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By: Wilkinson Dent Bird (1869-1943) | |
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Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) And Naval Strategy (1917)
One essay lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier , penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales |
By: Willa Cather (1873-1947) | |
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One of Ours
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather’s wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose with his life. Everything he does seems to turn out wrong, at least in his own mind. Although he is a skilled farmer, Claude believes his destiny lies elsewhere... |
By: William Allen White (1868-1944) | |
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The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me | |
By: William Allison Sweeney | |
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History of the American Negro
History Of The American Negro In The Great World WarHis Splendid Record In The Battle Zones Of Europe By W. Allison Sweeney Contributing Editor Of The Chicago Defender. CHAPTER I. SPIRITUAL EMANCIPATION OF NATIONS. The march of civilization is attended by strange influences. Providence which directs the advancement of mankind, moves in such mysterious ways that none can sense its design or reason out its import. Frequently the forces of evil are turned to account in defeating their own objects. Great tragedies, cruel wars, cataclysms of woe, have acted as enlightening and refining agents... |
By: William Almon Wolff (1885-1933) | |
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Facing the German foe, by Colonel James Fiske | |
The Belgians to the Front | |
Shelled by an Unseen Foe |
By: William Benjamin West | |
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The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man |
By: William Brodie Gurney (1777-1855) | |
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The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane,commonly called Lord Cochrane |
By: William C. Everhart (1921-2017) | |
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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi
In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, who as a result was promoted by President Lincoln to command of all the North’s military forces. Historian James M. McPherson called Vicksburg “The most brilliant and innovative campaign of the Civil War.” A U.S. Army field manual called it “the most brilliant campaign ever fought on American soil.” National Park Service Historical Manual number 21 published in 1954. - Summary by David Wales |
By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life) |
By: William Edward Sellers (1859-) | |
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From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa |
By: William Elmer Bachman | |
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The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces |
By: William Faulkner (1897-1962) | |
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Soldiers' Pay
Soldiers return from the War to a mixed reception in America. The first novel by one of the 20th century's most poetic writers experimenting in stream of consciousness, and adept at dialogue. - Summary by Czandra |
By: William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) | |
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Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War | |
The Lily of Leyden | |
Janet McLaren The Faithful Nurse |
By: William Henry Gladstone (1840-1891) | |
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The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 |
By: William Henry Lowe Watson | |
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Adventures of a Despatch Rider |
By: William Howard Taft (1857-1930) | |
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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912)
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from William H. Taft. - Summary by Wikipedia |
By: William John Locke (1863-1930) | |
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The Red Planet
Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life and the lives of those he cares for in harmony, he must also shelter a dark secret regarding one of the village's favorite sons.The Red Planet was the third bestselling novel in the United States for 1917. |
By: William L. Stidger (1885-1949) | |
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Soldier Silhouettes on our Front |
By: William Lawrence (1791-1867) | |
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The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns |
By: William Le Queux (1864-1927) | |
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The Invasion
This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature and is an example of pre-World War I Germanophobia, as it preached the need to prepare for war with Germany. The book takes the form of a military history and includes excerpts from the characters' journals and letters and descriptions of the fictional German campaign itself. The novel originally appeared in serial form in the Daily Mail newspaper from 19 March 1906, and was a huge success... |
By: William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) | |
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The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power |
By: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) | |
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Virginians
It tells the story of Henry Esmond's twin grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. Henry's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command of General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. On the outbreak of the American War of Independence he takes the revolutionary side. George, who is also a British officer, thereupon resigns his commission rather than take up arms against his brother. |
By: William Orpen (1878-1931) | |
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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 |
By: William Osborn Stoddard (1835-1925) | |
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Ahead of the Army |
By: William Perry Brown (1847-1923) | |
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Our Pilots in the Air |
By: William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) | |
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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs
This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years 1846-1848. While many of his colleagues saw action in the Mexican-American War, Sherman performed administrative duties in the captured territory of California. Along with fellow Lieutenants Henry Halleck and Edward Ord, Sherman embarked from New York on the 198-day journey around Cape Horn aboard the converted sloop USS Lexington... |
By: William Thomas Massey | |
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How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine |
By: William Thompson | |
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Reminiscences of a Pioneer |
By: Willis J. Abbot (1863-1934) | |
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Aircraft and Submarines
"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Also a brief history of submarine use in commercial applications. A thoroughly enjoyable piece for anyone interested in the detailed development of these modes of transportation. |
By: Winston Churchill (1874-1965) | |
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta... | |
A Traveller in War-Time
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill — the American author, not the famed British statesman — published in 1917; the book version came out in 1918. The writing is sharp, straightforward, and rarely sentimental, with loads of local color and occasional humor. | |
An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea |
By: www.mikevendetti.com | |
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High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress. The Armistice would not be reached until November of that year. Although he does not mention it in this book, Mr. Hall had already served the better part of 15 months with the British Expeditionary Forces, surviving the battle of Loos in Sept – Oct 1915, and upon which his excellent work “Kitchener’s” Mob is Based... |
By: יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) | |
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עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club
This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story "Injustice" by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conquest of Palestine by the British troops during WWI. The story takes place on the Turkish side of the dividing line between the combating forces. An escaped British prisoner of war had taken shelter among a group of Jewish workers, who, following a heated discussion, turned him over to the Turkish army. The second part of this project, in English, is a chapter in the book "The Escaping Club," written in 1922 by the same British prisoner of war, the aviator A. J. Evans, who gave his account of the same event. |