For their heroism and success against the enemy, two of the women's regiments were honored by designation as "Guard" regiments.
Elina Gertsman's multifaceted study introduces readers to the imagery and texts of the Dance of Death, an extraordinary subject that first emerged in western European art and literature in the...
Let's take a look at Eliot's use of allusion, here most likely involving Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.'” Oh, my God, it was like a nightmare: here he was in the front of the class and not understanding a word the ...
This volume investigates environmental and political crises that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people’s lives.
Gathers drawings about death by artists of the past and works by the author about the Holocaust, nuclear war, militarism and capital punishment
This book is an explosive memoir of a 17 year old German boy called up to fight in the last weeks of the Second World War.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
Steve Lowenthal started and ran the music magazine Swingset; his writing has also been published in Fader, Spin, Vice, and the Village Voice. He lives in New York City. David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine.
The Dance of DeathDanse MacabreHans HolbeinWith an introductory note by Austin DobsonDance of Death, also called Danse Macabre, is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, ...
The Dance of Death By Hans Holbein With an introductory note by Austin Dobson Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (from the French language), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's ...