War & Military
Combat Lessons
Read by David Wales
United States Army War College
This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…
State of the Union Addresses
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John Quincy Adams
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,…
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…
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's
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…
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…
Dispatches from the Ruhr
Read by Atul Sharma
Ernest Hemingway
Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the …
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…
The World Crisis
Read by Ty Lasky
Winston S. Churchill
An inside view of the critical years leading up to World War I, as well as the first few key months. Told by (at the time) Britain's First L…
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea
Read by Aaron Bennett
Nicholas Canzona and Lynn Montross
The Inchon Landing was a major amphibious operation, planned in record time and executed with skill and precision. Even more, it was an exem…
Harper's Young People
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Various
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
From Mud to Mufti
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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 Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire
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P. A. Connolly
The present work is intended as a comprehensive account of medieval times, drawn up on the same lines as The Cambridge Modern History but wi…
A History of the Middle Ages
Read by Pamela Nagami
Dana Carleton Munro
This overview of the 9th through the 13th centuries in Europe and the Middle East begins with the empire of Charles the Great, which extende…
The Road Past Kennesaw
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Richard M. Mcmurry
“…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confedera…
The World’s Story
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Eva March Tappan
This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva Mar…
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…
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Ida M. Tarbell
Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…
The Ukrainians and the European War
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Various
The WWI (European war) for Ukrainians was the hope of its nation unity and freedom from Austria-Hungary but mostly from Russian Empire. Gali…
Charles II
Read by Pamela Nagami
Osmund Airy
This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am a…