War Books

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Edith Wharton

American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fi..

St. Elmo

Augusta J. Evans

St. Elmo is a novel by American author Augusta Jane Evans published in 1866. Featuring the sexual tension between the protagonist St. Elmo, a cynical man, and the heroine Edna Earl, a beautiful and de..

Vittoria

George Meredith

From Monte Motterone you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of green among a hundred pinnacles of grey and rust-red crags. At dawn the summit of the mountain has an eagle eye for the far ..

Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

I take leave to dedicate this book to Mr. Elmer Davis, through whose friendly offices I was led to track down the hero of these adventures and to find the true account of them even better than the dai..

Under Fire - The Story of a Squad

Henri Barbusse

An English translation of the French World War I novel "Le Feu", written by a French soldier and dedicated to "the memory of the comrades who fell by my side at Crony and on Hill 119." Barbusse was in..

Andersonville, Volume 1

John McElroy

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Fifteen Months A Guest Of The So-Called Southern Confederacy. A Private Soldiers Experience In Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen Blackshear And ..

Andersonville, Volume 2

John McElroy

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Fifteen Months A Guest Of The So-Called Southern Confederacy. A Private Soldiers Experience In Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen Blackshear And ..

Andersonville, Volume 4

John McElroy

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Fifteen Months A Guest Of The So-Called Southern Confederacy.A Private Soldiers Experience In Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen Blackshear And F..