War & Military

The Capture of Fort William and Mary

Read by Robert Morel


Charles Lathrop Parsons


The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …

The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864

Read by Jeffery


William Ludlow


This is an account of the Union army's strategies and activities in protecting a Union garrison at Allatoona in Bartow Country, Georgia duri…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mandell Creighton


Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 2 of 4

Read by Alister


Parker Thomas Moon


Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…

A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

Read by Aaron Bennett


Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…

With Porter in the Essex

Read by Barry Eads


James Otis


The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…

The British Soldier: His Courage And Humour

Read by David Wales


Edward John Hardy


The Reverend Edward John Hardy, ordained in the Church Of Ireland, was a chaplain in the British army for thirty one years. His 1915 collec…

Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons

Read by Aaron Bennett


Charles D. Melson


In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 2

Read by Alister


Otto Von Bismarck


A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…

France, Spain and the Rif, Part 2

Read by Alister


Walter Burton Harris


The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a terr…

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