Borodino Books: 122 books
by Benito Mussolini
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The dictated biography of Benito Mussolini, spanning from his early youth to his successful coup in Rome. Mussolini boisterously narrates his life story, first as a Socialist Radical in his youth, then as a Fascist strongman following World War I.
“My Autobiography,” first published in...
by Ward Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Kings Will Be Tyrants by Ward Hawkins is a 1959 novel about fighting in Cuba. Bernardo Manuel Patrick O'Brien is a former U.S. Marine who winds up fighting for Castro. Though a Marine, he has to deal with the conflict of his heritage, both Cuban and American.
REBELS AND LOVERS
They sat...
The Catastrophe
Kerensky’s Own Story of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this book written in exile, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, recounts his fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the victory of the extreme Bolshevik faction in 1917.
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 - 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and politician who served...
Napoleon the Third
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In this brief and readable study, noted biographer Edmund d’Auvergne recounts the life and times of Napoleon III and the times that reigned across Europe. An arch political schemer he capitalised on the ferment in French society that carried on even after the fall of his uncle, the Emperor Napoleon,...
by Tom Lea
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto (El Paso) after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro’s business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier—shortly...
Let The Coyotes Howl
A Story of Philmont Scout Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1946, “this day-by-day narrative of events on a scout expedition will interest every ex-scout by reviving memories of his own experiences and his fondest daydreams. The contemporary scout will find it fascinating as proof that his own hopes are not beyond realization. That the...
by Harry Sanford
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
OPERATION KILLER: THE SAVAGE SLAUGHTER…
The war in Korea was not, officially, a war, even though men died fighting it. The conditions were unlike those encountered in any other theatre of war. In this novel, based on some of the experiences of the author, we meet men of the 23rd Regiment...
Eyes Behind the Lines
US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units [Revised Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Eyes Behind the Lines: US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units is the 10th study in the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Occasional Paper series. This work is an outgrowth of concerns identified by the authors of On Point: The United States Army in Operation...
by Garrett Mattingly
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Modern diplomacy began in the fifteenth century when the Italian city-states established resident embassies at the courts of their neighbors. By the sixteenth century, the forms and techniques of the new continuing diplomacy had spread northward to be further developed by the emerging European powers....
Jan Smuts
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
‘A just biography of an important figure—political philosopher, soldier in three wars, scientist, statesman—Jan Smuts, who has played a long and decisive role in the formation and consolidation of South Africa. Masterful, energetic, intolerant, often highhanded, Smuts has never been a popular...
From Korti to Khartum
A Journal of the Desert March from Korti to Gubat, and of the Ascent of the Nile in General Gordon’s Steamers [Ill. Ed.]
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From 1884 to 1885, British Army officer Charles William Wilson took part in the Khartoum Relief Expedition, commanded by Garnet Wolseley. He was part of the advance rescue force led by Sir Herbert Stewart. After Stewart was mortally wounded Brigadier-General Wilson took command of this group of about...
Kurum, Kabul & Kandahar
Being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns Under General Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Originally published shortly after the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1881, this book by a British veteran, Lt. Charles Gray Robertson, provides the reader with a first-hand account at the colonialism during nineteenth century India and Afghanistan.
by Prof. Gaetano Salvemini
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
“The first English translation of what has long been considered a classic in Europe…it is easy to see why the work has been held in such esteem abroad.”—The New Yorker
THE word ‘revolution’ may mean either the forcible overthrow of an established social or political order or any...
The Potsdam Führer
Frederick William I, Father of Prussian Militarism
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
First published in 1941, this is a biography of Frederick William I (1688-1740), known as the “Soldier-King,” who was the King of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death, and the father of Frederick the Great, who (following his father’s death in 1740) would go on to hold...