War & Military
The Age of the Condottieri
Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary comp…
Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War
This LibriVox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memo…
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in It…
Five Months at Anzac
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…
Above the French Lines
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first…
The Story of the Outlaw
With historical narratives of famous outlaws; the stories of noted border wars; vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.
War Surgery
One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for…
Daring and Suffering
Written a year after the events, this is an eyewitness account of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. Early in the American Civil War, in Ap…
The Chronicles of America
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…
The World’s Story
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. D…
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which…
News From No Man's Land
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…
England, Canada and the Great War
England, Canada and the Great War offers a critical examination of the contributions of Quebecers during World War I, challenging the narrat…
Breaching the Marianas
The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…
The War With the United States
"International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of…
Over There
Bennett's served in many capacities in the WWI war effort. After a visit to the Western Front he wrote this 1915 collection of essays about …
A History of the Great War
This is the first of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from its outbreak in the summer of 1914 to the campai…
First From the Front
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
The Life of Washington
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…
Who Burnt Columbia?
This LibriVox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessm…