War & Military
The Life of Washington
Read by Jim Locke
John James Marshall
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…
Across the Reef
Read by Aaron Bennett
Joseph H. Alexander
"Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal isl…
History of Henry the Fourth
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant …
Infamous Day
Read by David Wales
Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman
Historical overview and personal reminiscences published in 1992. Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941. Part of U.S. Government U.S. Marine…
First Offensive
Read by Aaron Bennett
Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon …
A Minor War History
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Martin Alonzo Haynes
A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger
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Albert Bigelow Paine
"William Jesse "Bill" McDonald (1852 - 1918) in the 1880s served as a deputy sheriff in Wood County. After moving to Hardeman…
Builders of United Italy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Rupert S. Holland
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics
Read by David Wales
Wilkinson Dent Bird
One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mandell Creighton
Volume I of the "History of the Papacy" by the Anglican Lord Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, deals with the popes, princes, a…
The Early Hanoverians
Read by Pamela Nagami
Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
With the Anzacs in Cairo
Read by Adam Bielka
Guy Thornton
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …
A History of Our Own Times
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
The United States
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Eva March Tappan
This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …
War Flying by a Pilot
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Lessel Finer Hutcheon
Published in 1917, this "little volume of 'Theta’s' letters to his home people" was assembled to provide useful information for yo…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…
Strange Stories Of The Civil War
Read by David Wales
Various
Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…
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…
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War
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…
Civil War Women
Read by David Wales
Various
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…