Category Archives: War & Military
The Daredevil of the Army – Experiences as a ”Buzzer” and Despatch Rider
Author(s): Austin Patrick Corcoran At just twenty-six years of age, the author – A P...
The Age of Elizabeth
Author(s): Mandell Creighton This short history by the eminent British historian, Mandell Creighton, places Elizabeth...
The Life of Nelson
Author(s): Robert Southey In 1813, the year that he was appointed Poet Laureate, Robert Southey...
Hardtack and Coffee
Author(s): John Billings Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is...
History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume III
Author(s): Justin McCarthy Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with...
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 06
Author(s): Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne Memoirs written by Napoleon’s private secretary, “a work based...
Explorer in the Air Service
Author(s): Hiram Bingham Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his...
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia
Author(s): Joseph P. Cullen Richmond, Virginia, was the capital of The Confederacy during the American...
Flying for France – With the American Escadrille at Verdun
Author(s): James McConnell The experiences of American James R. McConnell, while flying with the French...
Bismarck
Author(s): Georges Lacour-Gayet Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, “The great questions of the day...
First From The Front
When Europe descended into war in the late summer of 1914, Harold Ashton grabbed his...
Early Hanoverians
Author(s): Edward Ellis Morris In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account...
Bullets & Billets
Author(s): Bruce Bairnsfather A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front...
Gallipoli Diary
Author(s): John Graham Gillam Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World...
Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore
Author(s): J. N. Gregory Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from...
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862
Author(s): Frederick Law Olmsted In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed...
My War Experiences in Two Continents
Author(s): Sarah Broom Macnaughtan Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the...
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart A personal account of the American author’s visit to Europe in...
Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
Author(s): Gordon D. Gayle On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st...
History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre
Author(s): John Stevens Cabot Abbott Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the...
Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1
Author(s): Ann Stephens Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1, is an...
Charles II
Author(s): Osmund Airy This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the...
Anabasis
Author(s): Xenophon Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates....
Combat Lessons Number 1: Rank And File In Combat: What They’re Doing, How They Do It
Author(s): United States Army War College This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of...
Fighting the Flying Circus
Author(s): Eddie Rickenbacker This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie...
Cavour
Author(s): Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and...
History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I
Author(s): Justin McCarthy An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria...
Imperialism and World Politics, Part 3 of 4
When Parker Thomas Moon published his sweeping audit of global expansionism in 1926, he caught...
My Hunt After ‘The Captain’
When a telegraph wire carried the grim news in September 1862 that a Union officer...
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
Author(s): James Norman Hall High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James...