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• Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500-2000 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2013), ed. by Erik Jan Zürcher
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• The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1913), by Dorothea Gerard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Zur geschichte des militärischen lebens in den armeen Napoleons I. (E.S. Mittler und Sohn, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das deutsche Militär in der Karikatur. (H. Schmidts Verlag, 1907), by Franz Conring (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of the life and sufferings of William B. Lighton containing an interesting and faithful account of his early life, and enlistment into the British army ; his experience while in the service, and escape from his regiment ; capture, imprisonment, trial, and condemnation to death ; his subsequent sufferings, and final escape from captivity, and settlement in the United States (s.n.], 1846), by William B. Lighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life and sufferings of William B. Lighton, (minister of the gospel) who was a soldier, bound for life in the British army and in which is contained an account of its character, and the barbarous method practised in punishing their soldiers : with an interesting account of his escape from his regiment, his capture, imprisonment, trial, and condemnation to death, his subsequent sufferings, and final escape from captivity, and from the British Dominions (W.B. Lighton, 1838), by William B. Lighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life and sufferings of a young British captive, William B. Lighton (minister of the gospel) who was a soldier, bound for life in the British army and in which is contained an account of its character, and the barbarous method practised in punishing their soldiers : with an interesting account of his escape from his regiment, his capture, imprisonment, trial and condemnation to death, his subsequent sufferings, and final escape from captivity, and from the British dominions (W.B. Lighton, 1836), by William B. Lighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace, war, and mutiny (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881), by John Alexander Ewart (page images at HathiTrust)

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• CFE : Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. (U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1989), by United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les armées des puissances, directement ou indirectement engagées dans la question d'Orient : statistiques militaires (C. Tanera, 1855), by Ed. de La Barre Duparcq (page images at HathiTrust)
• NATO subcommittee 1980 trip report ; report of the Special Subcommittee on Nato Standardization, Interoperability, and Readiness to the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by Interoperability United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Nato Standardization (page images at HathiTrust)
• Today's Army in Europe ([Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army], 1974), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization : history of common budget cost shares (The Office, 1998), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• NATO : implications of European integration for allies' defense spending : report to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate (The Office, 1999), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense (page images at HathiTrust)

• Treaty between the Twenty Two Sovereign Nations on the Reduction of their Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. (On-Site Agency, 1990), by United States. On-Site Inspection Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) (The Commission, 1997), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, November 4, 13, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flank Document agreement to the CFE Treaty : message from the President of the United States transmitting the document agreed among the States parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) of November 19, 1990, adopted at Vienna on May 31, 1996 ("The Flank Document"); the Flank Document is annex A of the final document of the first CFE Review Conference. (U.S. G.P.O., 1997), by United States. (1990), United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flank Document agreement to the CFE Treaty : report together with additional views (to accompany Treaty doc. #105-5). (U.S. G.P.O., 1997), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flank Document agreement to the CFE Treaty : report together with additional views (to accompany Treaty doc. #105-5). (U.S. G.P.O., 1997), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Document agreed among the states parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 19, 1990 : message from the President of the United States transmitting certification with respect to the resolution of advice and consent to ratification on ... ("The Flank Document"), adopted by the Senate of the United States on May 14, 1997. (U.S. G.P.O., 1997), by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton), Bill Clinton, and United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les armées européennes (Delagrave, 1877), by H. Barthélemy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Muslims and minorities in the military : changing demographics in the OSCE region and implications for Europe's security sector : July 26, 2017, briefing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. (Washington : Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 2017., 2017), by United States Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)

• NATO/MOUs : hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, hearing held April 29, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)

• European adaptation to expeditionary warfare : implications for the U.S. Army (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2002), by Andrew M. Dorman and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atlante militare : organizzazione, uniforme e distintivi degli eserciti e delle armate d'Europa (U. Hoepli, 1890), by Quinto Cenni (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook on the satellite armies. (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1960) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opposing forces, Europe. (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1977), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union's common security and defense policy : intersecting trajectories (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), by Sarwar A. Kashmeri and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strategicheskīi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ avstrīĭskikh voennykh li︠u︡deĭ o voĭni︠e︡ Avstrīi s Rossīei︠u︡ : sbornik izvlechenīĭ i perevodov s ni︠e︡met︠s︡kago : s kartoi︠u︡ (Tip. t-va "Obshchestvennai︠a︡ polʹza", 1873), by Gen. sht. podpolkovnik Bogoliubov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Considʹerations sur les ʹecrits qui ont paru sur la dʹefense de la Belgique (Imprimerie de G. Stapleaux, 1850), by L. Vandevelde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sbornik novi͡eĭshikh svi͡edi͡enīĭ o vooruzhennykh silakh inostrannykh gosudarstv : Shvet͡sīi͡a i Norvegīi͡a, Danīi͡a, Belʹgīi͡a, Gollandīi͡a, Shveĭt͡sarīi͡a, Italīi͡a i Frant͡sīi͡a. (Voennak͡a Tipografīi͡a (v zdanīi Glavnago Shtaba), 1903), by Russia. Armii͡a. Voenno-uchenyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sbornik novi͡eĭshikh svi͡edi͡enīĭ o vooruzhennykh silakh inostrannykh gosudarstv : Shvet͡sīi͡a i Norvegīi͡a, Danīi͡a, Belʹgīi͡a, Gollandīi͡a, Shveĭt͡sarīi͡a, Italīi͡a i Frant͡sīi͡a. (Voennak͡a Tipografīi͡a (v zdanīi Glavnago Shtaba), 1903), by Russia. Armii͡a. Voenno-uchenyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sbornik novi͡eĭshikh svi͡edi͡enīĭ o vooruzhennykh silakh inostrannykh gosudarstv : Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki, Shvet͡sīi͡a i Norvegīi͡a, Danīi͡a, Shveĭt͡sarīi͡a i Frant͡sīi͡a. (Voennak͡a Tipografīi͡a (v zdanīi Glavnago Shtaba), 1902), by Russia. Armii͡a. Voenno-uchenyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Development of the Baltic armed forces in light of multinational deployments (Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, [2013], 2013), by James S. Corum, Army War College (U.S.). Press, and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• K voennomu voprosy Finli͡andīi. ([n.p., 1910), by M. Borodkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der ausserordentliche finnländische Landtag 1899. Die Antwortschreiben der Stände auf die Kaiserlichen Vorlagen über die Umgestaltung des finnländischen Heerwesens. Übersetzung des Originaltextes nebst einer Vorbemerkung. (Duncker & Humblot, 1900), by Finland. Valtiopäivät 1809-1906 and Fritz Heinrich Arnheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reply of the Finnish Estates : adopted at the Extraordinary diet of 1899 to the proposals of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, grand duke of Finland, for a new military service law in Finland. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1900), by Finland (Grand Duchy). Lantdagen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Constitution militaire de la France; étude sur les modifications à apporter au système de nos forces de terre et de mer, tant pour opérer les progrès devenus nécessaires, que pour diminuer les dépenses, sans que la puissance nationale en soit altérée. (Librairie militaire de J. Dumaine, 1849), by Henri Joseph Paixhans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sbornik novi͡eĭshikh svi͡edi͡enīĭ o vooruzhennykh silakh inostrannykh gosudarstv : Shvet͡sīi͡a i Norvegīi͡a, Danīi͡a, Belʹgīi͡a, Gollandīi͡a, Shveĭt͡sarīi͡a, Italīi͡a i Frant͡sīi͡a. (Voennak͡a Tipografīi͡a (v zdanīi Glavnago Shtaba), 1903), by Russia. Armii͡a. Voenno-uchenyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sbornik novi͡eĭshikh svi͡edi͡enīĭ o vooruzhennykh silakh inostrannykh gosudarstv : Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki, Shvet͡sīi͡a i Norvegīi͡a, Danīi͡a, Shveĭt͡sarīi͡a i Frant͡sīi͡a. (Voennak͡a Tipografīi͡a (v zdanīi Glavnago Shtaba), 1902), by Russia. Armii͡a. Voenno-uchenyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chronologie militaire de France depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie (Paris : Au Bureau des annales militaires, 1851-, 1851), by M. Pinard and Christian Pitois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Joinville, L'oeuvre de (Lavauzelle, 1909), by Émile Louis François Désiré Coste (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tous soldats : conscrits, soldats, réservistes, territoriaux (Charavay, Mantoux, Martin, 1892), by Charles Leser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Xin jun lun (Shang wu yin shu guan, 1924), by M. Jaures, Shishao Liao, and Wendao Liu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg (6th edition, in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: J. G. Cotta, 1913), by Friedrich von Bernhardi
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• Germany and the Next War (1912), by Friedrich von Bernhardi, trans. by Allen H. Powles (Gutenberg text)
• Germany's War Mania: The Teutonic Point of View As Officially Stated by Her Leaders, A Collection of Speeches and Writings (London: A. W. Shaw Co., 1914), contrib. by German Emperor William II, Crown Prince of Germany William, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Bernhard Bülow, Friedrich von Bernhardi, Colmar Goltz, Carl von Clausewitz, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Hans Delbrück (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Germany's War Mania: The Teutonic Point of View As Officially Stated by Her Leaders, A Collection of Speeches and Writings (Toronto: W. Briggs; London: A. W. Shaw Co., 1914), contrib. by German Emperor William II, Crown Prince of Germany William, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Bernhard Bülow, Friedrich von Bernhardi, Colmar Goltz, Carl von Clausewitz, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Hans Delbrück (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Germany's War Mania: The Teutonic Point of View As Officially Stated by Her Leaders, A Collection of Speeches and Writings (second edition; London: A. W. Shaw Co., 1914), contrib. by German Emperor William II, Crown Prince of Germany William, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Bernhard Bülow, Friedrich von Bernhardi, Colmar Goltz, Carl von Clausewitz, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Hans Delbrück (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Germany's War Mania: The Teutonic Point of View As Officially Stated by Her Leaders, A Collection of Speeches and Writings (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., ca. 1915), contrib. by German Emperor William II, Crown Prince of Germany William, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Bernhard Bülow, Friedrich von Bernhardi, Colmar Goltz, Carl von Clausewitz, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Hans Delbrück (page images at HathiTrust)
• Konfessionelle Militärstatistik. (Mohr, 1917), by R. E. May (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Tätigkeit und die Erfolge der deutschen Feldärzte im Weltkriege : zugleich Einleitung zu dem "Handbuch der ärztlichen Erfahrungen im Weltkriege" (J.A. Barth, 1920), by Otto von Schjerning (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sbornik novi͡eĭshikh svi͡edi͡enīĭ o vooruzhennykh silakh inostrannykh gosudarstv : Germanīi͡a. (Voennak͡a Tipografīi͡a (v zdanīi Glavnago Shtaba), 1903), by Russia. Armii͡a. Voenno-uchenyĭ komitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook on German military forces. (The Military Press, 1971), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die neue Militärvorlage; geschichtilich und statistisch erläutert, militärisch und wirtschaftlich beleuchtet. ("Fortschritt, 1890), by Eugen Richter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue Quartierliste des gesammten deutschen Heeres in tabellarischer Uebersicht nebst Eintheilung der Regimenter, Organisation und Stärke ... (J. Schlesier, 1870), by Germany. Heer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The German war machine an account of the inside workings of the most stupendous and efficient system ever devised by man for warfare and secret diplomatic intelligence (McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1914), by Armgaard Karl Graves (page images at HathiTrust)

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