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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatche...

James Rebanks

A major new talent redefines the literature of rural life. Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty dece...

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Published: Sep 2016

Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-...

W. Craig Reed

Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the Cold War. Now, in this riveting new history, W. Craig Reed provides an eye-opening, pulse-pounding account of the underwater ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

Borderland: A Journey Through the His...

Anna Reid

Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centureies, Ukraine was split between w...

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Published: Jun 2015

Carrying The Flag: The Story of Priva...

Gordon C. Rhea

For forty years, Charles Whilden lived a life most noteworthy for a series of near misses. Repeatedly turned down for service in the Confederate Army, he did not enlist until the desperate days when anyone capable of locomotion was br...

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Published: Mar 2005

Why We're All Romans: The Roman Contr...

Carl J. Richard

This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian C...

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Published: Jun 2011

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the ...

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S...

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Published: Jan 2010

The Generals: American Military Comma...

Thomas E. Ricks

An epic history of the decline of American military leadership-from the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks has made a close study of America's military leaders for three decades, and in TheGenerals, he chronicles the wide...

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Published: Oct 2013

The Generals: American Military Comma...

Thomas E. Ricks

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. History has been kinder to the American generals of World War II --...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

The Generals: American Military Comma...

Thomas E. Ricks

b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble comes an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. History has been kinder ...

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Published: Oct 2012

Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing...

James Riley

Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of No...

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Published: Feb 2007

The JFK Assassination Revisited: A Sy...

James V. Rinnovatore

James Rinnovatore and Allan Eaglesham provide proof that President Kennedy's body was in the Bethesda morgue well before the motorcade from Andrews Air Force Base arrived at the entrance to Bethesda Naval Hospital carrying the bronze ...

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Published: Mar 2014

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controve...

John Rizzo

The "revealing" (The New Yorker) insider history of the CIA from a lawyer with a "front-row seat on the hidden world of intelligence" (The Washington Post). Former CIA director George J. Tenet called Company Man a ...

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Published: Jan 2015

Capital Dames: The Civil War and the ...

Cokie Roberts

[*Read by the author - Cokie Roberts] In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a rive...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2015

Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of...

Gordon Bennett Robertson Jr

By March 1945, when Ben Robertson took to the skies above Japan in his B-29 Superfortress, the end of World War II in the Pacific seemed imminent. But although American forces were closing in on its home islands, Japan refused to surr...

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Published: May 2016

Masters Of Chaos

Linda Robinson

Now in paperback: Linda Robinson's intimate, exclusive-and New York Times best-selling- account of the most secretive and elite soldiers in the U.S. Army today Army Special Forces soldiers have been at the forefront of America's count...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern T...

Marilynne Robinson

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing 'Calvinism' and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive 'puritan' stereotyp...

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Published: Nov 2005

Honor and Betrayal: The Untold Story ...

Patrick Robinson

"Written in an even-keeled, reportorial style, the book tells a story…that certainly needs to be told.… Guaranteed to raise eyebrows and spark debate."-BooklistHonor and Betrayal is a no-holds barred, riveting account of t...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great W...

Eugene Rogan

In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict...

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Published: May 2015

While Men Slept . . .: . . . His Enem...

Karen Frazier Romero

While Men Slept . . . IS A WAKE-UP CALL TO THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA EXPOSING THE ENEMY WITHIN OUR MIDST . . . THEY HAVE PROMISED TO SILENTLY INFILTRATE OUR COUNTRY USING IMMIGRATION IN ORDER TO MULTIPLY THEIR VOTES, SECURE ALL POLITICA...

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Published: Mar 2014

My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Recently named 'Woman of the Century' in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column 'My Day' for over a quarter of that century, from 1936 to 1962. This collec...

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Published: Mar 2001

The Naval War of 1812: A Complete His...

Theodore Roosevelt

Although only 23 years old at the time of publication, Theodore Roosevelt made his mark as a military scholar with this detailed analysis of naval combat between the United States and Great Britain from 1812–15. Engagingly written a...

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Published: Sep 2017

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the ...

Sarah Rose

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untoldhistory of theheroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, cou...

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Published: Mar 2020

The Third Horseman: A Story of Weathe...

William Rosen

How a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black DeathIn May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a ...

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Published: Apr 2015

Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Ric...

John F. Ross

The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2014

The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John...

John F. Ross

A timely, thrilling account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon--and, as an American visionary, waged a bitterly-contested campaign for environmental s...

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Published: May 2019

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History...

Richard Rothstein

This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) ...

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Published: May 2018

Introduction to Mathematical Philosop...

Bertrand Russell

2017 Reprint of 1919 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy has been a seminal work for more than nine decades. It gives the gener...

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Published: Aug 2017

A History of the English Monarchy: Fr...

Gareth Russell

In A History of the English Monarchy, historian Gareth Russell traces the story of the English monarchy and the interactions between popular belief, religious faith and brutal political reality that helped shape the extraordinary jour...

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Published: Mar 2015

A Renegade History of the United Stat...

Thaddeus Russell

Historian Thaddeus Russell presents a study of the real revolutionaries who infused America with the identity it has today.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2010

A Renegade History of the United Stat...

Thaddeus Russell

Historian Thaddeus Russell presents a study of the real revolutionaries who infused America with the identity it has today.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2010
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