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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

Chris Matthews

"What was he like?"Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of fr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2011

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 ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

Brave Companions

David McCullough

From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough, who narrates his...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2015

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

Just in time for the 2000 Olympics in Australia, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods takes listeners on an outrageous tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes, leaving no Vegemite sandwich unsavo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2000

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...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of...

Thomas L. Friedman

Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative prev...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2005

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of...

Mark Owen

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.From the streets of Iraq to the rescue ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of ...

Antonia Fraser

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England surveys the epic saga of England's monarchs, spanning ten great dynasties, from the invading Normans of 1066 to the House of Windsor today. Edited by noted historian Antonia Fraser, the boo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2004

The Johnstown Flood

David McCullough

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMSAt the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning indu...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2005

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

The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History...

James Bradley

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series o...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of Ho...

Jane Mayer

In the days following September 11, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2008

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tra...

Ari Shavit

An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today  Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2013

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed Ame...

Steve Gillon

The companion to a ten-hour documentary series on the History Channel sheds new light on little-known events whose undervalued influence transformed American history, spanning the history of the United States from the time of the ear...

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Published: Apr 2006

The Greater Journey: Americans in Par...

David McCullough

David McCullough tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America through what they learned there.

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2011

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the Ame...

Hampton Sides

The author of Ghost Soldiers examines the real-life story of America's Manifest Destiny and westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes that stood in the way, including the fierce and bloody battl...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Birth of Plenty: How the Modern W...

William Bernstein

A daring look at the development of human prosperity--how it was created and where it's headed. Filled with meticulous research and page turning writing style.

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Published: Jun 2005

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

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and t...

Ben Macintyre

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintel...

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Published: Jul 2014

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...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2013

Don't Know Much About History - Updat...

Kenneth C. Davis

A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don't Know Much About series.When Don't Know Much About History first appeared, it created a sensation. ...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Endurance: Shackelton's Legendar...

Caroline Alexander

Ms. Alexander has sensibly, and ably, concentrated on the characters and interactions of the men, as revealed in diaries and letters, and used her text as a frame for previously unpublished pictures by the expedition's Australian phot...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2000

The Face of Battle

John Keegan

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Robert Whitfield, aka Simon Vance] In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in term...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2012

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of th...

Jeffrey Toobin

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

Consider the Fork: A History of How W...

Bee Wilson

Since prehistory, humans have braved the business ends of knives, scrapers, and mashers, all in the name of creating something delicious-or at least edible. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson trac...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2012

A Short History of the United States

Robert Vincent Remini

Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institut...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2008

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The...

Bill O'Reilly

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2015

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distra...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2007

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses ...

H. W. Brands

From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two criti...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

No True Glory: Fallujah and the Strug...

Bing West

Looks at the events, personalities, and political maneuvering of the struggle to establish peace in Fallujah, following strategy discussions between military officers, dangerous night patrols with the U.S. Marines, and peace negotiati...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2005
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