War & Military
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…
With the Anzacs in Cairo
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …
The Irish Nuns at Ypres
“…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…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
The Beginning of the Middle Ages
In 395 A.D. Theodosius, the last ruler of the undivided Roman Empire died. To his young and incompetent son, Honorius, he left the governmen…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…
A History of the Great War
This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…
The History of Company A
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…
A Short History of Germany
Mary Platt Parmele brings to life the history of Germany and its rise to prominence in Europe. From scheming nobles to treaties created unde…
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 …
Sailor Brothers
"Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" by Edith & John Hubback is a biography that explores the lives of Jane Austen's two sailor bro…
The British Army From Within
This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales
The Thirty Years' War
Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…
A History of Our Own Times
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…
War
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…
Escape From The Confederacy
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a pris…
War Flying by a Pilot
Published in 1917, this "little volume of 'Theta’s' letters to his home people" was assembled to provide useful information for yo…
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…
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…