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A study of the role played by the cavalry in one of history’s greatest battles, Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign endeavors to show when, and under what conditions, cavalry attacks succeeded or failed at Waterloo. This volume offers valuable insight into a legendary branch of the military.

This 1885 memoir details Porter's Civil War experiences. He gained renown in 1863 by running his fleet past the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg in support of Grant's moves against that city, thus delivering the Mississippi to Union control.  He was promoted to admiral in 1870.

This 1915 work of historical analysis, written in the midst of World War I, argues that the United States has left military preparedness to chance, leading to unnecessary loss of blood and treasure. He covers American martial history since colonial times with a blunt voice and provides a blueprint for how the military should be organized.

Though the phrase “the war to end all wars” is associated with President Woodrow Wilson, it was actually coined by the outspoken novelist H. G. Wells in this 1914 collection of articles. Here he addressed British anti-war advocates and pacifists, arguing that only the defeat of German militarism could end war.

Army Life in a Black Regiment is a riveting and empathetic account of the lessons learned from an encounter between a New England intellectual and nearly a thousand newly freed slaves. In the fall of 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was asked to take command of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers,...

The foot soldier has been the backbone of every nation’s army since antiquity. This sweeping 1908 history covers the role of infantry from the war between the Persians and the Greeks through the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the American and French Revolutions, up to the Russo-Japanese War.

This unfinished history was being written into the author’s dying days. Starting with the England of Ecgberht in the early 9th century and ending with the Norman Conquest in 1066, this engrossing book paints a vivid picture of this seminal period in English history. Noted historian John Richard Green...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863) has been considered the most important of Thomas Huxley’s Darwinian writings. Despite warnings from friends that publishing an argument in support of evolution could ruin...

In nine engaging and authoritative chapters, author Cyril Davenport tells the story of the book from its earliest incarnations—formation of words and palm-leaf books—to the evolution of the illustrated book as an art form. What emerges is an intriguing portrait of paper and printing, the art of bookbinding, and illustration styles such as engraving, mezzotints, and photography.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  Never one to back away from controversy, Friedrich Nietzsche assails the Christian Church in Twilight of the Idols.  In this classic work, he sets out to substitute the morality of the Catholic and the Protestant...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Ecce Homo-"Behold the man" -were the words Pilate used to refer to Jesus when presenting the masses with a choice between saving him or saving Barabbas. They are also the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “God is dead,” Friedrich Nietzsche unflinchingly declared in this famous work of philosophy.  It is one of the boldest statements ever made, and garnered far-reaching, strong reactions.  In addition to being the...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Birth of Tragedy argues the importance of the tension between what Nietzsche called Apollonian and Dionysian forces. These contrasting forces enable a work of art to reveal the truth about human existence in such...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. This convenient new compendium contains the five most philosophically significant of Nietzsche’s post-Thus Spoke Zarathustra writings. Nietzsche wrote of these works that he intended them as “fish hooks” for catching...