War & Military

Hospital Sketches

Read by Aaron Elliott


Louisa May Alcott


Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Read by David Leeson


Carlton Mccarthy


The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggl…

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

Read by Sue Anderson


Frances M. A. Roe


"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…

Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography

Read by James K. White


John Relly Beard


François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…

The First Battle of Bull Run

Read by Mark F. Smith


Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard


General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated …

'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big S…

Read by Winston Tharp


Sam R. Watkins


Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today f…

Little Wars

Read by Mark F. Smith


H. G. Wells


A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books…

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

Read by John W. Michaels


James Norman Hall


“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the experience of War. War at differ…

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b

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Jefferson Davis


The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

The Emancipation Proclamation

Read by John Greenman


Abraham Lincoln


After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it …

The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918

Read by Pamela Nagami


John Howard Bertram Masterman


This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The …

De Bello Gallico Libri Septem

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Gaius Julius Caesar


In this book the famous Gaius Julius Caesar himself describes the seven years of his war in Gaul.When Caesar got proconsul of Gallia and Ill…

Boots and Saddles

Read by Sue Anderson


Elizabeth Bacon Custer


Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troop…

Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From H…

Read by David Wales


William Tecumseh Sherman


This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And D…

War Is a Racket

Read by John Greenman


Smedley Butler


Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lie…

The Wound Dresser

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Walt Whitman


The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New…

The Art of War (Neville Translation)

Read by Clive Catterall


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Art of War (1521) is the only book published by Niccolo Machiavelli during his lifetime, and he saw it as one of his finest achievements…

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Read by FNH


Thomas Wentworth Higginson


These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1

Read by Phil Griffiths


Archibald Forbes


The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts durin…

The General History of the Pyrates

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Captain Charles Johnson


A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. …

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