War & Military Fiction
Men, Women and Guns
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Sapper
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…
The Red Badge of Courage
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Stephen Crane
A youth, caught up in patriotic fervor and dreams of glory, enlists in the Union Army. In his first battle, though, he runs away. Deeply ash…
Grace Harlowe with the U.S. Troops in the Argonne
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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
Grace Harlowe continues her adventures in Europe, during World War I. She faces many perils and suffers heart ache, but still puts all of he…
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
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James R. Driscoll
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service is a boys adventure story set in WWI - Three College Chums join the military and face the perils of s…
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
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William Cooper Nell
A study of the black patriots of the American Revolution, with introductions by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wendell Phillips.
Grace Harlowe with the Marines at Chateau Thierry
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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
Grace continues her war adventures over seas in France, continuing her work for the Red Cross. Set during World War I, Loyal Heart finds her…
Blake of the Rattlesnake
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Frederick Thomas Jane
Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that f…
William, An Englishman
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Cicely Hamilton
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …
Under Fire
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Henri Barbusse
An English translation of the French World War I novel "Le Feu", written by a French soldier and dedicated to "the memory of …
Notes of a War Correspondent
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Richard Harding Davis
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African …
Six Years with the Texas Rangers
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James B. Gillett
James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, …
All the World
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Charles Monroe Sheldon
The Great War is over and the soldier boys are back home, but some of them just can't settle down again. Neither can the girls who helped ou…
Soldiers' Pay
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William Faulkner
Soldiers return from the War to a mixed reception in America. The first novel by one of the 20th century's most poetic writers experimentin…
The Thirty-nine Steps
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John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adv…
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
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Francis Key Howard
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…
The Begum's Fortune
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Jules Verne
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…
A Son At The Front
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Edith Wharton
This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulit…
If All These Young Men
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Florence Roma Muir Wilson
Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-somethi…
A Son of the Gods
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Ambrose Bierce
Two short stories from the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce. The first story is about a brave soldier who follows orders and risks his l…
The World’s Story
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Eva March Tappan
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …