History - Warfare

Some Naval Yarns

Mordaunt Hall

Some Naval Yarns is a wartime memoir that gathers together first‑hand sketches of Royal Navy activity during…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Volume 2, Slice 6

Various

The entry begins with a concise survey of the early ideas that led to the development of armoured protection…

Burmah and the Burmese

Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie

Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie’s Burmah and the Burmese is a nineteenth‑century historical‑geographical study that…

Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.

Samuel Gibbs French

Samuel G. French’s “Two Wars” is a sprawling autobiographical memoir that stitches together his experiences…

楊家將

Xiong, Damu, active 16th century

Aviation in Peace and War

Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

Frederick Hugh Sykes’s Aviation in Peace and War is a scholarly overview that traces the development of…

The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77

Samuel Adams Drake

The work is a detailed military history of the Revolutionary War’s 1776‑77 New Jersey campaign, with a…

The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches

Mather, Cotton; Mather, Increase

The work is a two‑part historical account of the Salem witch trials, first presented by Cotton Mather, D.D.,…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 8 Victory with the Allies; Armistice; Peace Congress; Canada's War Organizations and vast War Industries; Canadian Battles Overseas

Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history; vol. II

F. Marion Crawford

The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy

Annie Heloise Abel

Annie Heloise Abel’s work is a scholarly study of a largely ignored facet of Civil‑War history: the role of…

The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26

Livy

The work is Livy’s continuation of his monumental history of Rome, covering the years in which the Republic…

Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815 A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings

Francis Abell

Francis Abell’s work is a meticulously researched survey of the thousands of prisoners of war who lived in…

History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies

William Hickling Prescott

The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916: Its Creation, Development and Work

John Rushworth Jellicoe

The work is a first‑hand account by Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, later Viscount Jellicoe, of the British…

Danton: A study

Hilaire Belloc

This work is a scholarly biography of Georges‑Jacques Danton, the charismatic leader who rose to prominence…

The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson

Robert Southey

Robert Southey’s work is a biographical narrative that traces the formative years of Horatio Nelson, later…

King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s historical drama King Henry V as it was staged at the Princess’s…

Norman Ten Hundred: A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

A. Stanley Blicq

Norman Ten Hundred is a regimental history of the 1st (Service) Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry,…

The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

Newell Dwight Hillis

The work is a polemical collection of wartime sermons and pamphlets assembled by Newell Dwight Hillis, a…

Through St. Dunstan's to Light

James H. Rawlinson

The work is a first‑person wartime memoir that follows a Canadian soldier from the front lines of the Great…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5

François Guizot

The Story of Commodore John Barry

Martin I. J. Griffin

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical sketch of Commodore John Barry, presented as a “brief record”…

Paul Jones

Hutchins Hapgood

This work is a concise, scholarly biography of John Paul Jones, the 18th‑century naval commander whose life…