War & Military Fiction
One of Ours
Read by Tom Weiss
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime …
Kitchener's Mob
Read by John W. Michaels
James Norman Hall
“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the experience of War. War at differ…
The Secret Battle
Read by Roger Melin
A.P. Herbert and A. P. Herbert
Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero sta…
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Read by Barry Eads
Alexander Hunter
Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…
Rilla of Ingleside
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
The Sword of Antietam
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Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull …
The Vanished Messenger
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…
Havoc
Read by Tom Weiss
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between …
Three Soldiers
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John Dos Passos
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…
The Rock of Chickamauga
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Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Rock of Chickamauga," presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, deali…
Farewell
Read by Martin Geeson
Honoré de Balzac
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…
At the Point of the Bayonet
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G. A. Henty
The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire t…
The Good Soldier
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Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Read by Tony Oliva
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Read by Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …
Sevastopol
Read by David Wales
Leo Tolstoy
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and publish…
The Shades of the Wilderness
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Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Shades of the Wilderness" is the seventh book of the Civil War Series by Joseph A. Altsheler. Picking up where "The Star…
The Naval Officer
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Frederick Marryat
Marryat was a midshipman under Captain Cochrane and this, his first naval adventure, is considered to be a highly autobiographical telling o…
Between the Lines
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Boyd Cable
This book, all of which has been written at the Front within sound of the German guns and for the most part within shell and rifle range, is…
The Green Flag
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short st…