In "Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac," Hampton Sidney Thomas offers an evocative first-hand account of his experiences in the American Civil War. The narrative is rich with vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes that illuminate the emotional and physical trials faced by cavalry soldiers. Thomas's literary style is imbued with a sense of immediacy, using a blend of reflective prose and detailed observation that captures both the chaos of ba...

Warriors of Freedom: 70 Memoirs of Union Soldiers gathers firsthand Civil War testimony into a capacious record of military service, emancipation, captivity, command, and remembrance. Its selections range from battlefield narrative and campaign history to prison recollection, naval experience, medical observation, and reflections on the war's moral stakes. Grand strategic accounts stand beside intimate scenes of marching, deprivation, comradeship, and survival, making the volume a signific...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

110 Voices of the Civil War: Personal Accounts from the Frontlines assembles an expansive polyphony of witness, joining battlefield reminiscence, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, military reportage, and reflective memoir. Its accounts range from terse descriptions of combat to elaborate retrospective meditations on command, fear, endurance, emancipation, and loss. The collection's signal achievement is its juxtaposition of Union and Confederate perspectives, officer...

70 Civil War Memoirs of Union Soldiers assembles a capacious documentary portrait of the Union war effort, bringing battlefield recollection into conversation with camp life, military command, naval service, imprisonment, medicine, espionage, and emancipation. Its styles range from terse campaign narratives and tactical analyses to reflective autobiographical sketches and vivid eyewitness testimony. Accounts of major engagements stand beside less familiar records of marching, hunger, fear,...

This book represents a way of thinking about jazz harmony. It explains how chords are built, named and used. It presents examples in the form of conventional notation and images of the piano keyboard. A glossary of terms is included. If you need some kind of structure or framework of understanding to be able to do music at all, you may find it here. At the very least, by Step 20 you should be able to look at a chord chart and recognise (and even play) the symbols and patterns that form the...

Senescence is a journey from the Big Bang to the Big Sleep. It tells the story of life, death and everything in between. We learn about autumn leaves, Josef Stalin's toes, fruit ripening, the inventor of Marmite and the precarious state of the world's food supply. Senescence can be read as a continuous narrative or opened at random to sample one-page stand-alone mini-essays. The book includes copious notes and a comprehensive glossary.

The book and its facts are real. (See the testimonials on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram). This makes central Mexico, in the so-called Area 33, seem like a sci-fi movie. For this is the location of the Torah Project, the most ambitious, globally known civilian attempt to make contact with intelligences variously described as aliens, extraterrestrials or Star Beings.The awakening of humanity has been slowed by an extraterrestrial race working with a group of humans seeking to keep ...

BASIC MUSIC THEORY By JOE PROCOPIO The author of this text has always believed that the richest person in the world is poor without music. As a teacher, Joe Procopio has spent a lifetime successfully enhancing and enriching the lives of all he has taught. Basic Music Theory is an easy to read book about music. It is the first step to take for anyone who is not trained in music but wants to become a musician. With this book you need not be a musician. It teaches you how to read music - from...

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking,...