War Books

Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War

James J. Williamson

The little episode in relation to the Fairfax Court House raid will need no apology for its introduction, as I have already had occasion to refer to that affair in my diary. I have before me a re..

Yellow Butterflies

Mary S Andrews

Out from the door of the house burst the laughing, shouting little lad. He raced across the grass and halted by the tulip-bed; there, with yet more shouts of full-throated baby laughter, he turned to ..

The Heart's Domain

Georges Duhamel

What has happened has seized upon us as upon its prey. During the first months of the war, during the first years perhaps, all our physical and moral energies were overwhelmed in this maelstrom. How, ..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Grant

When Mary came forth into the garden again, she wore an old straw hat to save her complexion from the glares and had the smartest and most becoming of lawn-tennis aprons pinned over her dress, with Sw..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Grant

The next day found him among the wide and stately streets of the Modern Athens, willing to enlist in the first regiment any member of which came in his way, for he was drawing a chance in the lottery ..

Colville of the Guards, Volume 3 (of 3)

James Grant

The Vierlander had some doubts and scruples at first; but when a few twenty-groschen pieces were slipped into her hand these evaporated, and a smile of acquiescence spread over her weather-beaten but ..

We Were There at the Normandy Invasion

Clayton Knight

The town of Ste. Mère Église sits almost in the middle of what is called the Cherbourg Peninsula. Most of the Norman people are farmers or dairymen. Some are fishermen, but the Nazis would not let the..

Australasia Triumphant!

A. St. John Adcock

It is too soon to attempt the telling at large and in detail of all that has been done by Australia and New Zealand in the Great War. In all which I have been little more than an enthusiastic and, I h..