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The Monomaniac (La bête humaine)

Read by Aaron Hackett


Émile Zola


A jealous husband sets out to murder his wife's lover, setting in motion an unstoppable series of events. Witness to the murder is a train d…

U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 5: Operations in West Korea

Read by Aaron Bennett


Patricia Meid and James M. Yingling


In March 1952 the 1st Marine Division redeployed from the East-Central front to West Korea. This new sector, nearly 35 miles in length, anch…

Of All Things (Version 2)

Read by Aaron Sproule


Robert C. Benchley


A collection of exaggerated stories about the common man. Dry and deadpan style of humor. Dedicated to my father, Michael Earl Sproule. (19…

A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

Read by Aaron Bennett


Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…

Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands

Read by Aaron Bennett


John C. Chapin


By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…

Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan

Read by Aaron Bennett


John C. Chapin


The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…

Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno

Read by Aaron Bennett


Bernard C. Nalty


On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…

Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons

Read by Aaron Bennett


Charles D. Melson


In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…

Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons

Read by Aaron Bennett


John C. Chapin


The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final n…

St. Cross College

Read by Laela Adamson, Shannon Keiley, Thad Parsons, Amy Yang, Quincy Prentice and Hsien Chan


Laela Adamson, Shannon Keiley, Thad Parsons, Amy Yang, Quincy Prentice and Hsie…


University of Oxford Podcasts

10 - Shaggy Man to the Rescue

In The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Read by Inga Parsons


L. Frank Baum


An unlucky Munchkin boy named Ojo must travel around Oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the Liquid of Petrifaction which has tu…

The Science Museum, London - an educational institution?

In St Cross Colloquia

Read by Thad Parsons III


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

XXXII THE CONTENTS OF THE COFFIN

In The Middle Temple Murder

Read by Aaron Benedict


J.S. Fletcher and J. S. Fletcher


The dead body of a man is found on the steps to some chambers of Middle Temple Lane, near London's law courts. A journalist and a young lawy…

Chapter I, Part 13

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01)

Read by Aaron Hochwimmer


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…

Chapter II, Part 4

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)

Read by Aaron Hochwimmer


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II.In this chapter we see the rest…

Chapter III, Part 13

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

Read by Aaron Hochwimmer


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

The Story of Roc, the Brazilian

In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Read by Aaron Teiser


Frank Richard Stockton and Frank R. Stockton


Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…

Chapter 41 - John Marches into the Night

In The Trumpet-Major

Read by Aaron Elliott


Thomas Hardy


Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers

In Specimen Days

Read by Aaron Elliott


Walt Whitman


Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

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