War & Military
78 books
War & Military
452
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
War & Military
469
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
War & Military
468
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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446
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
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518
Eleanor Constance Lodge - End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short survey, the 180 years between 1273 and 1453 are characterized as a period of...
8 hours 43 minutes
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452
Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins - Night Operations For Infantry - Compiled For The Use Of Company Officers (1916)
«It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and have rarely been beyond the range of street lamps. Such men, when first taken out in...
1 hour 5 minutes
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454
Richmond Pearson Hobson - Sinking of the ''Merrimac''
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor in Cuba and thus bottle up the Spanish fleet at anchor in the bay. This book...
5 hours 19 minutes
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George Henry Wakeling - King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714)
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King James I through the death of Queen Anne. The story begins with England,...
4 hours 44 minutes
