History - General

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In the Company of Soldiers

Rick Atkinson

For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Wa...


Published: Feb 2005

Presidents of War

Michael Beschloss

From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a pr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2018

Stealing the General: The Great Locom...

Russell S. Bonds

On April 12, 1862 -- one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War -- a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and nineteen infantry volunteers infilt...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2011

Washington: The Making of the America...

Fergus M. Bordewich

Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.-a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormou...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2008

The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin ...

Mark Bowden

From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were ma...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2012

Flyboys: A True Story of American Cou...

James Bradley

FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by an American submarine and went on to become p...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

American Colossus: The Triumph of Cap...

H. W. Brands

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant. The three decades after the Civil War saw a ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rival...

H. W. Brands

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2018

The General vs. the President: MacArt...

H. W. Brands

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.At the height of the Korea...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2016

The Time of Our Lives: A conversation...

Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold S...

Marcus Brotherton

From Marcus Brotherton, coauthor of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the legendary Easy Company, the military unit immortalized in Band of Brothers.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2009

Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and ...

Matthew Brzezinski

Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance aga...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2012

Second Chance: Three Presidents and t...

Zbigniew Brzezinski

From the most highly respected analyst of foreign policy writing today, a story of wasted opportunity and squandered prestige: a critique of the last three U.S. presidents' foreign policy. America's most distinguished commentator on...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2007

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated ...

Stephen Budiansky

In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was a...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

Under Fire: The Untold Story of the A...

Fred Burton

The explosive inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, LibyaOn the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic M...

James Campbell

Reminiscent of classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and---through letters, journals, and interviews---part...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2007

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Co...

Michael Chabon

A Paperback OriginalA groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and GazaIn Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon a...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017

Iraq: The Forever War (PM Audio)

Noam Chomsky

Presenting an arresting analysis of U.S. foreign policy and the war on terror, this original recording delivers a provocative lecture on the nation's past. Demonstrating how imperial powers have historically invented fantastic reasons...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2009

The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanis...

Noam Chomsky

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan. Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2022

Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson...

Tom Clavin

Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expand...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2017

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Sto...

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn’t have been mo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2019

Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story

Dick Couch

[Read by Will Damron] The first complete history of the US Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the war on terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Navy. Over the last fifty ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2014

The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story ...

Peter Cozzens

With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2016

The Culture of War

Martin Creveld

A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world's shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Now, in The Culture of War, he argues that there is much...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2010

Decision in Normandy: The Real Story ...

Carlo D'Este

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] This is military history at its most dramatic and destined to become the definitive account of the Normandy campaign. Field Marshal Montgomery's battle plan for Normandy, following ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2012

History Is Wrong

Erich Daniken

Erich von Däniken again shows his flair for revealing truths that his contemporaries have missed. After closely analyzing hundreds of ancient and apparently unrelated texts, he is now ready to proclaim that human history is nothing l...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2011

The Hidden History of America at War:...

Kenneth C. Davis

Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine), Davis brin...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2015

The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Isra...

Alan Dershowitz

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterter...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

The Case for Israel

Alan M. Dershowitz

Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Isra...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2015

Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatis...

E. J. Dionne

Why the Right Went Wrong offers a historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and afte...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2016
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