During the German May 1940 offensive, the 51st (Highland) Division, including the 1st and 5th Battalions Gordon Highlanders, became separated from the British Expeditionary Force. After a heroic stand at St Valery-en-Caux the Division surrendered when fog thwarted efforts to evacuate them. Within days, scores of Gordons had escaped and were on the run through Nazi-occupied France. Many reached Britain after feats of great courage and tenacity, including recapture and imprisonment often in atrocious conditions in France, Spain or North Africa. Those imprisoned in Eastern Europe were forced to work in coal and salt mines, quarries, factories and farms. Some died through unsafe conditions or the brutality of their captors. Others escaped, on occasion fighting with distinction alongside Resistance forces. Many had to endure the brutal 1945 winter march away from the advancing Allies before their eventual liberation. This superbly researched book contains many inspiring stories that deserve and merit reading.

Additional Illustrator Is Harry O. Diamond. Additional Contributors Are Michael Harrington And Marion Tinling. Being Letters Hitherto Uncollected From The Ottawa, Illinois, Free Trader And The New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852.

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Additional Illustrator Is Harry O. Diamond. Additional Contributors Are Michael Harrington And Marion Tinling. Being Letters Hitherto Uncollected From The Ottawa, Illinois, Free Trader And The New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852.

New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801 EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Stewart Mitchell. ILLUSTRATIONS ABIGAIL ADAMS Gilbert Stuart Frontispiece MRS. WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, 1787 ... . S. Copley 16 RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK CITY, 1790 j BUSH HILL, PHILADELPHIA, 1787 .... . P. Malcom J THE ADAMS MANSION, QUINCY, 1787 ... E. Malcolm So THE EXECUTIVE MANSION, PHILADELPHIA, 1790 ..... 9 6 THE MORRIS HOUSES, PHILADELPHIA, 1790 J WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, 1786 . . . Mather Brown - 128 JOHN ADAMS, 1789 John Trumbull 144 LETTER OF ABIGAIL ADAMS, 1800 240. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing thes classic works in affordable, modern editions using the original text and artwork.

New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801 EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Stewart Mitchell HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON SHic liibnrsiut resB C 1947 ABIGAIL ADAMS Gilbert Stuart None of these letters, or any part of these letters, may be reproduced, with the exception of short passages for the purpose of review, without permission in writing from the Director of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts COPYRIGHT 1947, BY THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY PRINTED IN THE XJ. S. A, R. D. C. 1909-1939 yujwos UTTO yathv cat rt LiaTT v ftox S, yu ivov opwv TO PALLADAS My letters to you are first thoughts, without correction Abigail Adams to Mary Cranch, May 26, 179. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In preparing these letters for publication, the editor has received generous and invaluable assistance from a great number of people, in particular, from the late Allyn B. Forbes, Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and also the members of its staff as well as Clarence S. Brigham and Clifford K. Shipton, Director and Librarian, respectively, of the American Antiquarian Society Robert W. G. Vail, Director of the New York Historical Society and Nicholas B. Vainwright, Assistant Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He is indebted, more over, to members of the staff of the Harvard College Library and the Fogg Art Museum, to Miss Dorothy S. Manks, Librarian of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and to Miss Dorothy C. Barck, Librarian of the New York Historical Society. He is under obligation, also, to IVErs. Henry D. Holmes and Miss Frances Holmes, of Montpelier, Vermont to Heyliger DeWlndt, of Boston to John Kleran, of Informa tion Please and to the late AlbertIVtatthews, former Editor of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. From first to last, the services of his secretary, Miss Marjorie M. Bruce, were continuous and faithful, and without them this work could not have been carried to completion. STEWART MITCHELL ILLUSTRATIONS ABIGAIL ADAMS Gilbert Stuart Frontispiece MRS. WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, 1787 ... . S. Copley 16 RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK CITY, 1790 j BUSH HILL, PHILADELPHIA, 1787 .... . P. Malcom J THE ADAMS MANSION, QUINCY, 1787 ... E. Malcolm So THE EXECUTIVE MANSION, PHILADELPHIA, 1790 ..... 9 6 THE MORRIS HOUSES, PHILADELPHIA, 1790 J WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, 1786 . . . Mather Brown - 128 JOHN ADAMS, 1789 John Trumbull 144 LETTER OF ABIGAIL ADAMS, 1800 240