War & Military - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: War & Military
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: "War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of battle. It is much more than...
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell - Ernest PROTHEROE
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell - Ernest PROTHEROE
- Author: Ernest PROTHEROE
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason...
History of the World War - Francis Andrew MARCH
History of the World War - Francis Andrew MARCH
- Author: Francis Andrew MARCH
- Genre: War & Military
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualizes the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of all the ages from its remote causes to its glorious...
England Since Waterloo - John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
England Since Waterloo - John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
- Author: John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many editions. The author taught history at Worcester College, Oxford for thirty-six years and served as a Conservative member of...
Warwick the Kingmaker - Charles William Chadwick Oman
Warwick the Kingmaker - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy and powerful peer of England, was one of the leaders of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). He joined Richard, Duke of York in opposing the ineffectual and often incapacitated Lancastrian...
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines - William Wolfe CAPES
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines - William Wolfe CAPES
- Author: William Wolfe CAPES
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignoring assassination rumors, his successor, the brave soldier Trajan, "went about the streets almost unguarded"...
War and Women - Mabel Annie STOBART
War and Women - Mabel Annie STOBART
- Author: Mabel Annie STOBART
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
"The sending of a Women’s Convoy Corps to the Balkans was the result of Mrs. Stobart’s keen desire to demonstrate the ability of women to render signal service under war conditions and without the direction and assistance of men. This record of...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise of Young Ireland. Next we join the crowds in 1851 at the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, of...
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Author: John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Genre: War & Military
This is Part Two of Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of...
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story - Undefined
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of the USS Monitor versus the USS...
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign - John Henry PATTERSON
With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign - John Henry PATTERSON
- Author: John Henry PATTERSON
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (20th C)
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 part played by such a unique unit is assured of a niche in history owing to the fact that it fought in...
A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron - Rudyard Kipling
A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: War & Military
[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in 1898 which were collected as A Fleet in...
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
- Author: Chester D. BERRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been released, and President Lincoln had just been assassinated. The steamship 'Sultana' left New Orleans on April 21st,...
Captain Cook - Walter Besant
Captain Cook - Walter Besant
- Author: Walter Besant
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed to a grocer, he ran away to sea. He saw hard service in the Baltic as a merchant seaman, while applying...
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales...
From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Author: Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Genre: War & Military / Humor
This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with the Armistice. In this phase of...
Mazarin - Arthur HASSALL
Mazarin - Arthur HASSALL
- Author: Arthur HASSALL
- Genre: War & Military
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Though a cardinal, he was not a priest and was probably secretly married to the Queen-Mother, Anne of Austria....
Edward the First - Thomas Frederick TOUT
Edward the First - Thomas Frederick TOUT
- Author: Thomas Frederick TOUT
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) to a traitor's death in 1297. But Edward was one of England's greatest statesman-kings. In this short biography the...
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front - E. W. Hornung
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Memoirs
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA canteens close behind the front...
Any Woman To A Soldier - Grace Ellery CHANNING
Any Woman To A Soldier - Grace Ellery CHANNING
- Author: Grace Ellery CHANNING
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / War & Military
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A Soldier by Grace Ellery Channing.This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 4, 2018. Grace Ellery Channing was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine. Channing...
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 1, Amiens - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 1, Amiens - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Author: John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Genre: War & Military
This is the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench...
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 - Frederick Law OLMSTED
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 - Frederick Law OLMSTED
- Author: Frederick Law OLMSTED
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It supplemented the medical care of the armed services medical corps. Its doctors, nurses, administrators,...
The Petticoat Commando - Johanna BRANDT
The Petticoat Commando - Johanna BRANDT
- Author: Johanna BRANDT
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
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-known incidents of the South African war, but also because of the keen personal interest of the events...
The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Abraham Lincoln
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions...
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France - James Norman HALL
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France - James Norman HALL
- Author: James Norman HALL
- Genre: War & Military
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When...
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre - Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre - Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
- Author: Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was highly-educated and was courted by the future Henry VIII of England. However, at the age of seventeen, she was married...
A Surgeon In Arms - Robert James MANION
A Surgeon In Arms - Robert James MANION
- Author: Robert James MANION
- Genre: War & Military / Medical / Memoirs
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his memoir of the war. After the war he entered politics and served in several Canadian governments. The listener...
Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Author: William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Genre: War & Military
This librivox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs, published in 1875. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for the North. He steadfastly...
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front - Leslie BUSWELL
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front - Leslie BUSWELL
- Author: Leslie BUSWELL
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the entrance of the United States into World War I as a combatant. “These letters, according to ordinary ethics...
Life of Edward the Black Prince - Louise Creighton
Life of Edward the Black Prince - Louise Creighton
- Author: Louise Creighton
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Crécy and, skillfully deploying his troops, defeated a much larger French force at the Battle of Poitiers. In this short...
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865) - Charles Todd QUINTARD
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865) - Charles Todd QUINTARD
- Author: Charles Todd QUINTARD
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate army in the American Civil War. A sympathetic, warm, intellectual man loved by soldier and civilian alike, he...
Who Burnt Columbia? - Augustine T. SMYTHE
Who Burnt Columbia? - Augustine T. SMYTHE
- Author: Augustine T. SMYTHE
- Genre: War & Military
This Librivox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessmen of the former Confederacy. This reading focuses on the sworn statements of General William Tecumseh...
Maria Theresa - James Franck BRIGHT
Maria Theresa - James Franck BRIGHT
- Author: James Franck BRIGHT
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of his daughter, Maria Theresa, but practically nothing to train her how to rule. Nevertheless, Maria Theresa...
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b - Jefferson DAVIS
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b - Jefferson DAVIS
- Author: Jefferson DAVIS
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of...
The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
Somewhat detailed history of naval engagements between the United States and England during the War of 1812, from a decidely American perspective. Completed by the author as a young man at age 24. After 120 years, it remains a standard study of the...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 22) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 22) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: War & Military / History / Christianity - Other
This is volume 4 chapter 22 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail....
The Fringes Of The Fleet - Rudyard Kipling
The Fringes Of The Fleet - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: War & Military
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. Some of the poems were set to music by English composer Edward Elgar. - Summary by wikipedia...
In the Line of Battle - Walter WOOD
In the Line of Battle - Walter WOOD
- Author: Walter WOOD
- Genre: War & Military
“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of observation and recital, so admirable that one page of such writing is worth all the folios of the war experts...
A Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution - Mary Hazel SNUFF
A Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution - Mary Hazel SNUFF
- Author: Mary Hazel SNUFF
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in history in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois...
Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian - William Wolfe CAPES
Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian - William Wolfe CAPES
- Author: William Wolfe CAPES
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire, from the aftermath of the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E. to the assassination of the tyrannical...