This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious y...
There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Li...
Milne created the story to contain believable, three-dimensional characters, rather than the stereotypes which will satisfy children. Hence the book i...
The Mysterious Island is another exquisite novel written by the master of adventure writing, Jules Verne. The novel has been seen as the sequel to two...
One of the world’s most valued scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita is a Hindu scripture which is a part of the Indian epic Mahabharata. Undeniably, it is al...
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in pu...
World War I was one of the most savage and brutal wars in human history. There were millions of deaths and the tragedy was compounded by the fact that...
The book covers artistic and literary development, as well as politics and war, and its field of view includes western Asia Minor, the Agean archipela...
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great was first published in 1900. It went on to become a standard text in many colleges and was use...
Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in France an...
Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a greater w...
'Thayendanegea!'
The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name of the Mohawks meaning two sticks of wood bound together, a si...
Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk hero remem...
"International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of opposing right...
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more gener...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and...
Trafalgar, es el primero de los 46 Episodios Nacionales, escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós, que es considerado el mayor novelista español después de Ce...
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, Lond...
This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize...
Vom Kriege written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It has bee...
Vom Kriege written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It has bee...
The great World War was more than two-thirds over when America entered the struggle, and yet in a sense this country was in the war from its very begi...
Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His experiences...
The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with...
