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A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. More than 100 of Cronkite's letters from 1943-45 (plus a few earlier letters) survive. They reveal surprising and little-known facts about this storied public figure in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation". They chronicle both a great love story and a great war story.

Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill’s correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before.

Succeeding William IV in 1837, Victoria reigned for nearly 64 years and was always a keen chronicler of life around her, through both her paintings and the detailed diary she kept from the age of 13. Queen Victoria’s Highland Journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 and provide a fascinating insight into those long 'never-to-be-forgotten days' she spent with her family in her much beloved Scottish Highlands.

It is 1980, and college roommates Jessica, Tammy, Kelly, and Gabriella, fresh off of receiving their MBAs from Michigan State University, spread across the globe and embark on their new lives, loves, and careers while experiencing the ups and downs, hopes and dreams, twists and turns, and success and failure that life brings.

Kennedy steered the nation away from the brink of nuclear war, initiated the first nuclear test ban treaty, created the Peace Corps, and launched American on its mission to the moon and beyond. JFK inspired a nation, particularly the massive generation of baby boomers, injecting hope and revitalizing faith in the American project. 2013 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Kennedy's untimely death, a milestone to be marked by an avalanche of new books on his life and importance.

Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best known, most interesting and most successful figures in entertainment, politics, food, sport and business to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves. They opened up, in ways they never had, to interviewer Jane Graham, reflecting on their lives and themselves with affection, sympathy and sometimes disbelief.

O primeiro lançamento dos diários de Carolina Maria de Jesus registra os meses em que a escritora morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960. Edição ampliada e integral, com conteúdo inédito e introdução de Conceição Evaristo e Vera Eunice de Jesus. Com narração de Zezé Motta. Com edição integral, ampliada com conteúdo inédito e refeita a partir dos manuscritos originais da autora, este primeiro volume de Casa de alvenaria abarca os meses em que Carolina Maria de Jesus morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960, após deixar a favela do Canindé.

The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman.

By the early 1890’s Kate's short stories were published nationally. With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about.

Salt Letters to a Younger Me is a tender correspondence between memory and tide—a series of lyrical letters written by a marine biologist to his younger self. Each letter drifts between science and solitude, salt and sorrow, tracing how the sea mirrors the human heart: its erosion, its return, its endless capacity to begin again. Through quiet observations of coral bleaching, migrating whales, and the hush of coastal dawns, the narrator learns that every loss leaves behind a mineral trace—something that glimmers even after grief recedes.

To the world, he was Dr. Sacks, the brilliant neurologist behind bestselling books like Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. To professor Susan Barry, he became Dear Oliver—her mentor, friend, and confidant over the course of their ten-year correspondence.

Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, this remarkable gathering of original documents, including never-before-published letters and papers, creates a day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War. New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and author Allen C. Guelzo delivers an invaluable and sobering firsthand perspective of the Civil War’s turning point.

The way we communicate has changed. Today many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegrams will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king.

"If war spares me," wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, "it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four." Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth. This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera; her brother; her fiancé, Roland Leighton; and their two best friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world has ever seen.

Nynne er tilbage. 41 år gammel, nybagt mor til Elliot og med dobbelt så meget hud på hænderne, som hun har brug for. Der er gensyn med Natasha, Husum og Handyman. Hvornår går man i overgangsalderen? Kan man være bortrejst i hele perioden?

Cartas a un joven poeta, contiene, desde la serenidad y la plenitud de un auténtico iniciado en los misterios de la Poesía, certeras reflexiones sobre el amor, la soledad, el destino, la religiosidad, la muerte y el sexo. Cartas a un joven poeta, más que una serie de consejos relevantes para la escritura de un autor neófito, se convierten en un amuleto contra la angustia y el sinsentido de la existencia. Descubrirlas es entrar en contacto con el rico mundo interior de un autor clásico de la modernidad.

「自分が買わない商品を売る仕事」かんぽ営業マンが教える今から数年前、私は東海地方にある郵便局に勤務し、かんぽ生命の苛烈なノルマに追われながら仕事に勤しんだ。数十件におよぶ契約を獲得し、東海支社管内での「ルーキー賞」なる賞を受けた。 口説きの手口さらに在籍中、当時のかんぽ営業のあり方をいくつかのメディアに告発した。

Forfatteren og landsretssagføreren Knud Nordentoft (1895-1953) meldte sig ind i Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti i 1940 og fik ansættelse som partifunktionær. I tre et halvt år skrev han en omfattende dagbog om livet blandt danske og tyske nazister, indtil han blev arresteret i majdagene i 1945. Knud Nordentoft skriver om det umulige samarbejde med besættelsesmyndighederne, om jødespørgsmålet, om sin frygt for kommunisterne og om sit håb om det tyske gengældelsesvåben, der kunne udslette England.

På sin 13 års fødselsdag fik Anne Frank en dagbog, som hun straks tog i brug. Det blev starten til denne gribende beretning om hendes families dagligdag i deres skjulested i "Baghuset" og deres frygt, angst og håb frem til august 1944, hvor familien blev angivet og deporteret. Anne Frank blev i 1944 sendt i koncentrationslejr sammen med sin familie, hvor hun døde i 1945.

O livro, que à primeira vista pode parecer seguir a tradição da prosa moralista, com intenção doutrinária, configurada em um manual de conduta, foi escrito pela autora para sua filha, Livia, e revela-se como um manifesto feminista, que defende a educação e a emancipação feminina em uma época em que a sociedade patriarcal não encontrava oposição. Escrito em formato epistolar, a carta escrita de mãe para filha em tom afetuoso elenca os direitos e virtudes das mulheres no mundo oitocentista, sem deixar de alertar sobre os perigos de relações falsas e a importância das boas escolhas.