Specific wars and campaigns

Anthem - Ayn Rand - Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom.

Excerpt: "e;"e;Quite right for once, Moke.

The End: How the Great War was Stopped; A Novelistic Vagary (1917) is a World War I fantasy in which the risen dead terrify the living into stopping the war.

This is a 1914 novel written by H.

Excerpt: "e;For the authenticity of the events the reader has this guarantee.

Excerpt: "e;One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front.

August Bebel war einer der Begründer der organisierten sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland und Vorsitzender der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD).

Excerpt: "e;There was a young man in my squadron whom I shall call Frank Gillham.

Excerpt: "e;The American people of today, weighed in the balances of the greatest armed conflict of all time and found not wanting, can afford to survey, in a spirit of candid scrutiny and without reviving an ancient grudge, that turbulent episode in the welding of their nation which is called the War of 1812.

Excerpt: "e;The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations.

Excerpt: "e;As we arrived a steady down-pour of rain was falling from an inky sky; the white men who met us on the wharf appeared ghostly and wraith-like, and the very negroes seemed pale and wan.

This book tells us the story of the fifteen military engagements (from Marathon to Waterloo) which, had a significant impact on world history.

Russell's dispatches via telegraph from the Crimea remain as his legacy; for the first time he brought the realities of war home to readers.

Written in 1865 by the war correspondent of the Times (London), William H.

Excerpt: "e;If the intelligent foreigner, who is supposed to make so many interesting and novel observations on the aspect of the countries he visits, and on the manners of the people among whom he travels, were to visit the United States at this juncture, he would fail to detect any marked indication of the extraordinary crisis which agitates the members of the Great Republic, either at the principal emporium of its commerce, or at the city which claims to be the sole seat of its Government.

Excerpt: "e;There is a general admission that the means to such an end are wanting, and that the desire cannot be gratified.

Foreword: "e;For 11 years, I was closely associated with the Cairo project, and I know how difficult it is to place the undertaking in its proper perspective and to dispassionately evaluate its historical significance.

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Excerpt: "e;11th July, 1915.

Excerpt: "e;On the morning of September 11, 1879, I lay shivering with fever and ague at Alikhel in Afghanistan.

Excerpt: "e;The interest of the War of 1812, to Americans, has commonly been felt to lie in the brilliant evidence of high professional tone and efficiency reached by their navy, as shown by the single-ship actions, and by the two decisive victories achieved by little squadrons upon the lakes.

Haciendo memoria se centra en la trayectoria de la memoria de la Guerra Civil en la España de la primera década del siglo XXI, desde la aparición de la Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica y la apertura de fosas comunes, hasta la fallida búsqueda de la fosa de Federico García Lorca, pasando por la aprobación de la Ley de Memoria Histórica.

Für die eBook-Ausgabe völlig neu überarbeitet und in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung ||In seinem letzten Roman schildert Hans Fallada den authentischen Fall des Ehepaars Otto und Elise Hampel, das Postkarten-Flugblätter gegen Hitler an öffentlichen Plätzen Berlins auslegt, schließlich denunziert und 1943 hingerichtet wird.

The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968.

Excerpt: "e;We had endeavoured to ward off typhoid by initiating a sort of sanitary vigilance committee, having first sacked the chief of police: we had laid drains, which the chief Serbian engineer said he would pull up as soon as we had gone away.

"e;The Light That Failed"e; is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard.

Auszug: "Bekanntlich entwickelten die Franzosen, denen die Engländer nur ungerne, in schlauer Vorsicht, folgten, als erste einen brauchbaren Unterseebootstyp.

"e;The Defence of Duffers Drift"e; is a fictional account of a young, inexperienced British officer, who is tasked with holding a river crossing with 50 troops against a larger enemy force.

Soyer's brilliant memoir, a vivid account of the Crimean War and of Soyer's inventions and recipes for feeding armies in the field.

It was a time of bloody confrontation between the white man and the red man, a time when the pioneers of a new nation were pushing out across the Great Plains and yet the powerful spirits of an ancient mystical religion still held sway over the Indians.

Excerpt: "e;The aim of this volume is to give to the English-speaking people some glimpses into the past struggles, sufferings and hopes of the Serbian nation.

A portrayal of the exploits of a Confederate military adventurer, John Singleton Mosby.

Excerpt: "e;When this old Singapore jail was put an end to in 1873, some six years after the transfer of the Straits Settlements to the Crown, the convicts then under confinement were removed to the Andaman Islands, at that time not long established as a penal settlement for India; while those on a ticket-of-leave were permitted to merge into the population, continuing to earn their livelihood as artisans, cow keepers, cart drivers, and the like.

Excerpt: "e;At the outbreak of the World War in August, 1914, the Australian as a soldier was an unknown quantity.

Excerpt: "e;A BOMBING AIR RAID.

Excerpt: "e;"e;You, Tom Jones, let that pot-lid alone.

As the "e;Great War"e; inspired much great poetry, including that of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, so did it inspire compelling prose.

The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century.

"e;Night Bombing with the 'Bedouins'"e; by Lt.

Excerpt: "e;Brave Serbia has not been forgotten in her hour of need by the women of England.

Excerpt: "e;There has been so much written about the trenches, there are so many war photographs, so many cinema films, that one might well hesitate before even mentioning the war-to try to write a book about it is, I fear, to incur the censure of the many who are tired of hearing about bombs and bullets, and who prefer to read of peace, and games, and flirtations.

Satire at its best, in both writing and cartoon.

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Excerpt: "e;A Tale intended to be after the fact.

Excerpt: "e;For years the Germans had been preparing for war.

Excerpt: "e;AN ACCOUNT OF THE CZECHO-SLOVAK STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY.

Excerpt: "e;The evils arising from religious persecution, sectarian hatred, ill government, and oppression were never more strongly illustrated than by the fact that, for a century, Ireland, which has since that time furnished us with a large proportion of our best soldiers, should have been among our bitterest and most formidable foes, and her sons fought in the ranks of our greatest continental enemy.

These Sketches were made during a year's service as a camion driver with the French army in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with the A.

No one more accurately forecast the War than has Charles Sarolea, who may be forgiven a justifiable pride in the accuracy and excellence of his prognosis, in 1906 and 1912, of the conditions that led to the present contest.

Published in 1918, this is a personal account of (Catherine) Marguerite Beauchamp Waddell, Mrs.