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Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune and flaunted her hold over King Charles I. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney, bestselling author Anne Somerset provides a guide to the character, profligate or pious, of each court. This lively combination of entertaining anecdote and searching analysis is social history at its most colorful.
"...provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material..."--The New York Times
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I wish she had gone further.......2007-06-02
I was disappointed. She concentrated strongly on a few already well known ladies in waiting up to Queen Anne, then the whole book just trailed off with much less attention given to each succeeding Queen's ladies. It was very clear where her real expertise is.
Wonderful back-story to British royal history.......2006-04-21
Anne Somerset does a fantastic job writing a back story to British royal history through the stories of ladies-in-waiting. It's easier to get through this book if you already have a background in British royal history, are familiar with the ups and downs, because Somerset doesn't always elaborate -- she's more interested in telling the story from the ladies-in-waiting point of view. And what a rich, gossipy, fascinating point of view it is. Behavior of royals is seen in a different light than in history books, or historical biographies. I feel like I've been viewing a portrait of British royals, and now Somerset has added some discrete shading to the picture to further illuminate. Wonderful book, couldn't put it down.
Very good treatment of a relatively obscure "royal" topic.......2005-07-08
The position of Lady of the Privy Chamber or Maid of Honour has for centuries been eagerly sought by social climbers at court, while certain high-born ladies took the title as their due, but the names of very few have been remembered -- with a few exceptions like Anne Boleyn. What influence might these intimates of a reigning queen or of the monarch's spouse have had, however peripheral, on the making of policy? Somerset (who doesn't say whether she's connected in any way to the ducal house) is an "amateur historian," but a good one. She concentrates on court politics beginning with Henry VIII, partly because detailed records are too sparse in this regard prior to Bosworth, and partly because Henry VII only kept great state because it was expected of a king, but his son enjoyed it immensely and greatly expanded the number of offices at court. Because it can be difficult to find narrative histories of many of the families discussed here, like the Pomfrets, the Sundons, and the Cowpers, the genealogies woven into the footnoted text are especially welcome.
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In 1964, as the first B-52s took flight in what would become America's longest combat mission, an old Air Force base on the plains of Kansas became Schilling Manor -- the only base ever to be set aside for the wives and children of soldiers assigned to Vietnam. Author Donna Moreau was the daughter of one such waiting wife, and here she writes of growing up at a time when The Flintstones were interrupted with news of firefights, fraggings, and protests, when the evening news announced death tolls along with the weather forecasts. The women and children of Schilling Manor fought on the emotional front of the war. It was not a front composed of battle plans and bullets. Their enemies were fear, loneliness, lack of information, and the slow tick of time.
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War tells the story of the last generation of hat-and-glove military wives called upon by their country to pack without question, to follow without comment, and to wait quietly with a smile. A heartfelt book that focuses on this other, hidden side of war, Waiting Wives is a narrative investigation of an extraordinary group of women. A compelling memoir and domestic drama, Waiting Wives is also the story of a country in the midst of change, of a country at war with a war.
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I liked this memoir.......2007-08-30
Reading this memoir I was very interested in Schilling Manor and how it was it's own little world for the wives and children of service men during the Vietnam war.
Brings back memories.......2007-08-06
I was there '72-'73. What memories this brought back! I shed many tears reading this book. This was a good place to 'wait' and Ms Moreau told a great story of the women that lived there during that time.
From a Waiting Wife.......2007-04-26
What an AMAZING book, really. I couldnt put it down. These women are in a completely different era and yet I guess the emotions of waiting wives dont ever change. When I finished the book I wish there was more to read, I feel like I left friends behind in the pages of the book. Nowadays you dont tend to find that sense of community among the wives, if you do you are lucky, it made me long for that. The book gave me hope, it made me feel like everything is going to be okay...even if my story doesnt end the way that I hope it will.
An Excellent Choice.......2006-01-26
Just an excellent book all around. It is a book you can't put down. You get deeply involved in the characters and feel their joy and pain as you are reading. It is a part of our history that I didn't know existed - I grew up in a military family and am now married to a military man - I still have never heard of this story until someone told me to read the book. I have since recommended the book to just about everyone I know.
Heartfelt.......2005-11-27
I read this book on a plane today, heading home to MA from visiting my husband's family for Thanksgiving in Salina, KS. I consider it a gift from my Mother-In-Law that I knew to read this book. A story that has touched my heart. I shed tears, I laughed. I didn't want it to end...but yet it had to end. I wonder the parallels to the War in Iraq. I wonder how we are taking care of today's Waiting Wives and Husbands? Much praise to Ms. Moreau.
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A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge,
Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. The most important rule, to “tell a story to its end,” spurs the old Scot on to invent a strange and gripping tale of men in the trenches of the First World War.
Drawn from a depth of knowledge and imagination, MacIver conjures the implacable, clear-sighted artist Private Callum; the private’s nemesis Sergeant Braddis, with his pincerlike nails; Lieutenant Simon Dodds, who takes on Braddis; and Private Charlie Alston, who is ensnared in this story of inhumanity and betrayal but brings it to a close.
This invented tale of the Great War prompts MacIver’s own memories of his role in World War II and of Vietnam, where his son, David served. Both the stories and the memories alike are lit by the vivid presence of Margaret, his wife. As
Hearts and Minds director Peter Davis writes, “Pouncey has wrought an almost inconceivable amount of beauty from pain, loss, and war, and I think he has been able to do this because every page is imbued with the love story at the heart of his astonishing novel.”
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Old men still feel deeply.......2007-08-14
Pouncey has written a fine and well-plotted story dealing with events in WW I and WW II with an appreciation for history as well as for his characters, fully formed people who come alive under his skillful hands.
Wake me when it's over.......2007-06-10
Typical of a male perspective and characteristic of American authors, this "Novel" was nothing more than a airport read at best. From Pouncey's Freudian explanations of human behavior to the character MacIver finally slipping away at the end, I was left with the feeling that this book could have easily passed as a rough draft for a great novel or could be the results of a creative writing class at a junior college. If you are looking for a mild read to pass the time, say in a bathroom, or want to get away from socially relevant literature for a moment, this would be a great book.
Bar far the best thing I have read in a decade........2007-04-30
As a former student of both literature and WWI, I can say with no doubt that "Rules for Old Men Waiting" is by far the best book I have read in at least a decade. Only a few books come to mind when I try to think of books I have enjoyed nearly as much: "All the Kings Men", "Hawk Moon" by Sam Shepard, "The Brothers Karamazov", Churchills' "Memoirs of the Second World War". Despite its brevity it paints more vivid pictures than volumes ten times its length and in some of the most effective and beautiful language I have ever encountered. And while it is indeed beautifully written, it is neither pretentious nor overdone. A tale different but yet reminiscent in its honesty and power, and humour, of "A River Runs Through It". Well done Mr. Pouncey. And many thanks.
a sad beauty........2007-02-25
an emotionally powerful novel that drags the reader through the dirt of old age. the ways in which failing health and dying loved ones leave us less and less self-sufficient, where memory and imagination become the riches we cling to in our final days, are all over this book. the story of robert maciver's diminishing days contains a story he is himself writing about men at combat in the first world war. at first i was not thrilled to see this coming, as the story within a story device is a literary gimmick i do not much care for, but in the end the tale which maciver works out is a thrilling piece in its own right and effectively ingrates itself within the whole of the novel without seeming gimmicky at all. this was a very fine work about loss (in several forms), love, memory (and its duel head nostalgia). a piece of literature by a superb craftsman.
Masterful and Eloquent.......2006-11-29
I was attracted to this book by an ad in the New Yorker. Both the title and the dust jacket were intriguing. After reading several Amazon reviews, I bought it. A wise decision, to say the least. It's a masterful, eloquent work, artfully combining youth, marriage, family death, depression and World War I. I look forward to Peter Pouncey's next book. A 5-star rating is an understatement.
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Waiting for Jacob: A Civil War Story
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Richard Markle.......2007-08-20
I truly enjoyed this book,knowing very little of the history of 105th,it lets you look into the mind of one of its leaders.I truly enjoyed seeing my great grand-father's picture and seeing our name mentioned.The story is one of love and tradegy,lets you see the sacrifice made by our forebearers.
Be there with Jacob.......2001-01-28
Dr. Hogan takes the reader of this wonderful book right into the Civil War, and even deeper into the life of Col. Greenawalt. You won't want to put it down.
This is a story that will etch itself into your heart. As you read, you will come to know and understand Jacob's feelings on the war, his relationships with his fellow soldiers, and most of all, his intense love for Rebecca. The descriptions of the battles he fought in are so realistic that you'll feel you are there at his side. The pain and longing to see his wife that Jacob feels when he is dying in the army hospital is likewise just as real.
The author of this book did a great service to both the memory of Jacob Greenawalt, and to the people of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by writing this book. Having grown up in West Newton myself, it was especially moving, but you don't have to be a Pennsylvanian "Wildcat" to appreciate this great story.
much more than love.......2000-11-01
I have read more than my share of Civil War books based upon letters and diary. Most of these volumes begin when the soldier goes to war and pens his first letter home and usually ends with the last letter written either before his muster out or death. Waiting for Jacob, however begins with Jacob's letters from college four years before the war. Letters in which he proclaims his love to his "young miss" as she waits for him at home. The letters amazingly do not end with Jacob's death in 1864, but continue two years later when the nurses that cared for the dying soldier once again reaffirm his love from statements made on his death bed to the grieving widow. I found these letters quite unique and moving, they were letters that keep Rebecca "alive" for the next six decades. The author attempts in this tome, successfully I might add, to weave together different story lines. The first drawn from a "first person" account of the last years of Rebecca, his Civil War widow. This passage is drawn from an interview with an elderly lady, who as a teenage that cared for Rebecca in her last years, as she waited not for Jacob but instead for death to rejoin her martyr husband killed 61 years before. He also vividly narrates the stories told by Jacob's letters. Letters that tell not only war but also of backstabbing fellow officers, and the senseless losses both on the battlefield and of disease caused by incompetent generals. It also included is a complete roster and some personal stories of the 100 men from his hometown of West Newton, PA who he recruits and leads as a Captain. The story of their recruitment is drawn completely from local period newspapers. Most unique to me was the chapter obtained completely from state archive records when Jacob is promoted to Major over a more senior captain (The "War" with Captain Hastings). An incident that forces Jacob to resign his commission (it was rejected) and is moved to write to Rebecca his most heartfelt letter where he proclaims, "I am no Christian." It is my humble opinion that this book would be enjoyed not only by a Civil War "buff" but also one interested in a Victorian period love story. It is indeed a story that does deserve to be preserved forever
Don't wait to read, "Waiting for Jacob".......2000-10-23
In this charming work, Edwin Hogan, captivates the reader with the tender love story set against the background of the American Civil War. Dr. Hogan's research adds depth to the story told in the letters from Jacob Greenawalt to his wife Rebecca. The story will be especially of interest to those living in Western Pennsylvania, as familiar place and family names jump off the pages and even minor characters come alive under his pen. However, the story of love, war, and longing has universal appeal. For those with a particular interest in this period of history, the book adds new details of the contributions made by the people of West Newton and the surrounding area. It is one of the finest books that I have read in quite some time.
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In this volume, the first English-language account of the underground Jewish resistance in Romania, I. C. Butnaru examines the efforts that resulted in some 300,000 Romanian Jews surviving the Holocaust. After detailing the rise of the fascist Iron Guards and the consequences of German domination, Butnaru describes the organization of the Jewish resistance movement, its various contacts within the government, and its activities. While emphasizing the role played by Zionist youth organizations which smuggled Jews from Europe and arranged illegal emigration, Butnaru also describes the role of Jewish parachutists from Palestine, the links between the resistance and the key international Jewish organizations, and even the links with the Gestapo. Waiting for Jerusalem is the most comprehensive study of the efforts to save the Jewish population of Romania, and, as such, will be of considerable use to scholars and students of the Holocaust and Eastern European Studies.
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One of America's great Civil War historians recounts his days growing up in Benzonia, a small town in Michigan's lower peninsula. During the first years of the 20th century (Catton was born in 1899), Catton listened to the tales of old Civil War veterans and gained an interest in the War Between the States that would never leave him. But this book, unlike Catton's other works, isn't primarily about the Civil War. It's about growing up in a particular time and a place. Written with grace, warmth, and wit, it describes an era of trains and timber. People who know and love the forests of northern Michigan will appreciate this book immensely, as will anybody who has enjoyed Catton's other books and wants to learn a little bit more about the historian who is one of America's great storytellers.
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A lament fior the 20th century.......2007-08-05
This book is generally considered a memoir of growing up in rural northern Michigan in the early 1900's, and it is; but it is also a lament for the 20th century. Catton contrasts the optimism of the America of his youth--it's faith in progress and in the future, it's belief that Americans could solve any problem with hard work, right thinking, and the guidance of Divine Providence--with the reality of national and world events that transpired from World War I through the Viet Nam era.
The mood of the book is reflective and even melancholy at times. I felt Catton was a concerned and discouraged man as he wrote this. He saw unlimited technological power as a frightening development and he had little faith in the ability of America or humankind in general to exhibit self-discipline in the use of such power.
It's a very thought-provoking book, and extremely relevant to today's world even 35 years after publication.
Boyhood Memoirs of a Literary Giant.......2003-05-14
I never met Bruce Catton, but I corresponded briefly with him in the mid-1970's. The same qualities that marked him as a correspondent--courtesy, graciousness, and gentle humor--illuminate this lovely memoir of a great historian.
Catton grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, "a city upon a hill," as he correctly notes, very close to Lake Michigan, where the old certitudes held seemingly invincible sway over virtually every aspect of one's daily life. Catton's father was the superintendent of Benzonia Academy, whose main building is now Benzonia's library.
The memoir, which recalls the years between the author's birth and his graduation from high school, is a series of reflections on what it was like to be a boy just as Michigan's logging era was drawing to a close, when sleepy Benzonia, along with the rest of the nation, was about to drift into the maw of the violent twentieth century. Catton writes of boyhood ambitions and boyish pranks, of the rich history that made Michigan's Lower Peninsula what it was, and especially of the Civil War veterans whose stories would later prompt Catton to devote years of his life to recording the history of that great conflict in rich anecdotal detail.
Though unabashedly nostalgic, "Waiting for the Morning Train" is neither saccharine nor bitter. Catton was far too experienced a writer and historian to let his emotions get the better of him. This is, nonetheless, a rich and moving memoir of a time which, though it may seem virtually within reach, we will never see again.
I recommend this book highly as a gift for yourself and, perhaps, for that reflective friend who can appreciate personal history told with universal appeal. Bruce Catton was, quite simply, one of the greatest writers and historians this country has produced, and in many ways this deceptively modest little volume represents the zenith of his literary achievement.
A plesant book to read.......2003-04-14
Bruce Catton was born in 1899 in Bezonia, Mich., a town of about 300 people then and now. Catton tells a lot about lumbering, tho he himself had little to do with lumbering. He graduated from Bezonia Academy in 1916, there being 11 in his class. The Academy closed in 1918. The book ends when Catton goes to college. It is a pleasant book to read, since Catton is a fine writer. But Jimmy Carter's book on his rural childhood I thought a more fetching read.
The boyhood of a giant.......2000-10-04
My interest in Waiting for the Morning Train lay not so much with Bruce Catton's being a giant of Civil War literature, but rather with his subject: Benzonia, Michigan, the place at which my family has taken vacation for decades (and where several family members now permanently reside). I could see the waters of Crystal Lake, the snow-covered hills of Beulah and Benzonia, and the lush birch, maple and pine forests of Northern Michigan as Catton knew them in his youth. Readers of Waiting for the Morning train will not only catch a glimpse of the spark that ignited Catton's pasion for the Civil War, but more importantly the story of a land that, if one tries hard enough, one will still find. Catton's boyhood stomping grounds come alive with tales of logging, weary travel by train and the fits of small towns being brought into a more modern era. The subtitle is An American Boyhood, and in Catton's childhood memoirs the reader will not only witness Catton's growth to manhood, but also the nation's emergence from adolecence to adulthood.
Civil War Historian grows up in Northwestern Michigan.......1999-04-21
Bruce Catton, winner of the Pulitzer, National Book Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom writes a little know memoir of his childhood of listening to the Civil War veterans tell tales of their Battery from Michigan that fought in the most famous battles in the War Between the States. How he was able to develop an almost transendent ability the listen and record in the far reaches of his sub conciousness the words and deeds that were told to him is remarkable. He would use the stories when he finally decided to put them down in his famous books that he didn't start until he was nearly at the age of fifty. But the book is also a statement on how the world has become a bunch of "Babbits" who put the motorcar above everything else. The metaphor he uses is the Mackinaw Bridge which was built in the late 50s to connect the Upper Penninsula to the lower so people would not have to wait in line for the ferry. Kafka said, "Because of impatience we were tossed out of Eden and because of impatience we can never return." Ironically Mackinac Island allows no cars and gets half a million plus tourists in the summer, where Maui has the finest weather in the world but no public transportation because people can't deal with the inconvience. Catton was very presient on this. The world finds itself in a place where we can't roll back to a slower time and now people want to drive tanks in the form of off road Vans. This book is also very readable and fun and in the intro his brother calls it his best book.
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What Cost--Self-preservation?.......2004-02-25
Twelve-year-old Jo is a shepherd boy in a French mountain village near the Spanish border; but his pastoral life is abruptly changed when Nazi soldiers are garrisoned in his peaceful hamlet. Having worked to help the family during the four years that his father has been a POW, the youth meets a red-bearded stranger in the hills--precipitating excitement, new purpose and great dangers. For Benjamin is hiding with his mother-in-law (a widow with the reputation of a witch), while waiting for his daughter to sneak back home through occupied France. Jo is stunned to discover that the adult pair are part of an underground railroad, ferrying Jewish children through the country across to Spain. How can he not help this noble cause, yet how can he keep his humanitiarian activities a secret from Maman and Grandpere?
The story reads easily with plenty of dialogue, action and increasing tension which culminates in the inevitable confrontation with the enemy. There is a fine line between Collaboration and making the best of a hateful situation; no one can be blamed for putting a priority on self-preservation. The author provides gentle thematic substrata to the obvious plot; mutual atempts for international cooperation
and even sympathetic understanding. People are human, after all, with similar values and upbringing, despite the language barrier. Unfortunately, serious events keep reminding friendly Jo that these soldiers are still the Eneny. This is a good juvenile thriller about French resistance and the Jewish experience. (Other books with this theme of Resistance to the Nazi invasion: The Little Riders--Holland, Snow Treaure--Norway, and Twenty Plus Ten (also France.)
What a sophorific (meaning causing sleep) book!.......2002-02-14
I wanted to read this book because it took place during the Holocaust, and normally, I find that time period intruiging. However, this book disappointed me. The characters are shallow and one sided, and the story is unoriginal & predictable. Also, the authors descriptions of, well- everything, were vague and contradictory. If you insist on reading this book, get it from a library, don't waste your money.
Touches my heart deeply !.......2001-12-24
This book got my heart deeply from the very first chapter.It is about a boy named Jo.His father was sent to war and was later a prisoner-of-war for a long time.This period is during the Second World War.Jo misses his father very much.One day,he was watching his sheep and felt like sleeping.He drifts into sleep leaving his sheep unattended.He wakes up to hear Rouf(his dog)barking and the sheep bleating.As Rouf was barking,Jo saw a bear.Panicstrikken,he ran down to the village and yelled for help.The men in the village came rushing out and were very excited as they had never shot a bear.Once they had shot the bear,they predicted that it was a female.Jo immediately went up to search for Rouf and finds him near a bear cub.Coincidentally,he met a man whom he had never seen but yet he recognised the man's face.The man offered the bear cub some milk and talked with Jo as if he knew him.Suddenly the man asked him to forget that day and not to tell anyone about what happened that day.Jo promises.Later he found himself helping the man named Benjamin to send Jewish children over to Spain.When Jo's little town was occupied by the German and more and more patrols were being held,it is hard to smuggle the children up into the mountains of Spain.I felt very anxious for Jo and Benjamin.Benjamin is also waiting for his daughter,Anya be able to arrive at the village.Will Anya be able to arrive at the little village? Will Jo and Benjamin and Jo be able to smuggle the children over? Read this book.
Pointless!.......2001-03-16
This book started off being O.K but it becomes pointless at the end. Most of the most important characters pass away for no reason and the characters are too fictional for a story that takes place in a very non-fictional time. Bad and boring book!
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This story is boring it would have been better if it would have had more action.
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Telling a tragic and important story, Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange chronicle their discovery of the cause of serious illnesses within their ranks and birth defects among their children, as well as their long battle with a government that refused to listen to their complaints.
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Engrossing Read.......2005-03-14
Wilcox personalizes the tragedy of Agent Orange by telling the individual stories of those who suffered from the side effects of Agent Orange and the terrible treatment they received. My family is among those who suffered. We lost my father, a Vietnam Veteran, at age 33 from melanoma cancer. And it is a comfort to me that someone is willing to tell the story of the government's mistreatment of its veterans.
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