The Warsaw Orphan

Kelly Rimmer

2021

"Kelly Rimmer's heart-stopping rendering of the war in Nazi-occupied Poland will captivate readers page by page."--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours "A surefir...

The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

1972

The Times Concise Atlas of World History

Geoffrey Barraclough

1986

The study of world history - those great movements and conflicts which form man's collective memory - is essential for an appreciation of the world today. Illustrated with over 300 dynamic and colourf...

Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland

Patrice M. Dabrowski

2004

"This book represents the most sophisticated historiographical approach to understanding nation-building. Patrice Dabrowski demonstrates tremendous erudition... making brilliant use of contemporary ne...

Harmsworth History of the World: Eastern Europe to the French Revolution. Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Arthur Mee

1909

The history of Russia from the foundation of the empire to the war with Turkey in 1877-'78, by H. Tyrrell and H.A. Haukeil

Henry Tyrrell (teacher of elocution.)

1879

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

1974

Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel depicting the Battle of Gettysburg from multiple perspectives.

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

Allen C. Guelzo

2013

Deeply researched modern account of the three-day battle that decided the Civil War.

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

James M. McPherson

1988

Pulitzer Prize-winning single-volume history of the Civil War era. The standard work on the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict.

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

1958

Foote's monumental three-volume narrative history of the Civil War, combining scholarly rigor with the storytelling power of a novelist.

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

1855

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, w...

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

The ultimate science fiction classic: for more than one hundred years, this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive comme...

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

1938

[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spani...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

1940

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mo...

Laws, etc

United States

1789

Tao te Ching

老子

1842

"Within ancient Chinese, a sole character possesses a broad, and sometimes contradictory, range of meanings. Moreover, the Tao Te Ching is rife with terms and expressions that have no exact counterpar...

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

1961

*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...

Ἰλιάς

Όμηρος

1505

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, f...

Gettysburg Battle

Brandon Antinoro

2022

Gettysburg Battle and Battlefield

W. C Storrick

2002

Gettysburg is a must-have for Civil War enthusiasts. It takes the reader back to a distinguishing moment in American history. Battlefield Guide W. C. Storrick provides more than military tactics and d...