Military Career of Napoleon the Great published by E.A. Weeks & Co.
There has never been a time when the public was not eager to learn something new concerning the wonderful career of the man who once held all Europe prisoner in the folds of the French flag. The world...
View ArticleWith the Help of God and a Few Marines published by Doubleday, Page & Company
First published in 1919, this is the story of the 6th Marine Regiment in World War I by its commander. The 6th Marine Regiment was part of the 4th (Marine) Brigade in the 2nd Infantry Division. It is a...
View ArticleVoltaire by John Morley published by The Macmillan Company
When the right sense of historical proportion is more fully developed in men s minds, the name of Voltaire will stand out like the names of the great decisive movements in the European advance, like...
View ArticleOscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions published by eBooks@Adelaide
A biography of the great man, written by the Irish-American author, editor, journalist and publisher who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. A wonderful work of art itself, no...
View ArticleThe Great Adventure by Barry Allan published by Smashwords
From Footscray in the western suburbs of Melbourne to Flanders on the Western Front, the true story of three brothers George, Joe and Dave, who served in the AIF during World War One. They all had life...
View ArticleThe Captives by James L. Cathcart, Jane B. Cathcart published by Herald Print
This journal was commenced one hundred and twelve years ago by a youth of seventeen years of age, who had been taken prisoner by the British, and carried into New York with most of the prisoners, on...
View ArticleThe Diary of a U-boat Commander published by Feedbooks
The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans...
View ArticleMark Twain: A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine published by eBooks@Adelaide
Biography of the classic American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and...
View ArticleCaptain Cook: His Life, Voyages and Discoveries published by Project Gutenberg
This is a short biography of the English explorer and navigator who was the first European to reach Hawaii, the east coast of Australia, and New Zealand. Cook (1728-1779) made three voyages of...
View ArticleThe Life and Teaching of Karl Marx published by National Labour Press
First published in English in 1921, this work was originally written by renowned Marxist historian Max Beer to commemorate the centenary of Marx s birth. It is a definitive biography, full of...
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