War & Military
Beowulf
Beowulf is the title of the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and the first to be written in..
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Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita is the sixth book of the Mahabharata and a core book in Hindu scripture. Written s..
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The Aeneid
The Roman poet, Virgil wrote The Aeneid between 29 and 19 B.C. It recounts the travels of Aeneas, a ..
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The Art of War
The Art of War by Chinese general Sun Tzu is considered by many to be the single best book ever writ..
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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In August, 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ..
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The Backwash of War
"The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nur..
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The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Shortly after taking office in 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the first of his r..
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The Iliad of Homer
The Iliad by Homer is an epic of poem over 15,000 lines that recounts the conflict between Agamemnon..
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
One hears the term Roman Emperor, and at once the very bad ones come to mind: Caligula, Nero, Domiti..
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The Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem composed in part as sequel to The Iliad that tells the story of..
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The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
After leaving the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia embarked on a world tour t..
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The War of the Worlds
In 1938 a radio broadcast describing the invasion of earth by Martians presented as a news bulletin ..
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War Is a Racket
After his retirement from the Marine Corps in the early 1930's, General Smedley D. Butler embarked o..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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