War & Military
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the…
The New Army in Training
Kipling's brief assessment of the British New Army being assembled to fight in the Great War. Concerns itself with training and logistics bu…
Imperialism and World Politics
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
The Father of British Canada
Carleton’s first eight years as governor of Canada were almost entirely occupied with civil administration. The next four were equally occup…
Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. …
The Art of War
First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted…
Is War Diminishing?
A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to …
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
War and Women
"The sending of a Women’s Convoy Corps to the Balkans was the result of Mrs. Stobart’s keen desire to demonstrate the ability of women …
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …
Nocturne of Remembered Spring
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (su…
Canada's Hundred Days
This is Part Three of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to…
The Western Boundary
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
The Cellar-House of Pervyse
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…
Bay: A Book of Poems
The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident…
Over The Brazier
This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time …
With the Turks in Palestine
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a litt…
Canada in War-Paint
There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souv…