Memoirs
128 books
War & Military
515
Winston S. Churchill - River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum,...
14 hours 14 minutes
War & Military
490
Richard Harding Davis - Notes of a War Correspondent
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by «A War Correspondent’s...
5 hours 43 minutes
Memoirs
536
Ulysses S. Grant - Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of...
35 hours 27 minutes
Psychology
514
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions, volumes 3 and 4
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” Here again is the youthful, hero-worshipping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional...
5 hours 23 minutes
Memoirs
536
Horatio Nelson - Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won...
2 hours 58 minutes
