Bestsellers
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,215
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Performance4,841
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Story4,842
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a...
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Apocalyptic
- By Anonymous on 04-12-24
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Dark Sun
- The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance55
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Story55
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret...
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Now It Can Be Fully Told...
- By Anonymous on 06-03-25
By: Richard Rhodes
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A Book of Five Rings
- The Strategy of Musashi
- By: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,195
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Performance982
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Story980
Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....
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Read all of it in one day, then read it once a day forever
- By Luis Roman on 08-08-17
By: Miyamoto Musashi
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Hunting the Jackal
- A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
- By: Billy Waugh, Tim Keown
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,936
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Performance1,712
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Story1,702
For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to tracking down and eliminating America's most virulent enemies....
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Hunting the Jackal - epic accounting of SOF/SOG and CIA IV
- By Eric on 01-08-18
By: Billy Waugh, and others
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance23
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Story23
In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence—one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one...
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Lots of Meaningless Bio, Not Much Action
- By Greg on 11-08-25
By: Max Hastings
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The Book of Five Rings
- By: Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,987
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Performance1,638
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Story1,633
Legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai....
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DO NOT Listen to David P. Grange's Review
- By Carey Lucas on 01-30-21
By: Miyamoto Musashi, and others
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,215
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Performance4,841
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Story4,842
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a...
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Apocalyptic
- By Anonymous on 04-12-24
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Dark Sun
- The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance55
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Story55
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret...
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Now It Can Be Fully Told...
- By Anonymous on 06-03-25
By: Richard Rhodes
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A Book of Five Rings
- The Strategy of Musashi
- By: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,195
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Performance982
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Story980
Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....
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Read all of it in one day, then read it once a day forever
- By Luis Roman on 08-08-17
By: Miyamoto Musashi
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Hunting the Jackal
- A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
- By: Billy Waugh, Tim Keown
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,936
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Performance1,712
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Story1,702
For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to tracking down and eliminating America's most virulent enemies....
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Hunting the Jackal - epic accounting of SOF/SOG and CIA IV
- By Eric on 01-08-18
By: Billy Waugh, and others
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance23
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Story23
In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence—one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one...
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Lots of Meaningless Bio, Not Much Action
- By Greg on 11-08-25
By: Max Hastings
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The Book of Five Rings
- By: Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson - translator
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,987
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Performance1,638
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Story1,633
Legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai....
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DO NOT Listen to David P. Grange's Review
- By Carey Lucas on 01-30-21
By: Miyamoto Musashi, and others
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Art of War
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall342
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Performance145
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Story147
Born over 2,400 years ago, warrior, thinker, and leader Sun Tzu lived during a time of great internecine conflict in China....
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Worthwhile
- By Robert on 09-30-04
By: Sun Tzu
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The Kill Chain
- Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
- By: Christian Brose
- Narrated by: Christian Brose
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,701
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Performance2,313
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Story2,304
From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons...
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important message but repetitive
- By Tomas Singliar on 06-06-20
By: Christian Brose
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- By: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance156
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Story156
Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year “An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA “Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” —Chris Miller, New York...
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Poor Job Telling a Great Story
- By Andrew N Dobson on 10-31-24
By: Raj M. Shah, and others
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall579
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Performance504
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Story505
From the author of NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO, a powerful story of war in our time, love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all. This story might sound familiar at first: it is about a platoon of mostly nineteen-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an...
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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War Is a Racket
- By: Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC Retired
- Narrated by: Jack Eddelman
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Overall1,271
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Performance1,110
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Story1,099
A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering....
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We all need to hear it
- By L. C. Pinkerton on 02-28-15
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In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition
- Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
- By: Richard Strozzi-Heckler, George Leonard - introduction
- Narrated by: Kirk Magoon
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Is it possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns? In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thorny issue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s trademark personal, sympathetic style. In a top-secret U.S. military experiment, the author was...
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Deep thinking but entertaining in a narrative. This should be on the list of classics of personal development.
- By BT on 12-12-23
By: Richard Strozzi-Heckler, and others
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Code Girls
- The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
- By: Liza Mundy
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,642
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Performance3,246
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Story3,230
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army...
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Just released, about 80% through this story
- By Roobah on 10-11-17
By: Liza Mundy
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Thunder Below!
- The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
- By: Eugene B. Fluckey
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,046
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Performance3,646
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Story3,629
The Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments....
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Action, Excitement, & History. A great read!
- By Boone on 09-28-13
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On Grand Strategy
- By: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall994
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Performance841
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Story833
“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”—The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades...
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Interesting, but fails to offer real lessons.
- By Zack on 07-04-18
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The Demon in the Freezer
- A True Story
- By: Richard Preston
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,386
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Performance1,032
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Story1,026
“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of...
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Pretty interesting listening in a horrific way
- By S A on 09-19-03
By: Richard Preston
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On Desperate Ground
- The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,064
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Performance1,855
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Story1,849
From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. "Superb ... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting...
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typical armchair critic armed with hign site
- By Brent on 10-03-18
By: Hampton Sides
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Operation Chastise
- The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall135
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Performance109
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Story109
One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force’s 617 Squadron. The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in...
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Wish He Had Stuck to the Core Story
- By John on 06-22-20
By: Max Hastings
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War of the Flea
- The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
- By: Robert Taber
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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Story25
War of the Flea’s timeless analysis of the guerrilla fighter’s means and methods provides a fundamental resource for any listener seeking to understand this distinct form of warfare and the challenge it continues to present to today’s armed forces in the Philippines, Colombia, and elsewhere.
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What’s old in new again…
- By jay jay on 11-17-25
By: Robert Taber
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - introduction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall687
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Performance562
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Story559
Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio. Ignition!...
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- By Adrian on 05-06-19
By: John Drury Clark, and others
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- By: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig. Gen. Leo P. Geary USAF - ret. - foreword
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall799
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Performance700
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Story697
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation....
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Memoir of a Legend
- By Jean on 08-26-19
By: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, and others
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Operation Bat Bomb
- The Strangest Plan of WWII
- By: Calven Hurstin
- Narrated by: Matthew R Weeks
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance21
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Story21
World War II was a crucible of invention. Out of that desperate struggle emerged radar, jet engines, mass-produced penicillin, and the atomic bomb.
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Entertaining and Enlightening
- By JeffLint on 01-01-26
By: Calven Hurstin
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The Longest Winter
- The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance27
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Story27
The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under the...
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This is the exact version released in 2018
- By Jonathan Gardner on 09-19-24
By: Alex Kershaw
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The Killing School
- Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Lou Lambert
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall1,009
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Performance896
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Story896
In this revealing new audiobook, Webb takes listeners through every aspect of this training, describing how Spec Ops snipers are taught each dimension of their art....
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meh
- By Chip Porter on 07-28-17
By: Brandon Webb, and others
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The Fourth Intelligence Revolution
- The Future of Espionage and the Battle to Save America
- By: Anthony Vinci
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
A former senior intelligence officer reveals how espionage is being transformed by a new global intelligence race, driven by AI and competition with China, and how this impacts all of our lives. The new global intelligence competition has brought espionage into our workplaces and our living...
By: Anthony Vinci
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On Wings of Eagles
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Marcia Hyde, Larry Robinson, Ralph Williams, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall933
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Performance722
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Story713
When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands....
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Was the narrator in a hurry?
- By Tammy on 06-19-08
By: Ken Follett
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Grunt
- The Curious Science of Humans at War
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,327
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Performance2,088
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Story2,084
Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war....
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I Usually Love Mary Roach, But--
- By Gillian on 12-07-16
By: Mary Roach
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Kill Anything That Moves
- The Real American War in Vietnam
- By: Nick Turse
- Narrated by: Don Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall420
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Performance357
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Story359
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were "isolated incidents" in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few "bad apples"....
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A book that shakes you to your core
- By Gary Yevelev on 04-26-15
By: Nick Turse
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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
- By: MacGregor Knox, Williamson Murray
- Narrated by: Victor Vertunni
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance25
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Story25
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries....
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Very good overview
- By EG on 10-05-23
By: MacGregor Knox, and others
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Chesty
- The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
- By: Colonel Jon T. Hoffman USMCR
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 23 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall646
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Performance579
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Story577
The Marine Corps is known for its heroes, and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller has been considered the greatest of them all. With his bulldog face, barrel chest (which earned him the nickname Chesty), gruff voice, and common touch, Puller became the epitome of the marine combat officer....
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Great book great man good read
- By Just_Shoppin on 07-10-18