The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 24 mins)
By Rick Atkinson
Narrated By L. J. Ganser
Overall
(2)
Performance
(2)
Story
(2)
It is the 20th century's unrivaled epic: At a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his best-selling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted the history of how the American-led coalition fought its way from North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all - the titanic battle in Western Europe. D-Day marked the commencement of the war's final campaign, and Atkinson's astonishingly fresh account of that enormous gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 48 mins)
By Bill Bryson
Narrated By Richard Matthews
Overall
(5172)
Performance
(1117)
Story
(1114)
Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science. Although he doesn't know anything about the subject (at first), he is eager to learn, and takes information that he gets from the world's leading experts and explains it to us in a way that makes it exciting and relevant.
Corby says:
"Very informative, fun to listen to"
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943): The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1
UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 12 mins)
By Rick Atkinson
Narrated By George Guidall
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(6)
Performance
(5)
Story
(6)
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern learner can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.
Terri Erwin says:
"Finally unabridged!"
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
UNABRIDGED (14 hrs)
By Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated By Edward Herrmann
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(8145)
Performance
(4377)
Story
(4383)
Why we think it’s a great listen:Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.....
Janice says:
"Indescribable"
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 8 mins)
By Jeremy Scahill
Narrated By Tom Weiner
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(21)
Performance
(18)
Story
(18)
From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries, and elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of American war-fighting. He goes deep into al Qaeda-held territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of US night raids and drone strikes - including families of US citizens targeted for assassination by their own government - who reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden.
aaron says:
"Non political BUT very anti-violence"
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 25 mins)
By Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated By Bill O'Reilly
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(1224)
Performance
(1082)
Story
(1084)
More than a million listeners have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the can't-stop-listening work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Jerry says:
"Good book..."
Publisher's Summary
The book contains the myths about the "Heroes" set out on the works of Hesiod, Ovid, Aeschylus, Homer, Moschus, Sophocles, Pausanias, Pindar, Euripides.
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