War & Military
78 books
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Alfred Thayer Mahan - Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discusses...
21 hours 42 minutes
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417
Flora Sandes - 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 traveled to Serbia, where, in the confusion of war, she was formally enrolled in...
2 hours 58 minutes
War & Military
425
Alexander Russell Bond - Inventions Of The Great War
“… this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculties, and as a result, the world is richer in many ways. Lessons of thrift and...
6 hours 40 minutes
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495
United States Army Staff Judge Advocate - Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution
Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tried, convicted, and executed, not for being a Confederate soldier, but for...
8 hours 49 minutes
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459
John L. Ransom - Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead
John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary...
8 hours 32 minutes
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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the Battle of Marathon of 490 BC and ending with the Battle of Waterloo of 1815....
19 hours 25 minutes
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478
Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...
30 hours 15 minutes
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458
May Sinclair - Journal of Impressions in Belgium
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in...
6 hours 29 minutes
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Ernest Protheroe - Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested,...
2 hours 47 minutes
