War & Military
France At War
In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting …
With the Anzacs in Cairo
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …
Count Luckner, The Sea Devil
Count Felix von Luckner, German naval war officer of World War One, through the words of Lowell Thomas, relates his adventures at sea as a y…
The Acadian Exiles
The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or…
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign
From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the …
Civil War Women
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…
Gun Running for Casement
Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…
The County Regiment
The County Regiment offers a detailed account of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, tracing its origins as the Ni…
The Political History of France
This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…
War Prison Diary
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
Liberation
Guam became a territorial possession of the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1899, ending the Spanish-American War. …
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…
Cape Gloucester
On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…
Combat Lessons
This 1942 Army manual, published during the course of World War II, consists of quotations from soldiers in the field concerning their exper…
St. Clair's Defeat
St. Clair's defeat was a battle fought between the United States and the Western Confederacy of Native Americans on November 4, 1791, during…
Everyman at War
In 1929 editor C. B. Purdom of the British magazine 'Everyman' ... "invited readers to send him accounts of their actual (WW1) war exp…
Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…
Autobiography of a Seaman
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…
The Mormon Battalion
A history of the Longest March of Military in History. The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history i…