War & Military Fiction

The Chocolate Frog Sailors

by William Pawley Read by William Pawley 4.8
Learning to grow-up on the fly a long way from home: With a passion for the navy, young and naive 16 year old Barney joins his first ship di…

Ball-of-Fat

by Guy de Maupassant Read by Michael Thomas Robinson 4.2
The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-…

The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory

by Margaret Vandercook Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson 4.5
This novel set in the time of WWI, is the 8th in a series of 10. The lives and adventures of these heroic young women change rapidly as they…

The Lieutenant and Others

by Sapper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
This is a volume of short stories by Herman Cyril McNeile, better known by his pseudonym "Sapper", who is well-known until today f…

A Lincoln Conscript

by Homer Greene Read by KevinS 5
A heartwarming novel which visits the last two years of the American Civil War. The center of the story is the conflict of emotions and deed…

Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man

by Bartimeus Read by David Wales 3.6
Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. - Summary by david wales

The Navy Eternal

by Bartimeus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Navy Eternal, subtitled the Navy-That-Floats, the Navy-That-Flies and the Navy-Under-The-Sea, by "Bartimeus" (born Lewis Ansel…

Told in a French Garden

by Mildred Aldrich Read by LibriVox Volunteers
American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches.…

One Man's Initiation

by John Dos Passos Read by Mark Leder 4.2
In this semi-autobiographical work, his first novel, John Dos Passos describes the experiences of young Martin Howe as an ambulance driver, …

Digger Smith

by C. J. Dennis Read by Son of the Exiles 4.4
“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…

The Masha Chronicles

by Lisa Beth Kovetz Read by Lisa Beth Kovetz 3.2
A noir page-turner detailing the roller-coaster adventures of Masha, a reluctant young assassin. When Masha meets American businessman, Cha…

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells Read by johnnyenglish 4.6
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and…

A Son At The Front

by Edith Wharton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulit…

Jess

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Jim Locke 3.7
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…

Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium

by Walter Alden Dyer Read by David Wales 4.8
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod h…

The Trenches

by Frederic Manning Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Trenches by Frederic Manning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 30, 201…

Gaspar Ruiz

by Joseph Conrad Read by KirksVoice 3.9
This story takes place during the wars of South American independence against Spanish rule. Gaspar Ruiz, a former Spanish soldier thrust int…

If All These Young Men

by Florence Roma Muir Wilson Read by Expatriate 3.8
Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-somethi…

Murat

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.1
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Napl…

Drake

by Alfred Noyes Read by Cynthia Moyer 3.1
Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of…

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