War & Military
George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania
Read by Alister
Marin Barleti
This is an early account of the life of George Castriot, Dominus Albaniae; An Albanian princeling and Ottoman military commander who rebelle…
A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity
Read by Steven Warner
Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen's account of his military exploits and subsequent captivity, riven with drama, adventure and humor. - Summary by Steven Warner
Cavour
Read by Pamela Nagami
Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…
High altars
Read by Victor Dorff
William Arthur Dunkerley
A first-hand account of World War I, with detailed descriptions of scenes from the front. - Summary by Victor Dorff
Sea-Power in the Pacific
Read by Alister
Hector Charles Bywater
During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict …
A Textbook of European History
Read by Pamela Nagami
Lionel Cecil Jane
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea
Read by Aaron Bennett
Lynn Montross, Norman W. Hicks and Hubard D. Kuokka
This is the fourth in a series of five volumes dealing with the operations of United States Marines in Korea during the period 2 August 1950…
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…
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
Read by Alister
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…
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…
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Read by Peter Dann
Thucydides
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Such may be the reaction of many listeners to Thucydides' compelling and rightly celebr…
A Life of Napoleon
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Ida M. Tarbell
Ida Tarbell is best known today as the investigative journalist whose pieces on workings of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of …
U.S. Marines In Afghanistan
Read by Aaron Bennett
Nathan S. Lowrey
This monograph is more than the story of Marine expeditionary operations in Afghanistan. It describes who our nation's enemies are; how Amer…
The Needs of Europe
Read by Ted Lienhart
Fight The Famine Council
In October 1920, the International Economic Conference in London gathered invitees to review post-war Europe's ravaged economies. Speakers i…
America's
Read by Ted Lienhart
Henry J. Reilly
"What part did we take in the Great War? Did we only lend money to our Allies, or did we really fight?" Henry …
The Captain Called It Mutiny
Read by Mark Harrington
Frederic Van De Water
On December 1, 1842, three crew members of the U.S. Navy brig Somers were hanged for mutiny. The alleged leader was eighteen-year-old Philip…
Opening Moves
Read by Aaron Bennett
Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
On 1 September 1939, German armored columns and attack aircraft crossed the Polish border on a broad front and World War II began. At Marin…
Outpost in the North Atlantic
Read by Aaron Bennett
James A. Donovan
A large volcanic island on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Iceland was strategically located for the air and naval control of the North Atlan…