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Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I

Sir John Ross

The work is a meticulously compiled memoir and correspondence of Admiral Lord James Saumarez, presented in a…

Cover of Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons is a first‑hand account of Union soldiers’ suffering in…

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly survey that sets out to demonstrate how control of the seas shaped the political and…

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

T. C. De Leon

Four Years in Rebel Capitals offers a self‑conscious, almost apologetic, survey of Confederate life from the…

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

James McAndrew

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is an official Air Force investigation that builds on a 1994 declassification…

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

A. T. Mahan

From the outset, this work presents itself as a reflective memoir by Alfred Thayer Mahan, the famed United…

The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula

The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula

Herbert Brayley Collett

The work is a regimental history of the 28th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force, written by its first…

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Morford, Henry; Armstrong, William H.; Frick, Jacob G.

Red‑Tape and Pigeon‑Hole Generals is a first‑hand collection of sketches drawn by Union soldiers during the…

The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem

The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Flavius Josephus

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With Haig on the Somme

D. H. Parry

The work is a wartime novel set amid the grinding combat of the Western Front, its opening plunges the reader…

A Sailor of King George

A Sailor of King George

Hoffman, Frederick, Captain

The work is a first‑person naval memoir by Captain Frederick Hoffman, compiled from his own journals and…

Cover of The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2

The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2

United States. Department of Defense

The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600‑2 is an official handbook that sets out the…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

The volume is a scholarly compilation of ecclesiastical documents and contemporary accounts that trace the…

"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

John Allister Currie

The book is a first‑hand account by Colonel John Allister Currie, a Member of Parliament and veteran of the…

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

Z. F. Smith

Z.F. Smith’s work is a scholarly history of the Battle of New Orleans, presented as the nineteenth Filson…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Leander Stillwell

Leander Stillwell’s manuscript is a first‑person account of a Union infantryman’s service from enlistment in…

Impressions of a War Correspondent

Impressions of a War Correspondent

George Lynch

George Lynch’s Impressions of a War Correspondent is a first‑hand chronicle of two of the late‑Victorian…

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back

Edward P. Lowry

This work is a first‑hand account by Edward P. Lowry, a chaplain attached to the Guards’ Brigade during the…

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell

The work is a first‑hand account by Sir C. E. Callwell, a senior British officer who served as Director of…

Cover of The Two Great Retreats of History

The Two Great Retreats of History

Grote, George; Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

The work is a historical narrative that intertwines the final campaign of the Persian prince Cyrus the…

Pushed and the Return Push

Pushed and the Return Push

George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The work is a first‑hand memoir of a British artillery officer who returns to the Western Front after a…

Cover of The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
 In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

Edward Alexander Moore

The work is a first‑hand memoir by Edward Alexander Moore, a private cannon crewman in the Rockbridge…

Cover of The Navy of the American Revolution: Its administration, its policy, and its achievements

The Navy of the American Revolution: Its administration, its policy, and its achievements

Charles Oscar Paullin

Charles Oscar Paullin’s work is a scholarly survey of the United States Navy’s formative years, focusing on…