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By: C. H. Thomas | |
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Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked |
By: Henry Labouchere (1831-1912) | |
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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris |
By: Richard Haigh (1895-) | |
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Life in a Tank
Richard Haigh was an Infantry lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment serving in the Somme area in 1916. Shortly after Tanks were first used in battle in September of 1916 the British Army asked for volunteers, Lieutenant Haigh signed up and was accepted in December of 1916. He describes the training and actions he participated in until the war ended in 1918. He was awarded MC in 1916 as Lt. (acting Capt.) Richard Haigh, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was commissioned from the RMC (Sandhurst) to the Berkshires 16th Feb 1915; on resigning his commission in 1919, he joined the General Reserve of Officers. | |
By: Ernest Protheroe | |
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Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Attempts to mount an appeal failed, and she was summarily executed within hours of the sentence by a German firing squad. Publication of the news prompted spontaneous grief and worldwide condemnation. Many memorials were created around the world, including a statue adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London... |
By: Credo Fitch Harris (1874-1956) | |
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Where the Souls of Men are Calling |
By: John H. (John Henry) Parker (1866-) | |
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History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition |
By: Jan Gordon (1882-1944) | |
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The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia |
By: Mordaunt Hall | |
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Some Naval Yarns |
By: Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones (1896-1917) | |
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War Letters of a Public-School Boy |
By: H. C. W. Bishop | |
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A Kut Prisoner |
By: Allen Upward (1863-1926) | |
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The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War |
By: R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane) Haldane (1856-1928) | |
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Before the War |
By: Charles Seymour (1885-1963) | |
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Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. |
By: A. J. (Alfred James) Hill (1833-1895) | |
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History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry |
By: John Hargrave (1894-1982) | |
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At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign |
By: Dietlof Van Warmelo (1872-1966) | |
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On Commando |
By: J. (John) Kincaid (1787-1862) | |
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Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 |
By: David W. (David William) Bone (1874-1959) | |
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Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war |
By: Louise Mack (1870-1935) | |
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Woman's Experiences in the Great War
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinary vividness and immediacy. Flawed by the most treacly sentiment in some places and the most ferocious anti-German invective in others, her account endures as an uncommonly forthright, passionate testimony to those tragic events and the ordinary people who were the true heroes of them. As a forty-something, coquettish war correspondent wrapped in sable furs... |
By: August Niemann (1839-1919) | |
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The Coming Conquest of England |
By: F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt (1892-1957) | |
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Combed Out |
By: Antony Bluett | |
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With Our Army in Palestine |
By: J. A. (John Adam) Cramb (1862-1913) | |
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The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe |
By: G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens (1869-1900) | |
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From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War |
By: Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer (1888-1916) | |
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Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years |
By: Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley (1878-) | |
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Turn About Eleanor |
By: John Morse | |
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In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland |
By: Arthur Ruhl (1876-1935) | |
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Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them |
By: Roger Casement (1864-1916) | |
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The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 |
By: Ruth Royce | |
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The Children of France A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of Youthful Patriots of France During the Great War |
By: Halsey Davidson | |
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Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats |
By: Theodore Paullin | |
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Introduction to Non-Violence |
By: Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (1871-1935) | |
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Banzai! by Parabellum |
By: Kenneth Ward | |
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The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet |
By: Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) | |
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Mobilizing Woman-Power |
By: Helen Hayes Gleason | |
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Golden Lads |
By: Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg (1867-1937) | |
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Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work |
By: Frances Wilson Huard (1885-) | |
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With Those Who Wait |
By: Spenser Wilkinson (1853-1937) | |
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Britain at Bay | |
Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith |
By: Keith Henderson (1883-1982) | |
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Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front |
By: G. B. (George Brenton) Laurie (1867-1915) | |
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Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 |
By: R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett (-1918) | |
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"Over There" with the Australians |
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: Stapleton Martin (1846-1922) | |
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Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield |
By: Taylor H. Greenfield | |
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The Sword and the Atopen |
By: George A. (George Augustine) Taylor (1872-1928) | |
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The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia |
By: Richard Dehan (1863-1932) | |
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The Dop Doctor |
By: Frederic C. Curry | |
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From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade |
By: National Security Council (U.S.) | |
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National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 |
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: Stéphane Lauzanne (1874-) | |
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Fighting France |
By: James Blyth (1864-1933) | |
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Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" |
By: Edward P. Lowry | |
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With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back |
By: Louis Keene | |
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"Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went |
By: Evans, A. J. (1889-1960) | |
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The Escaping Club
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again finds himself captured, this time first by Arabs and then by Turks. He again manages to escape. A detailed look at the trials faced by Allied POWs during World War I. |
By: University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History | |
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Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) |
By: Harold W. (Harold Williams) Picton (1867-) | |
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The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship |