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War Stories for My Grandchildren - John Watson FOSTER
War Stories for My Grandchildren - John Watson FOSTER
- Author: John Watson FOSTER
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than rely on his memory, he conducted research for accuracy. He served as a colonel for the Union Army during the...
Lord Clive - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lord Clive - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: War & Military
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India from 1834 to 1838, working on legal and educational changes in that country. In his view, the establishment...
Unhappy Far-Off Things - Lord Dunsany
Unhappy Far-Off Things - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: War & Military
Better known today for his influential fantasy writings, Lord Dunsany also wrote a number of sketches during World War One. This compilation of essays written from time spent in France in 1916. Much more thoughtful and melancholy than the pieces...
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Author: Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to clear his name. It has had a marked influence on naval fiction, most obviously on some of the novels by...
Anabasis - Xenophon
Anabasis - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Antiquity
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in...
The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / War & Military
This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Life in a Tank - Richard HAIGH
Life in a Tank - Richard HAIGH
- Author: Richard HAIGH
- Genre: War & Military
Richard Haigh was an Infantry lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment serving in the Somme area in 1916. Shortly after Tanks were first used in battle in September of 1916 the British Army asked for volunteers, Lieutenant Haigh...
Prison Life in Andersonville - John Levi MAILE
Prison Life in Andersonville - John Levi MAILE
- Author: John Levi MAILE
- Genre: War & Military
A firsthand account of the deplorable conditions within the most infamous prisoner-of-war camp of the Confederacy. Though functioning only during the last year of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 of 45,000 incarcerated Union soldiers died under inhumane...
Campaign For Petersburg - Richard Wayne LYKES
Campaign For Petersburg - Richard Wayne LYKES
- Author: Richard Wayne LYKES
- Genre: War & Military
In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led directly to the surrender of the Confederacy within two weeks. This 1970 National Park Service booklet tells the...
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish member of Parliament, Justin...
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1 - Charles E. Flandrau
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1 - Charles E. Flandrau
- Author: Charles E. Flandrau
- Genre: War & Military / Business & Economics / Education
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and unimportant creation, but which in its half century of growth has expanded into one of the most brilliant and...
Notes of a War Correspondent - Richard Harding Davis
Notes of a War Correspondent - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: War & Military / History / Memoirs
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by "A War Correspondent’s Kit." (Summary by Neeru Iyer)This...
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 - Jefferson DAVIS
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 - Jefferson DAVIS
- Author: Jefferson DAVIS
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of...
Young Folks' History of the American Revolution - Everett T. TOMLINSON
Young Folks' History of the American Revolution - Everett T. TOMLINSON
- Author: Everett T. TOMLINSON
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
This work has grown out of the desire frequently expressed to the writer when he has been lecturing on the American Revolution, that in some way the experiences of the people as well as the deeds of the armies in that trying period might be...
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War - Louise MACK
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War - Louise MACK
- Author: Louise MACK
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Modern (20th C)
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinary vividness and immediacy. Flawed by the most treacly sentiment in some places and the most ferocious...
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life - Henry INMAN
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life - Henry INMAN
- Author: Henry INMAN
- Genre: Short Stories / Westerns / War & Military
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the...
Untimely Papers - Randolph Silliman BOURNE
Untimely Papers - Randolph Silliman BOURNE
- Author: Randolph Silliman BOURNE
- Genre: War & Military / Essays & Short Works / Political Science
This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of "The State," the book Bourne worked on...
Angels of the Battlefield - George BARTON
Angels of the Battlefield - George BARTON
- Author: George BARTON
- Genre: War & Military / Christianity - Other
"Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War" chronicles the compassionate services of these dedicated women during the bitter and bloody U.S. Civil War. These accounts also offer some...
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
- Author: Thomas HODGKIN
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he "was a man of commanding presence, more...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: War & Military
Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a greater whole. But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his achievement, this little sketch,...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy. He brings us the larger than life personalities of the day, Victoria and Albert, Russell and Peel,...
A Confederate Girl's Diary - Sarah Morgan DAWSON
A Confederate Girl's Diary - Sarah Morgan DAWSON
- Author: Sarah Morgan DAWSON
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal...
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt - Tickner Edwardes
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt - Tickner Edwardes
- Author: Tickner Edwardes
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whether they were fighting on the frontline or engaged in other operations within all areas of the conflict....
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish member of Parliament, Justin...
War Is a Racket - Smedley BUTLER
War Is a Racket - Smedley BUTLER
- Author: Smedley BUTLER
- Genre: War & Military / Business & Economics / Modern (20th C)
Army Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big...
Our Army at the Front - Heywood BROUN
Our Army at the Front - Heywood BROUN
- Author: Heywood BROUN
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (20th C)
During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better known (and remembered) as a...
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army - Flora SANDES
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army - Flora SANDES
- Author: Flora SANDES
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she traveled to Serbia, where, in the confusion of war, she was formally enrolled in the Serbian army. While the...
Half a Century - Jane Grey SWISSHELM
Half a Century - Jane Grey SWISSHELM
- Author: Jane Grey SWISSHELM
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) unleashed a...
Famous Sea Fights - John Richard HALE
Famous Sea Fights - John Richard HALE
- Author: John Richard HALE
- Genre: War & Military / History
I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I shall begin with the first sea-fight of which we have a detailed history—the Battle of Salamis (B.C. 480), the...
The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / War & Military
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
The Soldiers' Recessional - John Huston FINLEY
The Soldiers' Recessional - John Huston FINLEY
- Author: John Huston FINLEY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / War & Military
Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribner’s Sons (from the forward)...
Philip Augustus - William Holden HUTTON
Philip Augustus - William Holden HUTTON
- Author: William Holden HUTTON
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II was locked in combat with his rebellious offspring, Philip and his loyal son, Louis, steadily consolidated the...
Queen Elizabeth - Mandell Creighton
Queen Elizabeth - Mandell Creighton
- Author: Mandell Creighton
- Genre: War & Military
"The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a matter of small rejoicing to her parents, who were sorely disappointed that their first-born was not a boy." So...
A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky - Ambrose Bierce
A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: War & Military
Two short stories from the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce. The first story is about a brave soldier who follows orders and risks his life without question. The second is about a soldier who falls asleep on guard duty. A mistake punishable by...
The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb - Various
The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / History / Technology & Engineering
These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was tested. Each publication (about 1984 and about 1995) complements the other, though there is some duplication....
The U-boat Hunters - James Brendan Connolly
The U-boat Hunters - James Brendan Connolly
- Author: James Brendan Connolly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Modern (20th C)
The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with the German U-boats. It is a collection of short stories, each one complete, about them all. The...
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714) - George Henry WAKELING
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714) - George Henry WAKELING
- Author: George Henry WAKELING
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King James I through the death of Queen Anne. The story begins with England, transformed by the Protestant...
Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead - John L. RANSOM
Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead - John L. RANSOM
- Author: John L. RANSOM
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary which he published some few years...
A Soldier Of The Legion; <br>An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Algeria And Tonquin - George MANINGTON
A Soldier Of The Legion; <br>An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Algeria And Tonquin - George MANINGTON
- Author: George MANINGTON
- Genre: War & Military / Travel & Geography
An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as no ordinary "mercenary" could have done. Most of the narrative deals with Tonquin, and the fighting there...
The A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces - Heywood BROUN
The A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces - Heywood BROUN
- Author: Heywood BROUN
- Genre: War & Military
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journalist Heywood Broun followed the AEF and reported on their experiences. He published these sketches in book...
