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No End Save Victory Volume 2 - Abridged
By: Various
Narrated by: Leo Burmester
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This second set of essays from No End Save Victory will find a large and appreciative audience eager to learn more about his most crucial of 20th-century conflicts, World War II. Read more
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Raising the Hunley - Abridged
By: Brian Hicks & Schuyler Kropf
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Two prize-winning journalists, Brian Hicks and Schulyer Kropf, have chronicled this fascinating story of military daring, momentary victory, sudden death, buried secrets, persistence, and ultimate payoff. Read more
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Secrets - Abridged
By: Daniel Ellsberg
Narrated by: Dan Cashman & Daniel Ellsberg
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: Yes
Covering the decade between his entry into the Pentagon and Nixon's resignation, Secrets is Ellsberg’s meticulously detailed insider's account of the secrets and lies that shaped American foreign policy during the Vietnam era. Read more
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The Demon in the Freezer - Abridged
By: Richard Preston
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more
An Army at Dawn - Abridged
By: Rick Atkinson
Narrated by: Rick Atkinson
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. An Army at Dawn begins on the eve of Operation TORCH, the... Read more
The Age of Sacred Terror - Abridged
By: Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simons
Narrated by: Philip Bosco
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the... Read more
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Abridged
By: Edmund Morris
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt ... Read more
The Measure of All Things - Abridged
By: Ken Alder
Narrated by: Brian Jennings
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their... Read more
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Last Train to Paradise - Abridged
By: Les Standiford
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.
In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more
Spoon River Anthology - Abridged
By: Edgar Lee Masters
Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more
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Winston Churchill
By: John Keegan
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Keegan is] the best military historian of the world."—Tom Clancy
When today’s world leaders require inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often invoke Winston Churchill. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a solider early in life. At this he succeeded brilliantly, fighting... Read more
The Age of Gold - Abridged
By: H. W. Brands
Narrated by: Brian Mancinelli
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN
THEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH.
When gold was first discovered on the American River above Sutter's Fort in January 1848, California was sparsely... Read more
William F. Buckley: Nuremberg
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Author William F. Buckley tells the story of young German-American Sebastian Reinhardt who served as an interpreter during the Nuremberg trials of 1945 in his novel Nuremberg: the Reckoning. In this interview, Buckley discusses the synergy of fact and fiction in the novel, performing research, the impact of the trials, and more. Read more
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American Studies - Abridged
By: Louis Menand
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Brilliant, surprising insights into America yesterday and today from the New York Times bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club. Read more
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The Cell - Abridged
By: John Miller & Michael Stone
Narrated by: John Miller
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden... Read more
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A Ranger Born - Abridged
By: Robert W. Black
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s... Read more
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The Raid - Abridged
By: Benjamin F. Schemmer
Narrated by: Dick Rodstein
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months... Read more
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A Long Way From Home
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation.
In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in... Read more
Arab and Jew
By: David K. Shipler
Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
Length: 27 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Arab stereotype portrays the Jew as a brutal, violent coward. The Jewish stereotype portrays the Arab as a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental Pulitzer Prize–winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of these prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and... Read more
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Yiddish Radio Project
By: author
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The Yiddish Radio Project is based on a series of stories featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the spring of 2002. The series highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. In its heyday Yiddish radio was heard from coast to coast, with a dozen stations in New York alone. All that survives from that... Read more
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World War II: Europe - Abridged
By: The History Channel
Narrated by: Fritz Weaver, Paul Sparer & Jack Perkins
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Relive history as the men who experienced the most intense battles of World WarII share their stories. The WWII Battle Classsic -- produced as major TV specials by Lou Reda Productions -- have been brilliantly adapted for this thirilling audio presentation. This is essential history, told by the eyewitness heroes who were there. World WarII:... Read more
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Picasso's War
By: Russell Martin
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Picasso's War sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to WWII and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today. Read more
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Last Train to Paradise
By: Les Standiford
Narrated by: Del Roy
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.
In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more
The Demon in the Freezer
By: Richard Preston
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons.... Read more