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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Price: Digital Download ($9.95)
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
Price: Audio CD ($12.76) | Audio Cassette ($9.86) | Digital Download ($9.95)
Features the highlights of major speeches given during World War II.
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FDR: Nothing to Fear
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Price: 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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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital 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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Crossroads of Freedom
by James M. McPherson
Price: Audio CD ($22.49) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Compared to the Normandy invasion in World War II, Antietam produced four times as many casualties....
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Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley
Price: Audio CD ($11.99) | Digital Download
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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Mao Zedong
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
Still revered in Communist China, Mao was the most powerful ‘emperor’ that China ever knew.
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The Coldest Winter
by David Halberstam
Price: Audio CD ($35.96) | Digital Download
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 Persian War from The Histories
by Herodotus
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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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The Incredible Century
Price: Digital Download ($19.95)
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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Ghost Soldiers
by Hampton Sides
Price: Audio CD ($15.99) | Digital Download
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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Grant and Sherman
by Charles Bracelen Flood
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
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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Halsey's Typhoon
by Bob Drury
Price: Audio CD ($29.56) | Digital Download
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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The American Revolution
by George H. Smith
Price: Audio CD ($19.95)
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
Price: Audio CD ($19.95)
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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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol I
by Shelby Foote
Price: Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette ($77.36) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($49.46)
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 Incredible Century, Vol. II
Price: Digital Download ($9.95)
Collects Speeches and recorded News accounts from the years 1953 to 1969.
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The Stephen Ambrose World War II Audio Collection
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Price: Audio CD ($39.96)
From "The New York Times" bestselling author Stephen Ambrose comes a timeless audio collection.
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Charlie Wilson's War
by George Crile
Price: Audio CD | Audio CD ($40.46) | Audio Cassette ($40.46) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD
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 Civil War
by Bruce Catton
Price: Audio CD ($48.00) | Audio CD ($29.66) | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
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
Price: Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($17.95) | Digital Download
Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry...
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At the Center of the Storm
by George Tenet
Price: Audio CD ($31.96) | Digital 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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Cobra II
by Michael R. Gordon
Price: Audio CD ($27.96) | Digital Download
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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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by W.H. Prescott
Price: Audio CD | Digital Download ($23.18)
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire....
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Legacy of Ashes
by Tim Weiner
Price: Audio CD ($31.46) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD
This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For sixty years, the CIA has maintained its reputation while hiding its blunders from the public.Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter reveals the truth.
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