Tales End Press: 27 books
Caesar
A History of the Art of War Among the Romans Down to the End of the Roman Empire, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of Caius Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
At the time of his death, Julius Caesar was the most powerful man on earth. Beginning with the Gallic Wars, he had fought a series of epic campaigns, culminating in the brutal civil war that brought the Roman Republic to an end and gave birth to the new Roman Empire. His battles ranged over much...
Gustavus Adolphus
A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many...
Generalship
Its Diseases and Their Cure
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Major-General J.F.C. Fuller has been called “the most brilliant, most stimulating, and most arrogant and aggravating military writer of the twentieth century.” This book helped end his military career, for in it he presents a devastating critique of the decline of Western military thought, and...
by Lawrence Beesley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Lawrence Beesley was one of the luckiest men on the Titanic. Although the word had been given, “women and children first,” he was nevertheless ordered into a lifeboat to make up the numbers. At the end of that fateful night he stepped, dry and physically unharmed, onto the deck of the rescuing...
by Eddie Rickenbacker
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
One of the best first-hand accounts of air combat in World War I, by an American “ace of aces.” Eddie Rickenbacker had an extraordinary career: inventor, race car driver, fighter ace, Medal of Honor winner, and finally president of Eastern Air Lines. In this book he recounts how he achieved 26...
A History of the Art of War
The Middle Ages from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Sir Charles Oman brings medieval warfare to life in this epic work of military history. He traces the evolution of weaponry, strategy and tactics from the end of the Roman legions to the final battlefield dominance of the armored knight. Many conflicts are discussed in depth, including those of the...
by Benson John Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The fifty-six signers of America's Declaration of Independence risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to found a new country. In this clazzic work, Benson J. Lossing describes the lives of each of the founding fathers, their greatest achievements, and what impelled them...
by Arrian, Edward James Chinnock
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Arrian's history of Alexander the Great is our most complete and reliable account of the world's greatest conqueror. Writing in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD, Arrian was a Greek historian, philosopher, and military commander. For this work, also known as “The Anabasis of Alexander,”...
Hannibal
A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., With a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Hannibal was one of the greatest military commanders in history. During the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, he led a ragtag army out of Iberia, on an epic march over the Pyrenees and Alps, and down into northern Italy. There he won three dramatic victories – at Trebia, Trasimene, and...
by Archibald Gracie
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Although he survived the sinking by seven months, it was the Titanic that killed Colonel Archibald Gracie. His struggles in the icy waters of the North Atlantic had shattered his constitution, and the awful things he had seen on that fateful night left him a haunted man. One observer said he had the...
507 Mechanical Movements
Mechanisms and Devices
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Over five hundred mechanisms and devices from the first century of the Industrial Revolution. Starting from simple pulleys and levers, this clazzic book works its way through basic engineering principles to Otis’s elevator safety stop, Colt’s revolver action, and Ferguson’s mechanical paradox...
Wife No. 19
The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
The true story behind David Ebershoff’s bestseller “The 19th Wife”!
by Logan Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This is one of the first and most famous books published after the sinking of the Titanic, and contains much material from contemporary newspaper accounts. It was written by Logan Howard-Smith (under the pen name of Logan Marshall), an editor who specialized in the rapid publication of books about...
by Vegetius, John Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Also known as “De Re Militari” (On Military Matters), this is the only handbook of Roman warfare to survive to modern times. Written when the power of the Roman empire was already waning, it was intended to educate a new emperor on the capabilities of the Roman legions. Vegetius touches on all...
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