Modern (20th C)
29 books
War & Military
509
John Henry Patterson - 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 part played by such a unique unit is assured of a niche in history owing to...
6 hours 40 minutes
Modern (20th C)
474
Columbia Accident Investigation Board - Columbia Accident Investigation Board Final Report, Volume 1
In 1981, Columbia became the first spacecraft of its type to fly in Earth orbit and successfully completed 27 missions over more than two decades. During the STS-107 mission, Columbia and its crew traveled more than...
19 hours 3 minutes
War & Military
532
Robert Marshall Allen - War Letters From A Young Queenslander
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of «de-lousing» an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine...
3 hours 42 minutes
Modern (20th C)
504
Frank Aitken - History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco
Early in the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the San Francisco area was shaken by a massive earthquake. Over the course of the next four days, fires spread through large swaths of the city, started by broken gas...
5 hours 44 minutes
*Non-fiction
454
Louise Mack - Woman's Experiences in the Great War
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinary vividness and immediacy. Flawed by the most treacly sentiment in some...
6 hours 12 minutes
Modern (19th C)
476
Harris Newmark - Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913
Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853...
22 hours 41 minutes
