Category Archives: War & Military
Hospital Sketches
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during...
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865)
Author(s): Charles Todd Quintard Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of...
Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War
Author(s): Dame M. Columban “…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account...
Builders of United Italy
Author(s): Rupert S. Holland Holland ‘s provides us with an engaging history of the Unification...
Boots and Saddles
Author(s): Elizabeth Bacon Custer Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on...
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
Author(s): Alice Dunbar Nelson It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth...
Over There: War Scenes On The Western Front
Author(s): Arnold Bennett Bennett’s served in many capacities in the WWI war effort. After a...
Normans in Europe
Author(s): Arthur Henry Johnson This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the...
History of the Great War, Volume Three
Author(s): John Buchan This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World...
McClellan’s Own Story
Author(s): George Brinton McClellan Memoirs of General George Brinton McClellan, commanding general of the Army...
Civil War Women, North And South
Author(s): Various This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861...
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
Author(s): Robert Mearns Yerkes When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war...
Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke’s War in the North, in 1845
Author(s): Robert Burrows An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors,...
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
Author(s): Carlton McCarthy The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern...
Now It Can Be Told
Author(s): Philip Gibbs In this book I have written about some aspects of the war...
Four Weeks in the Trenches
Author(s): Fritz Kreisler A brief record of the fighting on the Eastern front in the...
Life of Edward the Black Prince
Author(s): Louise Creighton Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward...
Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Author(s): Louise Creighton John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son...
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
Author(s): James Headlam-Morley “It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor.” lamented...
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
Author(s): Abner Doubleday Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3
Author(s): Friedrich Schiller The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work,...
In Ship and Prison: A Story of Five Years in the Continental Navy with Captain Samuel Tucker
Author(s): William P. Chipman The incidents of this book are taken largely from the log-book...
Fighting The Boche Underground
Author(s): Harry Davis Trounce Harry Trounce was an American mining engineer of British birth and...
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-’61 (version 2)
Author(s): Abner Doubleday Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major...
Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution
Author(s): United States Army Staff Judge Advocate Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10,...
In the Line of Battle
When military historians document conflict, they often focus on grand strategy, troop maneuvers, and high-command...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4
Author(s): Friedrich Schiller Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death...
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp
Author(s): Pat O’Brien A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going...
Causes Of The American Civil War
Author(s): John Lothrop Motley John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and...
From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History
Author(s): Lionel Cecil Jane This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a...