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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majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait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.
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.
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.
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 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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