War & Military

Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front

Read by MaryAnn


Kate John Finzi


"But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitter…

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…

England and the Hundred Years' War

Read by Pamela Nagami


Charles William Chadwick Oman


This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English …

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

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Jefferson Davis


The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

Ice March - Ледяной поход

Read by Mark Chulsky


Roman Gul


Роман Гуль «Ледяной поход (С Корниловым)». Воспоминания о первом походе Добровольческой армии генерала Корнилова на Кубань, её д…

Five Months at Anzac

Read by Annise


Joseph Lievesley Beeston


A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…

The Normans in European History

Read by Pamela Nagami


Charles Homer Haskins


Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

Read by Kevin Green


Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston and Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley


Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

Aircraft and Submarines

Read by William Tomcho


Willis J. Abbot


"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Als…

In the Line of Battle

Read by Lee Smalley


Walter Wood


“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…

Captain Cook

Read by Pamela Nagami


Walter Besant


James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …

The Petticoat Commando

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Johanna Brandt


In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell

Read by Lee Smalley


Ernest Protheroe


The Martyrdom of Man

Read by Algy Pug



William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—who…

Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution

Read by David Wales


United States Army Staff Judge Advocate


Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tri…

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

Read by Celine Major


James Ford Rhodes


Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…

The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

Read by Pamela Nagami


Beatrice A. Lees


Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…

A Rebel's Recollections

Read by Lee Smalley


George Eggleston


George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…

Observations of an Orderly

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Ward Muir


Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…

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