It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account.‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ - D.W. Brogan.

    Here is an inspiring record of a Christian life which continues to be of blessing for so many.

    As E.L. Docotorow says, 'a Kleist play may be set in ancient Greece, in Holland, or in seventeenth century Prussia, but the fortress of consciousness is where the action occurs.'

    Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his Notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents a selection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader.

    Weigley here wrote a series of biographical essays on the development of American military thought. Starting with the American Revolution, Weigley covers George Washington and Alexander Hamilton; John C. Calhoun; Dennis Hart Mahan; Henry W. Halleck and George B. McClellan; William T. Sherman And Ulysses S. Grant; Emory Upton and his disciples; John A. Logan; John M. Schofield; R. M. Johnston; Leonard Wood; and ending with John McAuley Palmer and George C. Marshall.

    Here in one volume are the inspired works of a great and beautiful cultural heritage-English and American poetry from Caucer to Yeats, from the Bible to Stephen Vincent Benet.

    

    Today the Shtetl no longer exists. 'Life is With People' is a study of this rich but vanished past.

    The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

    When the family comes to spend some of the summer holidays with their aunt, who lives on a farm near the sea, the children find a soldier who was washed ashore from a transport ship which was wrecked by a storm and complications arise.

    The introduction of machinery has led to a shortage of work so that many men and their families live a life of poverty and near starvation. Desperate men will take desperate measures and one night the men of Stanton St.Jude rise up in anger and despair against the tyranny of their masters.