War & Military
The Geneva Conventions
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International Commitee of the Red Cross, Marius De Zayas and International Committee Of The Red Cross
"This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864…
Stories of North Pole Adventure
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Frank Mundell
This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar …
Cardinal Wolsey
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Mandell Creighton
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulme…
The Private Soldier Under Washington
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Charles Knowles Bolton
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Was…
Some Famous Women
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Louise Creighton
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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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. …
Revolt In The Desert
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T. E. Lawrence
Revolt in the Desert (1924) is a personal account by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) of the 2 year Arab Revolt during the Great War. Begi…
The Beginning of the Middle Ages
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Richard William Church
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…
Our Army at the Front
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Heywood Broun
During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by nota…
The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome
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Sextus Julius Frontinus
Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…
Lord Clive
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…
Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War
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Robert Burrows
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 184…
A History of Our Own Times
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Justin Mccarthy
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McC…
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
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James Headlam-Morley
"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…
A Short History of Germany
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Mary Platt Parmele
Mary Platt Parmele brings to life the history of Germany and its rise to prominence in Europe. From scheming nobles to treaties created unde…
Murat
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Alexandre Dumas
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…
England Since Waterloo
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John Arthur Ransome Marriott
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many edition…
A History of the Great War
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John Buchan
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…
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign
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John Henry Patterson
From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …
Night Operations For Infantry
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Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins
"It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and hav…