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Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. It was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1916. This book is a War Fiction, very nicely penned by the author. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work...

Excerpt from the book: ...The big blue soldier, cold to the soul of him, and full of pain that reminded him of the long horror of the war, was still sitting by the roadside with his head in his hands when Mary Amber's car came flying down the road. She stopped before him with a little triumphant purr of the engine, so close to him that it roused him from his lethargy to look up... This book is a War Fiction, very nicely penned by the author. T...

The Return of the Soldier is the debut novel of English novelist Rebecca West, first published in 1918. The novel recounts the return of the shell shocked Captain Chris Baldry from the trenches of the First World War from the perspective of his cousin Jenny. The novel grapples with the soldier's return from World War I with mental trauma and its effects on the family, as well as the light it sheds on their fraught relationships. Though initial...

The idea of publishing the USI Strategic Year Book was mooted in 2015 to enable writers and readers to reflect, articulate, and debate on contemporary and futuristic national security issues in a global backdrop. The first issue of the USI Strategic Year Book was published in 2016. This is the seventh edition of the USI Strategic Year Book. The publication over the years has been widely appreciated by the policy-makers, strategic community and...

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Excerpts from the book ...Forced by a variety of circumstances to play a part I never sought, but to which, for conscientious motives, I not unwillingly adapted myself, I can admit no shame and plead no regret. By my action lives have been saved, communities have been benefited, and right and justice allowed to triumph, to the confusion of law-breakers and would-be murderers... This book is a War Fiction, very nicely penned by the author. This...

This book is about the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m., on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The United States was a neutral country at the time, the attack led to its formal entry into World War II the next day.In this book the authors have consulted primary materi...

Sardar KM Panikkar's life and works form a fascinating narrative encompassing a wide diversity of roles, positions and interests. Panikkar was one of the early writers on the history of India's connections with the Indian Ocean. His seminal historical and literary works have influenced contemporary thoughts and perceptions and played a formative role in orienting independent India's maritime consciousness. Panikkar's emphasis on the need for a...

A large number of people are devoting their attention to a closer study of foreign affairs. Many of them may not have the opportunity to read the larger volumes of histories, and, indeed, even if they had, they would find their choice of books very much restricted when they came to the more recent period of European and world history. Some knowledge of this period is essential if we are to understand the full significance of the events of to-d...

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. uses the best technology to reproduce historical work in the same manner it was first published to preserve its original nature. The complete text has been reset with digital technology and is legible.

This book is one amongst the series of books on "Red Cross Girls". The author has written a number of books in the series based on the heroic deeds of the Red Cross Girls in various sectors of War. This book covers the stories of a few dedicated Red Cross Gils in the British line of fire.

This book is a historical literature and full of adventure. Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

This is the story of four Allied soldiers who found themselves lost behind the enemy lines. Later it is revealed that three of them are running high-class criminal organisations running scams in England and France. They stumble upon the great opportunity to make a big score in one action, and it leads to a complex and thrilling journey to the USA. The story has been well conceived and keeps the mystery guessing throughout.

This book is a popular history of the Revolution in China that broke out at Wuchang, Hankow, and Hanyang in October of 1911. The narrative contains a good deal of new information touching upon revolutionism in China, and the events leading up to the climax. Though, the magnitude of this Revolution cannot possibly be understood, but this book is written in the hope that it will enable the student otherwise untutored to understand much that one ...

The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of throat cancer in 1885. The original work is a two- volume set, but here this has been compiled as on single volume.

The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also served as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The Hi...

USI of India in past has taken the lead in providing the platform for organising discourse and research in the field of UN peace operations in order to put across an Indian perspective on a few most crucial attributes of the current challenges that face reform of the UN peace operations. To this end, USI (https://usiofindia.org), the oldest think tank of India, in collaboration with Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) (https://www.icwa.in),...

The system of gallantry awards continued with the British Indian Army during British Raj after 1858 till the end of World War II. After India's independence, when India became a Republic, Indian Govt introduced new series of bravery awards in the Indian Armed Forces to be awarded by the President of India, both during war and outside the war. This book chronicles the bravery awards given to Indians serving with East India Company Army, Britis...

Ypres has been one of the chief centres of the terrible struggle which is now proceeding on the Continent, and it is well known that this same old Flemish town has figured again and again in the bloody contests of the past. Ypres was probably the centre of the most terrible fighting in the War. This delightful old Flemish town, with its magnificent cathedral and its unique Cloth Hall, probably the finest specimen of Gothic architecture in Eur...

Among the many wars by which, province by province, the Empire of India was won by Britishers, few, if any, were more brilliant and hard fought than those which terminated in the annexation of the Punjaub. It is satisfactory to know that the conquest of the Sikhs-a brave and independent race-was not brought about by any of the intrigues which marred the brilliancy of some of the early conquests, or by greed for additional territory. It was a r...