David Wales
307 books
War & Military
555
Leslie Buswell - With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front
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...
2 hours 33 minutes
War & Military
471
Rudyard Kipling - Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron
[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...
2 hours 17 minutes
Animals & Nature
468
W. H. D. Rouse - Giant Crab And Other Tales From Old India
This is the first collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. There is a second entitled The Talking Thrush (LibriVox audio here ). Parents or those in loco parentis should be aware that as in...
2 hours 13 minutes
Anthologies
506
Mary Elizabeth Hawker - Old Hampshire Vignettes
Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 — 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She lived most of her life in the Hampshire Valley, the source of these verbal...
2 hours 12 minutes
War & Military
503
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - My Hunt After 'The Captain'
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an...
2 hours 11 minutes
