War & Military Fiction

The Blockade Runners

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the …

Mr. Standfast

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


John Buchan


This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, during World Wa…

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Lord Thomas Cochrane


This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…

The Black Arrow

Read by Mark F. Smith


Robert Louis Stevenson


In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

The U-boat Hunters

Read by William Tomcho


James Brendan Connolly


The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encoun…

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Su…

Read by Barry Eads


Joseph Plumb Martin


Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …

The Escaping Club

Read by Tom Weiss


A. J. Evans


Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

Fighting the Flying Circus

Read by Brett W. Downey


Eddie Rickenbacker


This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Ha…

The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

Read by Mark F. Smith


Winston S. Churchill


When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backla…

The Riddle of the Sands

Read by Gesine


Erskine Childers


Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…

The Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

Read by John W. Michaels


Stephen Crane


There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task a…

La Corte de Carlos IV

Read by Tux


Benito Pérez Galdós


La Corte de Carlos IV es el segundo de la primera serie de los 46 Episodios Nacionales, escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós, que …

Greenmantle

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John Buchan


Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…

The War in the Air

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H. G. Wells


War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time…

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Read by Mark F. Smith


Abner Doubleday


Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…

With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War

Read by Gary Olman


G. A. Henty


Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…

One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)

The Tiger of Mysore

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…

At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

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