A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S COMPELLING ACCOUNT

OF HIS LIFE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

Shelton, a Confederate soldier and former prisoner of war, recounts life in post Civil War when he returns to his hometown in Alabama only to find a township in ruin and lost opportunities.

In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.

With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval.

Included on the Chief of Staff of the Army's recommended reading list, this concise account by David W.

Although the following Chronicle bears the name of the venerable Fray Antonio Agapida, it is rather a superstructure reared upon the fragments which remain of his work.

Joan of Arc, also called the Maid of Orleans, a patron saint of France and a national heroine, led the resistance to the English invasion of France in the Hundred Years War.

Joan of Arc was born in France near the border of Burgundy in January 1412.

A MOMENT OF TRUTH is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola. It is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth-century France.

If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains.

A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again.

During the twelfth century, great numbers of Norman abbeys and priories were founded in England, Wales and Scotland.