Category Archives: War & Military

The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War

Author(s): Robert Laurence Binyon This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World...

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Author(s): Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the...

Any Woman To A Soldier

Author(s): Grace Ellery Channing LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A...

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Author(s): Herman Melville Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection...

World’s Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

Author(s): Eva March Tappan This is the tenth volume of the 15-volume series of The...

The Literature of Arabia

Author(s): Epiphanius Wilson A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It...

Over Here and Over There

Author(s): Harry Zody In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a...

The Soldiers’ Recessional

Author(s): John Huston Finley Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of...

World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

Author(s): Eva March Tappan This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The...

Voice From The Main Deck

Author(s): Samuel Leech Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the...

The Story of Gladstone’s Life

Author(s): Justin McCarthy William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated...

The Red Planet

Author(s): William John Locke Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich...

The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

Author(s): Beatrice A. Lees Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the...

The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen

Author(s): Osmund Airy In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the...

The Early Tudors: Henry VII and Henry VIII

Author(s): Charles Edward Moberly Following the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, the reigns...

Stories of North Pole Adventure

Author(s): Frank Mundell This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration....

Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines

Author(s): William Wolfe Capes This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens...

Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons

Author(s): John C. Chapin The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead...

The County Regiment

Author(s): Dudley Landon Vaill A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery,...

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

Author(s): William C. Everhart In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863)...

The Art of War (version 2)

Author(s): Sun Tzu 孙武 The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during...

The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla

Author(s): A. H. Beesly During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was...

War Is a Racket

Author(s): Smedley Butler Army Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler’s expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said,...

With Porter in the Essex

Author(s): James Otis The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of...

The Rough Riders

Author(s): Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt’s personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed...

World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History

Author(s): Karl Ploetz The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a...

The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918

Author(s): John Howard Bertram Masterman This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is...

The British Army From Within

Author(s): E. Charles Vivian This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure...

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I

Author(s): International Military Tribunal Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of...

With the Anzacs in Cairo

Author(s): Guy Thornton Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the...