War & Military
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War & Military
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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs
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...
1 hour 11 minutes
*Non-fiction
408
William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs
This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s...
3 hours 24 minutes
War & Military
478
Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by...
3 hours 37 minutes
War & Military
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Robert Burrows - Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 1845 and January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands. Ostensibly triggered by...
3 hours 26 minutes
War & Military
562
Charles E. Flandrau - History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1
«It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and unimportant creation, but which in its half century of growth has expanded into one...
9 hours 16 minutes
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526
Robert Marshall Allen - War Letters From A Young Queenslander
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of «de-lousing» an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine...
3 hours 42 minutes
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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
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...
10 hours 27 minutes
*Non-fiction
446
Louise Mack - Woman's Experiences in the Great War
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 extraordinary vividness and immediacy. Flawed by the most treacly sentiment in some...
6 hours 12 minutes
