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Mao Zedong
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Digital Download
Still revered in Communist China, Mao was the most powerful ‘emperor’ that China ever knew.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Credits: Digital Download
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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Sir Winston Churchill: His Finest Hour
by Winston Churchill
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Features the highlights of major speeches given during World War II.
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FDR: Nothing to Fear
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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The Incredible Century
Credits: Digital Download
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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The Coldest Winter
by David Halberstam
Credits: Audio CD
In this posthumous work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the untold heroism and pathos of the worst American military disaster since Little Big Horn, and the politics that set it in motion.
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Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley
Credits: Audio CD
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
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Crossroads of Freedom
by James M. McPherson
Credits: Audio CD
Compared to the Normandy invasion in World War II, Antietam produced four times as many casualties....
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The Incredible Century, Vol. II
Credits: Digital Download
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1953 to 1969.
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol I
by Shelby Foote
Credits: Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally important engagements on both land and sea.
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The Persian War from The Histories
by Herodotus
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by W.H. Prescott
Credits: Digital Download
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire....
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Ghost Soldiers
by Hampton Sides
Credits: Audio CD
Sides renders a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II: the rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines.
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Charlie Wilson's War
by George Crile
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
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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The American Revolution
by George H. Smith
Credits: 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 Six Day War
by Berel Wein
Credits: Digital Download
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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Grant and Sherman
by Charles Bracelen Flood
Credits: Audio CD
We were as brothers, William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.
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The Stephen Ambrose World War II Audio Collection
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Credits: Audio CD
From "The New York Times" bestselling author Stephen Ambrose comes a timeless audio collection.
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag
Credits: Audio Cassette
No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy…
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The Civil War
by Jeffery Rogers Hummel
Credits: Audio CD
From 1861 to 1865 America was caught in the convulsions of war—The Civil War. No historical event, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States.
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Halsey's Typhoon
by Bob Drury
Credits: Audio CD
In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm" and "Flags of Our Fathers" comes a gripping, true account of courage and survival at sea against impossible odds--and one of the finest untold World War II sagas of our time.
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Cobra II
by Michael R. Gordon
Credits: Audio CD
Informed by unparalleled access to still-secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military's own internal after-action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively.
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The Civil War
by Bruce Catton
Credits: Audio CD | Audio CD
For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...
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Bull Run
by Paul Fleischman
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry...
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