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Author
Pub. Date
1934
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he enlisted in the...
Author
Pub. Date
1962
Edition
A modern abridgment.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred...
3) Red Cap
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Maryland, 13-year-old Ransom Powell watches his friends argue, then march off to war. Some put on gray uniforms, others wear blue. He is too young to fight, but when he hears a Union division in Virginia needs a drummer, he runs away from home and lies about his age. At first Ranse finds it thrilling to defend his country. His first skirmish changes that, however-suddenly war is more horrible than exciting. When his regiment is captured and...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
259 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When it opened in October 1864, Camp Lawton was called "the world's largest prison." Operational only six weeks, this stockade near Millen, Georgia, was evacuated in the face of advancing Federal troops under General Sherman. In that brief span of time, the prison served as headquarters for the Confederate military prison system, witnessed hundreds of deaths, held a mock election for president, was involved in a sick exchange, hosted attempts to...
7) Escape!: the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jail break
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robert P. Watson provides the definitive account of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison, site of the Civil War's largest prison break. Libby Prison housed Union officers, high-profile foes of the Confederacy, and political prisoners. Watson captures the wretched conditions, cruel guards, and the story of the daring prison break, called 'the most remarkable in American history.'"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
302 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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