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Sir Winston Churchill: His Finest Hour
by Winston Churchill
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($12.76) | Audio Cassette ($9.86)
Features the highlights of major speeches given during World War II.
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Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
by F. E. Peters
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the twentieth century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Written by Sun Tzu in the 6th Century BC, the Art of War now stands as a definitive distillation of ancient military Strategy.
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FDR: Nothing to Fear
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($12.76)
This historical compilation includes highlights of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's key speeches during one of the most historical era's the modern world has known.
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The Incredible Century
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95)
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work...
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Mao Zedong
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Still revered in Communist China, Mao was the most powerful ‘emperor’ that China ever knew.
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The Incredible Century, Vol. II
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1953 to 1969.
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The American Revolution
by George H. Smith
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD
In 1776, the 13 American colonies - refusing to pay unjust taxes - declared their independence from Britain. The resulting years of war are called the American Revolution…
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The Incredible Century, Vol. III
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1970 to 1999.
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The Six Day War
by Berel Wein
Available on: Audio Download ($5.00)
No moment in Israeli history was as euphoric as the recapture of the Old City. With the original live broadcast of the IDF soldiers at the Western Wall, the pivotal battles come to life.
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Cold War
by David Painter
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The devastating US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only brought World War II to an end, but effectively gave birth to the Cold War.
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The Incredible Century, Vol. I
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1900 to 1953.
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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude.
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Sir Winston Churchill: "The War Years"
by Winston Churchill
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD
Featuring highlights of 10 major speeches given by the British Prime Minister.
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The Persian War from The Histories
by Herodotus
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio Cassette
In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia...
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General Douglas A. MacArthur: Soldier
by Douglas MacArthur
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD
A symbol of American determination and fighting ability, General Douglas A. MacArthur ranks as an imaginative, sometimes brilliant military commander.
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by W.H. Prescott
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire....
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Charlie Wilson's War
by George Crile
Available on: Audio Download ($31.95) | Audio CD | Audio CD ($40.46) | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This New York Times best-seller is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War, the rise of militant Islam, and how a colorful congressman from Texas conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the most successful covert operation in CIA history.
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Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In the summer of 1942, a band of citizen soldiers were brought together by the desire to be better than the other guy...
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Brotherhood of the Revolution
by Joseph J. Ellis
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This is the story of the American Revolution, the men who made it and who then secured it. It is the story of an improbable victory by a provincial collection of loosely knit colonies over the dominant military and political power in the world.
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Anglo-Saxon World
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Had the Angles and Saxons not purposefully migrated to the isles of the Britons and brought with them their already-well-developed use of language, Angelina Jolie may never have appeared in the movie Beowulf.
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A House Reunited: How America Survived the Civil War
by Jay Winik
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The American Civil War is perhaps the greatest challenge any democratic society has ever faced. The events of the war are well known. The names of the battles - Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg - have echoed through time and resonate to the present day…
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Citizen Soldiers
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
A masterful biography of the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations, Citizen Soldiers provides a...
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The Avengers
by Rob Cohen
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50)
From Rich Cohen, one of the preeminent journalists of his generation and author of the highly praised Tough Jews, a powerful exploration of vindication and revenge, of dignity and rebellion, painstakingly recreated through his exclusive access to the Avengers themselves.
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