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The Great War and modern memory
By Paul Fussell. 2013
Fussell, a professor of English literature and winner of the 1976 National Book Award for Arts and Letters, explores how…
historical events and society's record of those events interact. He looks at the British experience during World War I through the eyes of the writers Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden; through the poetry of David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen; and through amateur memoirs of the men in the trenchesVeteran National Public Radio correspondent Anne Garrels, embedded with the U.S. military forces in Baghdad, chronicles her observations before and…
during the 2003 second Gulf War. Includes e-mails that her husband, Vint Lawrence, sent while she was gone and describes hardships endured by her Iraqi driver, Amer.Posterity: letters of great Americans to their children
By Dorie McCullough Lawson. 2004
Presents parental messages of advice, wisdom, humor, and affection from authors, explorers, presidents, inventors, and soldiers. Includes Carl Sandburg, Theodore…
Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Woody Guthrie, Abigail Adams, and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Grouped by general theme, the selections span four centuries and are introduced with contextual commentary. 2004Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's favorite quotes
By Jan Karon. 2001
Collection of favorite quotes and passages that have a special meaning for fictional Father Tim. They are drawn from the…
works of poets, humorists, clerics, philosophers, and others. Companion to A Continual Feast (DB 62403). 2001Veterans recall experiences of battle from World War I to the war in Iraq. Soldiers' letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral…
histories provide personal accounts of D-Day, the Tet offensive, heroic actions, and sinking ships. Includes an interview with Senator John McCain about his captivity in Vietnam. 2005Sinister touches: the secret war against Hitler
By Robert Goldston. 1982
A dramatic account of the daring covert operations carried out by scientists, private citizens, professors, and assassins who risked their…
lives for an allied victory. This compelling and well-documented report penetrates the veils of secrecy that have shrouded some of the most important activities of World War II. For junior and senior high and adult readersThe dangerous summer
By Ernest Hemingway. 1985
Chronicles the main events of the 1959 bullfighting season in Spain and the rivalry between two brothers-in-law, each at the…
peak of his career. The novelist befriended the younger man, Antonio Ordonez, and this account favors him over Luis Miguel Dominguin, who was trying to reestablish his supremacy after a period of retirementThe secret that exploded
By Howard Morland. 1981
The author tells the true story of his investigation of the nuclear weapons industry, the inner workings of the H-bomb,…
and the U.S. government's unsuccessful attempt to suppress his discoveries. Morland, a former Air Force pilot, is devoutly anti-nuclear and very forthright about his positionFyodor Dostoyevsky, a writer's life
By Geir Kjetsaa. 1987
A leading Norwegian scholar quotes extensively from Dostoyevsky's notebooks and from his letters to wives and lovers. Kjetsaa chronicles the…
great Russian novelist's personal life and development as a writer and provides a stirring portrait of a driven manThis narrative poem of fifty "runos," or songs, centers around the three cultural heroes of Finnish mythology, Vainamoinen, the sage…
and singer; Ilmarinen, the smith; and Lemminkainen, the brash adventurer. Includes a historical and analytical introductionThe poet's art
By M. L Rosenthal. 1987
The author, a noted critic, offers a model of humanistic criticism that emphasizes the vulnerability, honesty, and subjectivity of poetry.…
Quotations for illustration are drawn from a wide range of poets including Dante, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and Gary SnyderAmerica's first ladies: private lives of the presidential wives
By Diana Healy. 1988
Brief, colorful biographical sketches of forty-one first ladies. Includes anecdotes and bits of information, such as the fact that Anna…
Symmes Harrison, the wife of William H. Harrison, who died a month after taking office, was the only first lady to be the grandmother of a presidentTo heal a nation: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
By Jan Scruggs. 1985
Veteran Scruggs recounts the story of his struggle for a national monument honoring veterans of the war in Vietnam. Also…
included is an alphabetical list of the names appearing on the wall along with the exact location of each nameShort stories
By Library Of Congress. 1989
This bibliography is a guide to short story anthologies in the NLS collection, in both braille and recorded formats. There…
is something here for everyone--the mystery fan, the reader of fantasy and science fiction, the lover of romances, westerns, or humor--and much more. Each book is described briefly, and the indexes provide a listing for every short story contained in the anthologiesThe presidencies of Grover Cleveland
By Richard Welch. 1988
Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, served during the Gilded Age in American history--a time when there was an intense…
conflict between old values and social changes. Welch shows how Cleveland's personality and ideology affected his terms in office in 1885-1889 and 1893-1897The scorpion-fish
By Nicolas Bouvier. 1987
This account of the Swiss writer's travels in Sri Lanka is a meditation on how we perceive the world in…
which we live, the natural and the mystical. The author's great passion is entomology; he watches and describes in detail such local creatures as centipedes, cockroaches, scorpions, and termitesNew and selected essays
By Robert Warren. 1989
Thirteen essays, six appearing in book form for the first time, reveal Warren as a literary critic, especially of American…
writers such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. His better-known role as writer of poetry and fiction is shown in "Pure and Impure Poetry" and "A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading."Looking the tiger in the eye: confronting the nuclear threat
By Carl Feldbaum. 1988
The authors emphasize the important roles of individual scientists, politicians, and military officials in the nuclear arms race. They trace…
the history of nuclear weapons as a series of deliberate decisions.... They explain the circumstances of these decisions through extensive quotation and paraphrasing of historical documents and memoirs. For high school and older readersEducation of a wandering man
By Louis L'Amour. 1989
A personal reflection by the prolific and beloved writer of westerns. At fifteen Louis L'Amour left school, trusting his education…
to his own curiosity and the world's vastness. Armed with books, he roamed the world, cow-punching, working as a circus roustabout, mining, prize-fighting, hoboing, and serving as a merchant seaman. He shares the richness and variety of his education with the readerIn March 1980, Senator Byrd made some impromptu speeches on the history of the Senate, primarily for the benefit of…
his granddaughters. His colleagues asked him to continue these addresses in light of the approaching bicentennial. From May 1981 to December 1987 Senator Byrd made more than forty more speeches, which are contained in this volume