War & Military
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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…
The Great Sallies
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John Buchan
This is the fourth of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in during 1917, when Germany is reorganizing and Russia is about …
The Partition of Europe
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Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…
George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania
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Marin Barleti
This is an early account of the life of George Castriot, Dominus Albaniae; An Albanian princeling and Ottoman military commander who rebelle…
A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity
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Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen's account of his military exploits and subsequent captivity, riven with drama, adventure and humor. - Summary by Steven Warner
Cavour
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Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…
High altars
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William Arthur Dunkerley
A first-hand account of World War I, with detailed descriptions of scenes from the front. - Summary by Victor Dorff
Sea-Power in the Pacific
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Hector Charles Bywater
During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict …
A Textbook of European History
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Lionel Cecil Jane
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea
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Lynn Montross, Norman W. Hicks and Hubard D. Kuokka
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…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
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Mandell Creighton
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
The Soldiers' Recessional
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John Huston Finley
Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribn…
State of the Union Addresses
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Grover Cleveland
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
France, Spain and the Rif
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Walter Burton Harris
The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a terr…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
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Mercy Otis Warren
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…