War & Military
The Afghan Wars
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Archibald Forbes
This Part 2 of "The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80" discusses the 1878-80 war, which was one of the major conflicts during the Gr…
Pitt
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Archibald Primrose
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-…
The New Army in Training
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Rudyard Kipling
Kipling's brief assessment of the British New Army being assembled to fight in the Great War. Concerns itself with training and logistics bu…
History of Company B
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Julius Klausner, Jr and Julius Klausner, Jr.
The history of Company B, 307 Infantry's participation in The First World War. A part of the 77th Division it trained at Camp Upton, New Yor…
The Romance of the Romanoffs
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Joseph Martin Mccabe
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…
Europe in Renaissance and Reformation
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Mary A. Hollings
In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…
Vietnam: The Advisory Years
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Robert Futrell
This book explains the policy of the United States and France toward Vietnam beginning after World War II until the beginning of America's e…
The Emancipation of South America
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Bartolomé Mitre
THREE great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of Washington, Bolívar, San Martin. Of Washington, the grea…
Full Speed Ahead
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Henry Beston
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service……
Napoleon The First
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Walter Geer
Excerpt: "Now that one hundred years have elapsed since the "long-drawn agony" of Saint Helena we think that the time has com…
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt
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Tickner Edwardes
Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whe…
Angels of the Battlefield
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George Barton
"Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War" chronicles the compassionat…
A Short History of France
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Cat…
Mazarin
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Arthur Hassall
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Thou…
What the ''Boys'' Did Over There
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Henry Fox and Henry L. Fox
Personal accounts and recollections of soldiers coping with body lice, poisonous gas, rats, and death in the trenches during WWI. - Summary …
Canada's Hundred Days
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John Frederick Bligh Livesay
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…
Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II
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Lionel Allshorn
Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries …
The French Revolution
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, wrote this three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edi…
Ιστορίαι (Histories)
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Thucydides
Η Ιστορία του Θουκυδίδη εξιστορεί τα πρώτα 20 χρόνια του πολέμου μεταξύ της Αθήνας και της Σπάρτης, που κράτησε από το 431 μέχρι το 404 π.Χ.…