Best Sellers
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The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two....
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Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project....
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Wow! A great compilation of historical archives
- By Vivibaia on 2023-05-31
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Band of Brothers
- E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
- Written by: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Tim Jerome
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world....
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Great listen! But I am kinda bias!
- By B.J. Nixon on 2019-12-11
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- Written by: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell....
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excellent
- By STEVE on 2018-06-24
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....
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Amazing!
- By Spinningwheelgirl on 2021-04-30
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The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two....
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Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project....
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Wow! A great compilation of historical archives
- By Vivibaia on 2023-05-31
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Band of Brothers
- E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
- Written by: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Tim Jerome
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world....
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Great listen! But I am kinda bias!
- By B.J. Nixon on 2019-12-11
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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American Sniper
- The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- Written by: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell....
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excellent
- By STEVE on 2018-06-24
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....
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Amazing!
- By Spinningwheelgirl on 2021-04-30
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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STUNNING
- By Rob on 2017-11-29
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Yes to Life
- In Spite of Everything
- Written by: Viktor E. Frankl, Daniel Goleman - introduction
- Narrated by: Joelle Young, David Rintoul
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life....
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Relevant still today
- By Laurie K on 2023-12-05
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Written by: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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good book - hard to digest
- By Dallas J Hoday on 2021-03-17
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Outlaw Platoon
- Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
- Written by: Sean Parnell, John Bruning
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In combat, men measure up. Or don't. There are no second chances....
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Ray Porters outstanding narration brought this to life.
- By DG on 2023-05-28
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The Last Punisher
- A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
- Written by: Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke, Lincy Lacz
- Narrated by: Timothy Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three....
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👍
- By MommaT on 2018-10-03
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With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- Written by: E. B. Sledge
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed....
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a must read/listen for ALL civilians
- By David Unger on 2019-03-24
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Phenomena
- The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....
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phenomenal writing
- By TyCB on 2019-10-16
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Helmet for My Pillow
- From Parris Island to the Pacific: A Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II
- Written by: Robert Leckie
- Narrated by: James Badge Dale, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed....
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Hooked from the start
- By iadey on 2023-10-01
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The Holocaust
- An Unfinished History
- Written by: Dan Stone
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone—Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London—reveals how the idea of “industrial murder” is incomplete....
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Written by: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....
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Wish this was a mandatory read in Canadian schools
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-03-27
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- Written by: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients....
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Breathtakingly beautiful!
- By Celia A on 2021-03-13
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Masters of the Air
- America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
- Written by: Donald L. Miller
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller....
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The Forgotten Soldier
- Written by: Guy Sajer
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia....
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I have PTSD after reading this
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-08-11
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Things I'll Never Forget
- Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
- Written by: James M. Dixon
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Things I’ll Never Forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine Corps. These are his memories of funny times, disgusting times and deadly times. The author kept a journal for an entire year....
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Great read.
- By Nick Smith on 2023-02-02
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Alone at Dawn
- Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
- Written by: Dan Schilling, Lori Longfritz
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel, Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of SEALs struggled to take the summit....
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True Selflessness
- By Robert A. Steeves on 2023-09-20
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The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Written by: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War....
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A History of Contingency
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-01-20
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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This is a great book
- By Barbara on 2018-09-13
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Grant
- Written by: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 48 hrs and 2 mins
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant....
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A thoroughly moving story
- By Anonymous User on 2019-11-23
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Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- Written by: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries....
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Excellent
- By Kindle Customer on 2023-08-12
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Eichmann in Jerusalem
- A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Written by: Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared in The New Yorker in 1963....
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A Small Man
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-02-01
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Revolution and Dictatorship
- The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
- Written by: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This book explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure....
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
- Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
- Written by: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley....
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WOW, Exceptional
- By Gerald Lefebvre on 2022-10-18
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Paris 1919
- Six Months That Changed the World
- Written by: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....
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Very important book
- By AvidReader on 2023-02-13
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Bonhoeffer
- Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- Written by: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in 40 years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life - the theologian and the spy - to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil....
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Exceptional, through and through.
- By Josh Ruberg on 2020-02-25
New Releases
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
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Left for Dead
- Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard abandoned in the Falklands for eighteen months.
Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
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Fighting the Night
- Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
- Written by: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Paul Hendrickson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents.
Written by: Paul Hendrickson
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Love and the Working Class
- The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
- Written by: Karen Lystra
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal expression of factory hands, manual laborers, peddlers, coopers, carpenters, lumbermen, miners, tanners, haulers, tailors, seamstresses, laundresses, domestics, sharecroppers, independent farmers, and common soldiers and their wives.
Written by: Karen Lystra
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The Unvanquished
- The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America's Special Operations
- Written by: Patrick K. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields that was in many ways equally consequential to the conflict’s outcome.
Written by: Patrick K. O'Donnell
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Why Hitler Lost World War II
- The Story of How Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (The WW2 History Journals)
- Written by: The History Journals, Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 41 mins
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When you look through the history books, even those of more recent years, the pages are full of wars, and whether between ancient dynasties or modern states, the horrific consequences always leave readers and listeners wondering how such atrocities can happen. However, to learn from the past is of vital importance for the generations that follow, despite on occasion, humanity, seeming to make the same mistakes, over and over again.
Written by: The History Journals, and others
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs. Though much has changed over the millennia, human nature remains the same. In The End of Everything, military historian Victor Davis Hanson narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World to show how societies descend into barbarism and obliteration.
Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
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Left for Dead
- Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard abandoned in the Falklands for eighteen months.
Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
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Fighting the Night
- Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
- Written by: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Paul Hendrickson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait out the war at the home of her small-town Ohio parents.
Written by: Paul Hendrickson
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Love and the Working Class
- The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
- Written by: Karen Lystra
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal expression of factory hands, manual laborers, peddlers, coopers, carpenters, lumbermen, miners, tanners, haulers, tailors, seamstresses, laundresses, domestics, sharecroppers, independent farmers, and common soldiers and their wives.
Written by: Karen Lystra
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The Unvanquished
- The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America's Special Operations
- Written by: Patrick K. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields that was in many ways equally consequential to the conflict’s outcome.
Written by: Patrick K. O'Donnell
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Why Hitler Lost World War II
- The Story of How Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (The WW2 History Journals)
- Written by: The History Journals, Liam Dale
- Narrated by: Liam Dale
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When you look through the history books, even those of more recent years, the pages are full of wars, and whether between ancient dynasties or modern states, the horrific consequences always leave readers and listeners wondering how such atrocities can happen. However, to learn from the past is of vital importance for the generations that follow, despite on occasion, humanity, seeming to make the same mistakes, over and over again.
Written by: The History Journals, and others
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World War 1 Heroes: Unforgettable Tales of Courage, Selflessness, and Resilience
- Curious Histories Collection
- Written by: Ahoy Publications
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlike most history audiobooks, this one doesn't stop at describing how a particular hero made their contribution to a prominent wartime event. Each chapter highlights one World War I actor, including their personal and professional traits
Written by: Ahoy Publications
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Napoleon’s Escape from the Middle East
- The History of the French General’s Flight from the Levant and Egypt
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1798, an initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere. After months of planning, Napoleon crafted a scheme to attack and conquer Egypt, denying the British easy access to their colonies in India, with the ultimate goal of linking up with the Sultan Tipoo in India itself and defeating the British in the field there. Napoleon sailed with Admiral Brueys and 30,000 troops that June, heading for Egypt.
Written by: Charles River Editors
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The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.
Written by: Erik Larson
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- Written by: Tobias Buck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
Written by: Tobias Buck
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Shots Fired in Anger
- A Rifleman's View of Battle of Guadalcanal
- Written by: John B. George
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
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"Shots Fired in Anger" by Lt. Col. John George is a compelling memoir and technical analysis from the front lines of the Burma campaign during World War II. Drawing upon his personal experiences, George provides an insightful narrative that offers a detailed look at the challenges and realities of combat against the Japanese forces. Not merely a collection of war stories, the book stands out for its in-depth evaluation of the small arms and weaponry used in the conflict, blending historical significance with technical expertise.
Written by: John B. George
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American Flygirl
- Written by: Susan Tate Ankeny
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn't easy.
Written by: Susan Tate Ankeny
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Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
- Written by: Simone Arnold-Liebster
- Narrated by: Simone Arnold-Liebster
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.
Written by: Simone Arnold-Liebster
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
- Written by: Eliza Frances Andrews
- Narrated by: Aundrea Cery
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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"The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865" is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction.
Written by: Eliza Frances Andrews
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The Gettysburg Campaign
- A Captivating Guide to the Military Invasion of Pennsylvania That Culminated in the Battle of Gettysburg During the American Civil War (Battles of the Civil War)
- Written by: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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In the summer of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, fresh off a victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, decided to invade Union territory. Taking his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania, Lee was drawn to a place where the areas major roads converged at Gettysburg. There, over seventy thousand Southern troops waged a dogged, bloody battle against over ninety thousand Union soldiers in the fields and on the boulder-strewn heights surrounding the town.
Written by: Captivating History
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The Forbidden Daughter
- The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
- Written by: Zipora Klein Jakob
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet, despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew.
Written by: Zipora Klein Jakob
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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- Written by: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman. James Ewell Brown Stuart led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry to the all-but-complete satisfaction of his superiors. Being human, Stuart occasionally underperformed.
Written by: Edward G. Longacre
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Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
- A Life in Geopolitics
- Written by: Henrik Meinander
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended his career as President of Finland.
Written by: Henrik Meinander