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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.76)
Average Rating:   (4.5 Stars)
August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
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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Bull Run
by Paul Fleischman
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry...
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The Persian War from The Histories
by Herodotus
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
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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Rumsfeld's War
by Rowan Scarborough
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
He is Donald Rumsfeld. His great fear was a second Pearl Harbor. When it happened on September 11, 2001, he led the charge to make sure it never happens again.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
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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The Incredible Century
Formats: Digital Download ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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The American Revolution
by George H. Smith
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
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 Civil War
by Jeffery Rogers Hummel
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
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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Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
by Nelson D. Lankford
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
In early March 1861, civil war loomed. By late April, Americans had begun to kill their fellow citizens.
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Currahee!
by Donald R. Burgett
Formats: Audio Cassette ($8.99)
In June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: IKE
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Features highlights from several of Eisenhower's most famous speeches.
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FDR: Nothing to Fear
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Formats: Audio CD ($12.76) | Digital Download ($9.95)
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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Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley
Formats: Audio CD ($11.99)
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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General Douglas A. MacArthur: Soldier
by Douglas MacArthur
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
A symbol of American determination and fighting ability, General Douglas A. MacArthur ranks as an imaginative, sometimes brilliant military commander.
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Ghost Soldiers
by Hampton Sides
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
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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Grace Under Fire: Letters of Faith in Times of War
by Andrew Carroll
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Grace Under Fire is an extraordinary, moving record of the importance of religion and spirituality to troops and their families from the American Revolution through the fighting in Iraq.
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan. This book, a masterpiece by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Hersey, reveals what happened on that day.
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The Incredible Century, Vol. I
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1900 to 1953.
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The Incredible Century, Vol. II
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1953 to 1969.
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The Incredible Century, Vol. III
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1970 to 1999.
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The Korean War and the Vietnam War
by Joseph Stromberg
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
At the end of World War II, the United States and Soviet Russia vied for dominance around the world. This contest was called the Cold War. Both Korea and Vietnam felt the full brunt of this conflict…
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Mao Zedong
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Still revered in Communist China, Mao was the most powerful ‘emperor’ that China ever knew.
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The Mexican-American War
by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Formats: Audio CD ($18.00)
On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico. Although the Mexican-American War lasted only 18 months, its consequences were profound.
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No One Left Behind
by Amy Waters Yarsinske
Formats: Digital Download ($19.56)
Author and former intelligence officer Amy Waters Yarsinske breaks the incredible true story of the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War...
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