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Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in It…
Half a Century
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…
The Romance of the Romanoffs
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
Above the French Lines
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…
Combat Lessons
This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…
Nothing of Importance
Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experience…
The World’s Story
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. D…
Daring and Suffering
Written a year after the events, this is an eyewitness account of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. Early in the American Civil War, in Ap…
War Prison Diary
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
First From the Front
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 Chronicles of America
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…
The Private Soldier Under Washington
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Was…
A History of the Great War
This is the first of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from its outbreak in the summer of 1914 to the campai…
Five Months at Anzac
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…
What the ''Boys'' Did Over There
Personal accounts and recollections of soldiers coping with body lice, poisonous gas, rats, and death in the trenches during WWI. - Summary …
The Life of Washington
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…
The A.E.F.
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journa…
The War With the United States
"International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of…