Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (November 2003)

Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events such as:

* The Battle of Thermopylae
* The Black Death of the 1340s
* The Great Fire of London in 1666
* The 1793 Execution of Louis XVI
* The Death of Vice Admiral Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
* The American Civil War (1861-1865)
* and the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945

There are also snapshots of more ordinary life ? no less memorable for all that ? including working conditions during the Industrial Revolution of that late 1700s and early 1800s, views of slaves and their owners, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903; one of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist period), who choose a bride on Tahiti, and the 1910 arrest and death of Dr. Crippen. It is a fascinatingly unique and absorbing collection, bringing the past alive as only direct memories like these can do.