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They Marched Into Sunlight
by David Maraniss
Credits: Audio Download
Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Credits: Audio 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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Lone Survivor
by Marcus Luttrell
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less then 24 hours later, only one of those SEALs remained alive.
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Sir Winston Churchill: His Finest Hour
by Winston Churchill
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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 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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Band of Brothers
by Stephen Ambrose
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Credits: Audio 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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Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley
Credits: Audio Download | 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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The Incredible Century
Credits: Audio Download
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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World War I: The Great War and the World It Made
by John Ramsden
Credits: Audio Download
"The Great War" as it was known at the time was also said to be the "war to end all wars." It seized all of Europe and much of the rest of the world in its grip of death and destruction.
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Anglo-Saxon World
by Michael Drout
Credits: Audio Download
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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One Bullet Away
by Nathaniel Fick
Credits: Audio Download
A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.
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The American Revolution
by George H. Smith
Credits: Audio Download
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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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
Credits: Audio Download
During the Holocaust at the German concentration camp near Plaszow, thousands of Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis. More than a thousand others were spared...
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Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
by Jonathan Smele
Credits: Audio Download
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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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit.
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The Coming Fury
by Bruce Catton
Credits: Audio Download
The Coming Fury (Vol. 1): From the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.
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D-Day: June 6, 1944
by Stephen Ambrose
Credits: Audio Download
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight...
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Robert E. Lee on Leadership
by H.W. Crocker
Credits: Audio Download
Robert E. Lee scholar H. W. Crocker III is an esteemed Civil War historian. Skillfully summarizing Lee’s life, Crocker clearly extracts leadership lessons from the storied career of the South’s beloved leader and applies them to today’s business world.
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Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
Credits: Audio Download
Between January and July 1919 delegates from all over the world converged on Paris to forge a lasting peace in the wake of World War I.
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by W.H. Prescott
Credits: Audio Download
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire....
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Clausewitz's on War
by Hew Strachan
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day.
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The Incredible Century, Vol. I
Credits: Audio Download
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1900 to 1953.
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol I
by Shelby Foote
Credits: Audio Download | Audio 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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Mao Zedong
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
Still revered in Communist China, Mao was the most powerful ‘emperor’ that China ever knew.
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