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The war of 1812 saw the tiny United States Navy pit against the world's most powerful force the British Navy. This book recounts the naval actions between these disparate forces, using log books and personal letters amongst other sources. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this naval history.

Professor Ogilvy spotted the projectiles as they were launched from the planet Mars. Even so, when they landed and the aliens emerged, mankind was not ready. Using superweapons and massive walking robots of war, the aliens trampled the forces arrayed against them and caused the rout of mankind. In this first-person narrative, one of the survivors who came face-to-face with the aliens tells his own true story.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Green Balls: The Adventures of a Night Bomber. Paul Bewsher was one of the founding members of an experimental unit of Night Bombers during World War One. Never before had an attempt been made to create a unit of specialist bombing aircraft that would operate at night over enemy territory. It was a new experience and new techniques had to be developed to carry out the missions.

In 2020 concerns were raised in the UK parliament over the sudden rise in referrals to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, the off-label use of drugs, and finally the Care Quality Commission report that rated the site’s service as “inadequate”. Dr Hillary Cass was chosen to run an independent review to determine what changes would be required to improve patient care. This audiobook is an unabridged narration of the final report issued by the review, including its appendices.

FNH Audio presents a complete and unabridged reading of F. L. Wallace's "Accidental Flight". The Handicap Haven is an asteroid. It's also home to the "accidentals": collection of humanities rejects, people saved from death but mutilated in ways that the delicate sensibilities of the future cannot bare to look at. The Earth of the far future is a place for beautiful, young looking, perfectly formed people where the slightest imperfection is a crisis, and those that can't be "fixed" are exiled. But the residents of the "Haven" have had enough....

They seeded the new world with everything to get life started. A few thousand years later a lone starship’s engines fail, marooning the crew and passengers. The planet is a nightmare of giant mushroom forests and insects grown to monstrous killer proportions.

A wild wolf cub is born into the frozen north and learns the hard reality of living by tooth and claw. Discovering prey and being prey are his first hard lessons, with many more to follow. White Fang is a hard-hitting adventure that follows the life of a semidomesticated wolf cub that survives birth in the wild and then the delights and horrors of human domination. By turns ferocious, exciting, adventurous, horrifying, and heartwarming, this classic animal adventure will keep you listening.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading ofVampires of Venus, a story that was first published in the April 1930 edition of "Astounding Stories of Super Science". Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.

Something has gone missing from the most secure facility in the United Kingdom. The secret government organisation that had control of it want it back, and will do anything to get it. Peter is an academic who has made the study of a mysterious and elusive race of beings, the Mi-Go, his life's work. When he receives a note from an unknown person, he's so intrigued that he breaks away from his studies and is drawn into something he could never have imagined. A short story inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.

FNH Audio presents a reading of this classic science fiction story, lifted directly from the pages of the April, 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. 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.

The murder of Edith Cavell is second only to the sinking of the Lusitania for events that outraged and encouraged America to become involved in the First World War. Edith a nurse, volunteered to run a hospital in Belgium behind the German front line. There she ran the medical facilities and offered care and treatment to all that came, including wounded German soldiers. In 1915 the German military authorities arrested Miss Cavell in the middle of the night and she simply disappeared.

The darkest room of the prison is known as the "Dungeon". The inmate of this bleak abode is about to tell his story after years of abuse and solitude. Why is he there? What injustice has been committed?FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this classic short story.

When the United Nation’s attempt to put a peace platform in orbit is sabotaged by the enemy, the United States goes ahead on its own. Almost immediately the enemy starts launching missiles at the platform trying to bring it down. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Joe Kenmore pilots a resupply mission. With missiles flying and rockets in short supply something that can survive the combat environment and haul supplies up to the platform is needed. They need a Space Tug!

Calhoun was assigned the sector because the previous Med Ship inspector had dropped the ball, and the whole sector had gone to rack and ruin. When he starts his first inspection he becomes embroiled in a pandemic driven war between worlds. What can a simple Med Ship pilot in a 50 ton flitter do to bring peace and health back to two worlds on the brink?

Conan has fallen on hard times and spends his last few coins for a night in the cheapest inn he can find. He ignores the warnings against staying there, and it turns into an evil nightmare of cannibals, monsters, and magicians.

WWI was a war fought on the sea, in the air, across the landscape, in the trenches and underground. Beneath the soil both sides tunnelled and planted explosives to blow the enemy trenches apart. They also attacked each other far underground with counter mines and explosive camouflets. Every day, they silently dug their way towards the enemy while listening intently for the enemy's own tunnelling. This memoir, told by an American serving with the British army, relates the extraordinary experiences of an engineer carrying on his own quiet, deadly underground war .

Joseph Anderson joined the army aged 15 eventually becoming an officer and rising to command the 50th Regiment as a Lt-Colonel. His fascinating military life involved him in many of the battles you may know the names of: Calibria, Maida, Catrone, Egypt, Alexandria, Talavera, Torres Vedras, Busaco, Coimbra, Fuentes D'Onoro, Punniar. His career took him to the Peninsular and Africa to fight the French, and later on to India to fight the rebels. Amongst his adventures, he's arrested, takes charge of a prison, and is shot through during a charge.

Henry Fleming is a young man who feels the draw of the glory to be found on the battlefield. As the United States is torn by civil war, young Fleming joins the army and quickly finds himself caught up in the chaos of battle. As the canons roar and the muskets flame, Fleming suddenly find himself running, fleeing the battlefield!

The stowaway cost a day of custom inspections, but worse, it would mean arriving late back on Earth. Newly promoted Captain Douglas fears losing his command due to the delay, but he does have one option to make up the time. Dare he take the space lane known as the “Pass o' the Twin Witches”, a route that’s been shunned for decades after claiming multiple ships?

When the aliens arrived on Earth they brought peace. Everywhere they went a wave of calm understanding followed behind. Everyone was happy, everyone was content. The aliens promised to share their technology, man would be able to reach the stars. Danial Matson seemed to be the only man on Earth who didn’t fall in line, the only man who saw something darker in their motives. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Bone’s sci-fi classic.