War & Military
Captain Cook
Read by Pamela Nagami
Walter Besant
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …
The Petticoat Commando
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Johanna Brandt
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
Read by Lee Smalley
Ernest Protheroe
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldie…
The Martyrdom of Man
Read by Algy Pug
William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—who…
Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution
Read by David Wales
United States Army Staff Judge Advocate
Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tri…
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
Read by Celine Major
James Ford Rhodes
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…
The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273
Read by Pamela Nagami
Beatrice A. Lees
Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…
A Rebel's Recollections
Read by Lee Smalley
George Eggleston
George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…
Observations of an Orderly
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Ward Muir
Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…
My Hunt After 'The Captain'
Read by David Wales
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…
An Explorer in the Air Service
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Hiram Bingham
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…
Hardtack and Coffee
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John Billings
Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer…
Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son
Read by David Wales
Robert E. Lee, Jr.
The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army …
The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb
Read by David Wales
Various
These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…
Bismarck
Read by Pamela Nagami
Georges Lacour-Gayet
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Read by Jim Locke
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role…
Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
Read by David Wales
Henry Inman
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late …
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3
Read by Alan Winterrowd
Friedrich Schiller
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…
Brown Book of the Hitler Terror
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Dudley Leigh Aman Marley
The Brown Book was the first English publication to detail events which were currently happening in occupied Germany in 1933; book-burning a…