TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carey,John
TI  - Eyewitness to history /edited by John Carey
SN  - 9780674287501
AV  - D5 .E949 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - World history
KW  - Sources
N1  - 1 (pages 687-696) and index; Plague in Athens, 430 BC; Thucydides --; The Greeks march to the sea, 401 BC; Xenophon --; The death of Socrates, 399 BC; Plato --; Caesar invades Britain, 55 BC; Julius Caesar --; Rome burns, AD 64; Tacitus --; The siege of Jerusalem, AD 70; Josephus --; The eruption of Vesuvius, 24 August, AD 79; Pliny the Younger --; The deification of the Emperor Septimius Severus, AD 211; Herodian --; Dinner with Attila the Hun, c. AD 450; Priscus --; A Viking funeral, AD 922; Ibn Fadlan --; The green children, c. 1150; William of Newburgh --; The muder of Thomas Becket, 29 December 1170; Edward Grim --; Richard I massacres prisoners after taking Acre, 2-10 August 1191; Beha-ed-Din --; Kublai Khan's park, c. 1275; Marco Polo --; Mishaps in childhood, 1301-37; Calendar ofd coroner's rolls --; The battle of Crecy, 26 September 1346; Sir John Froissart --; The Black Death, 1348; Henry Knighton --; Women ape men, 1348; Henry Knighton --; The capture of Guines, January 1352; Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook --; False mutes, October 1380; City of London letter-books --; The Peasants' Revolt, May-June 1381; Sir John Froissart --; The battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415; Jehan de Wavrin --; Norwegian fisherfolk, 1432; Cristoforo Fioravanti --; The New World, January-February 1502; Amerigo Vespucci --; A salamander, 1505; Benvenuto Cellini --; Spanish atrocities in the West Indies, c. 1513-20; Bartolome de Las Casas --; The performing ass, Cairo, 1516; John Leo --; Human sacrifice among the Aztecs, c. 1520; Jose de Acosta --; The Inca's golden garden, c. 1530; Garcilaso de la Vega --; The progress of the English Reformation, 1537-38; John London ... [and others] --; With the Spaniards in Paraguay, 1537-40; Hulderike Schnirdel --; The execution of Archbishop Cranmer, 21 March 1556; Anon. --; Prisoners of the Inquisition, 1568-75; Miles Phillips --; The sack of Antwerp by a Spanish army, 4 November 1576; George Gascoigne --; The arrest of the Catholic priest Edmund campion and his associates, 17 july 1581; Anon. --; Some London criminals, 1581; William Fleetwood --; Babylon in 1583; John Eldred --; Natural childbirth in India, 1583; John Huyghen van Linschoten --; Shipwreck off Mozambique, AUgust 1585; John Huyghen van Linschoten --; A London merchant in Cairo, 1586; John Sanderson --; The execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 8 February 1586; Robert Wynkfielde --; The seasons of Russia, 1589; Giles Fletcher --; The last fight of the Revenge, 13 September 1591; John Huyghen van Linschoten --; Trapped in the Arctic ice, 1596; Gerrit de Veer --; A Jesuit is tortured in the Tower, 14-15 April 1597; John Gerard --; A private audience with Elizabeth I, 8 December 1597; Andre Hurault --; English merchants in Java, c. 1602; Edmund Scot --; The effects of Elizabethan policy in Ireland, 1602; Fynes Moryson --; Newfoundland mermaid, 1610; Richard Whitbourne --; Whirling Dervishes, 1613; Thomas Coryate --; The magnificence of the Great Mogul, 1616-17; Sir Thomas Roe --; The Great Mogul : his cruelty, 1618; Edward Terry --; The murder of the Duke of Buckingham, 23 August 1620; Sir Dudley Carleton --; Landing in New England, November 1620; William Bradford --; Oliver Cromwell writes to his brother-in-law after the battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644; Oliver Cromwell --; Circumcision : Rome, 16 January 1645; John Evelyn --; Suttee, c. 1650; Jean-Baptiste Tavernier --; George Fox visits Litchfield, 1651; George Fox --; Religious observances in Dunkirk, 1662; John Greenhalgh --; The fire of London, 2 September 1666; Samuel Pepys --; The Great Frost, January 1684; John Evelyn --; The English love of fighting, 1695; Mission de Valbourg --; Conditions of life aboard the French galleys, 1703-4; John Bion --; The battle of Schallenberg, 2 July 1704; M. de la Colonie --; Robinson Crusoe found, 2 February 1709; Woodes Rogers --; Bull-baiting : London, 1710; Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach --; Turkish bath : Adrainople, 1 April 1717; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --; Albatross shot, 1 October 1719; George Shelvocke --; Solar eclipse, 10 May 1724; William Stukeley --; Pantomimes and gladiators, February 1728; Cesar de Saussure --; The Princess of Wales is delivered of a daughter, 31 July 1737; Lord Hervey --; Crossing the Alps, November 1739; Thomas Gray --; Scurvy, 1741; Richard Walker --; John Wesley preaches in Hull, 24 April 1752; John Wesley --; Kitten overboard, 11 July 1754; Henry Fielding --; The Black Hole of Calcutta, 21 June 1756; J.Z. Holwell --; The burial of George II, 13 November 1760; Horace Walpole --; The King of Ethiopia expresses displeasure, 13 December 1770; James Bruce --; Dr. Johnson's playfulness, 10 May 1773; James Boswell --; Christmas Day at New College, Oxford, 1773; James Woodforde --; Garrick plays Hamlet, September 1775; Georg Christoph Lichtenberg --; The Gordon riots, 8 June 1780; George Crabbe --; Ranelagh, 12 June 1782; Carl Philipp Moritz --; Midshipman Gardner (aged 12) in action against the French, 20 October 1781; James Anthony Gardner --; The first manned flight in England, 15 September 1784; Vincent Lunardi --; Louis XVI and tyhe French Royal Family, prisoners at the Tuileries, 4 January 1790; Arthur Young --; Chateaubriand lands in the New World; Chesapeake Bay, 1791; Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand --; Marie-Antoinette at the opera, July 1792; Grace Elliott --; A trip to Paris, July-August 1792; Richard Twiss --; The execution of Louis XVI; Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont --; The Revolutional Tribunal, Paris, October 1793; J.G. Millingen --; Nelson loses an arm, Santa Cruz, tenerife, 25 June 1797; William Hoste --; The battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798; John Nichol --; Beggars, a leech gatherer, and daffodils : the Wordsworths at Grasmere, 1800-1802; Dorothy Wordsworth --; Nelson turns a blind eye, Copenhagen, 2 APril 1801; William Stewart --; Childsplay in the Lake District, 27 September 1802; Samuel Taylor Coleridge --; The morning of Trafalgar, 10 a.m. / Midshipman Badcock --; Trafalgar : Nelson sends the signal "England expects that every man this day will do his duty" : noon, 21 Octoner 1805; George Brown --; Trafalgar : reception of the signal, 21 October 1805; Lieutenant Ellis --; The death of Lord Nelson, 21 October 1805; William Beatty --; Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time, Summer 1808; B.R. Haydon --; After the battle of Rolica, 17 August 1808; Rifleman Harris --; The British retreat to Corunna, 1-4 January 1809; Robert Blakeney --; Taken prisoner at Corunna, 16 January 1809; Sir Charles Napier --; A mastectomy, 30 September 1811; Fany Burney --; Napoleon enters Moscow, 14 September 1812; Baron Claude-Francois de Meneval --; Death of a climbing boy, 29 March 1813; Anon. --; Wounded at Nivelle, 10 November 1813; Robert Blakeney --; Execution by impalement : Latakia, 1813; Charles Lewis Meryon --; The retreat before Waterloo, 17 June 1815; W.B. Ingilby --; Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : dawn with the 7th Hussars; Edward Cotton --; Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : charge of the Scots Greys and 92nd Highlanders, 2-3 p.m. / R. Winchester --; Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : the Royal Horse Artillery repulse enemy cavalry, late afternoon; A.C. Mercer --; Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : Napoleon's last throw--charge of the Imperial Guard, 7 p.m. / H.W. Powell --; Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : the finale; J. Kincaid --; Embalming a patriarch, November 1815; Charles Lewis Meryon --; Factory conditions, c. 1815; Elizabeth Bentley --; Prison visiting, 4 March 1817; Elizabeth Fry --; Peterloo, 4 March 1817; Samuel Bamford --; Cremation of the poet Shelley, near leghorn, 15 August 1822; Edward John Trelawny --; Exit George IV, 1830; Mrs. Arbuthnot --; The opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway, 15 September 1830; Frances Ann Kemble --; Cholera in Manchester, 1832; Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth --; Birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, September 1835; Charles Darwin --; The coronation of Queen Victoria, 29 June 1838; Charles Greville --; London prostitutes, 1839; Flora Tristan --; Death by guillotine : Rome, 8 March 1845; Charles Dickens --; American slavery : sale of slaves, Virginia, December 1846; Elwood Harvey --; American slavery : punishment of a female slave, New Orleans, c. 1846; Samuel Gridley Howe --; The Irish potato famine : victims of the Great Hunger, Castlehaven, 22 February 1847; Elihu Burritt --; Flaubert and the dancing girls : Esna, Egypt, 6 March 1850; Gustave Flaubert --; Inside the Crystal Palace : the great exhibition, 1851; Charlotte Bronte --; The Farringdon watercress market, 1851; Henry Mayhew --; Louis Napoleon's troops subdue Paris, 4 December 1851; Victor Hugo --; Victoria and Albert in the Highlands, 11 October 1852; Queen Victoria --; The Japanese are introduced to Western technology, March 1854; Matthew C. Perry --; The battle of Balaclava and the charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854; William Howard Russell --; The Indian Mutiny : scene of the massacre of British women and children at Cawnpore, 21 July 1857; Anon. --; The Indian Mutiny : retribution for the massacre, July 1857; General Havelock --; The Indian Mutiny : household arrangements in besieged Lucknow, 1857; Adelaide Case --; Single combat in the Caucasus, 1858; Alexandre Dumas --; Explosion on board Brunel's Great Eastern steamship, 12 September 1859; George Augustus Sala --; The Times correspondent helps Garibaldi liberate Palermo, 27-31 May 1860; Nandor Eber --; Derby Day, 28 May 1861; Hippolyte Taine --; The American Civil War : General Grant besieges Vicksburg, May 1863; Cleveland herald --; Gettysburg : the Confederate bombardment, 3 July 1863; Samuel Wilkeson --; The Great March : General Sherman lays waste the South, October 1864-February 1865; George Nichols --; The Great March : Genral Sherman's "Bummers," March 1865; Elias Smith --; The murder of President Lincoln, 14 Aoril 1865; Walt Whitman --; Americans abroad, 1867; Mark Twain --; The suppression of the Paris Commune, 23-24 May 1871; Archibald Forbes --; The Paris Commune : the finale, 29 May 1871; Archibald Forbes --; Stanley finds Livingstone, 10 November 1871; H.M. Stanley --; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria, 2 August 1876; J.A. MacGahan --; An immigrant crosses America, 23 August 1879; Robert Louis Stevenson --; Paul Gauguin marries : Tahiti, 1892; Paul Gauguin --; The Graeco-Turkish War : the siege of Prevesa, 18 April 1897; Richard Harding Davis --; A seaside holiday, Norfolk Coast, August 1897; W.H. Hudson --; The attack on Atbara, 10 April 1898; George W. Steevens --; The battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898; Winston Churchill --; The Spanish-American War : the battle of El Caney, Cuba, 1 July 1898; James Creelman --; The battle of El Caney : the aftermath, 2 July 1898; Stephen Crane --; Jumping a train, 20 March 1899 --; The Boer War : the suffering of the civilian population, Mafeking, April-May 1900; J.E. Neilly --; Queen Victoria's last journey, 1 Februaru 1901; Cissy, Countess of Denbigh --; The first radio signal across the Atlantic, 12 December 1901; Guglielmo Marconi --; A roundabout in Maontmartre, 4 November 1903; Arnold Bennett --; Bloody Sunday : St. Petersburg, 22 January 1905; Father Gapon --; The San Francisco earthquake, 17 April 1906; Jack London --; The first Channel flight, 25 July 1909; Louis Bleriot --; Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton, disguised as a lower-class woman, Jane Warton, is forcibly fed in Walton Gaol, Liverpool, 18 January 1910; Constance Lytton --; The arrest of Dr. Crippen, 31 July 1910; H.G. Kendall --; The siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911; Philip Gibbs --; South Polar expedition : Captain Scott's diary, March 1912; Captain Scott --; The Titanic : a fireman's story, 15 April 1912; Harry Senior --; The Titanic : the wireless operator's story, 15 April 1912; Harold Bride --; The Titanic : from a lifeboat, 15 April 1912; Mrs. D.H. Bishop --; The lemon gardens under cover of winter : Gargnano, Lago di Garda, February 1913; D.H. Lawrence --; Colombo curry, 11 November 1913; Anna Buchan --; GBS at his mother's funeral, 22 February 1914; George Bernard Shaw --; The muder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914; Borijove Jevtic --; The vulture, July 1914; Osbert Sitwell --; The German Army marches through Brussels, 21 August 1914; Richard Harding Davis --; War frenzy in St. Petersburg, August 1914; Sergyei N. Kurnakov --; Improving morale, 12 September 1914; E.L. Spears --; A Suffolk farmhand at Gallipoli, june 1915; Leonard Thompson --; Mobile hospital unit with the Russian Army, Galicia, 2 June 1915; Hugh Walpole --; With Austrian cavalry on the Eastern Front, August 1915; Oskar Kokoschka --; Lance-Corporal Baxter wins the District of ColumbiaM, Western Front, September 1915; Robert Graves --; Gallipoli : the Allied evacuation, 19 December 1915; Norman King-Wilson --; U-boat 202 attacks, April 1916; Adolf K.G.E. von Spiegel --; The battle of Jutland : "X" turret, Battlecruiser Queen Mary, 31 May 1916; Ernest Francis --; The Somme : 21 Casualty Clearing Station, 1-3 July 1916; John M.S. Walker --; The death of a brother, 15 July 1918 [sic] / Vera Brittain --; The first tanks in action, 15 September 1916; Bert Chaney --; The end of Zeppelin L31, 1 October 1916; Michael MacDonagh --; Birds on the Western front, 1916; H.H. Munro ("Saki") --; Gassed : Messines Ridge, 7 June 1917; William Pressey --; The battle of Langemarck, 27 August 1917; Edward Campion Vaughan --; The execution of Mata Hari, 18 October 1917; Henry G. Wales --; An American journalist at the storming of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, 7 November 1917; John Reed --; Breslau Prison, December 1917; Rosa Luxemburg --; French cavalry charge, near Amiens, 26 March 1918; William Pressey --; Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family shot at Ekaterinburg, 16 July 1918; Pavel Medvedev --; Incident on the advance to Damascus : Lawrence of Arabia destroys a Turkish column, 24 September 1918; T.E. Lawrence --; Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919; Harold Nicolson --; Famine in Russia, October 1921; Philip Gibbs --; The execution of Henri D. ("Bluebeard") Landru, murderer of ten women, 25 February 1922; Webb Miller --; German inflation, 19 September 1922; Ernest Hemingway --; British India : civil disobedience, 21 Massachusettsy 1930; Webb Miller --; Hunger marchers, 27 Octiber 1932; Wal Hannington --; Bodyline bowling, 13-19 January 1933; W.H. Ferguson --; The Reichstag fire, 27 February 1933; D. Sefton Delmer --; The burning Ghats, Benares, India, December 1933; Patrick Balfour --; The arrest of Osip Mandelstam, 13 May 1934; Nadezhda Mandelstam --; The rattenbury case, May-June 1935; James Agate --; The Italian campaign in Abyssinia : retreat of the Emperor's army to Korem, 4-5 April 1936; Colonel Konavaloff --; Abyssinia : an American journalist with the Fascist armoured column approaching Addis Ababa, 18 April 1936; Herbert Matthews --; The Spanish Civil War : Carlist forces drive back the Basque Frente Popular near Irun, 26 August 1936; G.L. Steer --; The Spanish Civil War : Guernica destroyed by German planes, 26 April 1937; Noel Monks --; The Spanish Civil War : wounded by a Fascist sniper, near Huesca, 20 May 1937; George Orwell --; The Louis Schmeling fifght, 22 June 1938; Bob Considine --; The Spanish Civil War : Nationlist planes bomb Barcelona, September 1938; Marcel Junod --; The Second World War : the evacuation of children from London, 1 September 1939; Hilde Marchant --; Blitzkrieg : German breakthrough on the Meuse, 15 May 1940; Erwin Rommel --; Dunkirk : the beaches, 1 June 1940; John Charles Austin --; Dogfight over the Channel, 3 September 1940; Richard Hillary --; London Docks bombed, 7 September 1940; Desmonf Flower --; The Blitaz : Chelsea, 14 September 1940; Frances Faviell --; Spoil in North Africa : Italian defeat at Nibeiwa, 12 December 1940; Alan Moorehead --; Bomb disposal : Llandaff, January 1941; John Miller --; German airborne invasion of Crete, 20 May 1941; Baron van der Heydte --; Syria : British forces meet resistance from Vichy French, June 1941; Alan Moorehead --; Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; John Garcia --; The Japanese bomb Manila, 8 December 1941; Carlos P. Romulo --; Japanese air and submarine attack sinks HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Singapore, 10 December 1941; Cecil Brown --; Auschwitz : the gas chambers, 25 December 1941; Sophia Litwinska --; Dacahu : the medical experiments, 1941-5; Franz Blaha --; The fall of Kuala Lumpur : the city awaits the japanese, 11 January 1942; Ian Morrison --; The sinking of the Tanjong penang, 19 February 1942; Anon. --; Leningrad : during the blockade, April-July 1942; A. Fadeyev --; Five fatal minutes : Japanese carriers cripples, battle of Midway, 4 June 1942; Mitsuo Fuchida --; Dieppe Raid, 19 August, 1942; Ross Munro --; Nazi extermination of the Jews in the Ukraine, October 1942; Hermann Graebe --; El Alamein : the end of the Africa Corps [sic] [Afrika Korps], 4 November 1942; General Bayerlein --; An English poet in the Western Desert, December 1942; Keith Douglas --; Stalingrad : December 1942; Benno Zieser --; Stalingrad : a war correspondent goes in after the German capitulation, 4 February 1943; Alexander Werth --; German route in the Korsun Salient, central Ukraine, 17 February 1943; Major Kampov --; The execution of an Allied intelligence officer by the Japanese, New Guinea, 29 March 1943; Anon. --; Luftwaffe pilot : Tunisia, 7 April 1943; Alan Moorehead --; Hamburg, 27 July 1943; Else Wendel --; US Marines land on tarawa, 20 November 1943 /. Robert Sherrod --; A birthday : Japanese Prison Camp, Kuching, Borneo, 5 April 1944; Agnes Newton Keith --; Cassino : the final attack; 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusaliers advance, 16 may 1944; Fred Majdalany --; D-Day minus one : US paratroopers leave fro France, June 5, 1944; Matthew B. Ridgeway --; D-Day, June 6, 1944; Anon. --; The Germans meet a new foe, 7 June 1944; Anon. --; D-Day plus one : a British paratroop seeks directions, 7 June 1944; James G. Bramwell --; Buzz bombs : an eight-year-old's recollections, June 1944; Lionel King --; The Russian summer offensive, July 1944; Alexander Werth --; The bombing of Caen, 7 July 1944; Desmond Flower --; The Nazi extermination camp, Maidanek, 23 July 1944; Alexander Werth --; American break-out in Normandy, 24-25 July 1944; General Bayerlein --; Birkenau Camp, August 1944; Charles Sigismund Bendel --; The fall of Aachen, 17 October 1944; George Mucha --; The bomboing of Dresden, 14 February 1945; Margaret Freyer --; US troops advance into Germany, March 1945; Lester Atwell --; Italian partisans assist the Allied advance, near Trieste, 13 April 1945; Geoffrey Cox --; The end of the war for a British POW : Stalag IIID, Berlin, 14-29 April 1945; Norman Norris --; Luneburg, 20 April 1945; Desmond Flower --; Belsen, 24 April 1945; Patrick Gordon-Walker --; The fall of Berlin, 1 May 1945; Claus Fuhrmann --; Kamikaze attack, 9 May 1945; Michael Moynihan --; Nagasaki, 9 August 1945; William T. Laurence --; Visiting Hiroshima, 9 September 1945; Marcel Junod --; The execution of Nazi war criminals, 16 October 1946; Kingsbury Smith --; Revenge killing, Arabia, November 1946; Wilfred Thesiger --; Grand National, 29 March 1947; John Hislop --; Stalingrad, 1949; John Steinbeck --; Trafalgar Square incident, 23 September 1950; Kingsley Martin --; The Koreab War : civilian casualty near Namchanjan, 17 October 1950; Reginald Thompson --; The Korean War : the American retreat from the Chongchon River, 27-28 November 1950; Reginal Thompson --; The Korean War : Padre Blaisdell and the refugee children, Seoul, December 1950; Rene Cutforth --; Rabitting, 3 November 1952; J.R. Ackerly --; The conquest of Everest, 29 May 1953; James (Jan) Morris --; The intelligent bull, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, Spring 1957; Norman Lewis --; Stoning to death, Jeddah, February 1958; R.M. Macoll --; The Vietnam War : South Vietnamese casualty, 1965; Gavin Young --; The Vietnam War : a reporter with the Vietcong, near Hanoi, 10 December 1965; James Cameron --; The Vietnam War : winning hearts and minds, Tuyon, South Vietnam, 23 August 1967; John Pilger --; The Vietnam War : C Company, US 11th Infantry Brigade pacify My Lai, 16 March 1968; Time correspondent --; The first men on the moon, 21 July 1969; Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin --; Veteran's march, Washington District of Columbia, 25 April 1971; John Pilger --; "It was the Christians" : the massacre at Chatila, 16-17 September 1982 --; The fall of President Marcos, Manila, Philippines, 24-25 February 1986; James Fenton; 2
N2  - Presents eyewitness accounts of historical happenings from ancient Greece to the present
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