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Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, während der Kolonialkriege unter der Herrschaft von Königin Victoria. Am Vorabend von Kitcheners Militärexpedition in den Sudan beschließt der Offizier Harry Faversham, aus der Armee auszutreten. Jeder seiner drei engsten Freunde schickt ihm daraufhin eine weiße Feder. Damit drücken Sie ihm gegenüber aus, wie sehr sie diese Entscheidung missbilligen. Die vierte Feder erhält Harry von seiner Verlobten Ethne. Um zu bew...

A boy wakes up in a snowy forest- afraid, confused, and with no memory of how he got there. Finding a group of other children nearby, he learns that there are others like him and they have built a small society in a nearby clearing. As he adjusts to this life and learns the ways of these children, a single incident ignites conflict in the tranquil setting and sends their lives into turmoil. What follows is a tale of revolution, betrayal, a...

The book, written by Jack Censer and Lynn Hunt, preeminent authorities on the French Revolution, includes selected images and documents from the accompanying CD-ROM, prepared by the authors with the support of the Center for History and new Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York. Features of the CD-ROM include primary documents (carefully chosen, translated, and placed in their p...

This is an in-depth look at a daring and beloved Civil War leader. While researching this book, Jack C. Mason found more than one hundred unpublished, in fact unknown, letters from Union major general Israel B. Richardson to his family. Using these freshly uncovered primary sources as well as extensive research in secondary materials, Mason has written the first-ever biography of Israel Bush Richardson.

Using letters from Union major general Israel Bush Richardson to his family, written from his time as a West Point cadet until the day before his fatal wounding at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, this biography traces Richardson's growth as a soldier, and then as a leader.