War & Military

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…

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…

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

Read by David Wales


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

An Explorer in the Air Service

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Hiram Bingham


Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…

Le Saint Évangile selon Saint Marc

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, Translated Bylouis-Isaac Lemaistre De Sacy and Translated Bylouis-Isaac Lemaistre De Sacy


« Lorsque la lumière éclatante du Verbe de Dieu se fut levée sur la ville de Rome, la parole de vérit&eacu…

Bismarck

Read by Pamela Nagami


Georges Lacour-Gayet


Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…

Hardtack and Coffee

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John Billings


Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer…

The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb

Read by David Wales


Various


These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…

Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son

Read by David Wales


Robert E. Lee, Jr.


The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army …

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Friedrich Schiller


The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting …

Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life

Read by David Wales


Henry Inman


This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late …

Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front

Read by Clive Catterall


E. W. Hornung


In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was onl…

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

Read by Jim Locke


Alfred Thayer Mahan


The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role…

A Woman's Experiences in the Great War

Read by Expatriate


Louise Mack


An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…

A Soldier Of The Legion;An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Alg…

Read by David Wales


George Manington


An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…

Brown Book of the Hitler Terror

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Dudley Leigh Aman Marley


The Brown Book was the first English publication to detail events which were currently happening in occupied Germany in 1933; book-burning a…

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