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The Life of Washington, Volume 2

Read by Jim Locke


John James Marshall


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…

The Life of Washington, Volume 3

Read by Jim Locke


John James Marshall


Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…

War Flying by a Pilot

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Lessel Finer Hutcheon


Published in 1917, this "little volume of 'Theta’s' letters to his home people" was assembled to provide useful information for yo…

The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story

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John Worden


The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…

With the Anzacs in Cairo

Read by Adam Bielka


Guy Thornton


Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …

U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950-1953, Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter

Read by Aaron Bennett


Lynn Montross


It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…

The County Regiment

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Dudley Landon Vaill


A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War.

Europe in Renaissance and Reformation 1453-1660

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mary A. Hollings


In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…

A Minor War History

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Martin Alonzo Haynes


A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

The Early Hanoverians

Read by Pamela Nagami


Edward Ellis Morris


In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

Read by Pamela Nagami


Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy


Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…

An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre

Read by David Wales


John Gregory Bourke


An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa

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Joseph H. Alexander


"Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal isl…

Untimely Papers

Read by Ben Adams


Randolph Silliman Bourne


This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the…

Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography

Read by Celine Major


Walter Geer


Excerpt: "Now that one hundred years have elapsed since the "long-drawn agony" of Saint Helena we think that the time has com…

Builders of United Italy

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Rupert S. Holland


Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…

The Early Tudors: Henry VII and Henry VIII

Read by Pamela Nagami


Charles Edward Moberly


Following the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, the reigns of Henry VII and VIII were autocratic and centralized to an unprecedented degree. T…

Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th,…

The Political History of France, 1789-1910

Read by Pamela Nagami


Muriel O. Davis


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 the Creator

Read by Lee Smalley


Frank Gelett Burgess


Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…

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