Military

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

• UNABRIDGED (57 hrs and 13 mins)
• By William L. Shirer
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.

The Art of War

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 7 mins)
• By Sun Tzu
• Narrated By Aidan Gillen

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. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Robert O'Neill
• Narrated By Robert O'Neill

Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.

The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
• Narrated By Ken Burns, Fred Sanders, Brian Corrigan

More than 40 years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war.

Kokoda (by Peter FitzSimons)

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Peter FitzSimons
• Narrated By Lewis FitzGerald
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For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened and just what our troops achieved. Now, best-selling author Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving story for all Australians.

Without Remorse

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Tom Clancy
• Narrated By Michael Prichard

His code name is Mr Clark. And his work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded, and efficient...but who is he really? In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of justice and morality - to become the CIA legend, Mr Clark.

This is an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness. Without mercy. Without guilt. Without remorse.

Vietnam: The Australian War

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Paul Ham
• Narrated By Peter Byrne

Drawing on hundreds of accounts by soldiers, politicians, aid workers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people, Paul Ham reconstructs for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign. From the commitment to engage, through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti - war movement, to the tactics and horror of the battlefi eld, Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war - which sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women.

Operation Relentless: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Damien Lewis
• Narrated By Greg Wagland
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The new best seller from the author of Zero Six Bravo. By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world's foremost arms dealer. Known as the Merchant of Death, he was both public enemy number one to the global intelligence agencies and a ruthless criminal worth around $6 billion. For years Bout had eluded capture, meanwhile building up a labyrinthine network of airlines selling weapons to order to dictators, rebels, despots and terror groups worldwide.

The Korean War

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Max Hastings
• Narrated By Cameron Stewart

On 25 June, 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam.

Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Roland Perry
• Narrated By David Tredinnick
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Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High Commands of the First World War failed to gain ascendancy after four years of unprecedented human slaughter, Monash used innovative techniques and modern technology to plan and win a succession of major battles that led to the end of the Great War.But Australia's greatest military commander fought as many battles with those on his side as he did with his enemies.

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valour

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Clinton Romesha
• Narrated By Clinton Romesha, Will Damron
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On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing 13-hour battle - and eventual victory - cost eight men their lives. Red Platoon is the riveting firsthand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defence of the outpost and the counterattack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire and received the Medal of Honor for his actions.

A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Hannes Wessels
• Narrated By Jack Chekijian

It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced. Even by the lofty standards of the SAS and Special Forces, one has to look far to find anyone who can match his record of resilience and valor in the face of such daunting odds and with resources so paltry. In the fight, he showed himself to be a military maestro. After 12 years in the cauldron of war, his cause slipped from beneath him, and Rhodesia gave way to Zimbabwe.

The Story of World War II

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager
• Narrated By Michael Kramer

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.

Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Nicholas Irving, Gary Brozek
• Narrated By Jeff Gurner
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Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have been told before. Each mission is an in-depth look at a new element of eliminating the enemy, from intel to luck, recon to weaponry. Told in a thrilling narrative, this is also a heart-pounding true story of some of the Reaper's boldest missions, including the longest shot of his military career on a human target of over half a mile.

The Art of War

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 23 mins)
• By Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles
• Narrated By Denis Daly
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Although the historicity of Sun Tzu is today in dispute, his short treatise on the art of war has remained a pre-eminent classic of military philosophy and practice. In this small audiobook, the author describes in trenchant detail the approach and methods required for success in any combative endeavor. The principles he enunciates have been widely applied not only by leaders in the military but also in business, politics, sports, and education.

Soldier Spy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Tom Marcus
• Narrated By Jason Langley
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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. Special Branch also found Chinese Type 56 assault rifles with eight full magazines of ammunition. His target was a local school. He planned to attack two coaches of teenagers returning home after a school trip to France. Approximately 60 children, their accompanying teachers and their waiting parents. He was going to kill them all.

Carrier Pilot

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Norman Hanson
• Narrated By Chris MacDonnell
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In 1942, Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also proved to be a lethal weapon. Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the fight to the Japanese. Facing a desperate and determined enemy, Kamikaze attacks, and the ever-present dangers of flying off a pitching carrier deck, death was never far away.

Tobruk

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Peter FitzSimons
• Narrated By Humphrey Bower
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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. Eight months later these heroic, gallant, determined "Rats of Tobruk" were rescued by the British Navy having held the fort against the might of Rommel's never-before-defeated Afrika Corps.

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
• Narrated By Dave Grossman

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, memory - then discusses new research findings as to what measure warriors can take to prevent such debilitations so they can stay in the fight, survive, and win. A brief, but insightful look at history shows the evolution of combat, the development of the physical and psychological leverage that enables humans to kill other humans, followed by an objective examination of domestic violence in America.

One Bullet Away: The Making of Marine Officer

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Nathaniel Fick
• Narrated By Nathaniel Fick

A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle, Recon, four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq.

Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Robert H. Latiff
• Narrated By Johnathan McClain

Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace, biologically enhanced soldiers, autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink. A leading expert on the place of technology in war and intelligence, Robert H. Latiff, now teaching at the University of Notre Dame, has spent a career in the military researching and developing new combat technologies, observing the cost of our unquestioning embrace of innovation.

No Man’s Land: 1918, the Last Year of the Great War

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 43 mins)
• By John Toland
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

From freezing infantrymen huddled in bloodied trenches on the front lines to intricate political maneuvering and tense strategy sessions in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War. In this audiobook, participants on both sides, from enlisted men to generals and prime ministers to monarchs, vividly recount the battles, sensational events, and behind-the-scenes strategies that shaped the climactic, terrifying year.

Historic Moments in Speech: Military Conflicts

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 30 mins)
• By The Speech Resource Company - editor
• Narrated By Robert Wikstrom

Speeches given during military conflicts made by world leaders, politicians, protesters, and military leaders. Featured are Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war entering Great Britain into World War II, the famous "Infamy" speech given to Congress by President Roosevelt the day after Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and speeches about the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War, and the War on Terror.

Vietnam: A New History

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Christopher Goscha
• Narrated By Kirby Heyborne

In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese rule reshaped and modernized Vietnam, but so too did the colonial enterprises of the Vietnamese themselves as they extended their influence southward from the Red River Delta.

The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 39 mins)
• By James Holland
• Narrated By Shaun Grindell

The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months based on extensive new research from around the world, including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the battle.

Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Gerald Posner
• Narrated By Julian Elfer
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Göring. Hess. Mengele. Dönitz. Names that conjure up dark memories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. They were the architects of the Third Reich. And they were fathers. Gerald Posner convinced 11 sons and daughters of Hitler's inner circle to break their silence. This second generation of perpetrators in Hitler's Children struggle with their Third Reich inheritance. In grappling with memories of good and loving fathers who were later charged with war crimes, these heirs to the Nazi legacy add a fresh and important perspective.

A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 1 min)
• By Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.

The Tanks of World War I: The History and Legacy of Tank Warfare during the Great War

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 38 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Colin Fluxman

World War I, also known in its time as the "Great War" or the "War to End all Wars", was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man's capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale.

History for Kids: The Attack on Pearl Harbor

• UNABRIDGED (31 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Tracey Norman

Pearl Harbor was unquestionably one of the seminal events in American history, and given the nature of the surprise attack, the entry of the US into the war, and the lingering controversies and conspiracy theories, the attack on Pearl Harbor continues to be a highly charged and heavily debated event. History for Kids: The Attack on Pearl Harbor chronicles the history leading up to the surprise attack, including the negotiations between the Japanese and American governments, and the plotting of the attack itself.

The Siege of Yorktown: The Greatest Revolutionary War Battles

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 28 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Bill Hare

Yorktown was a former tobacco trading post now in decline, not much bigger than a large village. But Yorktown was tucked away on the northern edge of the York peninsula in rural Virginia, and in 1781 it became the site of a brief siege between two small armies, fought with all the decorum and formality of 18th century European warfare. About 5,000 British and Germans faced perhaps 18,000 Americans and French. After only three weeks the smaller garrison surrendered, tired and low on ammunition.

Hitler's Generals in America: Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Derek R. Mallett
• Narrated By Steve Rausch

In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946.

War Stories: Gripping Tales of Courage, Cunning and Compassion

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Peter Snow, Ann MacMillan
• Narrated By Peter Snow
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A uniquely intimate account of ordinary men and women who rose to the challenge of war with acts of great heroism and humanity. War Stories is a fascinating account of ordinary men and women swept up in the turbulence of war. These are the stories - many untold until now - of 34 individuals who have pushed the boundaries of love, bravery, suffering and terror beyond the imaginable. They span four centuries and four continents.

The North African Campaign of World War II: The History and Legacy of the Decisive Allied Victory in North Africa

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Colin Fluxman

The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary "Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940 when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy's entrance into the war.

Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Michael Korda
• Narrated By John Lee
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An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.

The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Doug Stanton
• Narrated By CJ Wilson
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A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times best-selling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers - the harrowing and redemptive account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War.

The Final Mission of Extortion 17: Special Ops, Helicopter Support, SEAL Team Six, and the Deadliest Day of the US War in Afghanistan

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 1 min)
• By Ed Darack
• Narrated By John Pruden
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The downing of Extortion 17 spurred a number of conspiracy theories, such as the idea that the shootdown was revenge for bin Laden's death. In The Final Mission of Extortion 17, Ed Darack debunks this theory and others and uncovers the truth behind this mysterious tragedy. His account of the brave pilots, crew, and passengers of Extortion 17 and the events of that fateful day is interwoven into a rich, complex narrative that also discusses modern joint combat operations and the history of the Afghan war to that date.

Annapolis Creed: The First African American Color Company Commander at the United States Naval Academy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Dr. Jordan B Smith Jr
• Narrated By Jordan B Smith Jr

Dr. Jordan B. Smith, Jr. became the first African-American to become the Color Company Commander at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis or USNA) in 1976. The Class of 1976 African Americans set the pathway for changes, by demonstrating that blacks and other minorities had earned the right to be in Annapolis. The incidents and events are authentic. This audiobook is about one of the black men who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1976.

Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Bobby C. Blair, John Peter DeCioccio
• Narrated By Grant D. Showalter

When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific.

The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Randall James Sasaki
• Narrated By Damian Salandy

Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mongol invasion of Japan in AD 1281 as well as the history of shipbuilding in East Asia. He has created a timber category database, analyzed methods of joinery, and studied contemporary approaches to shipbuilding in order to ascertain the origins and types of vessels that composed the Mongol fleet.

Ranger: A Soldier's Life: American Warrior Series

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Ralph Puckett USA (Ret.), D.K.R. Crosswell
• Narrated By Neil Reeves
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On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, 51 soldiers fought several hundred Chinese attackers. Their commander, Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, was wounded three times before he was evacuated. For his actions, he received the country's second-highest award for courage on the battlefield and resumed active duty later that year as a living legend.