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David Attenborough - Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 26 mins)
• By David Attenborough
• Narrated By David Attenborough

His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited. Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark BBC series.

The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 1 min)
• By Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
• Narrated By Bob Walter

The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower’s inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed - and to this day - the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world’s most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history’s favor.

Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the House of Representatives

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Robert Draper
• Narrated By Holter Graham

Experience the new nonfiction book from the author of the New York Times best seller Dead Certain. Do Not Ask What Good We Do is the definitive book about the Bush Presidency, a revealing and riveting look at the new House of Representatives elected in the history-making 2010 midterm elections.

Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 7 mins)
• By James Holland
• Narrated By James Holland

It was the night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge cylindrical bomb strapped underneath them. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the Third Reich's war machine. What followed was an incredible race against time, which, despite numerous set-backs and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing raids of all time.

The Longest Day: June 6, 1944

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Cornelius Ryan
• Narrated By Clive Chafer

>The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly re-creates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism.

Churchill: A Life, Part 1 (1874-1918)

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Martin Gilbert
• Narrated By Christian Rodska

Churchill: A Life follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present. Martin Gilbert gives us a vivid portrait, using Churchill's most personal letters and the recollections of his contemporaries, both friends and enemies, to go behind the scenes of some of the stormiest and most fascinating political events of our time.

Alamein: The Turning Point of World War Two

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Iain Gale
• Narrated By Eamonn Riley

There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere - in Europe, in Russia, in the Atlantic and were now poised to take the Suez Canal. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War Two began to turn.

Witness to Nuremberg: The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Richard Sonnenfeldt
• Narrated By Robert Blumenfeld

In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies—and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable.

Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Jim Lehrer
• Narrated By Jim Lehrer

From the man widely hailed as “the Dean of Moderators” comes a lively and revealing book that pulls back the curtain on more than 40 years of televised political debate in America. A veteran newsman who has presided over 11 presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer gives readers a ringside seat for some of the epic political battles of our time, shedding light on all of the critical turning points and rhetorical faux pas that helped determine the outcome of America’s presidential elections—and with them the course of history.

Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 10 mins)
• By John Paul Stevens
• Narrated By Gregory Itzin

In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts - that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk during Vinson's tenure; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts.