War Books

Greenmantle

John Buchan

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the ot..

Potash and Perlmutter

Montague Glass

I don't got to go to Paris for that, Abe, Morris said.I can read the papers the same like anybody else, and just so long as there is a chance that the war would start up again and them hundred-mile gu..

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville

Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print ne..

The Great Boer War

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Co. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 edi..

Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France

Edmund Gosse

Preface by the author: This little book, long the subject of my meditation, suddenly began to take shape one Sunday morning when I was your guest at Gisburne. We were actually starting for church, and..

The Return of the Soldier

Rebecca West

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape..

Andersonville, Volume 3

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..

The Trials of the Soldier's Wife

Alex. St. Clair Abrams

The Trials of the Soldier's Wife is a fictional account of second American revolution civil war. The plot of this little work was first thought of by the writer in the month of December, 1862, on hear..