War Books

Into the Jaws of Death

Jack O'Brien

My story begins when this war broke out in August, 1914. I was working with a survey party at the time not far from Fernie, British. Columbia. I remember the day that I made up my mind to enlist. I ha..

De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries

Julius Caesar

Commentaries on the Gallic War, also Bellum Gallicum (English: Gallic War), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the bat..

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

The creator of Sherlock Holmes took so much greater pride in a series of carefully researched historical novels that posterity has largely forgotten that he tossed his best-loved hero into Reichenbach..

De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

Sallust

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". Nearly contemporary to the events he describes, he is supposed to have..

Facing the German Foe

Colonel James Fiske

The two scouts looked up to see the smiling face of their scoutmaster, John Grenfel. He was a big, bronzed Englishman, sturdy and typical of the fine class to which he belonged—public school and unive..

The Real Dope

Ring Lardner

The Real Dope is a historical account written b Ring Lardner, an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His c..

The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale

Joseph Conrad

Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleanic Wars. Over decades, on every occa..

Forty-Six Years in the Army

John McAllister Schofield

Most of the chapters constituting the contents of this volume, were written, from time to time, as soon as practicable after the events referred to, or after the publication of historical writings whi..