Military Inventions

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    • The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust....

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    • Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Bob Saouer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially. This is the story of how one invention changed the world and of the man most responsible for it all....

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    • The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Roy Roy Samuelson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 626 ratings
    • In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents....

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    • The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World
    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects....

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    • The Invention that Changed the World
    • By: Amir D. Aczel
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • The secrets of science meet the drama of the high seas. Amir D. Aczel, the distinguished science writer, turns detective as he uncovers the fascinating story...

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    • The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Civil War in the North)
    • By: Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan W. White
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads—the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines.

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    • By: William Henry Hudson
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 11-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "transition from the medieval to the modern world"....

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    • Deranged Inventions of WWII
    • By: Zack Parsons
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • My Tank Is Fight! contains a humorous and exciting examination of 20 real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day....

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    • Amazing Military Machines
    • By: Mari Schuh
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Militaries use robots and drones in the air, on the ground, and underwater all around the world. Drones spy on targets and robots disable bombs to get the job done!

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    • By: Edward J. Roach
    • Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale....

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    • How Colonialism Complicated Food Scarcity and Invention During World War II
    • By: Jolin Chan, Tori Borges
    • Narrated by: Justin Sewall
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Entering World War II, America was emerging as a world power. Their geographic isolation from World War I allowed them to recover and prosper in the interwar era, and food invention during the Depression carried into World War II....

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