War & Military
A History of the Great War
This is the first of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from its outbreak in the summer of 1914 to the campai…
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, wrote this three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edi…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
Top of the Ladder
The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final n…
Clear Crystals
Clear Crystals is a poignant collection of 31 short poems by Clara Frances Mckee Beede, dedicated to the brave soldier boys who serve their …
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the…
The Sinking of the ''Merrimac''
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor …
Is War Diminishing?
A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to …
War Is Kind
Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in…
World's War Events
World's War Events is a 3-volume history of World War I, assembled in 1919 from articles contributed by "statesmen, commanders, histori…
With Fire and Sword
Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them…
England, Canada and the Great War
England, Canada and the Great War offers a critical examination of the contributions of Quebecers during World War I, challenging the narrat…
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…
A Magnificent Fight
It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…
Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
McClellan's Own Story
Memoirs of General George Brinton McClellan, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac during the early years of the American Civil War.…
The Great Sallies
This is the fourth of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in during 1917, when Germany is reorganizing and Russia is about …
The Life of Washington
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
With the Turks in Palestine
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a litt…