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By: Frederick Herman Tilberg (1895-1979) | |
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Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American history. For 3 days, from July 1 to 3, 1863, a gigantic struggle between 75,000 Confederates and 88,000 Union troops raged about the town and left 51,000 casualties in its wake. Heroic deeds were numerous on both sides, climaxed by the famed Confederate assault on July 3 which has become known throughout the world as Pickett’s Charge. The Union victory gained on these fields ended the last Confederate invasion of the North and marked the beginning of a gradual decline in Southern military power... |
By: Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) | |
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Mr. Midshipman Easy
One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of Jack Easy, a son of privilege who joins the Royal Navy. The work begins as a satire on Jack’s attachment to “the rights of man” that may try the listener’s patience. But despair not, for the story soon settles down as the philosophical midshipman begins his many triumphs over bullies, foul weather, and various damned foreigners of murderous intent.Caveat audiens: This novel employs racial/ethnic epithets and religious stereotypes, as well as taking a rather sunny view of supply-side economics... | |
Percival Keene | |
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 | |
Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay
Marryat was a midshipman under Captain Cochrane and this, his first naval adventure, is considered to be a highly autobiographical telling of his adventures with one of Britain's most famous and daring naval captains. |
By: Frederick S. Brereton (1872-) | |
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With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front |
By: Frederick Thomas Jane (1865-1916) | |
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Blake of the "Rattlesnake"
Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that forecast a British defeat in the event of war in the late 19th century when he wrote this fictional account of "The Man Who Saved England." Jane tells of a possible war against both France and Russia with plenty of verve and derring-do amid naval battles, both small and large. - Summary by Mark |
By: Frederick Trevor Hill (1866-1930) | |
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On the Trail of Grant and Lee |
By: Friedrich Schiller | |
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The Thirty Years War
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the question of human freedom and his rationalist optimism. Volume 1 covers the background of the war, through the Battle of Prague in late 1620. (Introduction by Alan Winterrowd) | |
The History of the Thirty Years' War | |
The Piccolomini |
By: Friedrich von Bernhardi (1849-1930) | |
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Germany and the Next War | |
Cavalry in Future Wars |
By: Fritz Kreisler | |
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Four Weeks in the Trenches
A brief record of the fighting on the Eastern front in the great war by a participant in that great and terrible conflict |
By: Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) | |
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The Big Time
A classic locked room mystery, in a not-so-classic setting. (Intro by Karen Savage) |
By: G. B. (George Brenton) Laurie (1867-1915) | |
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Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 |
By: G. E. (George Everett) Partridge (1870-) | |
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The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History |
By: G. F. (George Frederick) Abbott | |
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Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 |
By: G. P. Cuttriss | |
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Over the Top With the Third Australian Division |
By: G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens (1869-1900) | |
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From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War |
By: Gaius Julius Caesar | |
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Commentaries on the Gallic War
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed Roman domination.The work has been a mainstay in the teaching of Latin to schoolchildren, its simple, direct prose lending itself to that purpose. It begins with the frequently quoted phrase "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres", sometimes quoted as "Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est", meaning "All Gaul is divided into three parts". |
By: General Sir John Miller Adye (1819-1900) | |
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Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch
“The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale are being conducted against a combination of the independent tribes along the frontier. It must be understood that the present condition of affairs is no mere sudden outbreak on the part of our turbulent neighbours. Its causes lie far deeper, and are the consequences of events in bygone years”. (From the author’s Preface, 1897). |
By: Geoffrey H. Malins (1887-1943) | |
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How I Filmed the War
An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was there. |
By: Geoffrey Keith Rose (1889-) | |
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The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
By: George (Henry George August) Hartmann (1852-1934) | |
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Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales |
By: George A. (George Augustine) Taylor (1872-1928) | |
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The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia |
By: George A. Birmingham (1865-1950) | |
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Gossamer | |
A Padre in France |
By: George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) | |
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The Tiger of Mysore
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the 'Tiger of Mysore'. | |
At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer went with her.Paris was turbulent. Soon the guild of the butchers, adopting white hoods as their uniform, seized the city, and besieged the house where our hero and his charges lived. After desperate fighting, the white hoods were beaten and our hero and his charges escaped from the city, and from France. (Summary from the original back cover) |