Kirjahaku

Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.

In 1845, Templecrone Parish, in northwest Donegal, was inhabited by a population that relied almost entirely on the potato as a sole source of nourishment. The parish comprised more than 50,000 acres of bogs, lakes and boulder-strewn mountains, and its rugged coastline was defended by a string of islands that were heavily populated.The parish suffered heavy casualties from hunger, disease, stress and inclement weather from 1845 to 1849, and beginning in 1850, many of the survivors led to Canada and the United States, never to return. If not for the aid provided by the Quakers, the British Association, the Belfast Ladies Association, the local clergy, and the resident landlord, Francis Forster, there would have been few survivors. During the famine years, the British Government provided no aid to Templecrone, even though its representatives in Dublin were well aware of the tragedy taking place in the parish.

I have many memories of growing up in Campbell's Hotel, Dungloe. Some are of incidents that occurred in 1938 when I was only four years old; others are of events that happened during my teenage years.These are memories involving my family, my friends, and of the people who lived in Dungloe and in the surrounding areas.My memory is, of course, very selective. Only the incidents that have made an indelible impression on me are recalled, and the more intense the emotional experience at the time of the incident the more vivid and long-lasting is the recollection of that experience.I remember very little about the years prior to my fourth birthday, but have very clear memories of incidents and people in the years afterward.This is a collection of these memories.

I know what it's like to be half alive and not even realize it. Or if I ever got a "moment of clarity", it didn't last long enough for me to do something about it. It took a wake-up call of losing my family and my home being in foreclosure for me to finally realize it wasn't just a little drinking problem and I wasn't hurting anyone but myself for me to finally do something about it. I soon realized it wasn't going to be easy but in essence, I was saving my life and that's what kept me going when I wanted to just give up and go back to drinking many times in the beginning. More than half my life was over. I was 45 when I got sober for the last time. By then, the losses were piling up and my achievements were a distant memory. I saw people losing their lives because they couldn't get sober and since no one's ever come back from the dead to tell us how good it is on the other side, I decided to save my life and see what that had to offer. I had many goals growing up but being an alcoholic wasn't one of them but that was where drinking took me. I finally accepted, "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic" and decided to do something because wishing myself sober wasn't going to work. I share what I learned with anyone who wanted help and go to any length in order to do so. It keeps me humble and reminds me the disease hasn't changed. No matter how much time I get in sobriety, if I pick up a drink, it's all over and I'm right back where I started. I didn't get in trouble every time I drank but every time I got in trouble, I was drinking. It was time to finally achieve some goals and get back into life. AA saved my life. I was told I can't keep it unless I give it away so I decided to share my experience, strength & hope to anyone who wants to listen. You can't make someone get sober, it's a program of attraction and that's the purpose here. If you can honestly identify with anything in my book, you just might be one of us. I strongly suggest you do something about it because it just might save your life.

Tunnel Tigers is a colourful portrait of the off-beat characters who worked on Scottish hydro projects, and of the tensions that were created when men of various religious and ethnic groups shared the same space. Tunnel tigers are an elite group of construction workers who specialise in a highly paid but dangerous profession: driving tunnels through mountains or underneath rivers or other large bodies of water, in locations as far apart as Sydney and San Francisco. At the turn of the last century they tunnelled out the subways under New York and London; in the 1940s and 1950s they were involved in a score of huge hydroelectric tunnels in Pitlochry and the Highlands of Scotland. They continue with their dangerous craft today in various locations all over the world. Many of these daring men were born in north west Donegal, Ireland, where the tunnel tigers were viewed as local folk heroes because they had the bravado to work in dangerous conditions that few other working men could endure.

Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America - In the years 1791 and 1792; in which is given an account of the manners and customs of the Indians, and the present war between them and the Fderal States, the mode of life and system of far is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1793. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.