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By: John Dos Passos (1896-1970) | |
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One Man's Initiation—1917 |
By: Ralph Connor (1860-1937) | |
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The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land |
By: Joseph Lievesley Beeston | |
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Five Months at Anzac
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force from his leaving Australia December 1914 till his evacuation due to illness after 5 months at Gallipoli. Read to remember those who were there. (Introduction by Annise) | |
By: Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) | |
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Visioning , A Novel
"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with a charming circle of friends. Her brother is an army officer, and her uncle lives in Washington. The world she knows is the world they let her see. Until Anne comes into the picture. Katie saves Anne from killing herself. Katie invents a story about Anne, a story which suits Katie's world, but what would she do, and feel, when she discovers the truth? The story focuses around Katie's eye opening experiences and her search for place and meaning in the new world she slowly discovers... |
By: Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) | |
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The Guns of Shiloh
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat? Follow our hero, Dick Mason, into the Western campaign to find out.This is the second book in the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. | |
The Star of Gettysburg
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the north, culminating in the epic three-day struggle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Robert E. Lee puts into place a strategy that will end the war, or shatter his army. (Introduction by Robert Fletcher) | |
Guns of Bull Run
The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil War. (From Chapter 4) "They will not fire! They dare not!" cried Shepard in a tense, strained whisper. As the last word left his lips there was a heavy crash. A tongue of fire leaped from one of the batteries, followed by a gush of smoke, and a round shot whistled over the Star of the West... | |
The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War | |
Sword of Antietam
"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run" and continued through "The Guns of Shiloh" and "The Scouts of Stonewall." The young Northern hero, Dick Mason, and his friends are in the forefront of the tale. | |
Rock of Chickamauga
"The Rock of Chickamauga," presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been "The Guns of Bull Run," "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam" and "The Star of Gettysburg." Dick Mason who fights on the Northern side, is the hero of this romance, and his friends reappear also. | |
Shades of the Wilderness
"The Shades of the Wilderness" is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where "The Star of Gettysburg" left off, this story continues the Civil War experiences of Harry Kenton and his friends in the Southern army, from the retreat after Gettygurg, to Richmond, and then through the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, to Robert E. Lee's heroic stand during the siege of Petersburg. Other books in the Civil War series are: "The Guns of Bull Run," "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam", "The Star of Gettysburg","The Rock of Chickamauga", and "The Tree of Appomattox." |
By: Edward Streeter (1891-1976) | |
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Dere Mable
Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an army camp – all from Bill’s unique perspective. |
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) | |
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My Hunt After 'The Captain'
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. He was regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858). He is also recognized as an important medical reformer. |
By: Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) | |
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Barbarians | |
Lorraine A romance | |
The Maids of Paradise |
By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1878-1933) | |
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country... | |
Letters on an Elk Hunt
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burntfork Wyoming ranch in 1909-1913. The letters are written to her elderly friend, Mrs. Coney, in Denver. In the present collection of letters, Elinore describes a lively excursion on horseback and wagon into the Wyoming wilderness during July-October 1914. Her traveling companions are her husband “Mr. Stewart,” their three oldest children, and kind-hearted, opinionated neighbor Mrs... |
By: Ward Muir (1878-1927) | |
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Observations of an Orderly
Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running, and relive some tales from within the hospital walls. |
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: Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) | |
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The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods | |
The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine |
By: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) | |
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Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was a best seller throughout the world, published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace with Germany. The book was critical in establishing a general worldwide opinion that the Versailles Treaty was a brutal and unfair peace towards Germany. It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations... |
By: Lucy Fitch Perkins | |
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The Belgian Twins
This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie are left alone. Now they, along with their dog, have to find their parents! | |
The French Twins |
By: John S. C. Abbott (1805-1877) | |
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King Philip Makers of History |
By: Mayne Reid (1818-1883) | |
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The Lone Ranche |
By: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) | |
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The Blue Pavilions |
By: Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) | |
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A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment |
By: Charles Clark Munn (1848-1917) | |
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Pocket Island
Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds many secrets and legends, and Pocket Island was no exception. Subtitled "A Story of Country Life in New England", this story holds such varied and fascinating glimpses into the lives of a few individuals, and is not limited to merely a story of ghosts, of war, of barn dances, friendship, tales of rum-runners, smugglers, and seafarers... |
By: Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) | |
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Captain Jim
This book is about Norah Linton, her brother Jim, her father David and Jim's chum Wally from Australia. They all move to England during WWI because Jim and Wally want to fight in the war.When a Irish friend of the family dies, Norah inherits a big house in Surrey: Homewood. To keep up the Irishman's memory they want to use the house to help the war effort. They turn it into a home for "Tired People"--soldiers recovering from injuries, or soldiers on leave that have no family to go home to, can come here to have a good time and enjoy the country-side, so that they can go back to their regiments fully rested and restored... |
By: Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1876-1950) | |
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Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer | |
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There | |
Tom Slade on a Transport |
By: Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) | |
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A Simple Story
The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if it was so, why would there be a book? Miss Milner, beautiful and charming as she is, announces her wish to marry her guardian, a catholic priest. But women in the 18th century do not declare their wishes or speak about their passions, and- after all- he is a catholic priest… And if he finds a way to marry her, is this her road to happiness? |
By: George-Günther Freiherr von Forstner (1882-1940) | |
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The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U-28. His journal, first published 1916, gives a gritty picture of daily life inside a submarine and details several torpedo attacks on Allied shipping. The 1917 translation of Forstner’s journal into English was unquestionably intended to bolster the Allied war effort. In the foreword, the translator states: “Nothing at the present day has aroused such fear as this invisible enemy, nor has anything outraged the civilized world like the tragedies caused by the German submarines... |
By: Bertrand Sinclair (1881-1972) | |
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The Hidden Places
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so chooses to roam about a bit seeking a future for himself. He eventually leads himself to a remote area in British Columbia, which begins the tale of the next phase of his life; a life which becomes far richer in totality than he would have imagined in his old unwelcoming haunts. A life among the hidden places. |
By: Sarah Morgan Dawson (1842-1909) | |
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A Confederate Girl's Diary
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal terms. Her family's loyalties were divided. Sarah's father, though he disapproved of secession, declared for the South when Louisiana left the Union. Her eldest brother, who became the family patriarch when his father died in 1861, was for the Union, though he refused to take up arms against his fellow Southerners... |
By: Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) | |
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Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity |
By: Romain Rolland (1866-1944) | |
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Pierre and Luce
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted pacifist, and Luce, the free spirited artist in training, and both confused about the things going on around them. Why were these war birds flying overhead? Why these warning sirens, and occasional bombs exploding in the distance? Why did the government leaders, who didn't even know one another, hate and destroy so much? Why did these two delicate young adults find each other now? This story takes place between January 30 and Good Friday, May 29, 1918. (Introduction by Roger Melin) |
By: Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) | |
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Adventures of Roderick Random
I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it all. In the course of recounting my adventures to you, dear reader, I will give you a front row seat to the characters of English eighteenth century life including highway robbers, womanizing monks, debt-laden gallants, lecherous corrupt officials, effeminate sea captains, bloodthirsty surgeons, and my dear friend Miss Williams, a reformed prostitute... |
By: Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) | |
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The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl |
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: Louis Joseph Vance (1879-1933) | |
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The False Faces
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy Ekstrom alive after all, his special skills as the Lone Wolf are needed once more, this time in the war behind enemy lines. But again, there is a mysterious woman involved... |
By: John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) | |
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Life and Death of John of Barneveld |
By: Fa'iz El-Ghusein (1883-1968) | |
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Martyred Armenia
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His accounts tell of the worst of humanity, and also of the noblest. The noble include families who courageously support each other in the face of death, and Turks who refuse to follow orders to kill, knowing that they shall be executed themselves for their defiance. |
By: Byron A. Dunn (1842-1926) | |
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Raiding with Morgan
It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan. |
By: Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926) | |
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The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory: U.S.A., 1921 A.D. |
By: Charles James Lever (1806-1872) | |
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Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 | |
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 |
By: Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) | |
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The Petticoat Commando
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little-known incidents of the South African war, but also because of the keen personal interest of the events recorded. It is more than a history. It is a dramatic picture of the hopes and fears, the devotion and bitterness with which some patriotic women in Pretoria watched and, as far as they could, took part in the war which was slowly drawing to its conclusion on the veld outside... |
By: Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928) | |
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A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 | |
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes |
By: Edwin F. Benson (1867-1940) | |
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Crescent and Iron Cross |
By: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) | |
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The Wrack of the Storm |
By: John Morley (1838-1923) | |
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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 |
By: Willis J. Abbot (1863-1934) | |
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Aircraft and Submarines
"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Also a brief history of submarine use in commercial applications. A thoroughly enjoyable piece for anyone interested in the detailed development of these modes of transportation. |
By: Allen L. Churchill and Francis J. Reynolds (1867-1937) | |
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World's War Events, Vol. I |
By: William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) | |
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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs
This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years 1846-1848. While many of his colleagues saw action in the Mexican-American War, Sherman performed administrative duties in the captured territory of California. Along with fellow Lieutenants Henry Halleck and Edward Ord, Sherman embarked from New York on the 198-day journey around Cape Horn aboard the converted sloop USS Lexington... |
By: Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842-1930) | |
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The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 |
By: Temple Bailey (-1953) | |
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The Tin Soldier |
By: H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922) | |
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Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche |
By: Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) | |
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The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards |
By: Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) | |
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The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo |
By: Alice B. Emerson | |
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Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier |
By: Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves (1856-1944) | |
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Mr. Punch's History of the Great War |
By: Jesse F. Bone (1916-1986) | |
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A Question of Courage |
By: Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) | |
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Everyman's Land |
By: May Sinclair (1863-1946) | |
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Journal of Impressions in Belgium
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the Great War, brief and traumatizing as they were, permeated the prose and poetry she wrote after this time. Witness of great human pain and tragedy, Sinclair was in serious danger of her life on multiple occasions. This journal makes no attempt to be anything more than a journal: a lucid, simple, heart-breaking account of war at first hand. |
By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) | |
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Remember the Alamo |
By: Albert C. Manucy | |
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Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America |
By: Luise Mühlbach (1814-1873) | |
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Frederick the Great and His Family | |
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times |
By: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) | |
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Rita |
By: Sewell Ford (1868-1946) | |
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Torchy and Vee |
By: A. E. W. Mason (1865-1948) | |
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The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha. He is faced with censure from three of his comrades for cowardice, signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him, from Captain Trench and Lieutenants Castleton and Willoughby, and the loss of the support of his Irish fiancée, Ethne Eustace, who presents him with the fourth feather... |
By: Hall Caine (1853-1931) | |
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The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War |
By: Henri Jomini (1779-1869) | |
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The Art of War |
By: Randall Parrish (1858-1923) | |
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The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War | |
Bob Hampton of Placer |
By: J. Storer Clouston (1870-1944) | |
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The Man from the Clouds |
By: Charles Sumner (1811-1874) | |
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The Duel Between France and Germany |
By: John Fox (1863-1919) | |
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | |
Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War |
By: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) | |
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Never Again! | |
The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife |
By: Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870-1942) | |
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Quin |
By: Allen L. Churchill (1873-) | |
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The Story of the Great War, Volume 1 Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers |
By: Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) | |
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Taken Alive |
By: J. P. (James Perry) Cole (1889-) | |
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Military Instructors Manual |