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: September 23, 2026
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Pimpernel and Rosemary
Baroness Orczy | History
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"Pimpernel and Rosemary is a novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, originally published in 1924. It is set after the First World War and features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy Blakeney).The action is mainly set amongst the disaffected Hungarian nobility in Transylvania, allowing Orczy to draw on her knowledge of...
The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War
Dame M. Columban | History
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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.
The Two Dianas: Volume 3
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...
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The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 8 [of 13]
Monstrelet | History
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The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 8 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries
Inside the Russian Revolution
Rheta Childe Dorr | History
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Inside the Russian Revolution by Rheta Childe Dorr
The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books
Mrs. Oliphant | History
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There is no place in the world of which it is less necessary to attempt description (or of which so many descriptions have been attempted) than the once capital of that world, the supreme and eternal city, the seat of empire, the home of the conqueror, the greatest human centre of power and influence which our race has ever known. Its history is...
South Africa; vol II.
Anthony Trollope | History
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South Africa; vol II. by Anthony Trollope
Africa and the American Flag
Andrew H. Foote | History
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This book is about the United States African Naval Squadron suppression of the slave trade on the West coast of Africa. The U.S. Navy recaptured Africans bound for slaves to the United States aboard American ships and resettled them in the American colony in Liberia.The Slave Trade, 1842-1861 was carried on by native Africans. Subjects-Slave-...
Through Colonial Doorways
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton | History
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The revival of interest in Colonial and Revolutionary times has become a marked feature of the life of to-day. Its manifestations are to be found in the literature which has grown up around these periods, and in the painstaking individual research being made among documents and records of the past with genealogical and historical intent.
The Two Dianas: Volume 2
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...
The Book of Gallant Vagabonds
Henry Beston | History
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The Book of Gallant Vagabonds by Henry Beston
A Gringo in Mañana-Land
Harry L. Foster | History
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This book covers various random wanderings in Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. It deals with a romance or two, a revolution or so, and a hodge-podge of personal experience. The incidents of the earlier chapters precede, while those of the later ones follow, the author’s vagabond journeys recorded in “The...
The Lone Swallows
Henry Williamson | History
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Along the trackless and uncharted airlines from the southern sun they came, a lone pair of swallows, arriving with weakly and uncertain flight from over the wastes of the sea. They rested on a gorse bush, their blue backs beautiful against the store of golden blossom guarded by the jade spikes.
The Truth About Congo Free State
F. Starr | History
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When I returned to America, I had decided to express no opinion upon the public and political questions of the Congo Free State. Having found conditions there quite different from what I had expected, it was impossible for me to state my actual impressions without danger of antagonizing or offending some whom I valued as friends. Hence, on...
The Mirror of the Graces
Unknown | History
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In discoursing on the degree of consequence, in the scale of creation, that may be allowed to the human body, two extremes are generally adopted. Epicureans, for obvious reasons, exalt our corporeal part to the first rank; and Stoics, by opposite deductions, degrade it to the last. But to neither of these opinions can the writer of these pages...
The River of London
Hilaire Belloc | History
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Through the flats that bound the North Sea and shelve into it imperceptibly, merging at last with the shallow flood, and re-emerging in distant sandbanks and less conspicuous shoals, run facing each other two waterways far inland, which are funnels and entries, as it were, scoured by the tide.
Winchester Painted
Telford Varley | History
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The following volume treats in somewhat fuller detail the Winchester sections of the larger work on Hampshire published last year under similar auspices. Where much of the ground traversed is identical much has been necessarily repeated, and a considerable portion of what follows is little more than an amplification of what has been already dealt...
