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When John Booth made his lethal attack on Abraham Lincoln, Charles Leale was the first doctor on the scene. He had been watching the play along with the president, and when the call for a doctor was made Dr Leale was there immediately. As an experienced military surgeon he was able to immediately put his skills to work in an attempt to save the President’s life. This book, as the title suggests, describes the final hours of the President’s life from the moment he was shot to the moment when he breathed his last, told by the attending physician. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this moving account by Charles A. Leale MD.

FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of the military memoir of Charles O'Neil. There have been many military memoirs from the Napoleonic wars, and most of them belonging to high ranking officers. This memoir differs in that it belong to the humblest of soldiers, a man from the ranks of a standard infantry regiment. Follow along as Charles relates how he joined the army, then ran away narrowly avoiding being flogged for desertion.

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.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Robert E. Howard's The Black Stone. This story is one of Howard's stories that can be considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos (H.P Lovecraft's worlds). A young man reads an ancient tome called "Nameless Cults" and discovers in it references to an artifact called "The Black Stone".

Rev. Innes found himself at a recruiting barracks when the first world war broke out. In this narrative he reports on how vast numbers of volunteers sweapt into the barracks which found itself desperately short of material to clothe and equip so many men. His duties soon move him over to France where in between his religious duties he finds himself helping in the hospital with the vast number of wounded that came back from the lines.

In 2003, for the first time since the Second World War, the UK took part in an opposed invasion and full-scale occupation of a sovereign state - Iraq. Cabinet decided on 17th March to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. That decision was ratified by Parliament the next day and implemented the night after that. In June 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordered an Inquiry to be conducted to identify lessons that could be learned from the Iraq conflict. This audiobook is an unabridged reading of that report's executive summary.

The cancer-causing disease came from space, and now the whole of humanity is on the brink of extinction. The only hope for Earth is a single starship catapulted across space with a crew of misfits seeking a cure.

The 9th Kings was a territorial infantry battalion when the Great War (World War I) began. On the 4th of August 1914, a telegram containing one word arrived at their headquarters: "Mobilise!" This book follows the unit from mobilisation in 1914 through to the demobilisation in 1918 after the armistice. Along the way, they take part in all of the big battles, Somme, Arras, Ypres along with a near continuous series of skirmishes and patrols while in the front line.

On Wednesday 22 March 2017, 52-year-old British-born Khalid Masood drove a hired vehicle across Westminster Bridge in the direction of the Palace of Westminster. He mounted the pavement twice, colliding with pedestrians, and then a third time, crashing into the east perimeter gates of the Palace of Westminster. Masood then exited the car and ran into the vehicle entrance gateway of the Palace of Westminster, Carriage Gates. The attack ended with 29 injuries and six deaths.

Cepheus Vignettes, is a collection 50 science-fiction vignettes based on the worlds and rules of the 'Cepheus Engine' role-playing rules (which is a derivative of Traveller system). Each vignette is a stand-alone story that highlights an aspect of the Cepheus Lore, or plays in the darker, often ignored areas of the universe. Colonists in trouble, xeno-archeologists finding the impossible, stowaways, raiders launching topedoes, fighting monsterous aliens, Cepheus Vignettes covers a lot of ground.

People face appearance-based discrimination on a daily basis, at work, in schools and in public spaces. In addition, a decade of soaring social media use, increased exposure to online advertising and a persistent and pervasive diet culture mean that concerns about the way we look start younger, last longer, and affect more people than ever before. In 2020, the UK Government commissioned an inquiry into how negative body image effects people's lives and what factors lead people into having a negative body image.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Bram Stoker’s classic tale Dracula. Johnathan Harker’s life became a horror-filled living nightmare when Count Dracula decided to move from his castle in Transylvania to a large house in London. Harker’s family and friends would be drawn into a maelstrom of madness and death.

Thomas, the faithful servant of the scientist Leland, places a desperate call through to his master's friends, begging they come up to the Leland mansion to find and rescue the missing Leland. What follows in an amazing adventure in the super science of yesteryear, where sanity and understanding will be challenged.

In this book, written during World War One, Stephen offers guidance on how to live a satisfying life, an existence that has meaning, and through that life to enrich the world around yourself.

Hawk Carse, pioneer, explorer, and crusader for justice escapes the asteroid base of Dr Ku Sui thinking the evil scientist was defeated. After a mammoth space-suited escape back to civilisation, the horrible truth emerges. Not only is the Doctor still alive, but his agents are already working to discover Hawk’s hidden base.

This audiobook from 1862 is a collection of published letters discussing the pros and cons of raising regiments consisting entirely of coloured soldiers to fight for the Union during the American Civil War. These arguments present the views of the time, and it's fascinating to see viewpoints so alien to our modern sensibilities. For instance, at the time these letters were being written, half of the members of the Northern government were against allowing any coloured citizens to own or bear arms.

Conan escapes a bloodbath of slaughter and leaps into an adventure encompassing revenge, monsters, an ancient curse and a beautiful woman. In this short story Robert E. Howard brings Conan, his most famous sword and sorcery hero, into vivid and bloodthirsty life.

Dark Moon is a classic science fiction story and includes everything you could want from a golden age story: brave heroes, beautiful heroines, bad guys, aliens, spaceships, monsters, and alien worlds. When a disaster pushes Harkness into crippling debt, and a villainous businessman frames him for murder, it's just the start of the adventure. Escaping imprisonment and flying his rocket ship into space pursued by the cops, Harkness races to clear his name and recover his fortune.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of a classic age science fiction story taken from the pages of the April 1930 edition of Astounding Stories. "The President is going mad! Only one scientist believes it is the dastardly plot of a foreign power. Dr Bird is the countries only chance!"

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of The Witch Hypnotiser. In this book the author has blended biblical texts with the anecdotes of a self-confessed witch who uses the power of hypnotism to effect the actions of the people she comes into contact with.