War & Military
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
Read by Elsie Selwyn
William Pittenger
Written a year after the events, this is an eyewitness account of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. Early in the American Civil War, in Ap…
Gallipoli
Read by Ted Lienhart
John Masefield
John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termi…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844)
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Martin Van Buren
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,…
Israel and Hamas Conflict in Brief
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Jim Zanottiandjeremy M. Sharp
This short report, written for the Congressional Research Service with the aim of informing U.S. legislative debate, covers the Israel-Hamas…
My War Experiences in Two Continents
Read by Ted Lienhart
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…
Any Woman To A Soldier
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Grace Ellery Channing
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A Soldier by Grace Ellery Channing.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Novem…
Is War Diminishing?
Read by Leon Harvey
Frederick Adams Woods
A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to …
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1857 - 1860)
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James Buchanan
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,…
George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania, Books 1–3
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…
Germany Before the War
Read by Ted Lienhart
Napoleon-Eugène Beyens
Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…
High altars; the battle-fields of France and Flanders as I saw them
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
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
A Greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus
Read by Pamela Nagami
B. H. Liddell Hart
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (c. 236-c.183 B.C.) was one of the greatest military tacticians and strategists of all time. Only in his …
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea 1950-1953, Volume 4: The East-Central Front
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…
The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815
Read by Pamela Nagami
Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…