History - Warfare

History of the Zulu war and its origin

Frances E. Colenso

Frances Ellen Colenso’s work is a detailed historical account of the Zulu War of 1879, written from the…

Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson); Logan, John Alexander; Sheridan, Philip Henry; Sherman, William T.

Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 02 (of 11)

United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality

The volume is a legal‑historical document produced by the United States Office of Chief Counsel for the…

On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien

John Masefield

"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment Or, A Side Show of the Big Show

Samuel R. Watkins

Co. Aytch," is a first‑person memoir by Samuel R. Watkins, a former private in the First Tennessee Regiment’s…

Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

Nathaniel W. Stephenson

The work is a scholarly biography of Abraham Lincoln that blends meticulous documentary research with a…

General Wauchope

Baird, William, F.S.A. Scot.

The work is a biographical tribute to Major‑General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope, a Scottish officer who fell at…

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Geoffrey Keith Rose

The book is a regimental history of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, written by…

General Gatacre The Story of the Life and Services of Sir William Forbes Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., 1843-1906

Lady Beatrix Wickens Davey Gatacre

The work is a biographical narrative of Sir William Forbes Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., tracing his life from an…

The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster

John G. Edgar

John G. Edgar’s work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that sets out to trace the entire arc of…

The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916 is a detailed military history of the…

International Law. A Treatise. Volume 2 (of 2) War and Neutrality. Second Edition

L. Oppenheim

The work is a scholarly treatise on the law of war and neutrality, written by Lassa Oppenheim and published…

The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe

Frederick B. Richards

Frederick B. Richards’s work is a scholarly article rather than a narrative history, compiled for the New…

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly’s My Days of Adventure offers a first‑hand chronicle of the Franco‑Prussian War,…

Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers

Louis Raemaekers

Louis Raemaekers’ Cartoons presents the Dutch artist’s wartime caricatures together with commentary from a…

Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815

H. Morse Stephens

This work is a scholarly survey of European history from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the…

Hardtack and coffee: or, the unwritten story of Army life, including chapters on enlisting, life in tents and log huts, jonahs and beats, offences and punishments, raw recruits, foraging, corps and corps badges, the wagon trains, the Army mule, the Engineer Corps, the Signal Corps, etc.

John Davis Billings

Hardtack and Coffee is a first‑hand memoir by John D. Billings, a Union veteran of the Army of the…

King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855

E. Keble Chatterton

The work is a meticulously researched historical study of British smuggling and the Royal Customs’ “King’s…

The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity

William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown’s work is a nineteenth‑century historical essay that sets out to document the…

The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885

Charles Royle

The work is a revised, chronologically exhaustive account of the British‑Egyptian wars from the financial…

The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915

Various

The New York Times Current History: the European War, February 1915 is a wartime anthology that gathers a…

A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War

Sir J. W. (John William) Fortescue

Sir John William Fortescue’s first volume offers a sweeping, civilian‑authored survey of the British Army…

With Lawrence in Arabia

Lowell Thomas

The work is a first‑hand memoir of a wartime correspondent who travelled with a photographic team through the…

The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3)

J. Fr. Michaud

The History of the Crusades, volume three of Joseph Fr. Michaud’s three‑part series, is a sweeping chronicle…