Chadwick: 276 books

The story is set in Weirton, West Virginia, a small 1950s industrial town in the Northern panhandle of the state. Weirton is more akin to Ohio and Pennsylvania than the rural heart of West Virginia. Weirtons economy and its existence is dominated by the Weirton Steel Company and related coal mining...

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Untold secrets of a post-war childhood. A true story of a child born in war-torn London soon after the Second World War whose early memories are of the care and security given to him by his grandmother and a guardian angel who watches over him. At six he finds out a devastating secret that changes...

Als Wilhelm der Eroberer nach seinem Sieg bei Hastings in die Normandie zurückkehrt, begleiten ihn englische Edelmänner, denen er nicht traut. Einer davon, Waltheof of Huntingdon, sinnt jedoch nicht auf Rebellion - er hat sich unsterblich in Wilhelms zauberhafte Nichte verliebt. Weil Wilhelm den...

England, 1184. Fulke FitzWarin wird als Schildknappe an den Hof von König Henry gesandt. Doch eine Schachpartie, die Prinz John gegen Fulke verliert, wird zum Auslöser einer lebenslangen Rivalität: Der junge Knappe muss den Königshof verlassen. In Theobald Walter findet Fulke zum Glück einen...

MOVING DAY Phil Clinton looked critically at the rickety old sofa. Then he glanced at his chum, Tom Parsons. Next he lifted, very cautiously, one end of the antiquated piece of furniture. The sofa bent in the middle, much as does a ship with a broken keel. “It—it looks like a mighty risky job to...

1 History of Solvent Abuse The practice of deliberately inhaling various gases or vapors in order to induce an altered state of mood or sensibility is not new. As noted repeatedly in other reviews (eg, Cohen, 1973; Novak, 1980), it was recognized in early Greek civilization as an adjunct to divination;...

In literary theory, the Heroic Age was the time of great deeds recorded in epic poems like The Iliad. In this 1912 study, drawing from anthropology and philology, the author develops the idea of the Heroic Age by comparing Greek and Teutonic literary traditions, finding echoes in medieval England and Serbia.

The conflict at sea between Allied merchant ships, their Royal Navy escorts and the German U-boats was christened the Battle of the Atlantic by Winston Churchill on 6 March 1941. Churchill said that the 'U-boat peril' was the only thing that ever really frightened him during the Second World War, but...

This diary records the details, emotional and salacious, of two periods in the life of an academic. In 1989 his wife of twenty years was killed instantly while driving to work. Six months later, he fell into a romantic relationship with a former student as he tried to cope with the loss of his wife....