Borodino Books imprint: 122 books

In A Year’s Campaigning in India, which was first published in 1858, author Julius George Medley provides the reader with a vivid account of the events—and the distinguished part he took—in March 1857 through to March 1858 during the India Rebellion. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857...

A fascinating view of the Crimean War from an aide to the controversial Stratford Canning, ambassador ambassador to the Ottoman empire. Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, KG, GCB, PC (1786-1880) was a British diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador...

One of the cherished beliefs of those who do not know is that the logistical services of the Army lead a safe and boring life, even in the combat zone. The Combat Engineers and the Signal Corps began to cloud this belief in World War I. The Medical Corps, the Chemical Corps and the Bomb Disposal...

Begun in 1914 and first published in 1927, these are the memoirs of General Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, a British Army officer who served, in the Sudan, Ireland and most notably the Second Boer War. He draws upon his reminiscences with the aid of correspondence with various members of his family...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION—FROM THE TSARS TO THE SOVIETS This economic, political, and social study by a distinguished Russian authority uses a wealth of contemporary evidence—state documents, memoirs, correspondence, statistics—to analyze “the forces which brought about the fall of the...

Constance Wright, whose Silver Collar Boy and A Chance for Glory have won her critical acclaim and a devoted audience here and abroad, has now written a fascinating biography of a patriot’s wife, Madame de Lafayette. With its delicate rendering of a woman’s emotion and a nation’s mood, this...

AUTHENTIC STORY OF THE “PEGLEG” AND 21 OTHER STORIES OF FABULOUS LOST MINES! Author Howard D. Clark, a Kansas native, had an extensive career in journalism with appointments including managing editor for the Farm Press Publications of Chicago, Illinois; staff writer for a number of business...

Professor Raymond de Roover received his MBA from Harvard University in June 1938, and it was during that summer that he, together with his wife, Florence Edler, an American scholar studying European economic history, photographed the records that would form the basis for this Medici Bank study. First...

Strange Sects and Curious Cults, first published in 1961, is a well-written overview of a number of important religious sects and cults. Author Marcus Bach divides these into three categories: the sex sects, conscience cults, and the utopianists. The first group includes ancient Baalism of...

Revised autobiography from the founder of the Coptic Fellowship of America, Hamid Bey who “by many scientists and students [was] considered to be an unusual, or superman,” but who believed his ability to put mind over matter, “unusual as it may be, [was] entirely the result of work and efficient...

No one knows how old the charming legends in this unusual book really are. By word of mouth they have been handed down from generation to generation among the Pahute Indians, one of the most ancient and primitive tribes on this continent, who settled centuries ago in what is now the state of Utah. In...

The explosive, true story of a man of God turned fighter pilot who fought and prayed his way through 300 combat missions and two wars. Author Dean E. Hess is the subject of this inspiring autobiography, Battle Hymn, first published in 1956, which tells of his experiences as a U.S. Air Force...

First published in 1962, this book is the follow-up to author Mouni Sadhu’s three previous works: “In Days of Great Peace”, “Concentration” and “Samadhi.” A noted Occultist and Mystic of the first half of the Twentieth Century, Sadhu tried many paths on the route to self-realization,...

“The aim of the present volume is to give a co-ordinated and coherent view of the “forest” rather than to describe in detail each particular “tree.” The student may then, as his leisure permits, and his tastes impel, study for himself the histories of the separate trees, bushes, thickets,...