Poems, letters, and snippets of folk songs bring to life the last days in Hitler's bunker
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* One of country's most widely published and anthologized poets, this is Snodgrass's first collection of autobiographical prose. No competing titles. * Snodgrass's first book of poems Heart's Needle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. The Fuehrer Bunker (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1977) has sold nearly 1600 copies, and was the poets last full length volume of poetry. * Snodgrass taught most recently at U of Delaware; retired 3 years ago. * This is not a kiss and tell autobio, but reveals his connections to other poets of his age, including Robert Lowell. * Soho Press published Selected Poems, but Snodgrass is now connected/established with BOA. cf: Merwin's Unframed Originals
Written and compiled by the Rev. W.D. Parish, vicar of Selmeston (pronounced 'Simpson'), the Dictionary is a fascinating insight into how we might have sounded nearly 150 years ago. This fascinating book was brought to our attention by Sophie Collins, the Schott of Sussex. An edition of the seminal Sussex work was brought out 50 years ago, with additions and expansions by one Helena Hall. Snake River Press is going back to basics, and offering an exciting new version of the Reverend Parish's original, unexpurgated work. With Lynn Truss as our guide and mentor we can't go wrong and, who knows, we may even be able to revive a few authentic Sussexisms!
New paperback edition of the well-known study by the leading international expert on wealth formation and the wealthy in the 19th and 20th centuries in Britain.
This work by Professor William D. Rubinstein, the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries, comprises a series of volumes which will provide similar information on all persons leaving 100,000 or more down to 1914. For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership. Virtually none of this information has ever been compiled before, and this work provides a unique, accurate, and realistic of the wealthy elite in Britain during and just after the Napoleonic Wars. The picture which emerges is a surprisingly conservative one, with wealth centred not in the new industries of the Industrial Revolution, but in London, especially in the City of London, as well as in the landed aristocracy, in fortunes made in the east and west Indies, and riches derived from "Old Corruption," by government employees and placemen. The Introduction to this work provides useful summaries of the main trends. This set of volumes will be of considerable interest to economic, social, and political historians, to genealogists and family historians, and to local historians and historians of local communities.
The works comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of 100,000 or more in Britain from 1809 to 1914, when these sources begin in a usable form. 100,000 is the equivalent of about 10 million today. Professor Rubinstein is the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries. For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership. Virtually none of this information has ever been compiled before, and this work provides a unique, accurate, and realistic portrait of the wealthy elite in Britain during and just after the Napoleonic Wars. The picture which emerges is a surprisingly conservative one, with wealth centred not in the new industries of the Industrial Revolution, but in London, especially in the City of London, as well as in the landed aristocracy, in fortunes made in the east and west Indies, and riches derived from "Old Corruption," by government employees and placemen. The Introduction to this work provides useful summaries of the main trends. This set of volumes is of considerable interest to economic, social, and political historians, to genealogists and family historians, and to local historians and historians of local communities.
A unique, original and comprehensive work of biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of 100,000 or more in Britain from 1809 to 1914, when these sources begin in a usable form. 100,000 is the equivalent of about 10 million today. Professor Rubinstein is the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries. For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership. Virtually none of this information has ever been compiled before, and this work provides a unique, accurate, and realistic portrait of the wealthy elite in Britain during and just after the Napoleonic Wars. The picture which emerges is a surprisingly conservative one, with wealth centred not in the new industries of the Industrial Revolution, but in London, especially in the City of London, as well as in the landed aristocracy, in fortunes made in the east and west Indies, and riches derived from "Old Corruption," by government employees and placemen. The Introduction to this work provides useful summaries of the main trends. This set of volumes is of considerable interest to economic, social, and political historians, to genealogists and family historians, and to local historians and historians of local communities.
I have always written down my thoughts and goals to keep me on track and focused. I have been married nearly 50 years and have raised 2 beautiful children to adulthood...writing was a lifesaver. I hope it helps you as well.
Since To Sound Like Yourself is the first book of essays on poetry since 1975 by the Pulitzer-winning author, this title has enormous potential to become a handbook for writing classes. Focus on poetic voice development De/Compositions was nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award
Until the late 1970s, W. D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man-a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience. Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart's Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections. from "Nocturnes" Seen from higher up, it makes its first move in the low creekbed, the marshlands down the valley, spreading across the open hayfields, the hedgerows with their tops still lit, laps the roadbed, flows over lawns and gardens, past the house and up the wooded hillside back behind us till only some few rays still scythe between the treetrunks from the far horizon and are gone. W. D. Snodgrass, born in Pennsylvania in 1926, is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (BOA, 1995); Each in His Season (BOA, 1993); and Heart's Needle (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other books include To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (BOA, 2002), After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches (BOA, 1999) and six volumes of translation, including Selected Translations (BOA Editions, 1998), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
Navy Commander Will Tanner takes command of the guided-missile destroyer USS Dauntless on the eve of a hurried deployment to the Red Sea following the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Facing a myriad of challenges, he leads his crew as they dodge storms, develop innovative tactics, and begin the dangerous business of boarding merchant ships while enforcing United Nations sanctions on Iraq. Tanner deals with the responsibility of ship command under the watchful eye of his squadron commander who questions his suitability for command. Facing his own demons from an incident in the past, he must earn the trust of his crew and the higher-ranking officers over him.In Iraq, a plot is launched to deal the United States a devastating blow--the sinking of an aircraft carrier--in hopes that it will shake the Americans will to fight. As the attack plan unfolds, only Dauntless stands between certain death and destruction on the high seas. Thousands of lives are at stake.Filled with the kind of detail only an experienced naval Surface Warfare Officer and ship commander can provide, Dauntless takes the reader inside a warship at sea under the most demanding of conditions. Will Tanner must simultaneously lead and inspire his crew, deal with the politics of the Navy command structure, and safely navigate and fight his ship.
Filled with the detail only an experienced naval Surface Warfare Officer and ship commander can provide, DAUNTLESS takes the reader inside a warship at sea.On August 2, 1990, the Persian Gulf nation of Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait, occupying the country and claiming it as its 19th Province in a surprise lightning strike. Within three days Kuwaiti armed forces had been routed, the government escaping into exile, and the capital, Kuwait City, captured by Iraqi forces. On the day of the invasion, the United Nations issued U.N. Resolution 660 which condemned the invasion and demanded Iraq's withdrawal.In response to the invasion, United States President George H. W. Bush famously stated that "this will not stand." Under the leadership of the U.S., five and one-half month-long Operation Desert Shield was begun to interdict illicit trade destined for Iraq and to mobilize a historical coalition of international forces to forcibly remove Iraq from Kuwait if diplomatic efforts failed. What followed was one of the most operationally successful wars in history, Operation Desert Storm.Throughout the force build-up navy ships from thirteen nations conducted Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) to block prohibited cargoes from reaching Iraq MIO operations required the stop, boarding, and search of every ship approaching the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea and the coast of Iraq in the Persian Gulf. MIO was conducted day and night, in good weather and bad, subjecting naval personnel to the risk of injury and death on a daily basis. This novel, based on personal experience, perfectly captures life on a warship, preparing for combat while carrying out the often mundane, but nonetheless hazardous, mission of maritime interception.W.D. Sullivan tells a very plausible, imaginable, 'what if' story representing an actual threat level in the region. And how one ship--of many in harm's way--responds, exemplifying the U.S. Navy credo, Non Sibi Sed Patriae: Not for self, but for country.
Compiled from a series of sermon talks by Elder Frazee, this book gives intensely practical instruction on being ready for the second coming and the last-day events. The last chapter draws a parallel between Noah's ark and how country living can create places of refuge (arks) in the little time of trouble.