War & Military
The Guards Came Through
The Guards Came Through is a poignant collection of poems by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, reflecting on the profound experiences of war. Publishe…
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is…
Mobilizing Woman-Power
Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea
This is the fourth in a series of five volumes dealing with the operations of United States Marines in Korea during the period 2 August 1950…
World's War Events
World's War Events is a 3-volume history of World War I, assembled in 1919 from articles contributed by "statesmen, commanders, histori…
The Life of Frederick William von Steuben
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
The Judgement of Valhalla
Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty ye…
A Song of the Guns
"A Song of the Guns was written under what are probably the most remarkable conditions in which a poem has ever been composed. The auth…
What Are We Fighting For?
In 1942, CBS produced a series of six 15-minute programs that were broadcast from Army camps around the country. Each episode of What Are We…
A History of Our Own Times
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
Ballads of Peace in War
This is a collection of poetry by Michael Earls, a Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. This collection of poetry concer…
War the Creator
Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…
Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl
Der Fall "Redl" erregte im Jahr unmittelbar vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges großes Aufsehen in der österreichischen…
Die Flucht ohne Ende
Franz Tunda führt zu Zeiten des 1. Weltkrieges, der ihn ziemlich aus der Bahn wirft, ein bewegtes Leben, das ihn unter anderem nach Bak…
The Western Boundary
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Nocturne of Remembered Spring
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (su…
My Hunt After 'The Captain'
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…
The Cellar-House of Pervyse
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…
Poems
The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…
The Capture of Fort William and Mary
The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …