Written in history : letters that changed the world
Montefiore, Simon Sebag, 1965-2018
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Click and Collect for Written in history : letters that changed the worldWritten in history celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent and unknown people in extraordinary circumstances from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now and illuminate tomorrow.
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Written in history : letters that changed the world / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.
Collation:
xxiii, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Love -- Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, May 1528 -- Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, undated -- Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12, October 1786 -- Catherine the Great to Prince Potemkin, c.19 March 1774 -- James I to the Duke of Buckingham, 17 May 1620 -- Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 21 January 1926 -- Between Suleiman the Magnificent and Hurrem Sultan, c. 1530s -- Anais Nin to Henry Miller, c.August 1932 -- Alexandra to Rasputin, c.1909 -- Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton, 29 January 1800 -- Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine, 24 April 1796 -- Alexander II to Katya Dolgorukaya, January 1868 -- Josef Stalin to Pelageya Onufrieva, 29 February 1912 -- Family -- Elizabeth I to Mary I, 16 March 1554 -- Vilma Grunwald to Kurt Grunwald, 11 July 1944 -- Kadashman-Enlil to Amenhotep III, c.1370 BC -- Oliver Cromwell to Valentine Walton, 4 July 1644 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture to Napoleon, 12 July 1802 --Contents note continued: Alexander I to his sister Catherine 20 September 1805 -- Charles I to Charles II, 29 November 1648 -- Svetlana Stalina to her father Stalin, mid 1930s -- Augustus to Caius Caesar, 23 September AD 2 -- Joseph II to his brother Leopold II, 4 October 1777 -- Rameses the Great to Hattusili, 1243 BC -- Creation -- Michelangelo to Giovanni da Pistoia, 1509 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his cousin Marianne, 13 November 1777 -- Honore de Balzac to Ewelina Hanska, 19 June 1836 -- Pablo Picasso to Marie-Therese Walter, 19 July 1939 -- John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 13 October 1819 -- T.S. Eliot to George Orwell, 13 July 1944 -- Courage -- Sarah Bernhardt to Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1915 -- Fanny Burney to her sister Esther, 22 March 1812 -- David Hughes to his parents, 21 August 1940 -- Discovery -- Ada Lovelace to Andrew Crosse, c.16 November 1844 -- Wilbur Wright to the Smithsonian, 30 May 1899 -- John Stevens Henslow to Charles Darwin, 24 August 1831 --Contents note continued: Between Ferdinand and Isabella, and Christopher Columbus, 30 March 1493 and 29 April 1493 -- Tourism -- Anton Chekhov to Anatoly Koni, 16 January 1891 -- Gustave Flaubert to Louis Bouilhet, 15 January 1850 -- War -- Peter the Great to his wife Catherine I, 27 June 1709 -- Napoleon to Josephine, 3 December 1805 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower to all Allied troops, 5 June 1944 (unsent) -- Catherine, Duchess of Oldenburg, to her brother Alexander I, 3 September 1812 -- Philip II to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, 1 July 1588 -- Harun al-Rashid to Nikephoros I, AD 802 -- Rasputin to Nicholas II, 17 July 1914 -- Blood -- Paiankh to Nodjmet, c.1070 BC -- Vladimir Lenin to the Bolsheviks of Penza, 11 August 1918 -- Stalin to Kliment Voroshilov, 3 July 1937 -- Mao Zedong to the Red Guards of Tsinghua University Middle School, 1 August 1966 -- Josip Broz Tito to Stalin, 1948 -- Destruction -- Theobald von Bethman-Hollwegg to Leopold Berchtold, 6 July 1914 --Contents note continued: Harry Truman to Irv Kupcinet, 5 August 1963 -- Disaster -- Pliny the Younger to Tacitus, c.AD 106/107 -- Voltaire to M. Tronchin, 24 November 1755 -- Friendship -- Captain A.D. Chater to his mother, Christmas 1914 -- Mark Antony to Octavian (later Augustus), c.33 BC -- Franklin D. Roosevelt to Winston Churchill, 11 September 1939 -- Adolf Hitler to Benito Mussolini, 21 June 1941 -- Between Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great -- Folly -- Georg von Hulsen to Emil von Gortz, 1892 -- Marquis de Sade `to the stupid villains who torment me', 1783 -- Between Alexandra and Nicholas II, 14 December 1916 -- Decency -- Maria Theresa to Marie Antoinette, 30 July 1775 -- Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler, 24 December 1940 -- Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 13 July 1863 -- John Profumo to Harold Macmillan, 5 June 1963 -- Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev, 1 December 1963 -- Emile Zola to Felix Faure, 13 January 1898 -- Liberation --Contents note continued: Emmeline Pankhurst to the Women's Social and Political Union, 10 January 1913 -- Rosa Parks to Jessica Mitford, 26 February 1956 -- Nelson Mandela to Winnie Mandela, 2 April 1969 -- Abram Hannibal to Peter the Great, 5 March 1722 -- Between Simon Bolivar, Manuela Saenz and James Thome, 3 July 1822 -- Fate -- Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross, 28 February 1895 -- Between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, June 1804 -- Anonymous to Lord Monteagle, October 1605 -- Alexander Pushkin to Jacob von Heeckeren, 25 January 1837 -- Power -- Stalin to Valery Mezhlauk, April 1930 -- Churchill to Roosevelt, 20 May 1940 -- Between Richard I and Saladin, October---November 1191 -- Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, 2 November 1917 -- Niccolo Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, 3 August 1514 -- Henry VII to his `good friends', July 1485 -- Babur to his son Humayun, 11 January 1529 -- John Adams to Jefferson, 20 February 1801 --Contents note continued: Between the Duke of Marlborough, Queen Anne and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 13 August 1704 -- Donald J. Trump to Kim Jong Un, 24 May 2018 -- Downfall -- Abd al-Rahman III to his sons, AD 961 -- Simon Bar Kokhba to Yeshua, c.AD 135 -- Ammurapi to the king of Alashiya, c.1190 BC -- Aurangzeb to his son Muhammed Azam Shah, 1707 -- Bolivar to Juan Jose Flores, 9 November 1830 -- Goodbye -- Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen, July 2016 -- `Henriette' to Giacomo Casanova, autumn 1749 -- Churchill to his wife Clementine, 1915 -- Franz Kafka to Max Brod, June 1924 -- Walter Raleigh to his wife Bess, 8 December 1603 -- Alan Turing to Norman Routledge, February 1952 -- Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, 1 April 1965 -- Robert Ross to More Adey, 14 December 1900 -- Lucrezia Borgia to Leo X, 22 June 1519 -- Hadrian to Antoninus Pius -- and to his soul, 10 July AD 138.
ISBN:
9781474609180
Dewey class:
808.86808.86358
Language:
English
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BRN:
343750
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 808.86358 WRI | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 808.86358 WRI | Available |
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