The Civil War : day by day

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9781913100056

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973 KAT c

House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a family divided by war

For all the talk of the Civil War "pitting brother against brother," there has never before been a single book that traces the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family could better illustrate the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and …

The crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. Here she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. From the first innoce…

Soldier's heart

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0440228387

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105 p.

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F PAU s

Across five Aprils

Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

No Gun for Asmir

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978-0-14-036729-4

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A thunderous whisper

Ani, a twelve-year-old Basque girl, and Mathias, a fourteen-year-old German Jew, become friends and then spies in the weeks leading up to the bombing of Guernica in April 1937.

The red badge of courage: An episode of the American Civil War

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9780141327525

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215 p.

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The red badge of courage

Wishing to show off his strength, bravery, and Yankee loyalty, Henry Flemming eagerly signs up to fight for the Union. Once in the heat of battle, though, he has a change of heart and quickly recedes from the line of duty. Later, feeling enormously guilty about his cowardice, Henry commits an act of true courageousness.

A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldiers

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person accou…