War & Military
With the Anzacs in Cairo
Read by Adam Bielka
Guy Thornton
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …
The Early Hanoverians
Read by Pamela Nagami
Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) …
Read by David Wales
Wilkinson Dent Bird
One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
Builders of United Italy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Rupert S. Holland
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…
War Flying by a Pilot
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lessel Finer Hutcheon
Published in 1917, this "little volume of 'Theta’s' letters to his home people" was assembled to provide useful information for yo…
The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Eva March Tappan
This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume I
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mandell Creighton
Volume I of the "History of the Papacy" by the Anglican Lord Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, deals with the popes, princes, a…
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story
Read by Jeffery
John Worden
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…
Strange Stories Of The Civil War
Read by David Wales
Various
Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865
Read by John Greenman
Ward Hill Lamon
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…
Civil War Women, North And South
Read by David Wales
Various
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…
The County Regiment
Read by Epistomolus
Dudley Landon Vaill
A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War.
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France
Read by Jim Locke
William Bennett Munro
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…
Untimely Papers
Read by Ben Adams
Randolph Silliman Bourne
This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…