History
300 books
*Non-fiction
890
Abraham Tomlinson - Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775
«Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which allusions are made in them, I prevailed upon Mr. LOSSING, the well-known author...
3 hours 35 minutes
*Non-fiction
908
Eusebius of Caesarea - Eusebius History of the Christian Church
Eusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points: 1. the successions of bishops in the principal sees 2. the history of Christian...
14 hours 53 minutes
*Non-fiction
826
United States Army Corps of Engineers - Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S....
3 hours 34 minutes
Children's Fiction
1.3K
James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources,...
3 hours 28 minutes
*Non-fiction
987
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of...
8 hours 55 minutes
*Non-fiction
946
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speeches origninally given by the 1st Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth), the 1st...
2 hours 1 minute
*Non-fiction
1000
Winston S. Churchill - Selected House of Commons Speeches
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to...
9 hours 19 minutes
