History - Warfare

The Anabasis of Alexander: or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great

Arrian

Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander presents a meticulous chronicle of the Macedonian king’s campaigns, beginning…

The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes

Charles Dalton

The Waterloo Roll Call with Biographical Notes and Anecdotes is a meticulous reference work that catalogues…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The work is a first‑person chronicle by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a veteran of the early Spanish expeditions…

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

United States. Office of Strategic Services

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is an official wartime pamphlet produced by the United States Office of…

Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition

James A. Moss

The Manual of Military Training, Second Revised Edition, is a technical handbook produced by the United…

The British battle fleet, Vol. 2 (of 2): Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

Fred T. Jane

The British Battle Fleet, Volume II is a detailed historical survey of the Royal Navy’s evolution from the…

The Art of War

active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

The work presented here is a scholarly edition of Sunzi’s Art of War, a sixth‑century B.C.

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Ulysses S. Grant

The work is the complete memoir of Ulysses S. Grant, a senior United States general and later president, who…

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year

Henry Phelps Johnston

The work is a detailed military history of the 1776 campaign surrounding New York and Brooklyn, written by…

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams’s second volume, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, continues…

The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

The work is a scholarly history of the Royal Air Force’s contribution to the First World War, written by Sir…

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War

Ben J. Viljoen

This work is a first‑hand memoir by General Ben J. Viljoen, a senior Boer commander who served as Assistant…

History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government

Great Britain. War Office

The volume is a government‑commissioned military history compiled under the direction of His Majesty’s…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 5 (of 5) Operations in West Korea

United States. Marine Corps; Meid, Pat; Yingling, James M.

The work is the fifth and concluding volume of a five‑part official history of United States Marine Corps…

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

On War is a dense treatise that frames armed conflict as a political instrument, stripped of moral gloss and…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1

A. T. Mahan

This work is a scholarly treatise by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a noted naval historian, that examines how…

Warships and their story

R. A. Fletcher

The book is a broad‑sweeping survey of warship development, written by R. A.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, Volume III, is a collection of contemporary letters, reports, and…

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides, an Athenian chronicler, sets out to record the conflict that erupted between the Peloponnesian…

The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2

Willis J. Abbot

The Naval History of the United States, Volume 2, by Willis J.

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II

Sir John Ross

This volume is a collection of memoirs and correspondence by Admiral Sir James Saumarez, presented by his son…

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

Keppel, Henry, Sir; James, Rajah of Sarawak

The work is a first‑hand narrative of a mid‑nineteenth‑century naval expedition, written by Sir Henry Keppel…