War & Military
War Impressions
Read by Phil Benson
Mortimer Menpes
A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…
U.S. Marine Operations In Korea
Read by Aaron Bennett
Patricia Meid and James M. Yingling
In March 1952 the 1st Marine Division redeployed from the East-Central front to West Korea. This new sector, nearly 35 miles in length, anch…
A Magnificent Fight
Read by Aaron Bennett
Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman
It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…
Imperialism and World Politics
Read by Alister
Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Breaching the Marianas
Read by Aaron Bennett
John C. Chapin
The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…
Battle of New Orleans
Read by Jeffery
Reau Folk
Rather than being a synopsis of the Battle of New Orleans as a military victory, the book also touches upon the greater significance of the …
With the New Army on the Somme
Read by Ted Lienhart
Frederick Palmer
Frederick Palmer was already an experienced war correspondent when World War I began in 1914, as he had previously covered six wars, beginni…
Everyman at War
Read by Ted Lienhart
Charles B. Purdom
In 1929 editor C. B. Purdom of the British magazine 'Everyman' ... "invited readers to send him accounts of their actual (WW1) war exp…
Postage stamps of war
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Douglas B. Armstrong
A very brief introduction to postal stamps used and issued during times of war. The principal focus might be said to be placed upon the Grea…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
Read by Jim Locke
Charles H. Fowler
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
Breaking the Outer Ring
Read by Aaron Bennett
John C. Chapin
By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…
Bloody Beaches
Read by Aaron Bennett
Gordon D. Gayle
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…
Spies
Read by Mark Harrington
Joseph Gollomb
The author retells some of the great wartime spy stories from history, beginning with Biblical references and ending with World War I and Ma…
Life and Times of Joseph Warren
Read by Robert Morel
Richard Frothingham, Jr.
Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…
The Sailor's Word-book
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William Henry Smyth
A digest of sea terms and phrases, including flora, fauna, fish, fowl and fable of the sea, weaponry aboard ship, parts of a ship, qualities…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
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Henry C. Trumbull
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
Read by Leon Harvey
Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…