War & Military
Kings, Queens and Pawns
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Po…
Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
A Visit to Three Fronts
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…
Spy Proof America!
A very impassioned piece from the first World War, introducing a volunteer civilian anti-spy organization to root out enemy spies from the U…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea
In March 1952 the 1st Marine Division redeployed from the East-Central front to West Korea. This new sector, nearly 35 miles in length, anch…
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …
The Thirty Years' War
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Life of Washington
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…
Breaching the Marianas
The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…
War and Women
"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 …
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. …
Army Mental Tests
Prepared in cooperation with the staff of the surgeon general's office as a source of information and printed materials concerning psycholog…
A Surgeon In Arms
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…
Murat
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Napl…
War Is Kind
Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in…
The War Chief of the Ottawas
The War Chief of the Ottawas delves into the pivotal events of Pontiac's Conspiracy, a significant uprising against British rule in North Am…
The Winning of Canada
Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…
Tactical Studies on the Battles around Plevna
Tactical Studies on the Battles around Plevna, or in German, Der Kampf um Plewna, examines with a critical eye the actions and engagements o…