War & Military
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign
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 …
The County Regiment
The County Regiment offers a detailed account of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, tracing its origins as the Ni…
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is…
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joini…
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar
As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the…
War the Creator
Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…
Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…
Die Flucht ohne Ende
Franz Tunda führt zu Zeiten des 1. Weltkrieges, der ihn ziemlich aus der Bahn wirft, ein bewegtes Leben, das ihn unter anderem nach Bak…
The Capture of Fort William and Mary
The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …
Bay: A Book of Poems
The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident…
Conquest of New France
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…
War Impressions
A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity
Ethan Allen's account of his military exploits and subsequent captivity, riven with drama, adventure and humor. - Summary by Steven Warner
Canada in War-Paint
There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souv…
The War Poems of 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. …
The Five Nations
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childr…
Over The Brazier
This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time …
Hospital Transports
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It s…
Nocturne of Remembered Spring
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (su…