours but then decides to walk away from his home and his family, never looking back. On the night that Frank and Rosie are supposed to meet, Rosie is a no show, forcing Frank to assume that she has changed her mind and left without him. It is decided that they will meet at one of the run down houses of Faithful Place at midnight and run away to England. In 1985, when Frank and Rosie were nineteen years old they hatched a plan to run away to England together in order to start a new life away from their families and the lack of opportunity. 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He's furious when a she-devil masquerading as an English lady steals Quimby's Costume Emporium from under his nose. Powerful and charismatic Jacob Astor Addison is in London, acquiring businesses to add to his theatrical holdings in America-as well as buying an emerald for a young lady back in Boston. But since she has no intention of marrying, she visits a costume emporium specifically to order unflattering dresses guaranteed to put off any prospective suitors. Miss Cleopatra Lewis is about to be launched in society by her aristocratic grandfather. paperback original now seeing its first hardcover publication. The dazzling pyrotechnics of British author Smith's last two future noir spectacles, Spares (under option to DreamWorks) and One of Us (under option to Warner Brothers), are prefigured in his promise-filled debut novel, a 1994 U.K. But pursuit by Action Center operatives and Alkland's crippling work-related nightmares force Stark and his quarry to escape to Jeamland, a collective repository of dreams and childhood memories that Stark appears to know very well, and to which, as… ( tovább) Set in a stylized future City where individuals live in neighborhoods organically responsive to their moods and lifestyles, the story begins as a routine missing persons case for its narrator, Stark, an irreverent soft-boiled detective type who specializes in „finding people, or things.” Stark's retrieval of Fell Alkland, a scientist who has fled the driven environment of Action Center for the placid Stable neighborhood, proves relatively easy. 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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, while chronologically the second book in the seven-part series, was published first on October 16, 1950. It has sold over 100 million copies and has been adapted into three major motion pictures. However, what he is really known for his fictional work, the most celebrated being The Chronicles of Narnia series. He has written over 30 books and is well-known for his argumentative works defending Christianity - one of his more notable books is called Mere Christianity. He was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1898 and grew up loving nature, poetry, and mythology. Lewis, was a British author, poet, and Christian apologist. In Lithvas - a country ruled by a Tsar and his dukes, and harried by gold-hungry fairy creatures called the Staryk - three young women struggle to make the most of their lives. (Full disclosure: I, too, had a story in The Starlit Wood.) 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I totally loved this.įocus on me – Megan Ericsson. I have changed this about 10 times !Ĭhampion of the Scarlet Wolf 2 – Ginn Hale. That’s actually a much harder question to answer that it looks, because you get caught up in the moment and the experience of reading, and that can change from book to book. So Karen, tell us what were the 5 (ish) books you loved the most in 2015? Today I am interviewing Karen, founding member of our Inglorious blog, splendid friend and amazing person throughout. I t is that time of year when we draw conclusions and reflect on the most significant reading we have done. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Sounds like a great time for American readers to try Roberts.Īdam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters’ The Thing. 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