Escape from Sobibor

Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Bruce Henderson
• Narrated By Todd McLaren
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In February 1966, U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over "neutral Laos". He crashed deep in territory controlled by North Vietnamese army regulars and the communist Pathet Lao, who would eventually capture him and hold him prisoner in a fortified jungle prisoner-of-war camp.

Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Eugene B. Fluckey
• Narrated By Corey Snow
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Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk and kill their prey.

This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments. Fluckey has drawn on logs, reports, letters, interviews, and a recently discovered illegal diary kept by one of his torpedomen.

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Henry Orenstein
• Narrated By Henry Orenstein

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gained power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings ended up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command. Orenstein's lucid prose recreates this horrific time in history and his constant struggle for survival as the Nazis move him and his brothers through five concentration camps.

The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral - and How It Changed the American West

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Jeff Guinn
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye
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For the first time ever, the full story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - not only what really happened but why, and how mythology has led us to completely misinterpret the real history of the frontier. Combining cinematic storytelling with prodigious research, The Last Gunfight upends conventional wisdom about what the West was really like, who the Earps and Doc Holliday really were, and what actually happened in Tombstone on that cold day in October 1881.

The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Craig L. Symonds
• Narrated By James Lurie

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds, paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice.

William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony (Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series)

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 39 mins)
• By William Schiff, Rosalie Schiff, Craig Hanley
• Narrated By Michael Fischbein
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In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a surreal maze of hate. Terror in the Krakow ghetto, sadistic SS death games, cruel human medical experiments, eyewitness accounts of brutal murders of men, women, children, and even infants, and the menace of rape in occupied Poland make William & Rosalie an unusually explicit view of the chaos that World War II unleashed on the Jewish people.

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Miklos Nyiszli, Richard Seaver (translator), Tibere Kremer (translator)
• Narrated By Noah Michael Levine

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months.

Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Robert Gerwarth
• Narrated By Napoleon Ryan
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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. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.

Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937 - 1945

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Rana Mitter
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China two full years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.

Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Anthony S. Pitch
• Narrated By Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words. They include the experiences of teenagers who saw their parents and siblings sent to the gas chambers; of starving children beaten for trying to steal a morsel of food; of people who saw their friends commit suicide to save themselves from the daily agony they endured.

The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 7 mins)
• By George Lucius Salton
• Narrated By Ken Kliban

In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, a lawyer, was forbidden to work, but 11-year-old George dug potatoes, split wood, and resourcefully helped his family. They suffered hunger and deprivation, a forced march to the Rzeszow ghetto, then eternal separation when 14-year-old George and his brother were left behind to labor in work camps while their parents were deported in boxcars to die in Belzec. For the next three years, George slaved and barely survived in 10 concentration camps.

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Nikolaus Wachsmann
• Narrated By Paul Hodgson
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In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system.

Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler's Berlin

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Barbara Lovenheim
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren

The remarkable true story of two families that survived against all odds in the heart of the Nazi capital. Survival in the Shadows rivetingly chronicles the incredible survival of seven German Jews in Berlin through the final and most deadly years of the Holocaust.

Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Edward Reicher, Magda Bogin (translator)
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren, Robert Blumenfeld
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Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story.

Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
• Narrated By Heather Dune Macadam

"I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win." - Rena Kornreich Gelissen. On March 26, 1942, the first mass transport of Jews - 999 young women - arrived in Auschwitz. Among them was Rena Kornreich, the 716th woman numbered in camp. A few days later, her sister Danka arrives and so begins a trial of love and courage that will last three years and 41 days, from the beginning Auschwitz death camp to the end of the war.

Dying to Wake Up: A Doctor's Voyage into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Rajiv Parti, Paul Perry, Raymond Moody Jr. MD PhD
• Narrated By Steve West
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In this remarkable true story of spiritual transformation, Dr. Parti provides rare details of heaven, hell, the afterlife, and angels. In sharing the lessons and eternal truths from the divine that changed him forever, Dr. Parti offers his audience the opportunity to attain peace and live better lives here on earth.

Hiroshima

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Hersey
• Narrated By George Guidall

A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 - the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors - and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.

Murder in the Family

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Burl Barer
• Narrated By James Edward Thomas

On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. Both Nancy and Melissa had been sexually assaulted.

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Thomas Goetz
• Narrated By Donald Corren
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In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB - often called consumption - was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy - a remedy that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Peter Heather
• Narrated By Allan Robertson

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart.

The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski (translator)
• Narrated By Marek Probosz, Ken Kliban, John Lee, and others

In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....

Goebbels: A Biography

• UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Peter Longerich, Alan Bance - translator, Jeremy Noakes - translator, and others
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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In life and in his grisly family suicide, Goebbels was one of Hitler's most loyal acolytes. Though powerful in the party and in wartime Germany, Longerich's Goebbels is a man dogged by insecurities and consumed by his fierce adherence to the Nazi cause. Longerich engages and challenges the careful self-portrait that Goebbels left behind in his diaries, and, as he delves deep into the mind of Hitler's master propagandist, Longerich discovers firsthand how the Nazi message was conceived. This complete portrait of the man behind the message is sure to become a standard for historians and students of the Holocaust for years to come.

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
• Narrated By Steve Blane

Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis' deadliest concentration camps, and how he managed to survive against all possible odds.

Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Robyn Davidson
• Narrated By Angie Milliken
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Robyn Davidson made the perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea, with only four camels and a dog for company. Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity.