History - Warfare

"And they thought we wouldn't fight"

Floyd Phillips Gibbons

Floyd Phillips Gibbons’s “And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight” is a first‑person account of the American…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 3 (of 5) The Chosin Reservoir Campaign

United States. Marine Corps; Canzona, Nicholas A.; Montross, Lynn

The work is the third volume in a five‑part official history of United States Marine Corps operations in the…

Jane Austen's sailor brothers: Being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen

Hubback, J. H. (John Henry); Hubback, Edith C.

The work is a family‑produced biography that intertwines the naval careers of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B.,…

History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico

William Allison Sweeney

The Story of the Great War, Volume 7 American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive.

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.

Henry Reeve

The work is a two‑volume memoir and correspondence of Henry Reeve, a 19th‑century British journalist and…

Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle

Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq

Battle Studies is a military treatise that juxtaposes the timeless human factors of combat with the evolving…

The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone

Eric Fisher Wood

The Note‑Book of an Attaché is a first‑hand wartime memoir that blends personal diary entries with a…

Narrative, of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772 to 1777 ... Volume 2 (of 2)

John Gabriel Stedman

This volume is the second half of John Gabriel Stedman’s sprawling narrative of a five‑year military campaign…

The Moors in Spain

Stanley Lane-Poole

Stanley Lane‑Poole’s The Moors in Spain is a scholarly survey of the eight‑century Muslim presence on the…

America's Munitions 1917-1918

Benedict; United States. War Department Crowell

America’s Munitions 1917‑1918 is an official War Department report compiled by Assistant Secretary of War…

The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII.

Juan Antonio Llorente

The work is a condensed translation of Juan Antonio Llorente’s massive, documentary‑rich history of the…

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

J. G. Lockhart

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography that treats Napoleon’s life as both history and literary portrait.

Campfire and battlefield: an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the great Civil War

Johnson, Rossiter; Connor, Selden; Gordon, John Brown; Howard, Henry W. B. (Henry Ward Beecher); Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis); Morgan, John Tyler; Ridpath, John Clark

Campfire and Battlefield is an illustrated history that traces the political, economic, and military forces…

The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

Charles John Ffoulkes

Charles John Ffoulkes’s work is a scholarly reference that gathers English documentary evidence on the making…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3

François Guizot

François Guizot’s A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 is a nineteenth‑century…

Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems: Presented in five hundred and eighty-nine case histories from the war literature, 1914-1918

Elmer Ernest Southard

Shell‑shock and other neuropsychiatric problems is a scholarly compilation assembled by Dr.

Confederate Military History - Volume 5 (of 12) A Library of Confederate States History

Ellison Capers

The work is a detailed historical account of South Carolina’s march toward armed secession, forming part of…

The artillerist's manual and British soldier's compendium

F. A. Griffiths

The work is a sprawling nineteenth‑century handbook for British artillery and infantry, compiled by Major F.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

Winston Churchill

The work is a first‑hand account of the 1897 Malakand campaign on the north‑west frontier of British India,…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 1 Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment is a first‑hand account of the Union’s pioneering…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 4 Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War

A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 2 (of 3)

Sir Henry Keppel