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The Normans in European History

Read by Pamela Nagami


Charles Homer Haskins


Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

Read by Kevin Green


Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston and Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley


Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

Aircraft and Submarines

Read by William Tomcho


Willis J. Abbot


"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Als…

A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell

Read by Lee Smalley


Ernest Protheroe


In the Line of Battle

Read by Lee Smalley


Walter Wood


“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…

The Petticoat Commando

Read by Richard Kilmer


Johanna Brandt


In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution

Read by David Wales


United States Army Staff Judge Advocate


Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tri…

The Martyrdom of Man

Read by Algy Pug



William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)…

A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…

Captain Cook

Read by Pamela Nagami


Walter Besant


James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …

Observations of an Orderly

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Ward Muir


Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eye…

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

Read by David Wales


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

A Rebel's Recollections

Read by Lee Smalley


George Eggleston


George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…

An Explorer in the Air Service

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Hiram Bingham


Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…

The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

Read by Pamela Nagami


Beatrice A. Lees


Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

Bismarck

Read by Pamela Nagami


Georges Lacour-Gayet


Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…

The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb

Read by David Wales


Various


These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…

Recollections And Letters Of General Robert E. Lee By His Son

Read by David Wales


Robert E. Lee, Jr.


The life of the Confederate States of America general, Robert E. Lee, through the eyes of his youngest son, who was also a Confederate Army …

A Woman's Experiences in the Great War

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Louise Mack


An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…

Hardtack and Coffee

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John Billings


Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer…

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