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Wongo And The Wise Old Crow
Read by David Wales
Grace Moon
Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales
Two American Slavery Documents
Read by David Wales
James Mars
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Read by David Wales
Harry La Tourette Foster
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
A Christmas Miscellany 2021
Read by David Wales
Various
Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christm…
A Soldier's Diary
Read by David Wales
Ralph Scott
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
Read by David Wales
Frederick Herman Tilberg
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
Read by David Wales
Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…
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 …
South-Sea Idyls
Read by David Wales
Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873)…
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennys…
Read by David Wales
Various
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
The Chinese Dragon
Read by David Wales
Luther Newton Hayes
The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…
Religio Journalistici
Read by David Wales
Christopher Morley
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wale…
Still - William
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
News From No Man's Land
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James Green
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…
The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War
Read by David Wales
Dame M. Columban
“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypre…
Dog: A Selection of Stories
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Various
The title says it all: stories about dogs. - Summary by david wales
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…
Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…
William -- The Fourth
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …