The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier

Author: Mick O'Farrell
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 1781173028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916. In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brún wrote in his tiny diary about guard duties and a bicycle sortie to help de Valera, during which a sniper killed one of the cyclists. Meanwhile, across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades across Moore Street and participating in the executions of Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh, giving new insights into the rebellion's grim closing days. Mick O'Farrell brilliantly juxtaposes these two accounts, including fascimilies that show through deteriorating handwriting the increasing pressure the diarists were under, to give a dramatic account of how ordinary participants experienced the events of Easter week.

A Very Violent Rebel

Author: Ellen Renshaw House
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499449
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Presents the diary of a young woman with Confederate sympathies in a largely Unionist Tennessee

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

Author: John Beauchamp Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description

A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp (Scholastic Focus)

Author: Jack Fairweather
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338686941
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
With exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts, and recently declassified files, critically acclaimed and award-winning journalist Jack Fairweather brilliantly portrays the remarkable man who volunteered to face the unknown in the name of truth and country. This extraordinary and eye-opening account of the Holocaust invites us all to bear witness. Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp -- Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible -- but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself...

Moss Bluff Rebel

Author: Philip Robert Caudill
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603440899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of cavalry Company F of Spaight’s Eleventh Battalion that later became the 21st Texas Infantry in America’s Civil War. Philip Caudill’s rich account, drawn from Duncan’s previously untapped diaries and letters written by candlelight on the Gulf Coast cattle trail to New Orleans, in Confederate Army camps, and on his southeast Texas farm after the war, reveals the personable Duncan as a man of steadfast integrity and extraordinary leadership. After the war, he returned to his home in Liberty County and battled for survival on the chaotic Reconstruction-era Texas frontier. Supplemented by archival records and complementary accounts, Moss Bluff Rebel paints a picture of everyday life for the Anglo-Texans who settled the Mexican land grants in the early nineteenth century and subsequently became citizens of the proudly independent Texas Republic. The carefully crafted narrative goes on to reveal the wartime emotions of a reluctant Confederate officer and his postwar struggles to reinvent the lifestyle he knew before the war, a way of life he sensed was lost forever. Moss Bluff Rebel will appeal to history lovers of all ages attracted to the drama of the Civil War period and the men and women who shaped the Texas frontier.

Yankee Rebel

Author: John G. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807872949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson

The Lost Civil War Diaries

Author: Timothy J. Regan
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1553956567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Now after 141 years, these diaries originally compiled in two manuscripts, are being published for the first time unedited and in thier entirety. Rarely are any new discoveries made of the written material on the American Civil War and this may be the last major find of Civil War period literature.

Emily Hobhouse

Author: Elsabé Brits
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 9781472140913
Category : Feminists
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. 'Here was Emily . . . in these diaries and scrapbooks. An unprecedented, intimate angle on the real Emily' Elsabé Brits has drawn on a treasure trove of previously private sources, including Emily Hobhouse's diaries, scrap-books and numerous letters that she discovered in Canada, to write a revealing new biography of this remarkable Englishwoman. Hobhouse has been little celebrated in her own country, but she is still revered in South Africa, where she worked so courageously, selflessly and tirelessly to save lives and ameliorate the suffering of thousands of women and children interned in camps set up by British forces during the Anglo-Boer War, in which it is estimated that over 27,000 Boer women and children died; and where her ashes are enshrined in the National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein. During the First World War, Hobhouse was an ardent pacifist. She organised the writing, signing and publishing in January 1915 of the 'Open Christmas Letter' addressed 'To the Women of Germany and Austria'. In an attempt to initiate a peace process, she also secretly metwith the German foreign minister Gottlieb von Jagow in Berlin, for which some branded her a traitor. In the war's immediate aftermath she worked for the Save the Children Fund in Leipzig and Vienna, feeding daily for over a year thousands of children, who would otherwise have starved. She later started her own feeding scheme to alleviate ongoing famine. Despite having been instrumental in saving thousands of lives during two wars, Hobhouse died alone - spurned by her country, her friends and even some of her relatives. Brits brings Emily's inspirational and often astonishing story, spanning three continents, back into the light.

The Rebel Diaries

Author: Sacha Black
Publisher: Sacha Black
ISBN: 9781913236892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
What happens when the villain wins? Sick of dashing debonairs...? Fed up of being blinded by shining armor...? Sometimes, all a girl wants is a villain for a hero. Dancing across morally gray lines, these stories are naughty, devious, and downright delicious. How far are you willing to go to get what you want? These rebellious tales answer that question. Every character has a dubious shade of values. Dark secrets, wanton desires, and the means to win. These stories go beyond your usual heroes. They explore the darkness inside us all, the conflicts we face, and the choices we make when striving for our desires--both good and bad... But then, none of us are halo wearing heroes anyway... right? Get it now.

Lost Diaries

Author: Maurice Baring
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lost Diaries" by Maurice Baring. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.