War & Military
The Monitor and the Merrimac
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …
The Judgement of Valhalla
Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty ye…
A History of Our Own Times
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
The Cellar-House of Pervyse
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…
The Father of British Canada
Carleton’s first eight years as governor of Canada were almost entirely occupied with civil administration. The next four were equally occup…
The Life of Frederick William von Steuben
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
The Art of War
First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted…
Canada's Hundred Days
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…
The Escape of a Princess Pat
The Escape of a Princess Pat recounts the harrowing true story of Corporal Edwards, a soldier in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infa…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
With the Turks in Palestine
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a litt…
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian, wrote this three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edi…
Spy Proof America!
A very impassioned piece from the first World War, introducing a volunteer civilian anti-spy organization to root out enemy spies from the U…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
The Winning of Canada
Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…
The Martyrdom Of Belgium
The title says it all. World War I narratives of German activities in Belgium after the German invasion of this neutral country. - Summary b…
Greece and the Allies
The author delves into Greece's dealings leading up to, during, and after WWI. We witness, through unbiased eyes, Greece's government (the M…
Murat
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…
The Western Boundary
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…