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The Six Day War
by Berel Wein
Formats: Digital Download ($1.00)
Published:
June 2008
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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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
by Paul Johnson
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | Digital Download | MP3 CD
Published:
December 2007
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson continues his engaging history series. As he has done in previous books, he approaches the subject of heroism by example.
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
Formats: Audio CD ($24.26) | Audio Cassette ($24.26) | Digital Download | MP3 CD
Published:
December 2007
A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism,"…
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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
by Dave Barry
Formats: Audio CD ($20.76) | Digital Download
Published:
October 2007
A brilliantly funny exploration of the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
by Laurence Bergreen
Formats: Audio CD ($27.96) | Digital Download
Published:
October 2007
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West.
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa, 1945-The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
by Bill Sloan
Formats: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($26.96) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
October 2007
Respected historian Bill Sloan tells the full story of the Battle of Okinawa as it has never been told before, through the eyes of the men in battle.
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Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas
by Russell Freedman
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96) | Digital Download
Published:
October 2007
Historians still agree about the date of Columbus' voyage. But did this European adventurer discover America?
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Young Stalin
by Simon Sebeg Montefiore
Formats: Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette ($26.96) | Digital Download | MP3 CD
Published:
October 2007
Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity who embraced revolutionary idealism, the world in which he found his Messianic mission in life.
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
by Clint Willis
Formats: Audio CD ($97.20) | Audio Cassette ($89.95) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Published:
September 2007
This gripping story of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells of Bonington’s Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent.
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The Coldest Winter
by David Halberstam
Formats: Audio CD ($35.96) | Digital Download
Published:
September 2007
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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The Great Upheaval
by Jay Winik
Formats: Audio CD ($27.96) | Digital Download
Published:
September 2007
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumental revolution.
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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
by David M. Friedman
Formats: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
September 2007
The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize winner regarded by many as the most brilliant surgeon who ever lived.
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The Last Days of the Incas
by Kim MacQuarrie
Formats: Audio CD ($44.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($31.49)
Published:
September 2007
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar.
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Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars
by Rosemary Crawford
Formats: Audio CD | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($44.95)
Published:
September 2007
He was destined to be the last Romanov tsar. She was the most notorious woman in Russia, Based on hidden-away documents, letters, diaries, and photographs, it's one of the greatest love stories of the century.
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Red Moon Rising
by Matthew Brzezinski
Formats: Audio CD ($29.56) | Digital Download
Published:
September 2007
On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon.
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Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Formats: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
August 2007
In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region.
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
Formats: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
August 2007
In this vivid history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798.
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