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Samuel Walters Lieutenant RN offers a personal perspective on the British navy at the height of its power as it chronicles the remarkable tale of a young naval officer who fought around the world in the service of Admiral Lord Nelson Edited by acclaimed maritime writer C Northcote Parkinson the book offers a brutal and complex portrait of life at sea during one of the pivotal periods in British naval history Walters vividly recounts the battles with Napoleons navy providing detailed accounts of the tactics used in combat and the horrific casualties suffered on both sides The letters sketches and watercolors collected here provide an intimate glimpse into the personal trials and challenges that confronted many British officers at sea A unique and compelling portrait of one mans experience in the heart of the Napoleonic Wars Samuel Walters Lieutenant RN is an essential volume for scholars and enthusiasts of maritime history alike
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What would you find if you went back and reread all of your favourite books from childhood Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness in this memoir Rereading and reliving these books and investigating their literary origins and rich histories Francis Spufford reveals what it was like to be an obsessive reader as a child As the book unfolds so too he gradually uncovers his own childhood and his unique reason for taking refuge in stories from a world full of unbearable knowledge
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William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China War Maritime Customs and Treaty Ports18601904 looks at the late Qing dynasty through the eyes of a BritishAmerican who spent most of his adult life in China in the late nineteenth century fighting in four wars serving in its maritime customs service and living in eleven different treaty ports It is based on the newlydiscovered journals correspondence and photographs of William Nelson Lovatt 18381904 who first arrived in China in 1860 as a sergeant in the British army to fight in the Second Opium War and who then proceeded to fight against the Taiping in Shanghai against the Nian in Tianjin and finally against the Japanese in Taiwan providing an inside look at those four conflicts Joining the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service in 1863 under InspectorGeneral Sir Robert Hart Lovatt provides a rare insider look at the operation of Hart and the Maritime Customs Service for during the four decades he served Because he was based in treaty ports he also provides a new look at those enclaves their institutions and their inhabitants Chinese missionaries and fellow customs officials Fluent in Chinese his frequent travels outside the treaty ports gave him rare access to Chinese society available to few others This volume opens up a new window on China during the final decades of the Qing dynasty
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William Passmore Carlin 18291903 a native of Illinois graduated from West Point in 1850 and served on frontier duty and in Utah before the Civil War He began his Civil War career as the colonel of an Illinois regiment served with distinction in early fighting in Missouri and Mississippi and participated in important command roles at the battles of Perryville Stones River Liberty Gap Chickamauga Missionary Ridge Buzzard Roost Resaca Kennesaw Mountain Jonesboro and Bentonville and at the siege of Atlanta He was a successful and important brigade and division commander from Perryville to Shermans March to the Sea and into the Carolinas at the close of the war Carlin remained in the army until he retired in 1893 as a brigadier general after significant further service in the WestnbspTo supplement Carlins memoirs the editors have provided two biographical essays and extensive annotation They have consulted manuscript holdings in twentyfive repositories including pertinent material from diaries letters reminiscences and unit histories written by contemporaries Readers of these memoirs have a rare chance to follow the career of an officer from the 1850s through Reconstruction and beyond
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William Tecumseh Sherman has been called the first modern general According to military historian B H Liddell Hart he understood before his contemporaries that wars and battles would be won more by the movement of troops than by fighting Also modern is his unsentimental view of combat epitomized by his famous remark that War is hell And he was an able enough historian to realize that the Civil War and indeed all future wars would be unlike anything the world had ever seen a bitter national struggle between free people that would involve a campaign of terror against combatant and noncombatant alikeHis Memoirs which rank with Grants as the greatest of the Civil War concern for the most part the strategy and fighting at Bull Run Shiloh Vicksburg Chattanooga Atlanta and of course the march through Georgia which earned Sherman his reputation for ruthlessness It is a story packed with incident as well as swift sketches of his opponents subordinates and superiors and it is endlessly instructive about the lessons of the war Most of all it is a compelling narrative about a national tragedy
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Excerpt from A Memoir of the Life of the Right Rev William Meade DD Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of VirginiaHis letter of counsel to his sisters Colonization Society His mission to the Southern and to the New England StatesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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As we came racing towards the scrap we could see the Scouts noses smoking with tracers while the observers fired back Suddenly a flame trickled along the side of a Nine then the petrol tank burst and she fell a blazing wreck her wings coming off Dont let the Hun bag the Nines good Lord hell bag the lot if we dont stop him I thoughtGripping and immediate Williams vivid descriptions of his raids over the German Rhinelands and Schwartzwald at the helm of his DH4 place the reader right in the air with him relaying the thoughts running through his mind in real time as events unfolded around him The account begins when the test pilot was stationed with 55 Squadron in Nancy in early 1918 and ends when he is sent home to England with a Croix de Guerre and a DFC to his name as fate would have it just as his dearest friend was killed in action These remarkable memoirs lay undisturbed in a trunk for many years
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Accounts of the careers of industrial workers in Ireland are few The memoirs of William Topping provide a detailed account of over 50 years of the life of a Belfast linen weaver in the first half of the 20th century Topping worked in one of the most skilled aspects of the linen industry he was a Damask weaver in the largest linen factory in Europe the York Street Flax Spinning Company from 190341 Starting as a 13yearold in the factory where his father was already working he describes his training his evening class attendance in the newly opened Belfast Municipal Technical Institute and his graduation through the stage of apprentice journeyman tenter damask loom overlooker and finally foreman His observations on the religious composition of the biggest joint Catholic and Protestant workforce in Belfast complement his descriptions of the various stages in the weaving of linen cloth He retired in 1956 just as the linen industry was being swept aside by acrylic fibres His memoirs are exceptional in every sense not least for their balanced wrylyrecorded observations on fellow workers management and trade unions
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