War & Military
McClellan's Own Story
Read by Mike Manolakes
George Brinton Mcclellan and George Brinton McClellan
Memoirs of General George Brinton McClellan, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac during the early years of the American Civil War.…
Above the French Lines
Read by KevinS
Stuart Walcott
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first…
The History of Company A
Read by Paul Hampton
Samuel H. Fletcherandd. H. Fletcher and Samuel H. Fletcher And D. H. Fletcher
The purpose of this sketch is to keep green the memory of that little band of men known as Company A, of the Second Illinois Cavalry, who fo…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…
Into The Valley Of Death
Read by David Wales
Various
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…
Toxophilus
Read by Clive Catterall
Roger Ascham
Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution
Read by Pamela Nagami
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…
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…
The Renaissance and the Reformation
Read by Pamela Nagami
Emmeline Tanner
Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia
Read by David Wales
Joseph P. Cullen
Richmond, Virginia, was the capital of The Confederacy during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. It was the focus of two military campaigns…
Captain John Smith
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
Captain John Smith is probably best known for his association with the colonization of Virginia from the early days of Jamestown, and his ex…
A History of the Great War
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John Buchan
This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…
A Voice From The Main Deck
Read by Barry Eads
Samuel Leech
Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few wh…
First From the Front
Read by Steve C
Harold Ashton
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
The Winnowing Fan
Read by David Wales
Robert Laurence Binyon
This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…
News From No Man's Land
Read by David Wales
James Green
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…