War & Military
Daring and Suffering
Written a year after the events, this is an eyewitness account of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. Early in the American Civil War, in Ap…
The Five Nations
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childr…
Murat
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Napl…
The Martyrdom Of Belgium
The title says it all. World War I narratives of German activities in Belgium after the German invasion of this neutral country. - Summary b…
Vietnam: The Advisory Years
This book explains the policy of the United States and France toward Vietnam beginning after World War II until the beginning of America's e…
Washington and his Comrades in Arms
This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by G…
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…
Above the French Lines
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first…
A Visit to Three Fronts
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…
A Surgeon In Arms
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…
Kings, Queens and Pawns
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Po…
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 …
The World’s Story
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. D…
The Art of War
First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted…
Over The Brazier
This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time …
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…
Half a Century
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of 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…
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …
Canada in War-Paint
There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souv…