A House Full Of Daughters

One woman’s investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love. All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson’s was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from

This 3 volume set is an elaborate and detailed account of the generals in the Confederate States of America. The 3 volumes run in what the author breaks into the components by battle campaigns. Manassas to Malvern Hill in volume 1, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville in volume 2 and Gettysburg to Appomatox in volume 3. These volumes include many pictures of the legendary generals as well as battlefield diagrams.