War & Military
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…
A Rebel's Recollections
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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'
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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…
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
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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
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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 …
Bismarck
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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…
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
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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…
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
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Henry Inman
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late …
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3
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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…
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…
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 …
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
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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 Crusades
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George William Cox
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin…
Queen Elizabeth
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Mandell Creighton
"The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a…
A Soldier Of The Legion;An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Alg…
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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…
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
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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…
War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base
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Basil Hughes
One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for…