The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
William Sowden Sims served as Commander of US Naval Forces in European waters during World War I. He won the Pulitzer Prize in history for 1921 for this book, "The Victory at Sea," an authoritative account of the US Navy's role in the First World War. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.