History - Military - World War I

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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of ...

Erik Larson

#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprec...

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Published: Mar 2020

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-19...

Geoffrey C. Ward

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and helped to win - the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 ...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Coldest Winter

David Halberstam

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light...

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Published: Sep 2007

Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley

The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is told through the lives of six young men pictured in the famous news photo of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi. Hailing from different parts of the United States, these young men ...

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Published: Aug 2006

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man a...

Ben Macintyre

One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Minc...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

The Guns at Last Light: The War in We...

Rick Atkinson

The eagerly awaited final volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson's New York Times bestselling Liberation Trilogy.It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Eu...

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Published: May 2013

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of ...

Robert Kurson

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–...

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Published: May 2005

Few, The: The American 'Knights of th...

Alex Kershaw

It was the summer of 1940, and World War II had been raging for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of England to seal Europe's fate.Though the United States was still a neutral...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

Antony Beevor

Unabridged CDs • 14 CDs, 18 hours The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945.

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story o...

Robert J. Mrazek

In the tradition of Band of Brothers, this is the untold story of a squadron of navy pilots whose heroism was decisive in America's victory in the Pacific.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2008

Citizens of London: The Americans Who...

Lynne Olson

From the acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men comes a major new World War II history that describes the developments of America's crucial wartime alliance with England that became so decisive in defeating Hitler.

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Published: Feb 2010

Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan,...

Barrett Tillman

The first book to fully cover the air war against Japan, Whirlwind examines the human drama of the most important strategic bombing campaign in history.

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Published: Mar 2010

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS...

Doug Stanton

Many survivors of the attack believe that McVay was innocent...and they have organized campaigns to have his record cleared. This has been supported by vote of Congress, but the Navy itself remains adamant. Perhaps Stanton's vivid acc...

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Published: Apr 2001

Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remem...

Larry Smith

The men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.

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Published: Jul 2008

The Demon Under the Microscope: From ...

Thomas Hager

Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.The Nazis discovered it. The Al...

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Published: Nov 2006

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at G...

James D. Hornfischer

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America's World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

My Tank Is Fight!: Deranged Invention...

Zack Parsons

My Tank Is Fight!' contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2001

The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocra...

Marc Wortman

In this fascinating yet little-known chapter of World War I history, journalist Marc Wortman provides a group portrait of young men of privilege--with names like Rockefeller and Morgan--who served in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, flying ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2006

No Simple Victory: World War II in Eu...

Norman Davies

In this groundbreaking work, Davies offers a clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth...

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Published: Sep 2007

Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic St...

Hampton Sides

In this history of a World War II rescue operation, the mission of a group of elite U.S. Rangers sent to free several hundred prisoners of war held by the Japanese is complicated by the fact that their target is also a shipping point ...

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Published: Sep 2006

D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic ...

Stephen E. Ambrose

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day: June 6, 1944 relies on over 1,400 interviews with veterans, as well as prodigious research in military archives on both sides of the Atlan...

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Published: Aug 2001

The Stephen Ambrose World War II Audi...

Stephen Ambrose

In 'D-Day, Stephen Ambrose draws on hundreds of oral histories as well as never-before-available information from around the world to tell the true story of how the Allies broke through Hitler's Atlantic Wall, revealing that the intri...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2004

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pa...

William Raymond Manchester

The book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

The First World War

John Keegan

Like all Keegan's work, 'The First World War' is beautifully written and full of telling detail. It has its faults, but it is certainly the best overall account for the general reader that has appeared since that by Cyril Falls nearly...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2004

11 Days in December: Christmas at the...

Stanley Weintraub

It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort to the Allied soldiers trying to stop the Nazis from retaking Belgium in one of the most decisive battles of World War II. While a German loudspe...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2006

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's N...

Christopher Dodd

Senator 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...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2007

The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and...

Michael R. Beschloss

Historian Beschloss examines the secret diplomatic and political plans by Roosevelt and, later, Truman to contain Germany following a military victory. The goal was to dismantle the Third Reich and to guarantee that there could never ...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2002

The Twilight Warriors

Robert Gandt

An engrossing chronicle of a tight-knit crew of young naval aviators in the epic final---and most brutal---major battle of World War II: Okinawa.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2010

The First Heroes

Craig Nelson

[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...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2003

Burma Road: The Epic Story of the Chi...

Donovan Webster

The extraordinary story of the China-Burma-Indiatheater of operations during World War IIAs the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset -- closing all of China's seaports -- more than 200,000 ...

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Published: Oct 2003
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