Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 12 mins)
By Craig Nelson
Narrated By Richard McGonagle
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A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind. At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon.
The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid
UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 25 mins)
By Craig Nelson
Narrated By Raymond Todd
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(103)
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(22)
Immediately after Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo itself. In those early days of World War II, America was ill-prepared for any sort of warfare. But FDR was not to be dissuaded, and at his bidding a squadron of scarcely trained army fliers, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, set forth on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission.
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 32 mins)
By Craig Nelson
Narrated By Paul Hecht
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John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him “the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.” He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, “The United States of America.” He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era’s intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his life, Thomas Paine was almost universally reviled.
Darlene says:
"This man should be a household name!"
