Search Results

The Chinese Dragon

Read by David Wales


Luther Newton Hayes


The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…

Christmas Outside Of Eden

Read by David Wales


Coningsby Dawson


A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath t…

Letters From America

Read by David Wales


Rupert Brooke


"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at…

Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches

Read by David Wales


Frank Thomas Bullen


In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

Read by David Wales


Charles Todd Quintard


Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

The Village and The Library

Read by David Wales


George Crabbe


The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a pri…

Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium

Read by David Wales


Walter Alden Dyer


This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod h…

An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays

Read by David Wales


Sir William Osler


Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…

Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy

Read by David Wales


Herbert Francis Peyser


How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…

The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864

Read by David Wales


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…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

Read by David Wales


Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

Combat Lessons Number 1: Rank And File In Combat: What They're Doing, How They …

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…

Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

Read by David Wales


Frederick Herman Tilberg


The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…

Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…

The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War

Read by David Wales


Dame M. Columban


“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypre…

Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennys…

Read by David Wales


Various


The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and…

The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War

Read by David Wales


Robert Laurence Binyon


This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…

News From No Man's Land

Read by David Wales


James Green


James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…

Christmas Tales Of Flanders

Read by David Wales


Andre De Ridder


“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…

Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical

Read by David Wales


Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin


This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…

< 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 >