War & Military
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mandell Creighton
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
Read by Pamela Nagami
George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
With Porter in the Essex
Read by Barry Eads
James Otis
The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…
The Soldiers' Recessional
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John Huston Finley
Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribn…
State of the Union Addresses
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Grover Cleveland
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
France, Spain and the Rif
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Walter Burton Harris
The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a terr…
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." - S…
State of the Union Addresses
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Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Canada in War-Paint
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Ralph W. Bell
There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souv…
Imperialism and World Politics
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Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
War Prison Diary
Read by Barry Eads
Michael Dougherty
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
Cromwell's Place in History
Read by Pamela Nagami
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
In the autumn of 1896, the renowned historian of the 17th century, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, delivered six lectures on "Cromwell's Place …
Everyman at War
Read by Ted Lienhart
Charles B. Purdom
In 1929 editor C. B. Purdom of the British magazine 'Everyman' ... "invited readers to send him accounts of their actual (WW1) war exp…
Yorkshire Battles
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Edward Lamplough
Edward Lamplough describes 22 battles that all occurred in Yorkshire over many time periods and political contexts. - Summary by lightcryst…
Speeches of Prince Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck and Otto Von Bismarck
A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…
State of the Union Addresses
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Grover Cleveland
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
State of the Union Addresses
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William Mckinley
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
War Impressions
Read by Phil Benson
Mortimer Menpes
A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…
U.S. Marine Operations In 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…
A Magnificent Fight
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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…