War & Military - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution - William Cooper Nell
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution - William Cooper Nell
- Author: William Cooper Nell
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
A study of the black patriots of the American Revolution, with introductions by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wendell Phillips....
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Letters
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 York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's...
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp - Pat O'Brien
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp - Pat O'Brien
- Author: Pat O'Brien
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)...
Army Mental Tests - Clarence Stone Yoakum
Army Mental Tests - Clarence Stone Yoakum
- Author: Clarence Stone Yoakum
- Genre: War & Military
Prepared in cooperation with the staff of the surgeon general's office as a source of information and printed materials concerning psychological testing used within the United States Army and indications of the possible use of similar methods in...
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - Anonymous
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: War & Military / Travel & Geography / Transportation
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the seafaring life is depicted in its...
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
- Author: Marcel Dupont
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last...
Hildebrand and his Times - William Richard Ward Stephens
Hildebrand and his Times - William Richard Ward Stephens
- Author: William Richard Ward Stephens
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085), afterwards Pope Gregory VII, setting his life within the larger context of the struggle for dominance...
The Cellar-House of Pervyse - Mairi Chisholm
The Cellar-House of Pervyse - Mairi Chisholm
- Author: Mairi Chisholm
- Genre: War & Military
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved countless lives and earned them life-long honor. They were especially known for their determination to treat...
Inventions Of The Great War - Alexander Russell Bond
Inventions Of The Great War - Alexander Russell Bond
- Author: Alexander Russell Bond
- Genre: War & Military / Technology & Engineering
“… this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculties, and as a result, the world is richer in many ways. Lessons of thrift and economy have been taught us....
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military / True Crime
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged in fraud and adultery while...
Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore - J. N. Gregory
Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore - J. N. Gregory
- Author: J. N. Gregory
- Genre: War & Military
Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from 1867 to 1889. It figured considerably in the Indian Wars, notably against the Comanches. It mainly served to protect frontier settlers, stagecoaches, wagon trains, the U.S. mail, and trade...
On War (Volumes 2 and 3) - Carl von CLAUSEWITZ
On War (Volumes 2 and 3) - Carl von CLAUSEWITZ
- Author: Carl von CLAUSEWITZ
- Genre: War & Military
Perhaps the most famous work on the philosophy of war, and the effective use of military force, by a European author. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)...
U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter - Lynn Montross
U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter - Lynn Montross
- Author: Lynn Montross
- Genre: War & Military / History
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 hardly have suspected that this remote Asiatic peninsula was to become the scene of the fourth most costly...
The Art of War (Neville Translation) - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Art of War (Neville Translation) - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: War & Military
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. The Art of War develops many themes introduced in Machiavelli’s earlier works “The Prince” and “Discourses”...
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland - Frederick Herman Tilberg
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland - Frederick Herman Tilberg
- Author: Frederick Herman Tilberg
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (20th C)
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodiest day of that conflict. Confederate General Lee’s invasion of the North was repulsed, and when the fighting...
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 2 - Henry Richard Fox BOURNE
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 2 - Henry Richard Fox BOURNE
- Author: Henry Richard Fox BOURNE
- Genre: War & Military
Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He started to write a biography but passed away after completing only two volumes. This work, by Cochrane's secretary...
Modern England 1820-1885 - Oscar Browning
Modern England 1820-1885 - Oscar Browning
- Author: Oscar Browning
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The Irish, under O'Connell, carry agitation to the point of rebellion, forcing Parliament to pass the Catholic...
A Minor War History - Martin Alonzo Haynes
A Minor War History - Martin Alonzo Haynes
- Author: Martin Alonzo Haynes
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
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. This is not a complete history and does not deal with major events, but is a snapshot of life in the Second New...
The Aeroplane in War - Claude Grahame-White
The Aeroplane in War - Claude Grahame-White
- Author: Claude Grahame-White
- Genre: War & Military / Transportation
"Although it is still a crude machine—in view of the perfected apparatus which is the aim of thoughtful designers—the aeroplane has demonstrated, in a conclusive way, its value as an instrument of war." - Summary by Authors...
With the Anzacs in Cairo - Guy Thornton
With the Anzacs in Cairo - Guy Thornton
- Author: Guy Thornton
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed in Egypt during World War I. His writing is opinionated, emotionally vulnerable, and written in very...
The Roman Triumvirates - Charles Merivale
The Roman Triumvirates - Charles Merivale
- Author: Charles Merivale
- Genre: War & Military / Antiquity
In this short volume, the British historian, Charles Merivale, describes the long conflict by which the rule of one man replaced the Roman Republic. Here we meet that ineffectual has-been Pompeius, the resourceful military and political genius,...
Builders of United Italy - Rupert S. HOLLAND
Builders of United Italy - Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Author: Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of its most important figures: Alfieri, Manzoni, Gioberti, Manin, Mazzini, Cavour, Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel. - Summary...
The Life of Washington, Volume 2 - John James Marshall
The Life of Washington, Volume 2 - John James Marshall
- Author: John James Marshall
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / History
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 French in Canada until the cessation of his tenure, after which he marries and appears to settle down....
The Romance of the Romanoffs - Joseph Martin McCabe
The Romance of the Romanoffs - Joseph Martin McCabe
- Author: Joseph Martin McCabe
- Genre: War & Military / History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the extreme poverty of the peasants throughout the world. In addition, Russia straddled eastern and western...
Henry II - Louis Francis Salzman
Henry II - Louis Francis Salzman
- Author: Louis Francis Salzman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and, thanks to his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the western half...
The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864 - Richard M. McMurry
The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign Of 1864 - Richard M. McMurry
- Author: Richard M. McMurry
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military
“…there can be little doubt that the Federal drive on Atlanta, launched in May 1864, was the beginning of the end for the Southern Confederacy…. The Atlanta Campaign had an importance reaching beyond the immediate military and political...
A Short History of France - Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
A Short History of France - Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
- Author: Agnes Mary Frances ROBINSON
- Genre: War & Military / History
After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Catholic feudal society. In this short history, Mary Duclaux traces the emergence of towns, the rise of the...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1934 - 1945) - Franklin D. ROOSEVELT
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1934 - 1945) - Franklin D. ROOSEVELT
- Author: Franklin D. ROOSEVELT
- Genre: War & Military
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
The Crusades - George William Cox
The Crusades - George William Cox
- Author: George William Cox
- Genre: War & Military / Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin Church, Crusaders were penitent pilgrims whose sins were forgiven. British historian, George Cox, writes of...
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania - Frederick Herman Tilberg
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania - Frederick Herman Tilberg
- Author: Frederick Herman Tilberg
- Genre: War & Military / History / Modern (20th C)
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American history. For 3 days, from July 1 to 3, 1863, a gigantic struggle between 75,000 Confederates and 88,000 Union...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1901 - 1908) - Theodore Roosevelt
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1901 - 1908) - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912) - William Howard Taft
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912) - William Howard Taft
- Author: William Howard Taft
- Genre: War & Military
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Poetry / War & Military / History
This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
The Korean War: Brief Histories - Various
The Korean War: Brief Histories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military
A collection of brief histories addressing the major campaigns or phases of the Korean War. (Summary by KevinS)...
First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal - Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal - Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
- Author: Henry I. Shaw Jr.
- Genre: War & Military
In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. Completion of the Guadalcanal airfield...
The Making of the British Empire (A.D. 1714-1832) - Arthur HASSALL
The Making of the British Empire (A.D. 1714-1832) - Arthur HASSALL
- Author: Arthur HASSALL
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Early Modern
At its height, the British Empire was the largest in history. This short volume traces its development through the long 18th century, from 1714 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Founded on the prosperity of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry...
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennyson And Kipling - Various
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennyson And Kipling - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and the tragic loss of life in futile war engagements. The war is the Crimean War (1853-1856) which Russia lost...
The Roswell Report: Case Closed - James McAndrew
The Roswell Report: Case Closed - James McAndrew
- Author: James McAndrew
- Genre: War & Military
The “Roswell Incident” has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. In July 1994, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force concluded an exhaustive search for records in response...
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla - A. H. Beesly
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla - A. H. Beesly
- Author: A. H. Beesly
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augustus Henry Beesly writes, "a brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had...
Is War Diminishing? - Frederick Adams Woods
Is War Diminishing? - Frederick Adams Woods
- Author: Frederick Adams Woods
- Genre: War & Military / History
A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to periods of war, as concluded by consultation with other historians, and seeks to answer the question as to if...