History - General

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America's Hidden History: Untold Tale...

Kenneth C. Davis

Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

Great Speeches in History

Norman Rodway

From Socrates to Lincoln, this title includes some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators spoke on th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 1996

America's Hidden History: Untold Tale...

Kenneth C. Davis

Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and b...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2008

Profiles in Courage

John F. Kennedy

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, John F. Kennedy tells the stories of eight U.S. senators who put principle above popularity. Kennedy singled out John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Edmund G. Ross, Robert A. Taft, and four ot...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2003

To Conquer the Air : The Wright Broth...

James Tobin

A history of the first-flight race documents the efforts of not only the then-unknown Wright Brothers, but their more prominent competitors, including the Smithsonian's Samuel Pierpont Langley, motorcyclist Glenn Curtiss, and Alexande...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

American Moonshot CD: John F. Kennedy...

Douglas Brinkley

As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2019

The Politically Incorrect Guide to We...

Anthony Esolen

This new installment in the bestselling P.I. Guide series is not just a refreshing road map of Western civilization but also a guide to us: who we were, who we are, and where we are going.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2008

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nu...

William Langewiesche

In his shocking new work, this celebrated journalist investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons technology shifting from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable, undeveloped nations acquire the ul...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

Columbine

Dave Cullen

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the e...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Kill...

Barr McClellan

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings.Now, after nearly forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2003

FDR and the Jews

Richard Breitman

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeatin...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2013

The Civil War

Julius Caesar

The Civil War is Julius Caesar's personal account of his war with Pompey the Great--the war that destroyed the five-hundred-year-old Roman Republic. Caesar the victor became Caesar the dictator. In three short books, Caesar describes ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2011

No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary T...

Larry Colton

No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing true story of four young sailors from the USS Grenadier who were captured and tortured by the Japanese during World War II, the bond that sustained them, and their struggles to resume their lives.

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation to...

Steven M. Gillon

A vivid, minute-by-minute account of the pivotal twenty-four hours following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor from acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2011

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored H...

Annie Jacobsen

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and mos...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2015

In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and...

Robert D. Kaplan

Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and Romania was a Communist backwater where "history had virtually stopped" since World War II. In Bucharest, Romania's capital, Kaplan discove...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2016

The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Y...

David S. Kidder

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharpMillions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of d...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2008

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Sto...

Peter Matthiessen

Matthiessen reveals a complex historical struggle between American Indians and the U.S. government and how it influenced the events that lead to the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2009

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: M...

Robert Morgan

A journey into the heart of war above 20,000 feet is told by the leader of the first bombing crew to survive twenty-five daylight missions over the danger-filled skies of occupied France and Nazi Germany and return to the United State...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2001

The Storm of War: A New History of th...

Andrew Roberts

From "Britain's finest military historian" (the Economist) comes a magisterial new history of World War II and the flawed axis strategy that led to their defeat.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2011

The Naval War of 1812

Theodore Roosevelt

Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. It caused considerable...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

All Hands Down: The True Story of the...

Kenneth Sewell

Sewell, a submarine veteran, and Preisler, a writer of techno-thrillers, add little new evidence in their version of the story; their new data is unfailingly familiar and they never succeed in making a persuasive case for the conspira...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2008

World War II (Audio Classics)

Joseph Stromberg

Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I - but with greater violence and less regard for the values of civilization. The Treaty of Versailles - which had officially ended World War I - had caused the Eu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2007

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides's classic chronicle of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. persists as one of the most brilliant histories of all time. This watershed event concerns not only military prowess, but also perennial conflict...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2007

Indianapolis: The True Story of the W...

Lynn Vincent

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL." —USA TODAY• "A WONDERFUL BOOK." —Christian Science Monitor• "ENTHRALLING." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) • "A MUST-READ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2018

Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-4...

Max Hastings

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his bestselling Armageddon, Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2016

A History of New Mexico, Fourth Revis...

The teacher's guide has lesson plans keyed to the state's instructional standards for social studies, answers to section and chapter reviews, four different types of student activity worksheets, tests and answer keys, bibliographies, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Venice: Pure City

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial---a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2010

How Great Generals Win

Bevin Alexander

b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b [Read by James Slattery] Throughout history, great generals have done what their enemies have least expected. Instead of direct, predictable attack, they have deceived, encircled, outflanked,...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2012

The Polish August

Neal Ascherson

What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last 25 years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of Western observers. How we...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2016
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