War & Violence
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REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE – Richard Harding Davis
“They ended up with zero skills in civilian fields, but they could kill other people, and getting paid was a bonus.“ Whenever in any part of the world a military conflict raged, the procedure of mercenaries invariably was the same. As adventurers with a fondness for violence, hairy situations, and thrill-seeking, they experienced face-to-face battle,…
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RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS and the enforcement of medieval groupthink (Illustrated) – M. Spitse
In this series of Medieval Ultra-Violence engravings Jan Luyken depicts the public tortures and executions of martyrs, heathens, witches, anabaptists and other opinionated folks who didn’t toe the partyline and refused to comply to the groupthink of those days. The intro and accompanying essays are by J-K Huysmans, James Anson Farrer, John Asheton, Thomas Bedworth,…
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QUANTRILL Civil War Guerrilla – John P. Burch
Less well known about the Civil War are the guerrilla campaigns in the West. Before the war, Kansas and Missouri had several raids across the border. Kansas was a free state, and Missouri was a slave state. Each side had its good points, and each side also had faults. The guerrilla campaigns was mostly Missouri…
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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (Illustrated) – Alice Morse Earle
Diverting, informative, sometimes bizarre… Just in case you needed a catalogue of examples demonstrating how horrible human beings are:Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was first published in 1896. It is a cool little history of public punishments in colonial America. We at Notoir Books have our personal reasons to publish this cute book. You can…
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VAUX: The Last Days of Fort Vaux – Henry Bordeaux
“Verdun…” Those two syllables that have already become historic ring out today like the brazen tones of a trumpet. Of the battle, of the victory of Verdun, here is a single episode: that of Fort Vaux, beleaguered for three months in March 1916 and lost for a brief space on June 7. The present work…
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16 Months in 4 German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben (The World At War) – F.A.A. Talbot
It’s bad to have to endure ONE German prison during the early 1900s, and then write a book about the experience. But the writer of this book had to live through FOUR prisons. So in a way you have in your hands four books, all rolled into one.At Notoir HQ we call that ‘a bargain’.…
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Sergeant York and his people: The true tale of the making of a man – Sam K. Cowan
From a log cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the trenches of Worldwar 1. He was untutored in the ways of the world, and – like so many other young men of his generation – had to learn the hard way. Caught by the…