War & Military
The Wound Dresser
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New…
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Read by FNH
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1
Read by Phil Griffiths
Archibald Forbes
The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts durin…
The General History of the Pyrates
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Captain Charles Johnson
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. …
Between the Lines
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Boyd Cable
This book, all of which has been written at the Front within sound of the German guns and for the most part within shell and rifle range, is…
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
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Benjamin Randell Harris
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary by Graham Keeling)
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
Read by Pamela Nagami
Eleanor Constance Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…
The Life of Charlemagne
Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Hodgkin
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…
Jesse James, My Father
Read by Barry Eads
Jesse James, Jr.
A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are treated to inside tales of Jesse's childhood and home life; what dro…
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
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Sarah Emma Edmonds
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on th…
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nu…
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International Military Tribunal
Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German WWII war criminals, the International …
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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Frederick A. Talbot
"Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War" is an interesting read of the beginnings of air warfare in World War I. Anyone interested in ea…
War
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…
South African Memories
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Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …
In the Field (1914-1915)
Read by FNH
Marcel Dupont
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…
Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs
Read by David Wales
William Tecumseh Sherman
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…
England and the Hundred Years' War
Read by Pamela Nagami
Charles William Chadwick Oman
This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English …
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front
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Kate John Finzi
"But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitter…