War & Military
78 books
War & Military
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Charles Knowles Bolton - Private Soldier Under Washington
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Washington’s description of their sufferings at Valley Forge. This 1902 book by...
4 hours 45 minutes
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199
John Levi Maile - Prison Life in Andersonville
A firsthand account of the deplorable conditions within the most infamous prisoner-of-war camp of the Confederacy. Though functioning only during the last year of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 of 45,000 incarcerated...
3 hours 6 minutes
War & Military
512
Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Naples, Joachim Murat. Murat, unhappy with the deal he made to obtain pardon from...
1 hour 33 minutes
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486
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
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422
Mary Hazel Snuff - Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution
Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in history in the Graduate School...
1 hour 24 minutes
War & Military
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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
473
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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472
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
