War & Military
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…
The A.E.F.
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journa…
A History of the Great War
This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…
What the ''Boys'' Did Over There
Personal accounts and recollections of soldiers coping with body lice, poisonous gas, rats, and death in the trenches during WWI. - Summary …
A History of Our Own Times
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…
With Porter in the Essex
The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…
Great Britain at War
The book follows Jeffery Farnol as he visits a number of key locations around Britain and on the continent, each demonstrating how members o…
A Soldier Of The Legion
An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…
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…
Bloody Beaches
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…
The Life of Washington
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…
War Prison Diary
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
The Road Past Kennesaw
“…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confedera…
Combat Lessons
This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…
Indian Frontier Policy
"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our East…
The Thirty Years' War
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
Theodore Winthrop
Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the fi…
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…
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…