Episodes

  • Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel-John Donne

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel-John Donne
    Aug 26 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    9 hrs and 11 mins
  • Essays on Work and Culture-Hamilton Wright Mabie

    Essays on Work and Culture-Hamilton Wright Mabie
    Aug 25 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    3 hrs and 55 mins
  • Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs-William Tecumseh Sherman

    Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs-William Tecumseh Sherman
    Aug 24 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    4 hrs and 7 mins
  • Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067-Various

    Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067-Various
    Aug 23 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    4 hrs and 59 mins
  • Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827-Commissioner of Indian Affairs

    Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827-Commissioner of Indian Affairs
    Aug 22 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    2 hrs and 51 mins
  • Captain Called It Mutiny-Frederic Van de Water

    Captain Called It Mutiny-Frederic Van de Water
    Aug 21 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales

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    7 hrs and 49 mins
  • Devotions upon Emergent Occasions-John Donne

    Devotions upon Emergent Occasions-John Donne
    Aug 20 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    6 hrs
  • Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron-Rudyard Kipling

    Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron-Rudyard Kipling
    Aug 20 2026
    One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the British navy in World War I written by an author who specialized in British naval strategy and history, John Leyland. - Summary by david wales
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    2 hrs and 18 mins