Keith S. "Nobby" Clark was one of Auckland's most notable local artists.   In this book he presents commentary and b/w sketches of scenes of entertainment centers and other "people places".

Nobby Clark's Auckland

K.S. Clark

Endeavour Press

Sylvia's Lot

Literature & Fiction

teresa-waugh

Genre Fiction

Omens of Death

RHEA, NICHOLAS

Dead or Alive

Dean Carson

“…the ability of General Johnston was recognised, and General Grant told me he was about the only general on that side that he feared.” — William T. Sherman 
Respected by his opponents yet at odds with his own authorities, Joseph E. Johnston remains as divisive a soldier now as he was at the time of the Civil War. 
One of the Confederacy’s highest ranking and most experienced officers, he was regularly criticized both for lacking aggression and for his failures across his campaigns. 
Despite effectively halting McClellan’s advance at Seven Pines, having been wounded President Davis replaced Johnston with his old classmate, Gen. Lee. 
Already bitter, his relationship with Davis only continued to sour, but in spite of Davis’ desire to be rid of him Johnston had the support of Louis Wigfall. 
In 1865, nearly three weeks after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Johnston surrendered his own forces to Gen. Sherman; it was the largest such act of the war, and saved numerous lives. 
Originally published in 1874 and amongst the first of the Civil War memoirs, Johnston goes beyond simple recollection in an attempt to set the record straight. 
Joseph E. Johnston (1807-91) was an American career soldier. Graduating from West Point in 1829, he served in the U.S. Army through the Mexican-American and Seminole Wars. When Virginia declared its secession from the Union, Johnston, then a Brigadier General, resigned his commission and joined the Confederates. Ending the Civil War a full General, he later served a term in Congress. 
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Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War

JOHNSTON, JOSEPH E.

Hard Tack and Coffee

Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran. "Hard Tack and Coffee" is not about battles, but rather about how the common Union soldiers of the Civil War lived in camp and on the march. What would otherwise be a mundane subject is enlivened by Billings' humorous prose.

Billings, John, D

The recent rediscovery of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, effectively lost for decades, marks an authentic publishing event in the literature of the Civil War.  A rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate army enlisted man, this compelling memoir has been hailed by historians as a classic and indispensible key to understanding the Southern perspective.  Margaret Mitchell even described it as her single most valuable source of research for Gone With the Wind.This stunning document is the work of a common foot soldier blessed with extraordinary perception and articulateness.  After joining the famed Texas Brigade under Stonewall Jackson.  Private William A. Fletcher saw action at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Channcellorsville, and Chickamauga.  He was wounded several times and escaped from a moving Union prison train before the South's surrender.  In 1907, he published this powerfully evocative account of his exploits, a volume of frank, detailed recollections that spares none of the horror, courage, or absurdity of war.  But a fire destroyed all but a few copies before they could be distributed.  One copy, however, did make its way to the Library of Congress, where it was eventually discovered.  Today, this colorful work has become the voice of the Civil War front-line grunt, speaking to the modern reader with the intensity of personal experience and a vividness of detail that gives it a riveting you-are-there quality.

Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier

William A. Fletcher

A citizen-soldier of honest mind, a "gentleman unafraid." Although opposed to succession, in 1861, shortly after Virginia broke away from the Union, Blackford nevertheless enlisted in the First Regiment of Virginia Cavalry. A Civil Engineer by profession, by war's end Blackford had risen from a Lieutenant of Cavalry to Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers. His skills were valuable in both of these branches of the army, and as a result War Years is unusually filled with the day-to-day accomplishment of the Engineer Troops. From Jeb Stuart's side, Blackford observed nearly all the operations of mounted troops from June, 1861, to the end of January, 1964, when he was transferred to other responsibilities. Brought into contact with a number of legendary figures, in April, 1865, Blackford was at Appomattox when General Lee surrendered. Alongside descriptions of battles, raids and sieges are the stories of army life- little details and incidents that walk hand-in-hand with soldiering- in a thrilling yet eye-opening memoir of the American Civil War.

War Years with Jeb Stuart

Blackford, W. W.

Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Fighter Pilot

Brian Lane

Originally published under a pseudonym in 1922, this memoir of a private soldier in the London Rifle Brigade is closely based on the letters he sent home throughout the First World War, from enlistment and initial training in 1914 to the final Allied advance in the weeks leading up to the Armistice. It documents the experiences of an important but often overlooked branch of the British Army, first in the trenches then in the transport section.

Four Years on the Western Front: Being the Experiences of a Ranker in the London Rifle Brigade, 4th, 3rd and 56th Divisions

Smith, Aubrey

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