The Civil War Through The Camera - CD ROM - 1912 The Civil War Through The Camera - 1912  CD ROM   A New Text History Hundreds of Vivid Photographs Actually Taken In Civil War Times by Henry H. Elson, copyrighted in 1912 Published by Patriot Publishing Co., Springfield, Mass.   This a complete history of the American Civil War. This is a large work, consisting of approximately 250 pages of  text, and 495 photographs with associated captions, and 16 color reproductions. This ebook includes all of the original book; there are no abridgments.   Even though this book was published in 1912, it provides an excellent account of the War of Rebellion, in picture and in prose; perhaps even more-so than modern, sanitized accounts.   This work tells a story of  death, and sorrow, and destruction, and deprivation, and hatred, and cruelty,  and pain, that is balanced by tales of honor, chivalry, kindness, and humanity, and morality, and patriotism.     The style, prose, grammar, spelling, even word usage, and descriptions, are somewhat different than our modern day expectations. This enhances the experience; it certainly adds a post-Victorian drama that is something to smile about.   Note the drama in the following quote, one of many, from the book:   ....Battle-line after battle-line, bravely obeying orders, was annihilated. The entrenchments were shivered and shattered, trunks of trees carved into split brooms. Sometimes the contestants came so close together that their muskets met, muzzle to muzzle, and their flags almost intertwined with each other as they waved in the breeze. As they fought with the desperation of madmen, the living could stand on the bodies of the dead to reach over the breastworks with their weapons of slaughter....   This is a complete history of the Civil War, from beginning to end, and much enhanced by actual photographs, and associated captions.   Click here, for more information Click here to order your copy today

	Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose - CD ROM - 1913 Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose - CD ROM - 1913   by  Willis J. Abbot Copyrighted in 1913 Published by Syndicate Publishing Company   As the title indicates, this ebook is loaded with pictures, over 600; primarily photographs, however there are line drawings, and tables, and sketches, etc, and over 400 pages of text.   Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose is a complete history of Panama, and the building of the Panama Canal. It is a story of early explorers, and discoveries, of peoples, and politics, and an incredible amount of simple human spirit, ingenuity, hard work, planning, and desire.   The post-Victorian textual style, and inherent drama, serve to ehance the learning experience, and provide a perspective that is hard to find in more modern accounts.    It hard not to smile when reading this book; the drama is unabashedly prevalent throughout. The following quote from the book is a good example:   PANAMA. They say the word means "a place of many fishes," but there is some dissension about the  exact derivation of the name of the now severed Isthmus.   Indeed dissension, quarrels, wars and massacres have been the prime characteristics of Panama for four hundred years. "A place of many battles" would be a more fitting significance for the name of this tiny spot where man has been doing ceaseless battle with man since history rose to record the conflicts. As deadly as the wars between men of hostile races, has been the unceasing struggle between man and nature.   Enjoy !   Click here for more information. Click here to order your copy today

	The San Franciso Calamity by Earthqauke and Fire - 1906 - CD ROM The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire – 1906 CD ROM by Charles Morris   This ebook is a "Complete and Accurate Account of the Fearful Disaster which Visited the Great City and the Pacific Coast, the Reign of Panic and Lawlessness, the Plight of 300,000 Homeless People and the World-wide Rush to the Rescue."   TOLD BY EYE WITNESSES   INCLUDING GRAPHIC AND RELIABLE ACCOUNTS OF ALL GREAT EARTH  QUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WoRLD'S HISTORY, AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR CAUSES EDITED BY CHARLES MORRIS, LL. D.   Member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia end Author of “The Volcano's Deadly Work," "Decisive Events in American History," "Historical Review of Civilization," etc.   WITH NEARLY 100 ILLUSTRATIONS   MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK, SHOWING THE HAVOC CAUSED BY FIRE, EARTHQUAKE AND VOLCANIC  CONVULSIONS.   DESCRIPTION   As is well known, San Francisco, California, experienced a devastating earthquake on April 18, 1906. The damage from the quake, and resulting fires nearly destroyed the city. This ebookjoint publication tells the story of the earthquake, and fire, and is full of exciting and dramatic eyewitness accounts, photographs, and illustrations, in 516 pages, including 100 images/illustrations.   This book makes for great, and compelling reading. The eyewitness descriptions of the disaster itself, and the descriptions of how things were handled are quaint by today’s standards, and give a real sense of those near-Victorian times.   This is truly a story of human terror, and suffering, and death and destruction, but it is also a story of helping your fellow man; of bravery, and boldness, and caring, and unabashed morality. And it is told in the most dramatic prose.   The first two paragraphs of the Preface grab the reader, and makes for compelling reading:   “EARTHQUAKE and famine, fire and sudden death-these are, the destroyers that men fear when they come singly; but, upon the unhappy people of California they came together, a hideous quartette, to slay human beings, to blot from existence the wealth that represented prolonged and strenuous effort, to bring hunger and speechless misery to three hundred thousand homeless and terror-stricken people.”   “The full measure of the catastrophe can probably never be taken. The summary cannot be made amid the panic, the confusion, the removal of ancient landmarks, the complete subversion of the ordinary machinery of society. When chaos comes, as it did in San Francisco, and all the channels of familiar life are closed, and human anguish grows to be intolerable, compilation of statistics is impossible, even if it were not repugnant to the feelings. And when order is once more restored, after the lapse of many weeks, months and perhaps years, the details of the calamity have merged into one undecipherable mass of misery which defies the analyst and the historian. It is the purpose of this book faithfully to record the story of these awful days when years were lived in a moment and to preserve an accurate chronicle of them, not only for the' people whose hearts yearn in sympathy to-day, but for their posterity.”   This book alos includes descriptions of other natural disasters that have occurred in World history, such as the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii and the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. Again, there are stirring first hand accounts of the death and destruction.   Click here for more information. Click here to order your copy today