War & Military
Combat Lessons
This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War
In September 2013, Chief of Staff of the Army General Raymond T. Odierno directed the Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group to research and wr…
The World’s Story
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. D…
Daring and Suffering
Written a year after the events, this is an eyewitness account of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. Early in the American Civil War, in Ap…
First From the Front
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which…
The Art of War
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The…
A History of the Great War
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…
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea
The Inchon Landing was a major amphibious operation, planned in record time and executed with skill and precision. Even more, it was an exem…
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…
The Wars of Religion
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
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…
Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…
The Sword of Deborah
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…
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…
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…
Nothing of Importance
Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experience…
Breaking the Outer Ring
By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…
Kings, Queens and Pawns
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Po…