Best Free History Books of 2026
Here are the 20 most popular free History ebooks on Free-eBooks.net for 2026, ranked by reader rating and download volume — every title is free to download.
Last updated: June 28, 2022
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Mount Olympus Ancient Sites, Museums, Monasteries and Churches
Jürgen Weidner | History
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This book provides the reader detailed information about the ancient sites, the museums, the monasteries and churches around Mount Olympus in Greece. The area has to offer much more than sun, beaches and mountains. It had an important part of Greek history. It was here were Alexander the Great was born and later tutored by Aristoteles. From here...
Historical Characters in the Reign of Queen Anne
Mrs. Oliphant | History
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THE reign of Queen Anne is one of the most illustrious in English history. In literature it has been common to call it the Augustan age. In politics it has all the interest of a transition period, less agitating, but not less important, than the actual era of revolution. In war, it is, with the exception of the great European wars of the...
News from No Man's Land
James Green | History
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For reasons known to the men of the Australian Imperial Force, I am always interested in meeting others who wear the green badge on their arm. A good soldier is always as proud of the colours he wears on his shoulder as the colours he wears on his breast. He knows that each brigade and battalion possesses a soul of its own, and he is proud to...
Bring the Jubilee
Ward Moore | History
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Granpa lost an arm on the Great Retreat to Philadelphia after the fall of Washington to General Lee’s victorious Army of Northern Virginia, so his war ended some six months before the capitulation at Reading and the acknowledgment of the independence of the Confederate States on July 4, 1864. One-armed and embittered, Granpa came home to...
The Guns of Tomaree
Joseph Michael Smith | History
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Details of the six-inch guns and fortifications, constructed in 1942 to protect Port Stephens NSW Australia. Co-authored with Graeme Steinbeck.
To Kumassi with Scott
Adrian Musgrave | History
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An accurate and entertaining account of Sir Francis Scott’s Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96, vividly portraying the killing fields, the treachery and the debauchery that characterised this gold-rich outpost of the Empire and the ultimate submission of the vicious despot, King Prempeh.
Cavalry Curt: Or, The Wizard Scout of the Army
George Waldo Browne | History
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This juvenile dime novel, first published in 1892, tells the story of “Cavalry Curt,” a Union scout trying to survive in Confederate territory during Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Mara Morland, a young woman whose brother is both a Confederate soldier and an old school friend of Curt. Much of the narrative focuses on Mara’s efforts to...
A History of Limmer -Person, Place and Thing
Brian E. R. Limmer | History
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The story of Limmer is a fanfare to common man. Limmers are among the backbone of society. They are not always noticed at first, but dig just beneath the skin of society and they will be there. . . Early Saxon Limmers meet basic needs of local society by building ponds; Later Limmers lay pipes and ducts. Early Limmers felled trees and cleared...
Lucian's True History
of Samosata Lucian | History
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Oneida County: An Illustrated History
Oneida County Historical Society | History
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Historic Oneida County: An Illustrated History tells the story of one of upstate New York's most historic regions. Utica is the county seat and the population focal point of the Oneida Region. The book is commissioned by the Oneida County Historical Society and was written by a collaboration of local historians: Joseph P. Bottini, Joan...
The Two Dianas: Volume 1
ALEXANDRE DUMAS | History
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The claim of Alexandre Dumas to be considered first among historical romancists, past or present, can hardly be disputed; and his magic pen finds abundant, rich material for the historical setting of the tale told in the following pages. The period in which the action of "The Two Dianas" is supposed to take place, covers the later years of Henri...
A Sheaf of Bluebells
Baroness Orczy | History
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this...
Sidelights on Negro Soldiers
Charles H. Williams | History
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Published in 1923, Williams discusses the conditions that black soldiers in the United States dealt with during the first world war. Williams also discusses camp life, pay, the 92nd and 93rd Divisions and time in Europe.
From Here to Forever
Ellen G. White | History
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From Here to Forever succinctly responds to questions of life's journey, the mysteries of the past and the great forever. When emperors, kings, and priests sought to defile and destroy the city of God with idolatry and persecution, God’s eye never for a moment abandoned the building and his workmen. In the face of gaping prisons, torture, and...
Es war nicht Bubenberg!
Michael Gauger | History
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Anmerkungen, Belege und Bildergalerie zum wahren Sieger der Murtenschlacht von 1476: Wilhelm Herter zu Hertneck"Sieger der Schlacht von Murten" vom 22. Juni 1476 war nicht, wie so oft kolportiert, Adrian von Bubenberg, sondern vielmehr der schwäbische Ritter WILHELM HERTER ZU HERTNECK. Er war der gewählte Bundeshauptmann und siegreiche Feldherr...
Friendly counsels for freedmen
J. B. Waterbury | History
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We welcome all who have come out of bondage to the privileges of freemen. Providence has unloosed your fetters. The war has been made use of by the Almighty to bring about this great change in your condition. We hope you will remember this; and when you pray, you must not forget to give him thanks for your freedom.
The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians
Edwin Robert Walker | History
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In that pleasant district of North America formerly known as Nova Caesarea or New Jersey, and latterly as New Jersey, there extended in ancient times a large forest covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and plains which lie between the Atlantic Ocean and the river Delaware.
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett | History
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It would have been impossible, within the limits of this little book, to narrate, even in barest outline, all the events of the Queen’s long life and reign. In attempting to deal with so large a subject in so short a space, I have therefore thought it best to dwell on what may be considered the formative influences on the Queen’s character in...
The American Navy
French Ensor Chadwick | History
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The navy in all countries has ever been, and, as far as we can now judge, ever will be, a preëminent instrument of government. It was through her navy that Greece destroyed the power of Persia; Rome that of Carthage; the allies at Lepanto that of the Turks; England that of Holland and later that of France in America; the navy of France, in turn...
