War & Military
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…
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
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…
A History of the Great War
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John Buchan
This is the second of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from the opening of the Dardenelles Campaign in Sept…
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.
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…
Hildebrand and his Times
Read by Pamela Nagami
William Richard Ward Stephens
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…
Washington and his Comrades in Arms
Read by Jim Locke
George Wrong
This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by G…
A History of Western Europe
Read by Pamela Nagami
Robert Balmain Mowat
The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and…
The Chronicles of America
Read by Jim Locke
Maud Wilder Goodwin
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…
The Age of Anne
Read by Pamela Nagami
Edward Ellis Morris
This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborou…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…
The Last Days of Pekin
Read by Peter Tucker
Pierre Loti
The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…
War the Creator
Read by Lee Smalley
Frank Gelett Burgess
Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee
Read by David Wales
Charles Todd Quintard
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …
A Social History of the American Negro
Read by Jim Locke
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
The Needs of Europe
Read by Ted Lienhart
Fight The Famine Council
In October 1920, the International Economic Conference in London gathered invitees to review post-war Europe's ravaged economies. Speakers i…
America's
Read by Ted Lienhart
Henry J. Reilly
"What part did we take in the Great War? Did we only lend money to our Allies, or did we really fight?" Henry …
The Captain Called It Mutiny
Read by Mark Harrington
Frederic Van De Water
On December 1, 1842, three crew members of the U.S. Navy brig Somers were hanged for mutiny. The alleged leader was eighteen-year-old Philip…
Opening Moves
Read by Aaron Bennett
Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
On 1 September 1939, German armored columns and attack aircraft crossed the Polish border on a broad front and World War II began. At Marin…
Outpost in the North Atlantic
Read by Aaron Bennett
James A. Donovan
A large volcanic island on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Iceland was strategically located for the air and naval control of the North Atlan…