History Audio
Books
History Audio Books are a great resource for
anyone interested in History, as well as an inspiring listen to by
the rest of us.
- D-Day
They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting
.22s at rabbits...
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Declaration of Independence, The
A stirring performance of the foundation document of American
liberty...
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
One of the greatest texts in the English language.
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II, The
Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of
historical masterpieces.
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of
Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven
days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no
food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped
gro...
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
One unforgettable year in Charles Osgood's childhood in Baltimore
during WWII.
- Deliver
Us From Evil
As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their
state sponsors around the world, Hannity reminds us we must also
cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at
home.
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Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
Subtitled True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors, this is
the ultimate book of ordeals, with remarkable stories of castaways
and other survivors from the 1500s to the present. Included are
a...
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Devil Came on Horseback, The: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in
Darfur
This is an intense, vivid autobiographical report from the heart of
violent Darfur by a former American Marine who became a military
observer for the African Union. The first extensive on-the-ground
account of the genocide in Sudan, it is also a powerful memoir of
one soldier’s awakening to...
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Diary of Samuel Pepys, The
Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
- Different
Drummer, A
A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer
brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three
decades.
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Dimensions of Scientific Thought
Science is a way of knowing that's characterized by the rules of
logic and the methods of experiment. But the conflict between logic
and experiment has created a long-standing tension in
scientific...
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Disappearance of Childhood, The
From the vogue for very young models to the explosion in the
juvenile crime rate, childhood in America today is in precipitous
decline. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and
demographic research, Postman suggests that the divisions between
childhood and adulthood are eroding under the...
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Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on
the Courts
America's courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in
the Left's camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes
of law tomes. Absent a sweeping change, precisely what author Mark
W. Smith calls for in Disrobed, liberals will ruthlessly exploit
their dominant position in the...
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Distant Mirror, A: The Calamitous 14th Century
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on one
hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and
chivalry; on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a
wo...
- Dixie
Bull
Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur
trapper named Dixie Bull
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History Of America In World War
II
In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerge to
illustrate the various struggles and victories fought during
wartime: a Japanese -American at an internment camp; a Native
American ...
- Downtown
Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city
he loves - Manhattan.
- Dr
Crippen
Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's
most publicized crimes
- Dying
to Cross
Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in
United States history.
- Echoes
of the Mekong
Peter Huchthausen, in a patrol boat on the Mekong River, rescued a
badly wounded Vietnamese child, Nguyen Thi Lung, arranged for her
treatment and education, then lost track of her during the Tet
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- Echo
of Greece, The
With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton
writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the
Great, of the much-loved playwright Menander, of the Stoics, and
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- Einstein's
Revolution
In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of
Relativity, followed by the General Theory of Relativity in 1916.
He firmly established (1) the idea that all judgement about motion
is a ma...
- Elizabeth
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in
a man’s world, passionately sexual yet...
- Elizabeth's
London
Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and
Dr Johnson's London, this fascinating evocation of
Elizabethan...
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Emancipation Proclamation, The
President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, emancipating all slaves
in the territories of the Confederacy during the American Civil
War, are brought to life through an engaging performance...
- Escape
from Alcatraz
Mobster Al
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Essential Lewis and Clark, The
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the
single most important document in the history of American
exploration.
- Ethnic
America
Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing
the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians,
Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans...
- Eyewitness
1900-1909
Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the
events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them
happen...
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