Anders Lawerny

The Battle of Holowczyn

The Swedish Carolean army

"The River God Sends", a story of the Battle of Holowczyn, 4 July 1708. Voice reading: TheRiverGodSendsBattlefieldWitnessComNEW0:00/1427.4213151×

Commander of the Continental Army

The Shadow War of George Washington

A Historical Narrative Grounded in the records of the Continental Army, the Culper Ring correspondence, Benjamin Tallmadge's memoirs, and the papers of George Washington. "The necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged." — General George Washington, letter to Colonel Elias Dayton,

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The Irish Brigade, voice reading part of this story

IrishBrigadepartofstory1byBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/104.594251× The Irish BrigadeClear the Way A story of the Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861–1862 I. Castle Garden, August 1861 He came off the ship at Castle Garden on a Tuesday morning in the third week of August, with four shillings and sixpence sewn

Sierra Leone

A British rescue operation

D Company, 1 PARA. Sierra Leone. 10 September 2000. I. The Chinook smelled of JP-8 aviation fuel, wet kit, and the particular quiet of men who had been told the odds and chosen not to discuss them. Danny Kavanagh sat with his SA80 between his knees and the dark bulk

Tirpitz

"A Story of Intelligence" voice reading part four in this story

TirpitzpartfourbyBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/173.6358751× A Story of IntelligenceThe Beast in the Fjord Part One: The Cardinal, 1941–1942 The hut smelled of damp wool and cigarette ash, of men who had been awake too long thinking too hard, and of something else beneath that — the particular tension of people who

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A Story of Intelligence

The Beast in the Fjord Part One: The Cardinal, 1941–1942 The hut smelled of damp wool and cigarette ash, of men who had been awake too long thinking too hard, and of something else beneath that — the particular tension of people who know that what they are reading has

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The Irish Brigade

Clear the Way A story of the Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861–1862 I. Castle Garden, August 1861 He came off the ship at Castle Garden on a Tuesday morning in the third week of August, with four shillings and sixpence sewn into the coat lining and a

Sengoku period

THE FOG DOES NOT LIFT

A Story of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima Hachimanbara Plain, Shinano Province. The eighteenth day of the ninth month, Eiroku 4. What the West would call October, 1561. I. Ōishi Ryōken set out his needles in order of length. This was a discipline from his first campaign, thirty years ago

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160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment

STAR 41

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OPERATION FIRE MAGIC

Posca

Posca: The Ancient Roman Soldier Drink

The Battle of Panipat Featured

Battle of Panipat 1526 – Historical Witness Account

Panipat, 21 April 1526 — A Witness Account   I.   Before Dawn The slow-match smelled of burning rope and something older — sulphur, the scent of the underworld made portable, tucked into the fingers of men who stood fifty paces apart along the length of the cart-wall. Mirza Yusuf had smelled it every

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WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction voice first part

Voice reading the first part of this story USS GarfishfirstpartBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/377.234251× WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish FictionUSS Garfish (SS-411) — South China Sea, fourteen miles southwest of Formosa October 1944 I. The smell came first, as it always did. Diesel and bilge-water and the particular sweetness of two dozen

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Polish Winged Hussars

The Last Lance

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THE ROAD TO PONTECORVO

12 May 1944. A story from Operation Strangle — U.S. Twelfth Air Force, Italy. The valley was the greenest thing Ray Cafaro had seen in eleven months. He lay flat in the nose of the Mitchell, his chin maybe two feet above the Plexiglas, and watched Italy roll underneath him

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WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction

USS Garfish (SS-411) — South China Sea, fourteen miles southwest of Formosa October 1944 I. The smell came first, as it always did. Diesel and bilge-water and the particular sweetness of two dozen men's unwashed bodies compressed into a steel cylinder for thirty-one days — it lived in everything, your

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The Sound Before the Dawn

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Fort Eben-Emael 1940 – Historical Fiction

Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium — 10 May 1940, 04:18–06:00 I. The Silence Before The rope went slack and then it was gone. Gefreiter Paul Renner felt it the way you feel a hand releasing yours in the dark — not the thing itself, only the absence of the thing. The

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Battle of Austerlitz Story – Witness Account

2 December 1805. A Moravian farmhand watches from the Pratzen Heights as Napoleon's trap closes on the Allied army. An immersive witness account of history's most perfect battle.

Napoleonic Wars, France, 1805, Moravia

Battle of Austerlitz Story – Witness Account ver 2

December 2, 1805 — A Witness Account Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte commands 73,000 French troops against an Austro-Russian coalition of 85,000. It is the first anniversary of his coronation as Emperor. By nightfall it will be called his masterpiece. 04:30 — The Camps

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The Ground He Stands On

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English victory in the Hundred Years' War

Agincourt: The Archers of Saint Crispin

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Thermopylae historical fiction

A Spartan at Thermopylae, August 480 BC Before the Pass You smell it before you see it. The road north from Trachis bends around a shelf of limestone, and the wind comes off the Malian Gulf carrying salt and something else — a breath of sulphur, deep and mineral, rising from

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Battle of the Bulge Fiction – Immersive Story

A story set during the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium — December 1944 I. She heard the guns before she woke. That was how it had been since Normandy — a part of her never fully slept, some small animal portion of the brain that stayed alert to the frequency of

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Trafalgar

The Weight of Signals

The Battle of Trafalgar.