War & Military
78 books
War & Military
512
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
War & Military
521
Charles Homer Haskins - Normans in European History
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle...
7 hours 5 minutes
War & Military
422
Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston - Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp during the First World War. The story, written by two of the escapees, describes...
6 hours 51 minutes
War & Military
411
Edward Gilliat - Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contain language which was common in 19th and early twentieth century usage but...
10 hours 47 minutes
War & Military
511
Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 2
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and Swift, Bolingbroke and Mary Wortley Montagu, the Old Pretender, Bonnie...
11 hours 26 minutes
War & Military
471
Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4
Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant forces following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, and...
2 hours
War & Military
469
Henry Stanley Banks - War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base
One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for airmen, by British doctors who served on the front lines of WWI. Graphic...
24 hours 27 minutes
