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"Through Kathleen Winter's incredible act of empathy, we enter the world of a character named General James Wolfe--a tall, red-haired, homeless thirty-something ex-soldier, battered by PTSD--as he camps out on the streets of modern-day Quebec City, trying to remember and reclaim his youth. In creating this extraordinary character, Kathleen Winter pored over the real-life letters of General Wolfe, which were acquired by the University of Toronto in 2013 for an astronomical sum. The letters, written to his mother, begin when he was a child soldier of 13, and end when he was 32, already a scarred veteran of war, just two weeks before his famous death on the Plains of Abraham. What emerges from this little-seen cache is the opposite of the public face: history portrays Wolfe as the iconic victor but his correspondence reveals a lifelong struggle with melancholy and trauma, a desperate longing for poetry, dance, enlightenment. It also depicts how, at 25, Wolfe was awarded a two-week study leave in Paris. He was ecstatic ... but before he could depart, Britain adopted Europe's Gregorian calendar and the entire country lost eleven days forever: September 2 was followed by September 14. Wolfe forfeited his longed-for leave, and exactly 7 years later, on September 13, 1759, he died. In her inventive retelling, Winter gives Wolfe the gift of those lost eleven days in September--but in a different era: he is dropped into the world of contemporary Quebec. Her befuddled soldier is determined to reclaim his time and understand what has become of the British North America for which he'd abandoned his personal happiness. What he finds is not an answer, but unsettling questions about the price war exacts and the cost of all empires, past and present."--
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Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759. --- Québec Campaign, 1759. --- Military leadership. --- Wolfe, James, --- Wolfe, James, --- Wolfe, James, --- Military leadership. --- Québec Campaign (1759). --- Canadá --- Québec (Québec) --- Historia --- Histoire
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Canada --- Wolfe (james) --- Histoire --- Jusqu'a 1763 (nouvelle-france)
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Wolfe, James, --- Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph, --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- History --- Histoire
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The Abbé H.R. Casgrain (1831-1904) was an important French-Canadian historian, biographer, and literary figure. He edited the papers of Maréchal de Lévis, and was the biographer of Mère Marie de l'Incarnation. In addition, he was the author of verse and literary criticism. He was a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada, and President in 1889.Wolfe and Montcalm first appeared in the famous Makers of Canada Series in 1905, and was revised by A.G. Doughty in 1926 in the light of new documentary material which had become available. This is the first time this study has been published separately.
Wolfe, James, --- Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph, --- Canada --- History
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Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination. 'From the Trade Paperback edition.'
Death --- Social aspects --- History. --- Parkman, Francis, --- Parkman, George, --- Wolfe, James, --- Death and burial. --- Boston (Mass.) --- Biography. --- Biography --- Massachusetts --- History --- Parkman, George
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Wlerick, Robert --- Wolfers, Philippe --- Wörn, Walter --- Woodrow, Bill --- Wortelkamp, Erwin --- Wouters, Calixte --- Wotruba, Fritz --- Wolfers, Marcel --- Wolf, Fredy --- Wolf, Josef --- Wolf, Norbert --- Wolf, Rudolf --- Wolff, G.H. --- Wolff, Helmut --- Wolff, Kevin --- Wolff-Plottegg, Manfred --- Wolf-Wubben, Fredy --- Wolska, Zofia --- Wolski, Alfred --- Wolters, Suzan --- Wolters, Théo --- Wolverson, Martin --- Won Ju Lin --- Wonders, José --- Wong Lun Hing, Jos --- Wood, Craig --- Wood, John Glyn --- Wood, Nicholas --- Woodham, Derrick --- Woodman, Timothy --- Woods, Richard --- Woody, Howard --- Woronhoff, Peter --- Woropay, Vincent --- Worpenberg, Theodor --- Worthington, David --- Wounded Face, Tex --- Wouters, Stefaan --- Wolfe, James --- Wouters, Patty --- Wolkers, Jan --- Wouters, Rik --- Wojciechowicz, Thomas --- Woodman, Betty --- Wool, Christopher --- Wölfli, Adolf
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