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The letters between Hodgkins and his wife, Sarah, have served as an important historical footnotes since the early 1900s [2] for understanding the Revolutionary War and have been featured in such books as the Library of America's The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence , David McCullough's 1776, and Ray Raphael's A People ...
Andrew Carroll (born September 27, 1969) is an American author, editor, playwright, public speaker, nonprofit executive, and historian.. Carroll is known as the editor of the New York Times best sellers Letters of a Nation, [3] Behind the Lines, and War Letters, [4] [5] which later inspired the documentary of the same name. [6]
Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad during World War II. Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages (into English by Anthony G. Powell in 1956), [ 1 ] and has been issued in ...
When Andrew Carroll’s family home in Washington, DC, burned down in 1989, no one was hurt, thank God. A distant cousin, James Carroll Jordan, heard of the conflagration and called to check in ...
The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered that his pen pal's name ...
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. The film's narration consists of real letters written by American soldiers, which are read by actors, including Robert De Niro and Martin Sheen .
The book will open up and show you a similar carving. CHEESE PLACEMENT/ MOUSE Once you get the piece of cheese, go back outside through the window and you will see a small hole on the lower right ...
The small books were convenient for soldiers because they fit easily into a cargo pocket. Finished size varied slightly, from 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (14 cm) to 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (17 cm) long and from 3 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (9.8 cm) to 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (11 cm) high. Unlike traditional paperbacks, most of the ASEs were bound on the short side of the text block rather ...