War & Military

Eighteen Months in the War Zone

by Kate John Finzi Read by MaryAnn 4.6
In "Eighteen Months in the War Zone," Kate John Finzi offers a poignant memoir of her experiences during a tumultuous period of co…

Ice March

by Roman Gul Read by Mark Chulsky 4.1
Роман Гуль «Ледяной поход (С Корниловым)». Воспоминания о первом походе Добровольческой армии генерала Корнилова на Кубань, её д…

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

by Jefferson Davis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

Five Months at Anzac

by Joseph Lievesley Beeston Read by Annise 4.2
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…

The Normans in European History

by Charles Homer Haskins Read by Pamela Nagami 4.9
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

by Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley and Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston And Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley Read by Kevin Green 4.8
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

Aircraft and Submarines

by Willis J. Abbot Read by William Tomcho 4.7
"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Als…

In the Line of Battle

by Walter Wood Read by Lee Smalley 4.5
“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…

Captain Cook

by Walter Besant Read by Pamela Nagami 4.6
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …

The Petticoat Commando

by Johanna Brandt Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

A Noble Woman

by Ernest Protheroe Read by Lee Smalley 4.4
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldie…

The Martyrdom of Man

Read by Algy Pug 4.6
William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—who…

History of the Civil War

by James Ford Rhodes Read by Celine Major 4.4
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…

The Central Period of the Middle Age

by Beatrice A. Lees Read by Pamela Nagami 4.7
Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

A Rebel's Recollections

by George Eggleston Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…

A Visit to Three Fronts

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…

Observations of an Orderly

by Ward Muir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…

Le Saint Évangile selon Saint Marc

by , Translated Bylouis-Isaac Lemaistre De Sacy, Translated Bylouis-Isaac Lemaistre De Sacy and Translated By Louis-Isaac Lemaistre De Sacy Read by pejuga 4.2
« Lorsque la lumière éclatante du Verbe de Dieu se fut levée sur la ville de Rome, la parole de vérit&eacu…

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read by David Wales 3.4
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

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