War & Military
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Beatrice A. Lees - Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273
Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of «a heroic period, the age of feudalism and monasticism, of chivalry and the Crusades.» The era opened «with gloomy...
8 hours 18 minutes
War & Military
534
Bruce Bairnsfather - From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts
This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with...
4 hours 54 minutes
War & Military
484
John Howard Bertram Masterman - Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose...
6 hours 48 minutes
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490
William Holden Hutton - King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327)
William Holden Hutton (1860-1930) was a British historian and Dean of Winchester Cathedral. In this slim volume, Hutton writes of the long period of feudal anarchy following the death of King Henry I in 1135, during...
3 hours 58 minutes
War & Military
450
John Watson Foster - War Stories for My Grandchildren
After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than rely on his memory, he conducted research for accuracy. He served as a colonel...
5 hours 4 minutes
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467
Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 5
Volume 5 concludes the History of the Thirty Years War in Germany. [Note From the first PG etext of this work: Separate sources indicate that at the beginning of this war there were about 15 million people in Germany,...
2 hours 27 minutes
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463
John Bernard Pye Adams - 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 experienced: the living conditions and duties of officers and “Tommies” (enlisted men)...
7 hours 58 minutes
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444
Robert E. Lee, Jr. - Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son
The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army officer. Published in 1905. Note: in many of the letters the recipient's name...
14 hours 1 minute
