Specific wars and campaigns

First published in 1928, taken from his own journals and letters, this biography traces General Lord Rawlinson's life, from his service with Kitchener to his post-war posting to India.

'Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

First published in 1959, this is an enthralling account of the Battle of Trafalgar viewed in perspective of Lord Nelson's personal career, and of the struggle for naval supremacy in the Napoleonic Wars.

First published in 1961, this is a fascinating account of the battle between the fleets of the England's Lord Howe and France's Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse during the French Revolutionary Wars.

First published in 1960, this is a gripping account of the decisive sea battle between the forces of Napoleon and the British under Nelson in 1798.

This book is the story of the former Hungarian Zionist leader, Joel Brand, as told to Alex Weissberg, author of The Accused, which told of his experiences as a prisoner of the Soviet secret police.

Vivid and powerful World War II memoirs by Polish-American mechanical engineer Aleksander Gwiadzdowski, who spent several years in German prisons in East Prussia from 1941-1945.

« La campagne de 1805, Iéna, Eylau, Tilsit, Wagram, la Russie, 1813 et 1815 (en Alsace) sont évoqués dans ces vivants mémoires.

Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside.

One of the most fascinating figures of the American Revolution, General Francis Marion slipped in and out of the Carolina swamps to strike sudden, devastating blows against the British.

A classic memoir of North Carolina's Outer Banks penned by native Ben Dixon MacNeill and winner of the 1958 Mayflower Award, The Hatterasman is part nature story, part historical narrative, part adventure story, and part rhetorical farce.

In 1904, a showman and Redpath Leyceum Bureau manager named Keith Vawter, put the main forms of entertainment of the time-comedy and culture-on the same platform in a travelling tent, "e;marrying the respectability of the Lyceum to the spangles of the stage,"e; and named the union "e;Chautauqua,"e; after an institution established permanently on Chautauqua Lake, New York.

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.

"e;THE greatest event in European history was the discovery of the New World: today it could only be rivalled by landing on a habitable planet.

Few people had the opportunity to know Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Grace Tully did.

From the pages of his journal, the fascist Italian dictator recounts his experiences in the Army and at the front during the World War I years 1915-1917.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied armies, the great strategist who directed the final victory, declined to publish his memoirs during his lifetime.

Jungle Mission is a poignant account of Rene Riesen's life and mission during the First Indochina War amongst the Montagnards, and his ever growing love for these people by going native, learning their language, their traditions, their rituals, and their way of life.

The history of Admiral Horatio Nelson has been written from every possible angle, but this was not so with his ships.

"e;THE reasons which induced me to publish the present work are briefly these: My father was a Boulonnais, and owner of the land historically famous for its associations with Bonaparte and Bruix.

Pat Barham sensed a huge opportunity and jumped at the chance to be assigned to become one of the first war correspondents to report on the Korean War.

First published in 1962, Night and Hope is a collection of interrelated short stories by a young Czech writer who was a boy in the Terezin concentration camp near Prague during the war.

Peter Van Woerden, Corrie Ten Boom's nephew, began his career in the Dutch underground in 1942.

First published in 1956, this book by ex-WWII lieutenant Bruce Bliven, Jr.

Originally published in 1928, this is a biography of Colonel Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), an aviation pioneer and hero of the times.

Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle.

Originally published in 1954, this book tells the story of Louis McHenry Howe (1871-1936), an American reporter for the New York Herald who became best known for acting as an early political advisor to President Franklin D.

Few members of the Wilson family expected young Thomas Woodrow to go into politics.

First published in 1944, this is an unusual little edition concerning the infamous Kate Bender and her family, also known as the "e;Bloody Benders,"e; who owned an inn and small general store in Labette County of southeastern Kansas from 1871 to 1873 and systematically murdered at least a dozen travellers that passed through their hotel and store, with Kate luring men with promise of a meal and a rest.

First published in 1953, this book tells the story of John Butterfield, a mid-19th Century stagecoach and freight line operator and his line of stagecoaches, which took passengers and mail across the U.

While Morgan's literary portfolio shows remarkable diversity, it is studded with works on Puritanism.

First published in 1952, this is historian Edmund S.

This tome is the second volume of Holman Hamilton's landmark biography of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States.

Originally published in 1951, this is a richly illustrated paean to San Francisco's cable cars dating from the years when they were in jeopardy and were eventually saved (though not entirely) through the efforts of activist citizens.

The Shark and the Sardines is a scathing allegorical short story by Juan Jose Arevalo Bermejo (1904-1990), who was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala (1944-1951).

THE UNDISPUTED CLASSIC OF EQUINE ADVENTUREIn the early 1920s, a peaceful Swiss schoolteacher accomplished one of the most extraordinary equestrian journeys in history: Aime Tschiffely and his two trusty steeds, Mancha and Gato, traveled the incredible distance of ten thousand miles between Buenos Aires and New York.

First published in 1962, this is a biography of Benjamin Franklin Butler, (1818-1893), aka "e;Beast"e; Butler, an American lawyer, politician, soldier and businessman from Massachusetts, who became best known as a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and for his leadership role in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

Originally published in 1935, this is the memoir of Lord Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second Army during the First World War, and written by Sir Charles Harington Harington, who served as Major-General, General Staff, of the Second Army for a large period of the Great War in the defence of the Ypres Salient.

Until the publication of this first volume in 1941, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States, was strangely overlooked by modern-day biographers.

The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is the dramatic, complete account of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906.

Originally published in 1957-years before he was Secretary of State and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize-, Henry Kissinger wrote A World Restored, to understand and explain one of history's most important and dramatic periods; a time when Europe went from political chaos to a balanced peace that lasted for almost a hundred years.

Not since Ernie Pyle have the American people taken any reporter to their hearts as they have Marguerite Higgins-the photogenic young war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.

Originally published in 1961, author Carl Berger has "e;attempted to encompass the story of propaganda and subversion in the American Revolutionary War.

Originally published in 1962, this book is the true account of Gomillion v.

First published in 1962, David E.

First published in 1959, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

First published in 1962, this is a biography of John Forsyth (1780-1841), who was Governor of Georgia and Secretary of State under both Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

Originally published in 1962, this is the true story account of one of Florida's most chilling crimes.

Originally published in 1956, in this book Benjamin P.

Originally published in 1955, this book tells the story of General Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War.