Modern (20th C)
Poems
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Wilfred Owen
A collection of poems by the English war poet and soldier of the First World War, Wilfred Owen. Owen is regarded by historians as the leadin…
The Ascent of Denali
Read by Phil Schempf
Hudson Stuck
The story of the First Ascent of Denali by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum in 1913, recorded in celebration of …
Mob Rule In New Orleans
Read by Holly Jenson
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
An Explorer in the Air Service
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Hiram Bingham
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org…
The Trenches
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Frederic Manning
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Trenches by Frederic Manning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 30, 201…
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
Read by Expatriate
Louise Mack
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 extraordinar…
War Letters From A Young Queenslander
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Robert Marshall Allen
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…
Bullets & Billets
Read by DrPGould
Bruce Bairnsfather
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bair…
Martyred Armenia
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Fa'Iz El-Ghusein
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 ac…
America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall
Read by Robert Morel
Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Mccarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy examines the life of General George Catlett Marshall, particularly his role in government beginning in 1945 as Unite…
Greece and the Allies
Read by mpinedag
George Frederick Abbott
The author delves into Greece's dealings leading up to, during, and after WWI. We witness, through unbiased eyes, Greece's government (the M…
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
Read by Ted Lienhart
Hugh Gibson
The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …
The Burston Rebellion
Read by Steve C
Thomas George Higdon
The early 20th century in Great Britain saw a seismic shift in political awareness especially amongst the working classes. This led to a sig…
The Flexner Report. Medical Education In The United States And Canada
Read by Leon Harvey
Abraham Flexner
The Flexner Report is a book-length review and investigation into medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flex…
Versailles
Read by Ted Lienhart
Karl Friedrich Nowak
World War 1 ended with the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919 to January 1920), which in turn resulted in the signing of five peace treati…
World's War Events
Read by Ted Lienhart
Francis J. Reynolds
World's War Events is a 3-volume history of World War I, assembled in 1919 from articles contributed by "statesmen, commanders, histori…
The American Newspaper
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Will Irwin
The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by Will Irwin from 1909 to 1910 spanning fifteen articles that discuss th…
France, Spain and the Rif, Part 2
Read by Alister
Walter Burton Harris
The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a terr…
The Iron Hunter
Read by Ted Lienhart
Chase Salmon Osborn
This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later a…