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Baltimore and the 19th of April, 1861 is a first-hand account of the beginning of the Civil War in a contested border state
A vivid and fascinating first-person account of Maryland at the beginning of the Civil War, its Southern sympathizers and support for slavery, the attempted assassination of Lincoln, and the 1861 riots that tore Baltimore apart and brought the Union and martial law to the border state that fringed the nation’s capital. Author George William Brown was the mayor of Baltimore at the time of the crisis, and later wrote these memoirs—after his own imprisonment during the Civil War, and his restoration to public standing as a judge and trustee of Johns Hopkins University. Presented in an enhanced form by Quid Pro, this new but vintage edition of this important historical…
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Auerbach’s Brothers at War Explores the Altalena and Today’s Implications: An Israeli Ship Destroyed By Israeli Soldiers
All-new in summer 2011: Jerold Auerbach's probing and poignant exploration of the tragedy of the Altalena, the doomed ship whose arrival in Israel ignited Jewish fratricidal conflict only weeks after the 1948 declaration of statehood. This new book is the first on the Altalena by a historian, the first to explore it within the context of ancient Jewish and contemporary Israeli history. In ebooks, hardcover, and paperback.
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Virgil’s Aeneid Gets Translated to a Modern Ear and Abridged to its Essentials
New condensed and annotated edition of the epic Aeneid makes it live for new readers, and explains key words, names, and places. David Crump's edition is lively and fast paced, and even rhymes. Ebook editions use innovative jumps to brief asides, rather than footnotes, while print editions place explanations at margins, arranged to mirror the text. Bridge summaries explain omitted parts.
