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Why Anything - Why Not Nothing - The Goldilocks Paragon (Hardcover): Captain Robert Cowley Why Anything - Why Not Nothing - The Goldilocks Paragon (Hardcover)
Captain Robert Cowley
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Long Voyage - Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 (Hardcover): Malcolm Cowley The Long Voyage - Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 (Hardcover)
Malcolm Cowley; Edited by Hans Bak; Foreword by Robert Cowley
R1,151 R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Save R75 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the "lost generation," and elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century American literary and political life. These letters, the vast majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait of Cowley and his time, and make possible a full appreciation of his long and varied career. Perhaps no other writer aided the careers of so many poets and novelists. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and John Cheever are among the many authors Cowley knew and whose work he supported. A poet himself, Cowley enjoyed the company of writers and knew how to encourage, entertain, and when necessary scold them. At the center of his epistolary life were his friendships with Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Wilson. By turns serious and thoughtful, humorous and gossipy, Cowley's letters to these and other correspondents display his keen literary judgment and ability to navigate the world of publishing. The letters also illuminate Cowley's reluctance to speak out against Stalin and the Moscow Trials when he was on staff at The New Republic--and the consequences of his agonized evasions. His radical past would continue to haunt him into the Cold War era, as he became caught up in the notorious "Lowell Affair" and was summoned to testify in the Alger Hiss trials. Hans Bak supplies helpful notes and a preface that assesses Cowley's career, and Robert Cowley contributes a moving foreword about his father.

Poilu - The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 (Paperback): Louis Barthas Poilu - The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Louis Barthas; Translated by Edward M Strauss; Introduction by Remy Cazals; Foreword by Robert Cowley
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Barthas' riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978, presents the vivid, immediate experiences of a frontline soldier. This excellent new translation brings Barthas' wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a "poilu," or "hairy one," as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas' return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War.

What If? - Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, New edition): Robert Cowley What If? - Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, New edition)
Robert Cowley 2
R446 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R61 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of counterfactual essays by noted historians analyzes incidents from military history spanning 3000 years to the end of the 20th-century. Broad speculative analysis is built from a wealth of detail, as some major turning points of military history are re-examined.

Why Anything - Why Not Nothing - The Goldilocks Paragon (Paperback): Captain Robert Cowley Why Anything - Why Not Nothing - The Goldilocks Paragon (Paperback)
Captain Robert Cowley
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The British Album - Containing the Poems of Della Crusca [I.E. Robert Merry], Anna Matilda [I.E. Hannah Cowley], Arley,... The British Album - Containing the Poems of Della Crusca [I.E. Robert Merry], Anna Matilda [I.E. Hannah Cowley], Arley, Benedict, the Bard [I.E. Edward Jerningham] &c., &c., &c (Paperback)
Merry, Robert Cowley, Edward Topham
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The British Album (Hardcover): Merry, Robert Cowley, Miles Peter Andrews The British Album (Hardcover)
Merry, Robert Cowley, Miles Peter Andrews
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The British Album - Containing the Poems of Della Crusca [Pseud.], Anna Matilda [Pseud.], Arley [Pseud.], (Hardcover): Merry,... The British Album - Containing the Poems of Della Crusca [Pseud.], Anna Matilda [Pseud.], Arley [Pseud.], (Hardcover)
Merry, Robert Cowley
R986 Discovery Miles 9 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Ifs? of American History - Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, Berkley trade pbk. ed): Robert... What Ifs? of American History - Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, Berkley trade pbk. ed)
Robert Cowley
R593 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R67 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not taking Berlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised series presents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominent historians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, John Lukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb, Victor David Hansen, Cecelia Holland, Andrew Roberts, Ted Morgan, George Feifer, Robert L. O'Connell, Lawrence Malkin, and John F. Stacks.
Included are two essential bonus essays reprinted from the original "New York Times" bestseller "What If?"(tm)-David McCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Long Island, and James McPherson envisions Lee's successful invasion of the North in 1862.

What If? II - Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, Berkley trade pbk. ed): Robert Cowley What If? II - Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback, Berkley trade pbk. ed)
Robert Cowley
R616 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R65 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing "what if..." scenarios by some of today's greatest historical minds-including James Bradley, Caleb Carr, James Chace, Theodore F. Cook, Jr., Carlos M.N. Eire, George Feifer, Thomas Fleming, Richard B. Frank, Victor Davis Hanson, Cecelia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, Robert Katz, John Lukacs, William H. McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O'Connell, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller, Geoffrey C. Ward, and Tom Wicker.

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