War & Military Fiction

Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal

by Robert Sidney Bowen Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
In the midst of World War II, young American flying ace Dave Dawson finds himself on the front lines of the Pacific theater, specifically on…

The Pirates

by Morgan Robertson Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. …

A Soldier Of The Legion

by George Manington Read by David Wales 4.3
An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…

Wounds In The Rain

by Stephen Crane Read by David Wales 3.9
Wounds In The Rain presents a collection of eleven powerful stories that delve into the harrowing experiences of war, penned by the acclaime…

The Brushwood Boy

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Liam Neely 4.6
The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream worl…

Farewell

by Honoré de Balzac Read by Martin Geeson 4.4
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

Tales of War

by Lord Dunsany Read by Ben Tucker 4.2
Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at …

Ruth Fielding At the War Front

by Alice B. Emerson Read by KevinS 5
Ruth Fielding, a Red Cross worker in France during the First World War must travel behind enemy lines to find a lost American soldier. An ex…

The Young Colonists

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In this book, Henty explores the wars of the British empire in Africa. His sympathies may be entirely with the English (as is our young pro…

The Onslaught from Rigel

by Fletcher Pratt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
“Mr. Pratt is well known for .… his excellent knowledge of warfare, and what a future war might be like. In this story he combines that know…

In Ship and Prison

by William P. Chipman Read by Barry Eads 4.6
The incidents of this book are taken largely from the log-book of Captain Tucker, and are intended to picture the stirring times in which he…

Roses of Winter

by Murdo Morrison Read by Murdo Morrison 4.8
They had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Share the adventures of the Burns and Mc…

Men, Women and Guns

by Sapper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…

The Radio Gunner

by Alexander Forbes Read by James R. Hedrick 4.8
Originally published anonymously in 1924, this intriguing work of science fiction, categorized by Bleiler under 'imaginary wars and inventio…

The Begum's Fortune

by Jules Verne Read by Kate Follis 4.4
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…

Running the Blockade

by Thomas E. Taylor Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.5
The first-person experiences and adventures of blockade runner during the American civil war. - Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier

For The Freedom Of The Seas

by Ralph Henry Barbour Read by Howard Skyman 4.6
It is the dawning of World War One and Nelson Troy is young and enthusiastic. Although America is not yet involved in the war effort he drea…

By England's Aid

by G. A. Henty 4.8
Set against the backdrop of the Eighty Years' War, By England's Aid follows the adventures of brothers Geoffrey and Lionel Vickars as they r…

Grace Harlowe with the Marines at Chateau Thierry

by Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase Read by ashleighjane 4.5
Grace continues her war adventures over seas in France, continuing her work for the Red Cross. Set during World War I, Loyal Heart finds her…

No More Parades

by Ford Madox Ford Read by Peter Dann 4.7
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…

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