War & Military
78 books
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
912
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
416
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
War & Military
435
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
War & Military
407
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
412
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
War & Military
486
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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449
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
