War & Military
Conquest of New France
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…
The Monitor and the Merrimac
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…
Canada's Hundred Days
This is the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War…
War Impressions
A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…
Canada's Hundred Days
This is Part Three of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to…
The War Goes On
This June 1945 radio interview features torpedoman Alfred E. Amos from Hartford, CT, and gunner's captain Stanley J. Olander from Manchester…
Outpost in the North Atlantic
A large volcanic island on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Iceland was strategically located for the air and naval control of the North Atlan…
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…
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…
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…
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations is a poignant poem by Thomas Hardy, reflecting on the enduring nature of love amidst the chaos of war. Wr…
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…
Great Poems of the World War
A selection of poems written during or immediately after the First World War (1914-1918). Most are by men (American, British, Canadian or Au…
Night Operations For Infantry
"It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and hav…
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…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
U.S. Marines In Afghanistan
This monograph is more than the story of Marine expeditionary operations in Afghanistan. It describes who our nation's enemies are; how Amer…
Into The Valley Of Death
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…
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…
Israel and Hamas Conflict
This short report, written for the Congressional Research Service with the aim of informing U.S. legislative debate, covers the Israel-Hamas…