Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

2004

Revisionist biography of Genghis Khan arguing that the Mongol conquests, far from being purely destructive, created the first global trading network and spread technological innovation across Eurasia.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1904

A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism...

War and Peace

Лев Толстой

1864

War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocra...

Vom Kriege

Carl von Clausewitz

1835

*Vom Kriege* is the basic work on the Western way of war. For Clauswitz, war is "politics by other means". It concentrates on defeating the enemy by massing overwhelming force at the enemy's weak poin...

A history of the English-speaking peoples

Winston S. Churchill

1950

Sketches of sixteen of Churchill's favorite historical characters selected from his four-volume A history of the English-speaking Peoples, followed by a profile of Sir Winston drawn from autobiographi...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1900

Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...

Animal Farm

George Orwell

1945

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' ...

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862

In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective ...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

Karl Marx

1848

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published ...

The military maxims of Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte

1845

Napoleon Bonaparte

Dhirubhai Patel

2016

Napoleon's military maxims

Napoléon Bonaparte

2004

Military Maxims

Napoléon Bonaparte

2022

The officer's manual

Napoléon Bonaparte

1831

The Military Maxims of Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte

1993

The Military Maxims

Napoleon Bonaparte

2020

Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare

1598

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948

Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It i...

World War 1

Peter Simkins

1991

Combat Leaders of World War II

Trevor Nevitt Dupuy

1965