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By: Harry Collingwood (1851-1922) | |
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Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War | |
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War |
By: Harry Lauder (1870-1950) | |
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A Minstrel in France | |
By: Harry Zody | |
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Over Here and Over There
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, because, being of a non-English-speaking race, and only having been in this country a comparatively short time before going over to France, I cannot claim a mastery of the English language. It has merely been my intention to express the spirit which led me to America and thence with Pershing's Expeditionary Forces to France. |
By: Hartley Withers (1867-1950) | |
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War-Time Financial Problems |
By: Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) | |
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Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene |
By: Helen Fraser | |
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Women and War Work |
By: Helen Hayes Gleason | |
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Golden Lads |
By: Henri Bergson (1859-1941) | |
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The Meaning of the War Life & Matter in Conflict |
By: Henri Jomini (1779-1869) | |
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The Art of War |
By: Henry Beston (1888-1968) | |
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A Volunteer Poilu | |
Full Speed Ahead: Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service…. [I have] been content to chronicle the interesting incidents of the daily life as well as the achievements and heroisms of the friends who keep the highways of the sea…. I would not end without a word of thanks to the enlisted men for their unfailing good will and ever courteous behaviour.” Henry Beston was an American author. In 1918, Beston became a press representative for the U... |
By: Henry Bordeaux (1870-1963) | |
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Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air |
By: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) | |
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Hero Tales from American History
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are essential to the well-being of a masterful race the virtues of gentleness, of patriotism, and of lofty adherence to an ideal. It is a good thing for all Americans … to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. |
By: Henry Clay (1777-1852) | |
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Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate |
By: Henry Fox | |
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What the ''Boys'' Did Over There
Personal accounts and recollections of soldiers coping with body lice, poisonous gas, rats, and death in the trenches during WWI. - Summary by Jeffery Smith |
By: Henry I. Shaw, Jr. (1927-2000) | |
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First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal
In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. Completion of the Guadalcanal airfield might signal the beginning of a renewed enemy advance to the south and an increased threat to the lifeline of American aid to New Zealand and Australia. On 23 July 1942, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington agreed that the line of communications in the South Pacific had to be secured. The Japanese advance had to be stopped. Thus, Operation Watchtower, the seizure of Guadalcanal came into being. - Summary by Henry I Shaw |
By: Henry Inman (1837-1899) | |
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Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the personal observation of the author… and will form another interesting series of stories of that era of great adventures, when the country west of the Missouri was unknown except to the trappers, hunters, and army officers.” Henry Inman was an American soldier, frontiersman, and author... |
By: Henry Labouchere (1831-1912) | |
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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris |
By: Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940) | |
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The Colored Cadet at West Point
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools showing a great aptitude for knowledge. During his freshman year at Atlanta University he applied for admittance to the United States National Military Academy at West Point. He was appointed to the academy in 1873 along with a fellow African American, John W. Williams. Cadet Williams was later dismissed for academic deficiencies. |
By: Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones (1896-1917) | |
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War Letters of a Public-School Boy |
By: Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) | |
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Finished |
By: Henry Seton Merriman (1862-1903) | |
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Barlasch of the Guard |
By: Henry Stanley Banks (1890-1969) | |
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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 descriptions of war wounds are not for the weak of heart. - Summary by BellonaTimes |
By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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Fighting For Peace |
By: Henry W. Shoemaker (1880-1958) | |
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A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms |
By: Herbert Brayley Collett (1877-1947) | |
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The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula |
By: Herbert W. McBride | |
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The Emma Gees |
By: Herman Melville | |
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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the narrator has created for the reader graphic symbols for class distinction, segregation and slavery aboard this microcosm of the world, the USS Neversink. (Introduction by James K. White) | |
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print news sources (especially the Rebellion Record) and from family and friends. A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the personalities, and the moods of war. In an opening note, Melville describes his project not so much as a systematic chronicle (though many of the individual poems refer to specific events) but as a kind of memory piece of national experience... |
By: Hetty Hemenway (1890-1961) | |
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Four Days The Story of a War Marriage |
By: Heywood Broun (1888-1939) | |
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A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journalist Heywood Broun followed the AEF and reported on their experiences. He published these sketches in book form in 1918. This project is part of the ongoing commemoration by Librivox volunteers of the centenary of World War I. |
By: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) | |
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A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase |
By: Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage (1889-) | |
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"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 |
By: Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) | |
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Explorer in the Air Service
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at http://librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets, and then in Issoudun, France, Bingham commanded the primary Air Service flying school. He became a supporter of the Air Service in their post-war quest for independence from the Army and supported that effort, in part, with the publication of this book of his wartime experiences published in 1920 by Yale University Press. |
By: Homer | |
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The Iliad
A divinely beautiful woman who becomes the cause of a terrible war in which the gods themselves take sides. Valor and villainy, sacrifices and betrayals, triumphs and tragedies play their part in this three thousand year old saga. The Iliad throws us right into the thick of battle. It opens when the Trojan War has already been raging for nine long years. An uneasy truce has been declared between the Trojans and the Greeks (Achaeans as they're called in The Iliad.) In the Greek camp, Agamemnon the King of Mycenae and Achilles the proud and valiant warrior of Phthia are locked in a fierce contest to claim the spoils of war... |
By: Homer Greene (1853-1940) | |
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The Flag |
By: Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) | |
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Farewell
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the wings; the Lady of Shalott waits for the shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion. Freud’s earliest patients will soon enter the waiting-room in their turn. Whilst out hunting two friends come across a strange waif-like woman shut up in a decaying chateau which one of them dubs “the Palace of the Sleeping Beauty”... |
By: Horace Green | |
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The Log of a Noncombatant |
By: Horace Porter (1837-1921) | |
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Campaigning With Grant
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively 1897 memoir was written from the extensive notes he took during that time. It is highly regarded by later historians. Porter continued in that position with Grant to 1869. From 1869 to 1872 he served Grant as personal secretary in the White House. He was U.S. ambassador to France from 1897-1905. |
By: Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) | |
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World’s Story Volume XV: The World War
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the battles and war engines, the political and diplomatic background endeavours and the cost - human and monetary - of this War. - Summary by Sonia |
By: Howard Clemens Hillegas (1872-1918) | |
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With the Boer Forces |
By: Hugh Dalton Dalton (1887-1962) | |
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With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement |
By: Hugh Pendexter (1875-1940) | |
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A Virginia Scout |
By: Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) | |
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The Dark Forest |
By: Humphry Ward (1851-1920) | |
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The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend | |
Fields of Victory | |
Missing |
By: Ian Hamilton (1853-1947) | |
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Gallipoli Diary, Volume I |
By: Ian Hay (1876-1952) | |
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The First Hundred Thousand |
By: Inez Bigwood | |
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Winning a Cause World War Stories |
By: Innes Logan | |
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On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms |
By: Intercollegiate Peace Association | |
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Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association |
By: International Committee of the Red Cross | |
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Turkish Prisoners in Egypt A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross | |
Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
"This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864, 1906 and 1929. It contains 64 articles. These provide protection for the wounded and sick, but also for medical and religious personnel, medical units and medical transports. The Convention also recognizes the distinctive emblems. It has two annexes containing a draft agreement relating to hospital zones and a model identity card for medical and religious personnel." - Summary by International Committee of the Red Cross Please note, this recording DOESN'T include the 3 protocols. |
By: International Military Tribunal | |
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Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I
Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German WWII war criminals, the International Military Tribunal, consisting of members from Great Britain, the USA, Russia, and France, directed the publication of the Record of the Trial. This volume contains basic, official, pre-trial documents together with the Tribunal’s judgment and sentence of the defendants. |
By: Iraq Study Group (U.S.) | |
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The Iraq Study Group Report |
By: Isaac Alexander Mack | |
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Letters from France |
By: Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1876-1961) | |
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The War After the War |
By: J. (John) Kincaid (1787-1862) | |
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Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 |
By: J. A. (John Adam) Cramb (1862-1913) | |
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The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe |
By: J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins (1864-1923) | |
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The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V |
By: J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) | |
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Echoes of the War
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Peter Pan". |
By: J. N. Gregory | |
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Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore
Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from 1867 to 1889. It figured considerably in the Indian Wars, notably against the Comanches. It mainly served to protect frontier settlers, stagecoaches, wagon trains, the U.S. mail, and trade routes. This 1957 book, published by the museum at the site of the fort, is the story of its activities. - Summary by David Wales |
By: J. P. (James Perry) Cole (1889-) | |
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Military Instructors Manual |
By: J. Stewart (John Stewart) Barney | |
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L.P.M. : the end of the Great War |
By: J. Storer Clouston (1870-1944) | |
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The Man from the Clouds |
By: J. Walker McSpadden (1874-1960) | |
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Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the solder —to trace his career up from boyhood through the formative years. Such data serves to explain the great soldier of later years. Summary compiled from the preface of the book. (Summary by philchenevert) |
By: Jack O'Brien | |
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Into the Jaws of Death |
By: Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) | |
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Hannibal
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness... |
By: James A. (James Alfred) Moss (1872-1941) | |
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Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition |
By: James Alexander Kilpatrick | |
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Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters |
By: James Allan | |
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Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War |
By: James B. Gillett (1856-1937) | |
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Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881
James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, feuds, battles with the Apache nation and pursuing robbers and murderers. From these stories, and others like them, arose the many legends of courage and daring among the Texas Rangers. “The Texas Rangers, as an organization, dates from the spring of 1836. When the Alamo had fallen before the onslaught of the Mexican troops and the frightful massacre had occurred, General Sam Houston organized among the Texan settlers in the territory a troop of 1600 mounted riflemen... |
By: James Bayard Clark (1869-) | |
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Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway |
By: James Blyth (1864-1933) | |
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Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" |
By: James Brendan Connolly (1868-1957) | |
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The U-Boat Hunters
The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with the German U-boats. It is a collection of short stories, each one complete, about them all. The author was also an Olympic athlete; winning a bronze, silver and gold medal in the Athens Olympics of 1896 and a silver in the Paris games of 1900. |
By: James Bryce Bryce (1838-1922) | |
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Impressions of South Africa | |
William Ewart Gladstone |
By: James Cotter Morison (1832-1888) | |
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Gibbon |
By: James Driscoll | |
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The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service is a boys adventure story set in WWI – Three College Chums join the military and face the perils of spies, submarines and enemy soldiers in the trenches of embattled Europe. An engaging story set in a period where good guys wore white hats, bad guys wore black hats and every chapter ends with a cliffhanger so you have to come back for more! |
By: James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | |
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The Last Of The Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers.The story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results. | |
The Spy
Between 1865-73 the tumultuous American Revolution rages on in different battlefields. The air is thick with hatred and suspicion as the Continental and British armies clash in bloody warfare. In Westchester County, New York, an area is considered a neutral ground for both forces, Harvey Birch plies his dangerous mission. An innocuous peddler by day, he is in fact an American spy, though he does nothing to correct anyone who assumes he is a British spy. In a magnificent country mansion, The Locusts, live the wealthy Whartons... | |
The Pathfinder
Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the British and the Yankee colonists, such a journey is far from safe... | |
The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. | |
The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts |
By: James Ford Rhodes (1848-1927) | |
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History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the generals of the war but gives us a good deal of insight into the politics, economics, international relations and the strategy/thinking of the times. When at times he brings forth an opinion it is clearly stated, so as not to be confused with the facts. Comprehensive and enjoyable, you will find this History of the Civil War both illuminating and captivating. NOTE: Footnotes will not be read but can be found online at https://archive.org/details/historycivilwar01rhodgoog/mode/2up. |
By: James Grant (1822-1887) | |
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Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours"
The title and a quick glance at the chapter titles of James Grant's The Phantom Regiment--such as "The Romance of the Month," "The Halt in Cork Wood," "Rio de la Muerte ," Pedro, the Contrabandist," "A Legend of Fife," "The Midnight March"--will lead you to realize that this book is filled with excitement, mystery, intrigue, adventure, and cultural conflict with an emphasis on Scottish soldierly daredevilry and pride. It has all the elements that make for an enjoyable and an exciting listen. | |
Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes
James Grant was a prolific Scottish writer of novels and "novelettes", particularly centered around military life. Included with this regimental tale, are four such novelettes or short stories. |
By: James Green (1864-1948) | |
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News From No Man's Land
James Green was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Force in World War I. This memoir was published 1917, while the war was on-going. “In spite of necessary suppression, or vagueness of names of localities, my comrades of the Fifty-fifth Battalion, to which I was attached, will recognize many of the incidents described, and I can only hope that reading what the padre has to say may cheer them in some lonely places, or help them to be happy though miserable in some indifferent billets... |
By: James H. Rawlinson | |
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Through St. Dunstan's to Light |
By: James McAndrew | |
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Roswell Report: Case Closed
The “Roswell Incident” has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. In July 1994, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force concluded an exhaustive search for records in response to a General Accounting Office inquiry of an event popularly known as the “Roswell Incident.” The focus of the GAO probe...was to determine if the U.S. Air Force, or any other U.S. government agency, possessed information on the alleged crash and recovery of an extraterrestrial vehicle and its alien occupants near Roswell, N... |
By: James Mott Hallowell (1865-) | |
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The Spirit of Lafayette |
By: James Norman Hall | |
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Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, “Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the experience of War. War at different times, and although modern warfare may be more sanitized, the adventure, the horror, the emotions don’t change. James Norman Hall has been there. He “Saw the Elephant”, and his portrayal of his WWI experience is a tribute to those ordinary people who do such extraordinary things. Those who have served will identify with at least some part if not all of this book, be it the rigors of training, the camaraderie, or possibly those memories that try as you may, you can never make go away... |
By: James Otis (1848-1912) | |
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The Boys of '98 |