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The Prussian Officer
Read by Cate Barratt
D. H. Lawrence
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…
The Vanished Messenger
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…
The Lieutenant and Others
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Sapper
This is a volume of short stories by Herman Cyril McNeile, better known by his pseudonym "Sapper", who is well-known until today f…
The Mountebank
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …
Something New
Read by Debra Lynn
P. G. Wodehouse
When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willi…
The Return of the Soldier
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Rebecca West
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…
R D. Wingfield Better Never Than Late
With Leslie Sands as Inspector Chew 'Twelve years ago the Force was my life - but things change. Twelve years ago while I was looking for a …
Darnley
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…
One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo
Read by Mike Harris
G. A. Henty
A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp
Read by David Wales
Pat O'Brien
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)
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…
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service
Read by David Wales
Laurence Clarke
What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary…
The Shadow of the North
Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan
Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Shadow of the North," while an independent story, in itself, is also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War ser…
The Wrong Letter
Read by Yoganandh T
Walter S. Masterman
The Home Secretary is found murdered. Even more bizarre is that the fact is communicated to the Scotland Yard before the commission of the d…
A Man of Honor
Read by Roger Melin
George Eggleston
New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-establishe…
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
The Box with the Broken Seals
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equa…
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
Read by laineyben
Sax Rohmer
Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they s…
The Three Commanders
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William Henry Giles Kingston
Terence, Jack, and Alick met as boys at a boarding school, and later entered the Navy together. While sailing with different ships, their pa…