War & Military

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…

A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium

Read by Ted Lienhart


Hugh Gibson


The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …

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…

Rough Talks by a Padre

Read by Steve C


Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy


Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC was an ordained Anglican priest, who in the early stages of World War I volunteered for duty as a chap…

The Western Boundary, and Other Essays

Read by Alister


Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke


Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2

Read by EastCentralMinnesota


Henry Baerlein


Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…

Yanks - A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) Verse from WWI

Read by John Greenman


Various


Introduced by Stars and Stripes editor, John T. Winterich (1891-1970) this is a compilation of poetry by members of the American Expeditiona…

Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons

Read by Aaron Bennett


John C. Chapin


The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final n…

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