War & Military
First World War Centenary Poetry Collection
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Various
This collection of poetry, with its companion prose collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th July 1914. Most of …
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
Read by David Wales
Frederick Herman Tilberg
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…
The Mormon Battalion
Read by Wayne Cooke
B. H. Roberts
A history of the Longest March of Military in History. The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history i…
Fighting The Boche Underground
Read by Paul Hampton
Harry Davis Trounce
Harry Trounce was an American mining engineer of British birth and parentage who joined the British Army in October 1915. After the briefest…
Over Here and Over There
Read by MaryAnn
Harry Zody
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, …
State of the Union Addresses
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James K. Polk
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,…
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Henry Richard Fox Bourne and Henry Fox Bourne
Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He start…
The Life of Washington
Read by Jim Locke
John James Marshall
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …
The Irish Nuns at Ypres
Read by David Wales
Dame M. Columban
“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypre…
The Thirty Years' War
Read by Pamela Nagami
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…
Gun Running for Casement
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Karl Spindler
Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…
McClellan's Own Story
Read by Mike Manolakes
George Brinton Mcclellan and George Brinton McClellan
Memoirs of General George Brinton McClellan, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac during the early years of the American Civil War.…
Above the French Lines
Read by KevinS
Stuart Walcott
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first…
The History of Company A
Read by Paul Hampton
Samuel H. Fletcherandd. H. Fletcher and Samuel H. Fletcher And D. H. Fletcher
The purpose of this sketch is to keep green the memory of that little band of men known as Company A, of the Second Illinois Cavalry, who fo…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
Read by Pamela Nagami
Arthur M. Curteis
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
Into The Valley Of Death
Read by David Wales
Various
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…
Toxophilus
Read by Clive Catterall
Roger Ascham
Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution
Read by Pamela Nagami
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…