War & Military

The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War

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Dame M. Columban


“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypre…

Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennys…

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Various


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…

Gun Running for Casement

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Karl Spindler


Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…

Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia

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Joseph P. Cullen


Richmond, Virginia, was the capital of The Confederacy during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. It was the focus of two military campaigns…

The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry

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Samuel H. Fletcherandd. H. Fletcher


The purpose of this sketch is to keep green the memory of that little band of men known as Company A, of the Second Illinois Cavalry, who fo…

The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 02, The Rise of the Saracens and the Fou…

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P. A. Connolly


The present work is intended as a comprehensive account of medieval times, drawn up on the same lines as The Cambridge Modern History but wi…

Above the French Lines

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Stuart Walcott


A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

First From the Front

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Harold Ashton


In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…

The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War

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Robert Laurence Binyon


This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…

The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…

Captain John Smith

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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay


Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

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John James Marshall


This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

News From No Man's Land

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James Green


James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II

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Mandell Creighton


Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. II

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Various


This collection of non-fiction and fiction pieces is the second volume commemorating the First World War. The majority of the items, all cho…

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