War By Air, Land & Sea by Various Authors Lot of 13 Audiobooks in 13 MP3 Audio CDs
Above the French Lines
Stuart Walcott
(1896 - 1917)
Read by Kevin S.
Running Time:01:35:29 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first aerial combat after first downing a German bi-plane.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
Frederick A. Talbot (1880 - )
Read by William Tomcho
Running Time:06:48:04 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
"Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War" is an interesting audiobook of the beginnings of air warfare in World War I. Anyone interested in early aviation and armament will find this a fascinating work.
Aircraft and Submarines
Willis J. Abbot
(1863 - 1934)
Read by William Tomcho
Running Time:11:34:51 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Also a brief history of submarine use in commercial applications. A thoroughly enjoyable piece for anyone interested in the detailed development of these modes of transportation.
Fighting the Flying Circus
Eddie Rickenbacker
(1890 - 1973)
Read by Brett W. Downey
Running Time:10:06:33 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
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 victories of any American squadron. The circus mentioned in the title refers to the German squadron commanded by the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.
Full Speed Ahead:
Tales From The Log Of A Correspondent
Henry Beston
(1888 - 1968)
Read by David Wales
Running Time:04:48:49 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service…. [I have] been content to chronicle the interesting incidents of the daily life as well as the achievements and heroisms of the friends who keep the highways of the sea…. I would not end without a word of thanks to the enlisted men for their unfailing good will and ever courteous behaviour.” Henry Beston (1888-1968) was an American author. In 1918, Beston became a press representative for the U.S. Navy. Highlights from this period include being the only American correspondent to travel with the British Grand Fleet and to be aboard an American destroyer during combat engagement and sinking during World War I. This 1919 book describes these experiences. Lists of names have been omitted from the Preface.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
James Norman Hall
(1887 - 1951)
Read by John W. Michaels
Running Time:4:50:24 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress. The Armistice would not be reached until November of that year.
Although he does not mention it in this book, Mr. Hall had already served the better part of 15 months with the British Expeditionary Forces, surviving the battle of Loos in Sept – Oct 1915, and upon which his excellent work “Kitchener’s” Mob is Based.
The US did not enter the war until April 1917, and Hall had already served nearly three years as an American with British and French forces, as a machine gunner with the British, and as a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille.
Pilot training in the French Air Corps was primarily a matter of survival. Visualize if you will, a class of “Penguins”, aircraft with wings too short for flight scurrying about the airfield as student pilots learn to control these machines with no instructor on board, and for that matter in Mr. Halls case there was never an instructor on board. Their solo flight was their first flight. They learned by doing.
Inventions of The Great War
Alexander Russell Bond
(1876 - 1937)
Read by David Wales
Running Time:06:40:19 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
“… this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculties, and as a result, the world is richer in many ways. Lessons of thrift and economy have been taught us. Manufacturers have learned the value of standardization. The business man has gained an appreciation of scientific research. The whole story is too big to be contained within the covers of a single book, but I have selected the more important and interesting inventions and have endeavored to describe them in simple language for the benefit of the reader who is not technically trained.” Bond was the sometime editor of Scientific American magazine.
Preface
Chapter 1 The War In And Under The Ground
Chapter 2 Hand-Grenades And Trench Mortars
Chapter 3 Guns That Fire Themselves
Chapter 4 Guns And Super-Guns
Chapter 5 The Battle Of The Chemists
Chapter 6 Tanks
Chapter 7 The War In The Air
Chapter 8 Ships That Sail The Skies
Chapter 9 Getting The Range
Chapter 10 Talking In The Sky
Chapter 11 Warriors Of The Paint-Brush
Chapter 12 Submarines
Chapter 13 Getting The Best Of The U-Boat
Chapter 14 Devil's Eggs
Chapter 15 Surface Boats
Chapter 16 Reclaiming The Victims Of Submarines
Life in a Tank
Richard Haigh
(1895 - )
Read by William A Crenshaw
Running Time:02:13:46 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Richard Haigh was an Infantry lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment serving in the Somme area in 1916. Shortly after Tanks were first used in battle in September of 1916 the British Army asked for volunteers, Lieutenant Haigh signed up and was accepted in December of 1916. He describes the training and actions he participated in until the war ended in 1918. He was awarded MC in 1916 as Lt. (acting Capt.) Richard Haigh, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was commissioned from the RMC (Sandhurst) to the Berkshires 16th Feb 1915; on resigning his commission in 1919, he joined the General Reserve of Officers.
Project Horizon: Establishment of a Lunar Outpost
United States Army
Read by Kevin S.
Running Time:03:34:44 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
The US national policy on space includes the objective of developing and exploiting this Nation's space capability as necessary to achieve national political, scientific, and security objectives. The establishment of a manned outpost in the lunar environment will demonstrate United States leadership in space. It will also provide a basis for further explorations and operations on the lunar surface, as well as a supporting capability for other US operations in space.
Stories of the Ships
Lewis R. Freeman
(1878 - 1960)
Read by David Wales
Running Time:07:42:53 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military at the beginning of the 20th century. Stories of the Ships is a 1919 collection of accounts described in the first person by those who fought battles on the sea during World War I. It gives the listener a more complete account of the conflicts that defined the most costly war in history. Lewis Ransome Freeman (1878 – 1960) was an American explorer, journalist and war correspondent who wrote over twenty books chronicling his many travels, as well as numerous articles. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1917-18. He was a correspondent attached to the Grand Fleet late in the war, and was a staff member for the Inter-Allied Naval Armistice Commission which traveled to Germany in 1918.
The Aeroplane in War
Claude Grahame-White
(1879 - 1959)
and
Harry Harper
(1880 - 1960)
Read by Jim Locke
Running Time:06:58:22 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
"Although it is still a crude machine—in view of the perfected apparatus which is the aim of thoughtful designers—the aeroplane has demonstrated, in a conclusive way, its value as an instrument of war."
The Sinking of the ''Merrimac''
Richmond Pearson Hobson (1870 - 1937)
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Running Time:05:19:27 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
During the Spanish-American War, Naval Constructor Hobson U.S.N. devised a plan to scuttle a ship in the channel leading to Santiago harbor in Cuba and thus bottle up the Spanish fleet at anchor in the bay. This book contains Hobson's personal narrative of how the scheme was carried out and of what happened afterward.
The U-boat Hunters
James Brendan Connolly
(1868 - 1957)
Read by William Tomcho
Running Time:5:06:33 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
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 complete, about them all. The author was also an Olympic athlete; winning a bronze, silver and gold medal in the Athens Olympics of 1896 and a silver in the Paris games of 1900.
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