War & Military
78 books
War & Military
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Lord Thomas Cochrane - Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to clear his name. It has had a marked influence on naval fiction, most...
13 hours 52 minutes
War & Military
430
Richard J. Beamish - History of the World War
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualizes the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of all the ages from...
23 hours 30 minutes
War & Military
449
Heywood Broun - A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journalist Heywood Broun followed the AEF and reported on their experiences. He...
5 hours 18 minutes
Single author
442
Siegfried Sassoon - 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. He served in World War I on the Western Front and was awarded the Military...
1 hour 38 minutes
War & Military
552
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our brave and...
1 hour 35 minutes
War & Military
447
Rudyard Kipling - Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron
[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in 1898 which...
2 hours 17 minutes
War & Military
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Sarah Emma Edmonds - Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on the field and participated in numerous battles—among which are the first and...
9 hours 18 minutes
War & Military
414
Kate John Finzi - Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front
«But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitterness of a valiant retreat, the horror of forced marches along parched roads, with...
5 hours 13 minutes
