e-Books

Anyone who really enjoys history knows how easy it is to go broke buying books. For the most part, the Internet hasn't improved that; it's made finding books easier, but that just means you go broke faster.

Some advantages do exist, however. There are a number of sites that are engaged in putting various publications on the web. Various publications meaning ......... you name it. Sites are both for pay and free, and many have some free content and more available for a fee.

The current e-zines provide quite a selection of thought provoking articles, of course; many of them excellent. Suite101 and some other services provide space for articles and editorial content. Other sites are providing primary sources, and these are the ones that interest me. Reading the words of those who went and did has always been more interesting to me than reading the analysis after the fact, no matter how good that analysis is.

The War Times Journal, http://www.wtj.com/ has a broad selection that should have some appeal for a wide audience. Interested in WW I aviation? Try AFighting the Flying Circus@ by Edward Rickenbacker, or AThe Red Fighter Pilot@, by Manfred von Richthofen. Both are available in their entirety, as are nearly a dozen other memoirs by General John B. Hood, Admiral John Jellicoe, General James Longstreet, General William T. Sherman and others, lesser known, but equally interesting. This site also has an eclectic selection of orders, dispatches, and reports from Napoleon and his marshals, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Nelson, and others. The full memoirs are supplemented by several accounts of specific campaigns and naval battles. The site is free and is updated regularly.

The University of Kansas has a few military related books on line, among the rest of its library holdings, at: http://www.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/b...

A Soldier's Diary: The World War I Diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me - White, William Allen (1918) (U.S. Red Cross representatives in Europe.) My Life on the Plains - Custer, General George Armstrong (1874)

Not a whole bunch of military orientation at this site, but LOTS of other historical stuff. Most of it from the little guy's perspective.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/default.htm The US Army Center for Military History. The available resources here are growing regularly, and include some complete studies of various subjects, but the site primarily serves as an index for the hardcopies that the Center publishes.

The University of Pennsylvania hosts an on-line books page with a vast scope. http://digital.library.upenn.edu This site links to a multitude of other sites that have texts on-line, for the best possible one stop shopping.

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