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With the British Army in The Holy Land

Henry Osmond Lock

Preface by the author Henry Osmond Lock from the book With the British Army in The Holy Land.  My aim in compiling this little book has been to provide a short account of the Palestine ..

The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915

Basil L. Gildersleeve

In the last score of years I have often been urged by friends and sympathizers to bring out as a separate issue my article, The Creed of the Old South, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly of Januar..

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

H. G. Wells

Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned w..

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1

Baron Trenck

Baron Franz von der Trenck was an Austrian soldier. Trenck was born into a military family on 1 January 1711, in Reggio in south Italy, where his father Johann Heinrich Trenck served as an Austrian of..

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World - from Marathon to Waterloo

Edward Creasy

This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the Battle of Marathon of 490 BC and ending with the Battle of W..

A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase

Hilaire Belloc

It is the object of this book, and those which will succeed it in the same series, to put before the reader the main lines of the European War as it proceeds. Each such part must necessarily be comple..

The Diary of a U-boat Commander

Stephen King-Hall

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involv..

The Monitor and the Merrimac

John Lorimer Worden

This is the first-hand story of what was done and seen and felt on each side in the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac. The actual experiences on both vessels are pictured, in one case by the comm..