War & Military

War the Creator

Read by Lee Smalley


Frank Gelett Burgess


Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…

The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson

Read by Jim Locke


Maud Wilder Goodwin


Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03

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." - Su…

A History of the Great War, Volume Two

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


John Buchan


This is the second of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from the opening of the Dardenelles Campaign in Sept…

The Last Days of Pekin

Read by Peter Tucker


Pierre Loti


The author was an officer in the French navy. This book is a compilation of his experiences when stationed in China in 1900 during and immed…

Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1…

Read by David Wales


Susan R. Jervey


Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlott…

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

Read by David Wales


Charles Todd Quintard


Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

The U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal 2007 – 2011

Read by adamkoebel


Various


The Iraq War has been the costliest U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War. To date, few official studies have been conducted to review what ha…

The Later Middle Ages: A History of Western Europe 1254-1494

Read by Pamela Nagami


Robert Balmain Mowat


The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and…

Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl

Read by Claus Misfeldt


Egon Erwin Kisch


Der Fall "Redl" erregte im Jahr unmittelbar vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges großes Aufsehen in der österreichischen…

From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts

Read by DrPGould


Bruce Bairnsfather


This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's rec…

The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla

Read by Pamela Nagami


A. H. Beesly


During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…

Memories of the Civil War

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Henry B. James


Henry B James enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 20, and fought in many of the key battles of the Civil War. Thirty years later, he wr…

My Story of the Civil War and the Under-Ground Railroad

Read by J Denning


Marvin Benjamin Butler


Story of the Civil War as told by a private soldier's perspective of daily routines, challenges, anxieties, skirmishes, battle. (summary by …

The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France

Read by Jim Locke


George Wrong


The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…

The Aeroplane in War

Read by Jim Locke


Claude Grahame-White


"Although it is still a crude machine—in view of the perfected apparatuswhich is the aim of thoughtful designers—the aeroplane has demo…

A Social History of the American Negro

Read by Jim Locke


Benjamin Griffith Brawley


A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…

Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers

Read by Bryn Roberts


Edith Hubback Brown


"Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" by Edith & John Hubback is a biography that explores the lives of Jane Austen's two sailor bro…

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