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Papa Bravo Romeo - Abridged
By: Wynn Goldsmith
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Our mission was independent, no-holds-barred combat against a stubborn enemy in the enemy's backyard."
In Vietnam, river warfare was often conducted in the dark. It was always dangerous, sometimes fatal--especially in the eastern end of the Cong-plagued Mekong Delta. In 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Wynn Goldsmith was the "river rat" who... Read more
The Sword and the Shield - Abridged
By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Sword and the Shield is a compellingand historically significantnarrative destined to cast new light on the Soviet era. Read more
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Mao Zedong
By: Jonathan Spence
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in rural China in 1893, Mao Zedong led his country through "a long-drawn-out adventure in upheaval." In the process, he became one of the monumental figures of the twentieth century. He died in 1976, just as China was entering a détente with the United States. This excellent biography illuminates Mao's family life, his early years as a... Read more
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Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 1
By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum
Narrated by: Yossef Brami
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.Onkelos - Le miroir aux richesses - Les héritiers - Le Cadi de Mogador - Le petit grand-père Read more
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Dwight D. Eisenhower speeches
By: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Narrated by: Dwight D. Eishenhower
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A collection of speeches given by Dwight D. Eisenhower.Speeches included are:• 101st Airborne Division Citation Ceremony ca 1945• Address before Special Session of United Nations - Aug. 13, 1958• Address on Need for Effective Labor Bill - Aug. 6, 1959• Address on the Far East Situation -Sept. 11, 1958• Address on the Middle East Situation, July... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more
WWII Airmen
By: Multiple Authors
Narrated by: Various
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
These amazing accounts of airmen recorded during the war include stories of air combat, music of the time, and recordings made on bomb runs over Europe and Japan.
Eagles over Europe: (1) Introduction; (2) AAF Intro; (3) Bomb run over Germany, A-26; (4) Lt. Gilman, AT-9 Trainer; (5) Lt. Anderson, AT-7 Trainer; (6) Jack the Ripper air raid; (7)... Read more
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: George Vafiadis
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"...well orated by reader George Vafiadis. The language and sentiment are not as outmoded as some listeners might expect and it definitely feels patriotic to hear again the fundamentals of America's beginnings." - - Kliatt Magazine
George Washington wrote, "I find that Common Sense is working a powerful change there (Virginia) in the minds... Read more
King of Hearts
By: G. Wayne Miller
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the advent of open heart surgery, yet, until now, no one has brought to life all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph. G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed the amazing true story of how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt... Read more
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Endurance - Abridged
By: Alfred Lansing
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance—just a day's sail short of its destination—became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history. For ten... Read more
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Days of Infamy: Military Blunders of the 20th Century
By: Michael Coffey
Narrated by: Robert Abia
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating look behind more than fifty of the most historic military blunders of our century. Lively and engaging, in-depth and informative, this companion to an upcoming series on the History Channel goes beyond mere footage to delve into the facts of some well-remembered but little understood incidents and accidents of modern military history. Read more
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Charles Turner
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, and would die a slave. But as he grew up, Douglass determined that he would teach himself to read and write, and that one day he would be free from slavery. In 1832, Douglass was sent to a plantation in St.... Read more
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The Kissinger Transcripts - Abridged
By: William Burr & Richard Gilliland
Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial Secretaries of State in U.S. history— serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, never-before-seen transcripts of Kissinger's conversations, including top-secret talks with Beijing and Moscow, provide an unvarnished record of his... Read more
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The Greatest Speeches of All Time
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
More than 40 speeches—considered among the greatest of all time—comprise this marvelous collection. All the works are unabridged, and the most contemporary are live recordings, from political figures such as Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy to Civil Rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X—from sports... Read more
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What If...? Vol 1 - Abridged
By: Robert Cowley
Narrated by: John Cunningham & Janet Zarish
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising,... Read more
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Day of Deceit - Abridged
By: Robert Stinnett
Narrated by: Rafael Ferrer
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster.
Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents, Stinnett proves that Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese... Read more
Corporate Creativity - Abridged
By: Alan G. Robinson & Sam Stern
Narrated by: Sam Stern
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Most companies know that their creative performance falls far short of potential, but they don't know what to do about it. Corporate Creativity has the answers. Read more
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Fire on the Mountain - Abridged
By: John N. Maclean
Narrated by: John N. Maclean
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That seemingly small human error foreshadowed the numerous... Read more
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When Pride Still Mattered - Abridged
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.
More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high... Read more
Kaddish - Abridged
By: Leon Wieseltier
Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After his father died, Leon Wieseltier began to observe the traditional year-long period of mourning, going to the synagogue three times a day to recite the prayer known as the mourner's Kaddish. Struck by the profound, yet unexpected power of this practice and the poverty of his knowledge about it, Leon began to study the history and meaning of... Read more
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All the Best, George Bush - Abridged
By: George H.W. Bush
Narrated by: Barbara Bush & George H.W. Bush
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).
“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the warm heart of a prolific and occasionally poetic writer with a... Read more
Havana Dreams
By: Wendy Gimbel
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the fascinating true story of four generations of Cuban women whose personal lives are woven with the story of their nation. At its center is Naty, a socialite born in 1925, who becomes intoxicated with Castro and his revolution. Here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while Castro was in jail. Naty raises... Read more
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Vietnam
By: Stanley Karnow
Narrated by: Edward Holland
Length: 27 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America’s war in Vietnam. The book’s central theme is that America’s leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the... Read more
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Comrades - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.
Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them... Read more