Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and...
William Rosen* Mp3 CD Format *. The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople he built the world's m...
Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's N...
Christopher DoddSenator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. Senator Thomas Dodd began his career of public service as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Chris Dodd rece...
Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil...
Nelson D. LankfordIn early March 1861, civil war loomed. By late April, Americans had begun to kill their fellow citizens. Cry Havoc! recounts in riveting detail the events that divided the states and reveals how quirks of timing, character, and plac...
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Pr...
David K. ShiplerIn this monumental work, David Shipler, award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, examines the forces that contribute to the mutual aversion and hatred in Israel.
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-GarrardThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Eri HottaWhen Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questi...
Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcana...
Robert LeckieFrom Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month cam...
The President and the Assassin: McKin...
Scott MillerA sweeping tale of turn-of-the-century America and the irresistible forces that brought President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz together on one fateful day.
[MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.] [Read by Raymond Todd] Extensively researched, including interviews with twenty of the twenty-seven remaining survivors, The First...
As a history of the FBI from its creation in 1908 to the present day, The Bureau delves deep within the agency, presenting the organization in its historical context and answering compelling questions concerning its somewhat checkered...
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation to...
Steven M. GillonA vivid, minute-by-minute account of the pivotal twenty-four hours following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor from acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Sto...
Peter MatthiessenMatthiessen 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.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
ThucydidesThucydides'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...
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-4...
Max HastingsWith 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...
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial---a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city.
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,...
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...
The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin ...
Mark BowdenFrom 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...
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold S...
Marcus BrothertonFrom 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.
Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and ...
Matthew BrzezinskiStarting 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatis...
E. J. DionneWhy 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...
Washington Journal: Reporting Waterga...
Elizabeth DrewUnfolding over the course of a single year, from September 1973 to August 1974, Washington Journal is the record of the near-dissolution of a nation's political conscience—told from within. In these pages, we see corruption in its m...
Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversio...
M. Stanton EvansMost Americans have grown accustomed to accept the version of history that the Soviets were our noble allies and took the brunt of the casualties during World War II. But after decades of research by veteran journalist M. Stanton Evan...
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History...
Charles Bracelen FloodIn a masterly narrative, historian and novelist Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Abraham Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the final campaigns of the Civil War, was re-elected president, and laid out his visi...
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, La...
James R. GainesThey began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, acro...
The Vanquished: Why the First World W...
Robert GerwarthIn The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous ...
The definitive refutation to biological determinism from renowned scientist and National Book Award winner Stephen Jay Gould.