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Kokoda (by Peter FitzSimons)
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Lewis FitzGerald
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Story5 out of 5 stars 251
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened and just what our troops achieved....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compulsory listening...we must know this.
- By Phillip on 13-12-2015
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Anzac Sniper
- The Extraordinary Story of Stan Savige, One of Australia's Greatest Soldiers
- By: Roland Perry
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to Pacific War General and the founder of Legacy....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a sniper, but a great leader
- By Anonymous User on 18-04-2019
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The Art of War
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 252
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....
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5 out of 5 stars
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And you thought he ran a solid bordello?
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-2017
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story5 out of 5 stars 117
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another cracking spy yarn, and this one is true!
- By Kirsty on 31-12-2018
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Kokoda (by Peter FitzSimons)
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Lewis FitzGerald
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Story5 out of 5 stars 251
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened and just what our troops achieved....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compulsory listening...we must know this.
- By Phillip on 13-12-2015
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Anzac Sniper
- The Extraordinary Story of Stan Savige, One of Australia's Greatest Soldiers
- By: Roland Perry
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to Pacific War General and the founder of Legacy....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a sniper, but a great leader
- By Anonymous User on 18-04-2019
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The Art of War
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 252
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....
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5 out of 5 stars
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And you thought he ran a solid bordello?
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-2017
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story5 out of 5 stars 117
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another cracking spy yarn, and this one is true!
- By Kirsty on 31-12-2018
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- By: Günter K. Koschorrek
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, over five decades later, the fulfillment of a responsibility he feels to honor the memory of those who perished....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Realistic day by day week by week account of life in the Eastern Front
- By Mark on 17-09-2018
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Bill the Bastard
- The Story of Australia's Greatest War Horse
- By: Roland Perry
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Bill was massive. He had power, intelligence and unmatched courage. In performance and character he stood above all the other 200,000 Australian horses sent to the Middle East in the Great War....
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant book
- By Eric on 17-08-2015
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Gallipoli
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story5 out of 5 stars 111
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France....
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing
- By John on 16-04-2019
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Tobruk
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story5 out of 5 stars 146
In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcements and supplies within eight weeks....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving.
- By Reader on 23-12-2018
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Arnhem
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story5 out of 5 stars 37
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Book you will read on Market Garden
- By Mick Rose on 18-11-2018
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Vietnam
- The Australian War
- By: Paul Ham
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
The definitive account of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, by best-selling author of Kokoda....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grippingly engaging and enthralling
- By The Nautrual on 02-04-2019
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Lone Survivor
- The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
- By: Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 174
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 158
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Story5 out of 5 stars 157
In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left Afghanistan for the Pakistani border 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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5 out of 5 stars
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great story, great reader, sad story
- By Arn on 28-09-2018
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On Combat
- The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
- By: Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
- Narrated by: Dave Grossman
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story5 out of 5 stars 75
On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle and the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, and memory....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for anyone dealing with "warriors"
- By Andrew on 29-01-2017
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Stubborn Buggers
- The Survivors of the Infamous POW Gaol That Made Changi Look Like Heaven
- By: Tim Bowden
- Narrated by: Tim Bowden
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
It made Changi seem like heaven.'There was a place far worse than Changi – Singapore's Outram Road Gaol....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great read
- By Pano on 10-03-2019
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Black Hawk Down
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen....
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant<br />
- By aidan on 02-01-2018
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44 Days
- 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia
- By: Michael Veitch
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
The epic World War II story of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely-trained pilots fought alone against the Japanese....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that should be heard.
- By Robert on 22-02-2017
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Hannibal
- One Man Against Rome
- By: Harold Lamb
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome...
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Hitler's Hangman
- The Life of Heydrich
- By: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A chilling insite into a ambitious monster
- By Brenton on 08-04-2017
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Dutch Girl
- Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- By: Robert Matzen, Luca Dotti - foreword
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Several biographies have chronicled Audrey Hepburn's stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. According to her son, Luca Dotti, "The war made my mother who she was."...
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Charlotte Gray
- By: Sebastian Faulks
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman....
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Killing the SS
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard - contributor
- Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run....
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story5 out of 5 stars 120
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A ripping yarn.
- By Tim on 16-11-2018
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The Operator
- Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
- By: Robert O'Neill
- Narrated by: Robert O'Neill
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 342
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 317
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Story5 out of 5 stars 317
Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Amazing
- By Declan on 09-05-2017
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Phenomena
- The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great ( Read ) listening <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-2018
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We Were Warriors
- One Soldier's Story of Brutal Combat
- By: Johnny Mercer
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
A captain in 29 Commando, Johnny Mercer served in the army for 12 years. On his third tour of Afghanistan, he was a joint fires controller....
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Vietnam
- An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Peter Noble, Max Hastings - introduction
- Length: 33 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very disturbing and Depressing
- By Richard on 12-11-2018
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The American Civil War
- By: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Gary W. Gallagher
- Length: 24 hrs and 37 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
This series of lectures offers detailed analyses of the strategic and tactical dimensions of the Civil War's most important campaigns....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An insightful and informative explanation of USA
- By Mark Daniel on 23-01-2018
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 298
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 280
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Story5 out of 5 stars 280
Since its publication in 1960, this monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- By Tigershark on 05-07-2014
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The German Aces Speak II
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- By: Colin D. Heaton, Anne-Marie Lewis, Dr. Dennis Showalter - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
In The German Aces Speak II, Heaton and Lewis paint a picture of the war through the eyes of four more of Germany's most significant pilots. The four ex-Luftwaffe fighter aces bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war....
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5 out of 5 stars
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History worth listening to but think critically.
- By S. Herod on 21-02-2019
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity
- Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
- By: Robert Kershaw
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on June 6, 1944, it lost 96 percent of its effective strength. Sixteen teams of US engineers arriving in the second wave were unable to blow the beach obstacles....
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Panzer Ace
- The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
- By: Richard Freiherr von Rosen, Robert Forczyk
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a company of Tigers at Kursk....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous story!
- By Amazon Customer on 22-03-2019
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Soldier Spy
- By: Tom Marcus
- Narrated by: Jason Langley
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story. Superb narrator.
- By Anonymous User on 26-07-2017
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SAS: Rogue Heroes
- The Authorised Wartime History
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story5 out of 5 stars 46
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was imaginative, radical and against the rules....
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5 out of 5 stars
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To those that came before us!
- By Rhys on 13-08-2018
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Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers
- By: Andrew R. Wilson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Andrew R. Wilson
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
You'll come away from this course with new insight that will allow you to take an informed, active interest in political and military debates....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Overview
- By JMC on 03-03-2018
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The Last Stand of Fox Company
- A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
- By: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
The Last Stand of Fox Company is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of impossible odds....
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The Greek and Persian Wars
- By: John R. Hale, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John R. Hale
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
These 24 lectures are your opportunity to survey this globe-spanning conflict and see the human experience behind some of the most remarkable episodes in ancient history....
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
- Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing look at linka between science and war
- By Nick on 19-11-2018
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Appeasing Hitler
- Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
- By: Tim Bouverie
- Narrated by: John Sessions
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Appeasing Hitler is a compelling new narrative history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, it sweeps from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. Bouverie takes us into the backrooms of 10 Downing Street and Parliament, where a small group of rebellious MPs, including the indomitable Winston Churchill, were among the few to realise that the only choice was between ‘war now or war later’.
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
- By: William Cooper Nell
- Narrated by: Melissa Summers
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Published in 1855, this history book by William Cooper Nell has an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It is considered by some to be the first history book by and about African Americans which is based on written documentation.
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The Things Our Fathers Saw - Vol. 3, The War in the Air Book Two: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA
- By: Matthew A. Rozell
- Narrated by: Jon Eric Preston
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This book brings you the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
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Murphy's Law
- My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist
- By: Jack Murphy
- Narrated by: Jack Murphy
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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For fans of the New York Times best sellers The Last Punisher and Lone Survivor, a heart-pounding military memoir from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant turned journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career.
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Two Flags over Iwo Jima
- Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment
- By: Eric Hammel
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The saga of the flags on Iwo Jima has fascinated America for decades. Hammel himself grew up in the company of WWII veterans and has always been intrigued by the photo of the flag, which became a powerful symbol of patriotism and national pride. But the story of how the flag got there, and even the identity of the soldiers in the photo, has been muddied by history. Eric Hammel here sets the record straight, viewing complex events through the lens of the story of the infantry company in which all the flag raisers served.
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Selected by Extraterrestrials: My Life in the Top Secret World of UFOs, Think-Tanks and Nordic Secretaries
- By: William Mills Tompkins
- Narrated by: David Godfrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was present at the “Battle of LA”, when 1,430 rounds were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to about 1970 including some of his early work for TRW.
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Appeasing Hitler
- Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
- By: Tim Bouverie
- Narrated by: John Sessions
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
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Appeasing Hitler is a compelling new narrative history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, it sweeps from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. Bouverie takes us into the backrooms of 10 Downing Street and Parliament, where a small group of rebellious MPs, including the indomitable Winston Churchill, were among the few to realise that the only choice was between ‘war now or war later’.
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
- By: William Cooper Nell
- Narrated by: Melissa Summers
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Published in 1855, this history book by William Cooper Nell has an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It is considered by some to be the first history book by and about African Americans which is based on written documentation.
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The Things Our Fathers Saw - Vol. 3, The War in the Air Book Two: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA
- By: Matthew A. Rozell
- Narrated by: Jon Eric Preston
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This book brings you the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
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Murphy's Law
- My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist
- By: Jack Murphy
- Narrated by: Jack Murphy
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of the New York Times best sellers The Last Punisher and Lone Survivor, a heart-pounding military memoir from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant turned journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career.
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Two Flags over Iwo Jima
- Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment
- By: Eric Hammel
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The saga of the flags on Iwo Jima has fascinated America for decades. Hammel himself grew up in the company of WWII veterans and has always been intrigued by the photo of the flag, which became a powerful symbol of patriotism and national pride. But the story of how the flag got there, and even the identity of the soldiers in the photo, has been muddied by history. Eric Hammel here sets the record straight, viewing complex events through the lens of the story of the infantry company in which all the flag raisers served.
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Selected by Extraterrestrials: My Life in the Top Secret World of UFOs, Think-Tanks and Nordic Secretaries
- By: William Mills Tompkins
- Narrated by: David Godfrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was present at the “Battle of LA”, when 1,430 rounds were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to about 1970 including some of his early work for TRW.
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The Hundred Years' War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Notable Conflicts of the Middle Ages and in European History and the Life of Joan of Arc
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Richard L. Walton, Randy Whitlow
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Hundred Years' War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Notable Conflicts of the Middle Ages and in European History and the Life of Joan of Arc contains two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts Between the English House of Plantagenet and the French House of Valois That Took Place During the Middle Ages and Joan of Arc: A Captivating Guide to a Heroine of France and Her Role During the Lancastrian Phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
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Mata Hari: A Life From Beginning to End
- Biographies of Women in History, Book 9
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The original international woman of mystery, Mata Hari is maligned as a spy and a traitor. Having seduced a number of the most powerful men in Europe, she was accused of spying for both Allied and Central Powers during the First World War. Mata Hari’s biography tells a different story. From her remarkable transformation from a captain’s wife and mother in the Dutch East Indies to the most celebrated stage presence in Europe, Mata Hari fought for what she believed in.
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Gifts from a Glacier: The Quest for an American Flag and 52 Souls
- By: Tonja Anderson-Dell
- Narrated by: Patrick Miller
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 22, 1952, 52 American soldiers departed on a C-124 Globemaster plane heading for Anchorage, Alaska. They never made it to their destination. When a rescue was deemed too expensive by the military, these men were left to the Alaskan wilderness and found their untimely demise. 60 years later, their true fate was still unknown to their loved ones and the world. Instead of living with this uncertainty, Tonja Anderson-Dell decided to take on the government to learn the secret of this disaster and return the bodies of the passengers from the C-124 Globemaster.
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Escape from Stalag Luft III
- The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
- By: Bram Vanderstok
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then, in extraordinary detail, describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout.
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Hitler's Last Plot
- The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
- By: Ian Sayer, Jeremy Dronfield
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II.
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One Damned Island After Another
- The Saga of the Seventh
- By: Clive Howard, Joe Whitley
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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On 19th October 1940, the Hawaiian Air Force, later known as the Seventh Air Force, was established to provide air defense of the Hawaiian Island and to engage with threats in the Pacific. Just over a year later the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor devastated this force. Out of a total of 231 aircraft of the Hawaiian Air Force, 64 were destroyed and not more than 79 were left usable. Out of the inferno emerged the newly reformed Seventh Air Force. It faced, in the central Pacific, the largest water theater in the world - 16,000,000 square miles, five times the size of the United States.
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Shattered Sword
- The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
- By: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.
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Dutch Girl
- Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- By: Robert Matzen, Luca Dotti - foreword
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. According to her son, Luca Dotti, "The war made my mother who she was."
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The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2, 1863
- Emerging Civil War Series
- By: Chris Mackowski
- Narrated by: Chris Mackowski
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job. The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2 1863 recounts the final chapter of the forgotten fall of 1863 - when George Gordon Meade made one final attempt to save the Union and, in doing so, save himself.
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Women’s War
- Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
- By: Stephanie McCurry
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield. In this groundbreaking reconsideration of the Civil War, the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning invites us to see America's bloodiest conflict not just as pitting brother against brother but as a woman's war.
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Iron Spy
- The True Story of The Greatest Double Agent in World War II
- By: Ethan Quinn
- Narrated by: Guy Mott
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Known as Fritz to his German spy-handlers and Zig-Zag to the British secret service, Eddie Chapman was a man of many faces. While his early life was rife with petty crime, gang activity and a dishonorable discharge from the British military, Chapman’s unique skills were eventually sought out by Nazi Germany, and after convincing them he could use his criminal contacts to sabotage the English forces, he was quickly recruited.
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity
- Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
- By: Robert Kershaw
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on June 6, 1944, it lost 96 percent of its effective strength. Sixteen teams of US engineers arriving in the second wave were unable to blow the beach obstacles, as first wave survivors were still sheltering behind them. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour.