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Crazy Horse and Custer
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 20 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two... Read more
The Supreme Commander
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 32 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II.
Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill as a diplomat and a military strategist contributed to... Read more
Forty Autumns
By: Nina Willner
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Forty Autumns makes visceral the... Read more
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Ghostland
By: Colin Dickey
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016
“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review
From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously... Read more
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
By: David I. Kertzer
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 15 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be... Read more
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The Great Upheaval
By: Jay Winik
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 31 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation.Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian... Read more
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Founding Brothers
By: Joseph J. Ellis
Narrated by: Bob Walter
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and... Read more
Rough Riders
By: Mark Lee Gardner
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
THE AWARD-WINNING, NEW DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND THE ROUGH RIDERS""Thrilling. ... A CLASSIC."" —True WestWINNER: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; and Colorado Book AwardThe now-legendary Rough Riders were a volunteer regiment recruited in 1898 to help drive the Spaniards out... Read more
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The Secret War
By: Max Hastings
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 30 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced... Read more
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Jungle of Stone
By: William Carlsen
Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
Length: 16 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the MayaIn 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and... Read more
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The Last Goodnight
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Tristan Morris
Length: 14 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General “Wild Bill" Donovan as “the greatest unsung heroine of the war.”Betty Pack was charming,... Read more
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Dear Chairman
By: Jeff Gramm
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism’s longest running tensions—the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders—told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists.Recent disputes between shareholders and major... Read more
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This is Your Brain on Sports
By: L. Jon Wertheim
Narrated by: Sam Sommers & Keith Szarabajka
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the inner world of sports. Through the... Read more
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Gray Work
By: Jamie Smith
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men who run highly dangerous missions deep inside foreign... Read more
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Navy Seals
By: Dick Couch & William Doyle
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Captures the essence of Naval Special Warfare from our storied beginnings to the current fight.” —Admiral WILLIAM H. McRAVENWritten with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of America's most... Read more
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50 Children
By: Steven Pressman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States—for readers of In the Garden of Beasts and A Train in Winter.In early 1939,... Read more
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Operation Paperclip
By: Annie Jacobsen
Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 19 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs (The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis'... Read more
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American Gun
By: Chris Kyle & William Doyle
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPERJoin Chris Kyle on a fascinating journey to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review)Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically... Read more
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
By: Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals... Read more
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Voyagers of the Titanic
By: Richard Davenport-Hines
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and... Read more
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Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged
By: Robert Dallek
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more
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