Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842

The Last Stand

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By George Guidall
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By Chris Sorensen
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Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord.

Battle: The Story of the Bulge

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 44 mins)
• By John Toland
• Narrated By Dan Butler

Battle: The Story of the Bulge, John Toland's first work of military history, recounts the saga of beleaguered American troops as they resisted Hitler's deadly counter offensive in World War II's Battle of the Bulge - and turned it into an Allied victory. It is a gripping work, painstakingly researched and imbued with such vivid detail that listeners will feel as though they themselves witnessed these events. This is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in this tumultuous era of our world's history.

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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In September 1776 the vulnerable Continental Army, under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle), evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war.

The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Lars Brownworth
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
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In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse "sea wolves" followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev, and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Thomas Fleming
• Narrated By David Rapkin

History tends to cast the early years of America in a glow of camaraderie when there were, in fact, many conflicts between the Founding Fathers - none more important than the one between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Their disagreement centered on the highest, most original public office created by the Constitutional Convention: the presidency. It also involved the nation's foreign policy, the role of merchants and farmers in a republic, and the durability of the union.

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

• UNABRIDGED (41 hrs and 8 mins)
• By John Toland
• Narrated By Tom Weiner

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819 the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with 20 crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than 90 days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, and disease and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 3 mins)
• By James M. Scott
• Narrated By L. J. Ganser
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The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated - and controversial - military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo.

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Ian W. Toll
• Narrated By P. J. Ochlan
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The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire island by island. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War - the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944 - when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide", concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas.

The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 30 mins)
• By John Toland
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people - from Hitler's personal chauffeur to Generals von Manteuffel, Wenck, and Heinrici.

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: The History of England, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Peter Ackroyd
• Narrated By Clive Chafer

In Foundation the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death of the first Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past - a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house.

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Ian Kershaw
• Narrated By John Curless
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The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to1949, was unprecedented in human history - an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation.

The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Colin Woodard
• Narrated By Lewis Grenville
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In the early 18th century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates - former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves - this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote.

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

• UNABRIDGED (44 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Carl Sandburg
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.

The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
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In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, were in the same horrifying predicament. Built with “dirty steel,” and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantic’s mercy.

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Tom Holland
• Narrated By Derek Perkins

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon - his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic - with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Andrew Chaikin
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.

Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Donald L. Miller
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
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This is the dramatic story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, this is a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden. Fighting at twenty-five thousand feet in thin, freezing air no warriors had encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear.

The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Winston Groom
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
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Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest achievement: leading the allies to victory in World War II.

The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins)
• By James McPherson
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention.

Lee: The Last Years

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Charles Bracelen Flood
• Narrated By Michael Anthony

Robert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender at Appomattox. In fact, he lived only another five years, during which time he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South during the tempestuous postwar period.

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WW II

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
• Narrated By David Colacci
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Chester Nez, the only surviving member of the original twenty-nine Navajo code talkers, shares the fascinating inside story of his life and service during World War II.