Diaries, Letters & Journals

The Letters of William H. McNeill and David Christian is an edited selection of letters between William H. McNeill, an eminent American historian k...

Forward Thinking is a unique journal that draws on fascinating and heart warming research into wellbeing, happiness and fulfilment to promote a pos...

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450-mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe. Attempts to break the st...

One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His ...

Pay Dirt: The Westland Goldfields, from the diary of William Smart is the fascinating story of how payable gold was discovered in West Canterbury, ...

`New China Eyewitness' is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders - incl...

During World War II Nathalie Lily Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy...

Finalist for 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryDavid Koker's diary is one of the most notable accounts of life in a German c...

Nicholas Delbanco has assembled a carefully selected, highly crafted work based on over 30 years correspondence with Jon Manchip White, a prolific ...

In the early 1970s, London's National Theatre, led by Sir Laurence Olivier, launched an infamous avant garde production of The Architect and the Em...

Revealing the mind-set of a soldier seared by the horrors of combat even as he kept faith in his cause, Last to Leave the Field showcases the priv...

This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times...

Emily Chubbick Judson (1817-1854) is a well-known name, but for more reasons than most know. She was a nationally known writer (her pseudonym was F...

Emily Chubbick Judson (1817-1854) is a well-known name, but for more reasons than most know. She was a nationally known writer (her pseudonym was F...

'There was a blinding flash and an ear-splitting report and the prisoner fell across me. The bullet had caught him full in the chin and passed out ...

Somewhere in France represents a virtually unique archive of the First World War and the conditions under which ordinary soldiers lived. Through hi...

Whether he was taking us along for a journey down the Mississippi with a couple of runaways or delivering speeches on the importance of careful lyi...

This general chronology of Voltaire''s letters by an eminent Voltairiste contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an i...