War & Military
Edward the First
Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) …
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McC…
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
Read by S S Kim
James Headlam-Morley
"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign
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John Henry Patterson
From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …
Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe
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William Wood
Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…
Revolt In The Desert
Read by Atul Sharma
T. E. Lawrence
Revolt in the Desert (1924) is a personal account by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) of the 2 year Arab Revolt during the Great War. Begi…
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Read by Katie Riley
Francis Key Howard
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…
Night Operations For Infantry - Compiled For The Use Of Company Officers (1916)
Read by David Wales
Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins
"It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and hav…
Life of Edward the Black Prince
Read by Pamela Nagami
Louise Creighton
Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Créc…
Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore
Read by David Wales
J. N. Gregory
Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from 1867 to 1889. It figured considerably in the Indian Wars, notably against the Comanch…
A Short History of Germany
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Mary Platt Parmele
Mary Platt Parmele brings to life the history of Germany and its rise to prominence in Europe. From scheming nobles to treaties created unde…
Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate Stat…
Read by David Wales
Various
Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies expla…
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409
Read by Pamela Nagami
Oscar Browning
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …
Maria Theresa
Read by Pamela Nagami
James Franck Bright
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…
The Martyrdom Of Belgium; Official Report Of Massacres Of Peaceable Citizens, W…
Read by David Wales
George Cooreman
The title says it all. World War I narratives of German activities in Belgium after the German invasion of this neutral country. - Summary b…
A History of the Great War, Volume One
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John Buchan
This is the first of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from its outbreak in the summer of 1914 to the campai…
The Fringes Of The Fleet
Read by David Wales
Rudyard Kipling
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…
The Sinking of the ''Merrimac''
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Richmond Pearson Hobson
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor …
Nothing of Importance
Read by Lee Smalley
John Bernard Pye Adams
Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experience…