War & Military

The Escape of a Princess Pat

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George Pearson


Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia'sCanadian Light Infantr…

The Normans in Europe

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Arthur Henry Johnson


This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …

Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

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Louise Creighton


John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill, an impoverished country gentlema…

The World’s Story Volume IX: England

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Eva March Tappan


This is the ninth 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 Ta…

The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An A…

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Ellen Newbold La Motte


Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …

An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre

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John Gregory Bourke


An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…

The Causes Of The American Civil War

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John Lothrop Motley


John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…

Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography

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Walter Geer


Excerpt: "Now that one hundred years have elapsed since the "long-drawn agony" of Saint Helena we think that the time has com…

Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - No…

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John Frederick Bligh Livesay


This is Part Two of Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribut…

Henry II

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Louis Francis Salzman


Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of…

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

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Joseph H. Alexander


The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc fromFormosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,Japanese, B…

Half a Century

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Jane Grey Swisshelm


In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…

Europe in Renaissance and Reformation 1453-1660

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Mary A. Hollings


In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I

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Various


This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th J…

Life of Viscount Palmerston

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Lloyd Charles Sanders


This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…

War and Women

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Mabel Annie Stobart


"The sending of a Women’s Convoy Corps to the Balkans was the result of Mrs. Stobart’s keen desire to demonstrate the ability of women …

Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - No…

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John Frederick Bligh Livesay


This is Part Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to …

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter

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Lynn Montross


It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…

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