Presents a look at southern plantation life and a northern city during the Civil War period, as seen through the eyes of nine-year-old Addy Walker who, with her mother, escaped from slavery and fled to freedom in the North....
Charley Waters, who with his father belongs to the 69th Pennsylvania, a unit of Civil War reenactors, recounts how he and his family took part in a full-scale reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1998....
This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She stood at the edge, a mass of instincts and yearnings and despair, while the dawn painted itself in around her, shade by delicate shade.The kids call he...
Some memories are treasured, re-read like a favourite book. Some are traumatic and won’t stay buried. But memories can be unreliable, can fade and mutate. They affect our actions and choices.
Memories of a happy marriage comfort Liz thro...