War & Military Fiction

Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.7
This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World Wa…

The White Company

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Clive Catterall 4.8
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a kni…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.9
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …

The Search

by Grace Livingston Hill Read by LikeManyWaters 4.7
“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…

The Amazing Interlude

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by MaryAnn 4.8
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby a…

The Tiger of Mysore

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.8
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.5
The Earth Alliance prepares itself for a new war. Two old enemy's have allied themselves with Regal, the planet the Arwen saved two years ea…

The Blockade Runners

by Jules Verne Read by Mark F. Smith 4.4
Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the …

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

Diary of a U-boat Commander

by Stephen King-Hall Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of cl…

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.8
Volume 2 of The d'Artagnan Romances begins twenty years after "The Three Musketeers." Since then, d'Artagnan's career has stagnate…

One of the 28th

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
One of the 28th transports listeners to the tumultuous era of the Napoleonic Wars, where valor and romance intertwine amidst the chaos of ba…

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy Read by MaryAnn 4.8
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…

One of Ours

by Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime …

The Zeppelin's Passenger

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.5
The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England w…

The Secret World Chronicle

by Mercedes Lackey Read by Mercedes Lackey 4.4
Emerging mysteriously during World War II, metahumans became icons of the best - and worst - humanity had to offer. Yet sixty years later, t…

The Naval Officer

by Frederick Marryat Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Naval Officer is Frederick Marryat's vivid portrayal of life at sea, drawing heavily from his own experiences as a midshipman. Set again…

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
A youth, caught up in patriotic fervor and dreams of glory, enlists in the Union Army. In his first battle, though, he runs away. Deeply ash…

At Agincourt

by G. A. Henty Read by Mike Harris 4.7
The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

The Vanished Messenger

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…

1 2 3 4 5 6 >