Memories of Men Who Saved the Union (Abridged, Annotated)

Memories of Men Who Saved the Union (Abridged, Annotated)

Author: Donn Piatt

Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS

Published:

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13:

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After the American Civil War, Donn Piatt spent much of his life writing about that conflict as a journalist and editor. Though not a combat soldier, he was a staff officer in close proximity to Abraham Lincoln, Edwin Stanton, William Seward, Ulysses S. Grant, George Thomas, and W.T. Sherman. In this volume, he shares wonderful anecdotes about his meetings with some of these men. His stories of Lincoln, Stanton, and Seward are worth the price alone. But he offers more. In addition to a long section on George Thomas, he provides an analysis from first-hand information about the likelihood that the French were preparing to support the Confederacy. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.


Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps

Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps

Author: Makana Eyre

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0393531872

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A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d’Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards’ reprisal were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau just a few weeks later. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but struck up an unlikely friendship with d’Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D’Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps. In Sing, Memory, Makana Eyre recounts Kulisiewicz’s extraordinary transformation from a Polish nationalist into a guardian of music and culture from the Nazi camps. Aided by an eidetic memory, Kulisiewicz was able to preserve for posterity not only his own songs about life at the camp, but the music and poetry of prisoners from a range of national and cultural backgrounds. They composed symphonies, organized clandestine choirs, arranged great pieces of music by illustrious composers, and gathered regularly over the course of the war to perform for one another. For many, music enabled them to resist, bear witness, and maintain their humanity in some of the most brutal conditions imaginable. After the war, Kulisiewicz returned to Poland and assembled an archive of camp music, which he went on to perform in more than a dozen countries. He dedicated the remainder of his life to the memory of the Nazi camps. Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, Eyre tells this rich and affecting human story of musical resistance to the Nazi regime in full for the first time.


Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union

Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union

Author: Donn Piatt

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781298659170

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Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union - Primary Source Edition

Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union - Primary Source Edition

Author: Donn Piatt

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-01-11

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781293504376

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Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union - Scholar's Choice Edition

Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Donn Piatt

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781297134234

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MEMORIES OF THE MEN WHO SAVED

MEMORIES OF THE MEN WHO SAVED

Author: Donn 1819-1891 Piatt

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781373964298

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Memories Men the Saved the Union (Classic Reprint)

Memories Men the Saved the Union (Classic Reprint)

Author: Don Piatt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781331670780

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Excerpt from Memories Men the Saved the Union Pure hero worship is healthy. It stimulates the young to deeds Of heroism, stirs the Old to unselfish efforts, and gives the masses models Of manhood that tend to lift humanity above the common-place meanness of ordinary life. The better instincts of the human race have, through all the ages, recog nized and elevated its heroes into something like objects of religious worship. TO such, songs of praise have been sung, eulogies made eloquent, histories written, and great monuments erected. When gods were created by men, their deities began as heroes, and it was what they did on earth that gave them existence and sovereignty in heaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union

Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union

Author: BiblioBazaar

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781355470403

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