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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($18.38)
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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Lone Survivor
by Marcus Luttrell
Price: Audio CD ($11.98) | Audio Download
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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Grant and Sherman
by Charles Bracelen Flood
Price: Audio CD ($26.96)
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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At the Center of the Storm
by George Tenet
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Download
An unflinching, no-holds-barred chronicle of the war on terror is delivered by a former CIA director. This candid and compelling memoir of Tenet's life at the CIA is a revelatory look at the agency's dealings with national leaders at home and abroad.
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American Soldier
by General Tommy Franks
Price: Audio CD ($44.95) | Audio Download
Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to the American story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all....
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No Room for Error
by Colonel John T. Carnet, Jr.
Price: Audio CD ($25.16) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($19.56)
When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special tactics" team in the late 1970s...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Price: Audio CD ($27.96) | Audio Download
This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.
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In Flanders Field and Other Poems About War
by John McCrae
Price: Audio CD ($13.46) | Audio Download
In World War I, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets put down their thoughts in poetry telling us much about wars and the people who fight them....
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Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
by Karen DeYoung
Price: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Download
With the historical sweep of nearly a century, "Soldier" is the first full, authorized biography of one of the most admired, powerful, and, more recently, controversial soldier-statesmen of our time.
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
by Paul Johnson
Price: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | Audio Download | MP3 CD
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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Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them
by John McCain
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In this remarkable audiobook, Senator McCain uses experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances to dramatically describe the anatomy of great decision making.
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Beyond Band of Brothers
by Dick Winters
Price: Audio CD ($72.00) | Audio Download
In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.
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No One Left Behind
by Amy Waters Yarsinske
Price: Audio CD ($27.95) | Audio Cassette | Audio 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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Eisenhower: Great General Series
by John Wukovitz
Price: Audio CD ($23.36) | Audio Cassette ($25.95) | MP3 CD
This new addition to Wesley Clark's Great Generals series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II and his relevance today
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1001 Nights in Iraq
by Shant Kenderian
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Shant Kendarians visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be a short one, just enough tie to make peace with his estranged father before he returned to his home in the United States...
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
by Joseph M. Marshall III
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Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn....
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Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
by David Cordingly
Price: Audio CD ($34.19) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.
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For Liberty and Glory
by James R. Gaines
Price: Audio CD ($44.99) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($31.49)
They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals.
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The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aides
by Henrik Eberle
Price: Audio CD ($35.99) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Joseph Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker.
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Grant
by John Mosier
Price: Audio CD ($23.36) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download | MP3 CD
In this newest addition to the Palgrave Great Generals Series, John Mosier brings to life the brilliant military strategist Ulysses S. Grant.
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Stonewall Jackson
by Donald A. Davis
Price: Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Deemed "irreplaceable" by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War.
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Patton
by Alan Axelrod
Price: Audio CD ($23.36) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download | MP3 CD
From Patton's boyhood battling dyslexia and becoming an avid reader, to his leadership strategies that modernized the U.S. army, Alan Axelrod delivers a fascinating account of Patton's life and legacy.
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The Long Road Home
by Martha Raddatz
Price: Audio CD ($31.49) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz comes the story of a brutal 48-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war, not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back home.
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The Pirate Hunter
by Richard Zacks
Price: Audio CD ($53.99) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($23.39)
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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John Paul Jones
by Evan Thomas
Price: Audio CD ($40.49) | Audio Download | MP3 CD ($20.69)
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail.
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