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The One That Got Away
Chris Ryan
The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behind Ir...
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Saxon Stories - The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell
In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom afte...
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The Twentieth Wife
Indu Sundaresan
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the ca...
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TTC - American History
From The Teaching Company comes American History with lecturer Linwood Thompson.
M.A., Brigham Young University
Bellflower High Sc...
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Red Land, Black Land
Barbara Mertz
Internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights and sound...
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Medieval Feudalism
Carl Stephenson
Carl Stephenson's essay sets out with luminous clarity the structure of power in European society during the medieval period. Not...
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This Sceptred Isle
Christopher Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our ...
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Dynasties
This Sceptred Isle
The Churchills, the Cavendishes and the Norfolks are represented, as well as several Scots and Irish clans, through to...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
My own rip of the audiobook from Margaritaville records.
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The Perfect Summer
Juliet Nicolson
The granddaughter of Bloomsbury notables Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson chronicles the minutiae of the hot, sunny summer ...
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Secrets
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg's transformation from cold warrior and Defense Department analyst to impassioned antiwar crusader who released the Pentag...
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The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researchedThe Rape of Nanking, a book that recount...
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Citizen Soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
From the bestselling author of "Undaunted Courage" and "D-Day", the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, com...
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War of the Rats
David L. Robbins
Stalingrad in 1942 is a city in ruins, its Russian defenders fighting to repel the invading German army. One of their most potent ...
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TTC - American Identity
What defines an American? Is it the love of liberty, the pursuit of justice, the urge to invent, the desire for wealth, the drive ...
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The Battle for Spain
Anthony Beevor
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support t...
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The House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 (Audiobook) Niall Ferguson (Author) Review "Taken together, Ferguson's two vo...
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Aristotle's Children
Richard E. Rubenstein
In 12th-century Toledo, in Spain, a group of Christian monks, Jewish sages and Muslim teachers gathered to study a new translation...
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An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson
In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the c...
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Berlin
Antony Beevor
'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever sin...
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The First World War
John Keegan
In a riveting narrative that puts diaries, letters and action reports to good use, British military historian Keegan (The Face of ...
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The Magic Makers
David Carroll
A journey into the world of magic and the lives of its magicians, from ancient times to the present. Explains the difference betwe...
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The 900 Days
Harrison Salisbury
The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three million people e...
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Sailing to the Edge of the World
Glyndwr Williams
When, in 1492, an ambitious Genoese merchant named Christopher Columbus embarked on a daring voyage west into unknown waters, in s...
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Great Tales From English History
Robert Lacey
From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion a rich and v...
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American Lightning
Howard Blum
It was an explosion that reverberated across the countryand into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning...
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History of Science - Antiquity to 1700
Lawrence M. Principe
(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 1200 Taught by Lawrence M. Principe Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., Organic Chemistry...
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A Short History of Ireland
A Short History of Ireland ran for a total of 240 episodes.
Taking you on an historical journey spanning the Ice Age, the arrival ...
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Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
They came together in the summer of 1942. It was as good a rifle company as any in the world. Here is the story of E Company -- me...
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