War & Military
The Judgement of Valhalla
Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty ye…
A History of Our Own Times
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
War the Creator
Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…
Great Poems of the World War
A selection of poems written during or immediately after the First World War (1914-1918). Most are by men (American, British, Canadian or Au…
The Western Boundary
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Night Operations For Infantry
"It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and hav…
Nocturne of Remembered Spring
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (su…
Verses of a V. A. D.
This is a collection of poems by Vera M. Brittain, an Englishwoman, who served in World War I as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V…
Andersonville
A comprehensive four-volume history of one soldier's 15 months in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The book is divided into 83 cha…
Postage stamps of war
A very brief introduction to postal stamps used and issued during times of war. The principal focus might be said to be placed upon the Grea…
The Escape of a Princess Pat
The Escape of a Princess Pat recounts the harrowing true story of Corporal Edwards, a soldier in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infa…
Carry On!
This is a little volume of poetry by Canadian poet Virna Sheard. Published in 1917, its subject is the then ongoing first World War. - Summa…
Jessie Pope's War Poems
Jessie Pope published these poems during the early months of the First World War. They were very popular at the time and the author received…
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …
The Art of War
"The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is …
History of the Thirty Years War
Volume 5 concludes the History of the Thirty Years War in Germany. [Note From the first PG etext of this work: Separate sources indicate th…
Into The Valley Of Death
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…
Main Street
This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself…
Canada's Hundred Days
This is Part Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to …