World War I 50

A comprehensive description of Australia's mounted horse troops involvement in the First World War. From the formation of the 28th brigade light horse, through to their battles overseas. 続きを見る

Aus dem Vorwort: "Von dem Wirbel dieser Kriegszeit gepackt, einseitig unterrichtet, ohne Distanz von den großen Veränderungen, die sich bereits vollzogen haben oder zu vollziehen beginnen, und ohne ……続きを見る

Excerpt from book: "Friday, December 18th, 10.30 A.M.--We've had an all-night journey to Rouen, and have almost got there. One of my sitting-ups was 106° this morning, but it was only malaria, first……続きを見る

Geronimo's Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 続きを見る

James W. Gerard, a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court, served as the U.S. ambassador to Imperial Germany from 1913-191, Gerard published his memoirs from Berlin in summer 1917 under ……続きを見る

Karl Heinrich Marx, one of the fathers of communism, was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He was educated at a variety of German colleges, including the University of Jena. He was an editor of……続きを見る

These pieces were written as journalism, in response to a request by the Admiralty, as the British public realised that World War I certainly was not going to be 'over by Christmas', and wanted to k……続きを見る

"The River War" is a historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881–99) in the Su……続きを見る

This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualises the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of ……続きを見る

Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La ……続きを見る

Heinrich Kanner (* 9. November 1864 in Galați; † 15. Februar 1930 in Wien) war ein österreichischer Politiker, Journalist und Zeitungsherausgeber. Noch während des Weltkrieges begann Heinrich Kanner……続きを見る

EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES OF THE PRESS. Syracuse Times. "Sword and Pen; or, Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier," is written in a very entertaining style. It gives interesting sketches of Captain……続きを見る

Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947) was Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey at Gallipoli. The failure of this campaign ……続きを見る

Maurice Nicoll (19 July 1884 – 30 August 1953) was a British psychiatrist, author. After his Army Medical Service in the 1914 War, in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, he returned to England to become a ps……続きを見る

"On War" - Vom Kriege (German pronunciation: is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 18……続きを見る

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831[2] – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major gene……続きを見る

Major-General Lord Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen, KCVO, CB, CMG, DSO (15 January 1863–14 December 1937) was a British courtier and soldier. This is an expanded version of a diary kept by its author……続きを見る

US Military Instructors Manual by J. P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker, 1917. Covering a number of topics the introduction states that 'It is hoped that this work will serve to recall to many officers,……続きを見る

Alexander van Millingen (1840 – 1915) was a scholar in the field of Byzantine architecture, and a professor of history at Robert College, Istanbul between 1879 and 1915. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) 続きを見る

Edward George Downing Liveing (1895-1963) was an author and historian. His works include: Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 (1918), The House of Harrild, 1801-1948 (1949),……続きを見る

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the ……続きを見る

Arthur Conan Doyle made his reputation as a novelist, but far stranger than fiction is the creator of Sherlock Holmes' tale of the Boer War in South Africa. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to s……続きを見る

Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer and muckraker. The muckrakers (a term coined by President Theodore Roosevelt) were writers of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century who ……続きを見る

Captain William Charles Cumming Weetman (1885-? ) was the British author of The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914-1919 (1920). "The author has described fully the training carried out at Harp……続きを見る

This is not the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. This is the American novelist, Winston Churchill. Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emm……続きを見る

Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappo……続きを見る

Ian Hamilton's March is a book written by Winston Churchill. It is a description of his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, continuing after the events described in……続きを見る

Coningsby Dawson (1883-1959) was an Anglo-American author, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1905 and in the same year went to America, where……続きを見る

This book fills in the historical narrative of the Native Americans from 1644 to the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 and the death of Sitting Bull in 1890. 続きを見る

Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States. Rare reproductions from photographs selected from seven thousand original negatives taken under most hazardo……続きを見る