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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: Trumbull White (1868-1941) | |
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Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom |
By: Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) | |
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
"In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. There must be many errors of omission in this work, because the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of instances, during the rebellion, of individual, company, regimental and brigade deeds of heroism which deserve special mention and are not here alluded to... | |
By: United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency | |
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Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives
This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effects will be global and wide-spread, and the potentials are glazed over in this short work. |
By: United States Office of Strategic Services | |
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Formed during World War II, the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was organized for special operations and intelligence gathering and analysis. Included in its mission was the implementation of, and training of foreign forces in, propaganda, espionage, subversion, and sabotage. After the war, OSS functions were transferred to the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” was used by OSS agents in training “citizen-saboteurs” in methods for inciting and executing simple sabotage to thwart industry and other vital functions in Axis-occupied areas. |
By: United States. Dept. of Defense | |
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The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 |
By: United States. War Dept. | |
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Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) |
By: University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History | |
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Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) |
By: Unknown | |
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A School History of the Great War
A brief history of The Great War (World War I) designed for students in grades seven and eight. Special emphasis on European history leading up to the war, reasons and events leading to America’s eventual entering the war, and possible ramifications of the war for future generations. | |
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino | |
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War | |
A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans | |
Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk | |
A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 | |
Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron | |
Short History of the London Rifle Brigade | |
"Contemptible", by "Casualty" | |
A Little Rebel A Novel | |
The Long Trick |
By: Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) | |
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A Prisoner of Morro
Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, The Jungle, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction. Many of these works were written under the pseudonym, Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N. A Prisoner of Morrow, published in 1898 when Sinclair was but 20 years old, is one of these efforts. The period for this work is the ten-week Spanish–American War which occurred in 1898. Revolts against Spanish rule had been prevalent for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans... |
By: Valentine Williams (1883-1946) | |
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Okewood of the Secret Service |
By: Various | |
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New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 | |
New York Times Current History
The New York Times, CURRENT HISTORY, A Monthly Magazine, THE EUROPEAN WAR, VOLUME IIAPRIL, 1915 Germany's War Zone and Neutral Flags The German Decree and Interchange of Notes Answering American Protests to Germany and Britain BERLIN, Feb. 4, (by wireless to Sayville, L.I.)--The German Admiralty today issued the following communication: The waters around Great Britain and Ireland, including the whole English Channel, are declared a war zone on and after Feb. 18, 1915. Every enemy merchant ship found in this war zone will be destroyed, even if it is impossible to avert dangers which threaten the crew and passengers... |
By: Vernon Bartlett (1894-1983) | |
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Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France |
By: Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg (1867-1937) | |
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Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work |
By: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) | |
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two branches of a family with its roots in the pampas of Argentina. The wealthy Argentinian, Julio Madariaga, comes from Spain and raises himself from poverty, becoming a self-made, wealthy cattleman. He is a man of extremes; an honest man with a rascally knack for taking advantage of others; a self-made man with overweening pride, prejudices, and a sharp, flinty temper that can spark into violence, he is at the same time given to great generosity toward those who are under him... |
By: Victor Appleton | |
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The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films |
By: Victor Lefebure | |
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The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war |
By: Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978) | |
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Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia |
By: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) | |
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Jacob's Room
The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in place of the central character, if indeed the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms. Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. |
By: W. Basil Worsfold (1858-1939) | |
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Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 |
By: W. C. C. Weetman | |
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The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion |
By: W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton (1884-1951) | |
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Westward with the Prince of Wales |
By: W. H. (William Harvey) Leathem | |
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The Comrade in White |
By: W. L. (William Leonard) Courtney (1850-1928) | |
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Armageddon—And After |
By: W. P. Shervill | |
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Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns |
By: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | |
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The Wound Dresser
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors. |
By: Walter Alden Dyer (1878-1943) | |
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Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod hosts of war have marched. Beside her peaceful waters the sons of God have spilled each other’s blood. Beneath her noble trees have raged the fires of human hate. Her king and his brave warriors have fought to save that which was their own and, driven back, have left their smiling land to suffer the desolation which has ever been the conqueror’s boast. Her ancient cities smoke... |
By: Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922) | |
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The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force | |
England and the War |
By: Walter Fenton Mott | |
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Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds |
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: Warren Crocker Herrick (1898-) | |
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Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati |
By: Willa Cather (1873-1947) | |
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One of Ours
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather’s wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose with his life. Everything he does seems to turn out wrong, at least in his own mind. Although he is a skilled farmer, Claude believes his destiny lies elsewhere... |
By: William Allen White (1868-1944) | |
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The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me |
By: William Allison Sweeney | |
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History of the American Negro
History Of The American Negro In The Great World WarHis Splendid Record In The Battle Zones Of Europe By W. Allison Sweeney Contributing Editor Of The Chicago Defender. CHAPTER I. SPIRITUAL EMANCIPATION OF NATIONS. The march of civilization is attended by strange influences. Providence which directs the advancement of mankind, moves in such mysterious ways that none can sense its design or reason out its import. Frequently the forces of evil are turned to account in defeating their own objects. Great tragedies, cruel wars, cataclysms of woe, have acted as enlightening and refining agents... |
By: William Almon Wolff (1885-1933) | |
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Facing the German foe, by Colonel James Fiske | |
The Belgians to the Front | |
Shelled by an Unseen Foe |
By: William Benjamin West | |
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The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man |
By: William Brodie Gurney (1777-1855) | |
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The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane,commonly called Lord Cochrane |
By: William C. Everhart (1921-2017) | |
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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi
In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, who as a result was promoted by President Lincoln to command of all the North’s military forces. Historian James M. McPherson called Vicksburg “The most brilliant and innovative campaign of the Civil War.” A U.S. Army field manual called it “the most brilliant campaign ever fought on American soil.” National Park Service Historical Manual number 21 published in 1954. - Summary by David Wales |
By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life) |
By: William Edward Sellers (1859-) | |
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From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa |
By: William Elmer Bachman | |
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The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces |
By: William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) | |
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Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War | |
The Lily of Leyden | |
Janet McLaren The Faithful Nurse |
By: William Henry Gladstone (1840-1891) | |
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The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 |
By: William Henry Lowe Watson | |
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Adventures of a Despatch Rider |
By: William John Locke (1863-1930) | |
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The Red Planet
Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life and the lives of those he cares for in harmony, he must also shelter a dark secret regarding one of the village's favorite sons.The Red Planet was the third bestselling novel in the United States for 1917. |
By: William L. Stidger (1885-1949) | |
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Soldier Silhouettes on our Front |
By: William Lawrence (1791-1867) | |
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The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns |
By: William Le Queux (1864-1927) | |
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The Invasion
This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature and is an example of pre-World War I Germanophobia, as it preached the need to prepare for war with Germany. The book takes the form of a military history and includes excerpts from the characters' journals and letters and descriptions of the fictional German campaign itself. The novel originally appeared in serial form in the Daily Mail newspaper from 19 March 1906, and was a huge success... |
By: William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) | |
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The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power |
By: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) | |
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Virginians
It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. On the outbreak of the American War of Independence he takes the revolutionary side. George, who is also a British officer, thereupon resigns his commission rather than take up arms against his brother. |
By: William Orpen (1878-1931) | |
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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 |
By: William Osborn Stoddard (1835-1925) | |
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Ahead of the Army |
By: William Perry Brown (1847-1923) | |
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Our Pilots in the Air |
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: William Thomas Massey | |
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How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine |
By: William Thompson | |
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Reminiscences of a Pioneer |
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: Winston Churchill (1874-1965) | |
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta... | |
A Traveller in War-Time
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill — the American author, not the famed British statesman — published in 1917; the book version came out in 1918. The writing is sharp, straightforward, and rarely sentimental, with loads of local color and occasional humor. | |
An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea |
By: www.mikevendetti.com | |
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High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress. The Armistice would not be reached until November of that year. Although he does not mention it in this book, Mr. Hall had already served the better part of 15 months with the British Expeditionary Forces, surviving the battle of Loos in Sept – Oct 1915, and upon which his excellent work “Kitchener’s” Mob is Based... |