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Self-Help

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J. Francis Logan - Spy Proof America!

A very impassioned piece from the first World War, introducing a volunteer civilian anti-spy organization to root out enemy spies from the USA. It appears that this organization never reached the level the author...

Chessie Joy and 4 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

477

Sam K. Cowan - Sergeant York and His People

From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in the ways of the world. Caught by the enemy in the cove of a hill in the...

Brett W. Downey 3 hours 29 minutes

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Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I

War & Military

446

International Military Tribunal - Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I

Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German WWII war criminals, the International Military Tribunal, consisting of members from Great Britain, the USA, Russia,...

Availle and 12 more 17 hours 39 minutes

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*Non-fiction

452

Eddie Rickenbacker - Fighting the Flying Circus

This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th «Hat-in-the-Ring» Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air...

Brett W. Downey 10 hours 6 minutes

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Modern (20th C)

431

Fa'iz El-Ghusein - Martyred Armenia

This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His accounts tell of the worst of humanity, and also of the noblest. The noble...

Margaret Espaillat 1 hour 33 minutes

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*Non-fiction

467

James Brendan Connolly - U-boat Hunters

The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with the German U-boats. It is a collection of short stories, each one...

William Tomcho 5 hours 6 minutes

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Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

Science

473

President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Is - Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

At 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, a serious accident occurred at the Three Mile Island 2 nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. The accident was initiated by mechanical malfunctions in the plant and made...

Lazlo and 5 more 6 hours 23 minutes United States Government Reports

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Biography & Autobiography

507

Hiram Bingham - Explorer in the Air Service

Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the...

asterix and 2 more 7 hours 41 minutes

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History

472

John Reed - Insurgent Mexico

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army...

TriciaG and 12 more 8 hours 48 minutes

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Political Science

438

Owen Wister - Pentecost of Calamity

Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that...

David Wales 1 hour 38 minutes

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Technology & Engineering

467

Geoffrey H. Malins - How I Filmed the War

An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was there. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

R. S. Steinberg 8 hours 23 minutes

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History

437

Louis-Georges Desjardins - England, Canada and the Great War

Mr. Desjardins was driven to write this work to refute statements uttered by the nationalist Henri Bourassa, which the former feared painted all Quebecers with the same unpatriotic brush in respect to their...

Cate Barratt 9 hours 30 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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