The Crisis of the Naval War

1917 was a terrible time for the British Navy and Mercantile marine. The German adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare was sinking British and Empire shipping at an unsustainable rate, hundreds of thousands of tons were being sunk each month.

It was necessary for the war-fighting techniques and the organisation at the Admiralty to change to meet this new threat. In this book Viscount Jellicoe relates details of his time in charge of the worlds largest Naval force and its attempts to battle the submarine menace.

This is an unabridged reading.

Running Time : 7 hours 57 minutes

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A History of the Peninsular War 1807-1809, Volume 1

FNH Audio presents a reading of Charles Oman's classic military history "A History of the Peninsular War". In this first volume, a detailed examination is made of the first years of the war, 1807 to 1809. The campaign is examined from both sides using reference materials from British, French, Spanish  and Portuguese sources.

This book covers the invasion of Spain and Napoleon's trickery in luring the Spanish crown into prison. It also features Wellington's first peninsular battle and of course the famous retreat to Corunna and the battle at that place.

This history written many years after Napier's, draws its information from more first-hand accounts and corrects some of more glaring mistakes and biases of Napier.

Although this audio book is abridged, the only text removed is a number of the non-English sections of the Appendix, namely sections 1,2,3,4,7. All English text from the appendices is present.

This is volume 1 of a 7 volume set.

Running Time: 26 hours 51 minutes

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The Insanity of Jones

What is insanity? What drives people to do insane things?  They certainly don't wake up in the morning and declare, "Today I shall be insane!"  Jones the clerk doesn't think he's insane. the things he sees and hears are real...to him.  Are they real? He's brought a gun...

In this classic tale from Algernon Blackwood we get to look inside a mans head, at his motivations and reasoning.

Running Time: 58mins

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The Shunned House

The house on Benefit street is shunned. With a dark forbidding exterior, a garden overrun by corrupt weeds and bent malformed trees, it simply looks wrong. The locals know its history, know how many people that house has killed, and fear it.

Dr Elihu Whipple is not afraid of the house, he's fascinated by it and its history, and now he's decided to investigate its horrifying secret.

This story comes from the pen of the master horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Running time: 1h 8m

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In the Claws of the German Eagle

Albert Williams was the special war correspondent of "The Outlook" in France and Belgium during the first world war. In these early days of the conflict, Albert was riding up and down the lines and even crossed over to the German side.

Unfortunately he found himself  on the wrong side of a German bayonet and quickly marched into captivity as a possible spy. With an aggressive German officer trumping up charges, the situation was grim. This book relates Albert's experiences at the front and in the claws of the German eagle.

Running Time: 4h 22m

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The Battle of the Falkland Islands

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this WWI Naval history by an author who actually took part in the battle(s) described. 

From the introduction: "This plain, unvarnished account, so far as is known, is the first attempt that has been made to link with the description of the Falkland Islands battle, fought on December 8^th 1914, the events leading up to that engagement. Each phase presented has been read and approved by officers who participated."

Running Time: 5h 8m

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The Man who was Dead

FNH Audio presents a reading of this classic Sci Fi story lifted directly from the pages of Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930. Astounding Stories was a magazine that had its zenith during the "classic" age of science fiction.

This short tells contains all the classic elements of such stories. A brave protagonist, an evil enemy and amazing Super Science.

Set in the backwoods of the united States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.

Running Time: 34m

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