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T.e two greatest generals on the Northern side have written their own memoirs, and written them exceedingly well: _Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant_, 2 vols. (1885-86), and _Memoirs of General W.T. S.erman_, 2 vols.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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Reprinted in Miscellanies, Prose and Verse, vol. II, 1856, under the title Memoirs of Mr.C. J. Yellowplush, and in a separate volume with The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche,
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Reprinted in Miscellanies, Prose and Verse, vol. II, 1856, under the title Memoirs of Mr.C. J. Yellowplush, and in a separate volume with The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche,
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A relatively small portion of the "Memoirs" is excerpted from the original as the information does not relate to the POW/MIA issue, or the information would tend to reveal the identify of the source.
FULL downloadable PDF file is available from the DPMO Website 2007
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I wish to assert, moreover, that the title Memoirs was not chosen by me, but was finally tacked on because we couldn’t think of a better word.
Maigret's Memoirs Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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As Derrida put in Memoirs for Paul de Man (1989), there is "no friendship without this knowledge of finitude" (p. 28).
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida Robert D. Stolorow 2010
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As Derrida put in Memoirs for Paul de Man (1989), there is "no friendship without this knowledge of finitude" (p. 28).
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida Robert D. Stolorow 2010
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As Derrida put in Memoirs for Paul de Man (1989), there is "no friendship without this knowledge of finitude" (p. 28).
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida Robert D. Stolorow 2010
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Consider the beauty of the language in Memoirs of a Geisha, for example, or the works of A.S. Byatt.
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All the humiliation and hardships he endured [in prison] are described in detail [in Memoirs from the House of Death], as also the criminals among whom he lived.
Canonical Writers 2008
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