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The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
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The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
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The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
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New World Coming is a vivid portrait of the 1920s, focusing on the men and women who shaped this extraordinary time, including, ironically, three of America's most conservative presidents, Harding,...
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When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. Since then Carney and...
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As host of Closing Arguments on Court TV and Nancy Grace on CNN's Headline News, Nancy Grace has won legions of devoted fans with her intelligent, plainspoken approach to the law. In Objection!, sh...
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En La Ola Latina el reconocido escritor y galardonado periodista Jorge Ramos explora el impresionante crecimiento de los hispanos y analiza cómo los latinos estántransformando la economía, la...
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Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad.
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The title translated means "a new order for the ages" and is the motto on the Great Seal of the United States. By explaining how events occurring in Philadelphia in September 1787 ushered in a new ...
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The Supreme Court endorses terrorists' rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You're right: it's not. But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our o...
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On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress declared war upon Mexico. Although the Mexican-American War lasted only 18 month, its consequences were profound. Mexico lost nearly one-half its territo...
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Manassas is the first in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. As local lawman Will, the eldest of the Brannon sons, decides to enlist, the fa...
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From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology. In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith,...
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Fifty people never came home to Middletown, New Jersey after September 11th. Wall Street fathers, young Port Authority police, single working moms, the beloved coach of the girls basketball team.
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From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of John Adams. Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore...
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Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, had devoted almost his entire life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities. He loved his job at Los Alamos National...
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Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English…
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La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso ... Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y...
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Walk with The Pembrokeshire Wizard, a self guided audio adventure for active families, consisting of a dramatised audio guide book, an accompanying Guide Booklet on pdf, and a Quiz Game download...
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In February 2003, a remarkable event took place in New York, a celebration of the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's great A People's History of the United States. Zinn drew on the words of...
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In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of...
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story ...
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A chronicle of American history, from the bottom up.
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Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush...
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The pilgrims embark on a perilous voyage to the New World in search of religious freedom
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not...
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In the first U.S. covert mission to overthrow a foreign nation, President Jefferson dispatched an unlikely diplomat, forty-year-old William Eaton, to Tripoli to free three hundred American hostages...
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One Christmas in Washington is the fascinating, in-depth look at the Washington war conference of 1941, as two proud and accomplished statesmen struggled to overcome biases, suspicion, and hubris t...
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"LaMore's odyssey from tail gunner to prisoner of war to escapee and interpreter for the advance guard of the Soviet army provides a unique tale of aerial combat, the horrors of the stalags, and lo...
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Old Ironsides battles Tripolitan Pirates to free the crew of the captured USS Philadelphia
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An amazing but true story of Yankee ingenuity!
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Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the...
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In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves,...
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Alfred and Uhtred make an unlikely allies, yet the two forge an uneasy alliance that will lead them to where the Saxon army will fight for the very existence of Britain...
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Jazz, flappers, rumble-seats, flagpole sitters, Rudolph Valentino and Lucky Lindy—these were the catch words of the Roaring Twenties. But so were the K.K.K., women's suffrage, Sigmund Freud, Teapot...
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Winchester, hit by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the distant islands that are all that remains of what made Britain great...
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party...
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The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
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From bestselling author and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current andfuture power of the Latino vote in American politics. The face of...
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The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly...
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The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: On this single day, the battle claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In ...
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After his dramatic surrender at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee 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 ...
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Elinore Pruitt washed clothes in Denver to provide for herself and her daughter after the death of her husband. In 1909 she took a job with a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. This was the...
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Throughout her vivid life, Elizabeth I was the centre of a complicated web of political intrigue that made up the Elizabethan constitution. Elizabeth Jenkins, in her classic biography, reveals the...
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Listen as a full-cast tells us of Hiawatha's battle with Pearl Feather.
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Devoting special attention to 9/11, the war on terror, and the continuing threat we face at home and abroad, Sean Hannity makes clear that the greatest challenge Americans have to overcome may not...
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller Now Available in a Deluxe Unabridged Audiobook In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the...
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The Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison was Andersonville, where many thousands of wretched Union prisoners died in deplorable conditions. John Ransom survived to tell the dreadful tale, t...
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Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. Th...
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared...
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town...
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After WWII, Korea was divided in half at the 38th parallel. To the north were the Communists; to the south were the United Nations peacekeeping forces. In June 1950, North Korean soldiers backed by...
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This pre-eminent military historian takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of 1950. Using personal interviews with more than ...
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Billy Graham has touched the hearts and souls of millions with his message of faith. Now, for the first time ever, Dr. Graham tells his life story in a momentous work of insight. Hailed as the...
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Here's a popular audiobook title we highly recommend ... Knock At Midnight, A Written By : Clayborne Carson and Peter Holloran Narrated By : Rev Martin Luther King, JR Published By : Hachette...
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Speeches, Essays and other writings including 'The Gettysburg Address' and 'The Second Inaugural Address'.
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The real story of Custer and his famous last battle against the Sioux
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"America, America, God shed His grace on thee. . ." Did Columbus believe that God called him west to undiscovered lands? Does American democracy owe its inception to the handful of Pilgrims who set...
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Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal
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This world history is not dominated by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the...
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Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom is a record of Hargrove's eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas and was the basis for the recent movie hit Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, ...
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A moving and exhilarating autobiography of one of the great moral and political leaders of our time.
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The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
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Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and...
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The story of Beethoven, widely believed to be the greatest composer who ever lived.
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Frederic Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music - his waltzes, mazurkas, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, three...
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The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen huge changes in the lifestyle and expectations of peoples and nations. She has proved to be the constitutional monarch par excellence - while primarily a...
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This first audio-biography of Marcel Proust tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses. From his youth in the salons of Belle Epoque Paris, we follow his...
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W.B. Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, Down by the Salley Gardens, The Secret Rose - these...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness. There may be few solid facts about Shakespeare the man, and yet not only do we want to know all about...
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This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time. Copiously illustrated with examples of his music, it tells of Mozart's extraordinary...
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Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. Here is a brief account of his life, compiled from various sources...
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The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed...
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Learn about the Pilgrims, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 in this educational full-cast presentation.
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. In 1200 years, classical music grew from the...
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One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan—one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary...
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An amazing insight into the life of one of histories greatest villains...
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When ABC News' Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences, the network never imagined receiving more than twenty thousand pages of inspiring stories....
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The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept away the monasteries...
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CARDINAL WOLSEY... The Last Great Medieval Minister...‘Built Hampton Court, didn`t he?’...
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An important look at where America is today and that the future of America will get brighter.
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Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing.
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In this panorama, subtitled The 1930s in America, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monolith...
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John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, showing each of the title's six armies in a battle sequence testing them to the utmost..
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General U.S. Grant and General Sherman are caught off guard by the entire Confederate Army
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Shiloh is the second book in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. The Brannon son, Cory, is working as a riverboat crewman when he sees Unio...
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Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of the six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet,...
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On November 23, 1942, German U-boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond, and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim who, with no knowledge o...
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The Somme is an incredible documentary detailing the exact events and conditions endured by the Allied forces, an absolutely outstanding piece.
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The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages...
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Passion and property in Manhatten.
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and...
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and...
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Tulia, in Blakeslee's rich and deeply satisfying telling resembles nothing so much as a modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird, or would, that is, if the novel were a true story..
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In 1990, Peter Larson, with his team of commercial fossil hunters from the Black Hills Institute, discovered the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen in history. He dubbed it "Sue" after the...
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Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life. She takes us to schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries and records the events of the reign of Victoria...
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William Hague’s biography is comparable to Roy Jenkins’s recent bestselling life of Churchill – an eminent politician writing an outstanding Prime Ministerial life.
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Sir Winston Churchill’s greatest speeches digitally remastered, selected and introduced by his grandson Winston S. Churchill...
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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
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Unforgettable memoires from soldiers, citizens and historians. Includes tales of bravery, courage, sadness and reflection.
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Evans tells the epic story of the men and women who made America over two centuries.
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Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts from history. Many are notable events: the Battle of Thermopylae, The Black Death in 1348, the Great Fire of London, the execution of Louis XVI, the death...
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Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only professional soldier in English history to have served also as Prime Minister...
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For five years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. She traveled extensively -- to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious...
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Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose—one of the country's most influential historians—confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To...
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The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. In Apology Socrates defends himself...
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
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"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if...
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Britain’s most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother’s weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think he deliberately styles...
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This is the eighth book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one Southern family. Three Brannon brothers return home in the lull in the fighting, bu...
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One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank close to American shores. Compelling evidence strongly sugges...
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In Red, White & Liberal, Alan Colmes addresses a fundamental question: In this time of uncertainty, how can we protect our freedom without diminishing our liberties, while burnishing our...
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In the fall of 1787, the call went out: Each of the 13 states assembled special conventions to consider ratification of a proposed Constitution of the United States. Without ratification by nine co...
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As one of the most listened to nationally syndicated radio talk-show hosts...
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Pope John Paul II's recollections of his life and thoughts on issues facing the world.
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Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Augustus come to life in their ambitions, their work, loves and hates
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Their path to the White House - 1911 to 1980.
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Recommended listening for all Americans as well as for foreigners seeking to gain historical wisdom and insight, this magisterial and lucid history of America is written with a lighter touch. Alden...
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Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp on the history of...
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Using the first-hand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used...
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As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting, but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence,...
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Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
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Here, Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths and reveals facts that you won't be, or never were, taught in school, while leading you on a fast paced, politically incorrect tour of America...
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In the first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as "America's Mayor" in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel examines Rudy Giuliani's successes in N...
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Lifts the lid off today's legal system with details more shocking than any fictional TV show
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In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years le...
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The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making...
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This is the story of the battle of Antietam and the events leading up to the single bloodiest day in the entire Civil War. Union casualties topped 12,000 and Confederate casualties topped 11,000, a...
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Continuing the award-winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day
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Continuing the award-winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day
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Continuing the award winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day
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Continuing the award winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day
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The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in...
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his...
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An introductory military history of the American Civil War, this book places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, ...
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In Washington, D. C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat—the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in...
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Seizing the Enigma provides the definitive account of how British and American code breakers fought a war of wits against Nazi naval communications and helped lead the Allies to victory in the cruc...
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Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution...
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The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey
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Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga, the battered Rebel army, including a bitter Cory Brannon, retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army is marching to Savannah, layi...
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The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey
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The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey
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This is volume 1 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning "BBC Radio 4" series. The original ground-breaking series of This Sceptred Isle was a...
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The new Sceptred Isle - the master storyteller is back! Vol 2 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed...
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Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution...
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Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution...
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Chancellorsville is the fourth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. After Will and Mac Brannon return to their units, the Confederate caus...
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This New York Times best-seller is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War, the rise of militant Islam, and of a colorful congressman from Texas who conspired with a rogue CIA opera...
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With arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed America and the World would be changed forever and for the better.
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu...
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This is the seventh book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. While two Brannon sons were with Lee at Gettysburg and Cory was a...
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Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches...
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All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally imp...
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With his simulated day-by-day reportage, prize-winning journalist-historian Jeffrey St. John makes you an eyewitness to the 1787-1788 political battle to ratify the U.S. Constitution. And what a ba...
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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." Bob Dylan's...
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The highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 production starring Tom Baker, Jack Shepherd and others.
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An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and...
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A Jules Verne adaptation about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
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An audio anthology of the most dramatic moments in American history.
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A riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy.
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From insights into the mind of history's greatest general to a grunt's-eye view of the gruesome realities of war in the Classical Age, this vivid portrait of the daily life of the Tenth Legion foll...
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In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson’s village. Most were killed. 'The bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same through the bowels of my...
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The true, but little known story of Red Clouds War, along the Bozeman Trail in Montana in 1868
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The Revolutionary War's bloodiest battle comes to vivid life in this action packed epic
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On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events...
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
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In 1783, America emerged from a long and bitter war for Independence. The 13 colonies were now 13 sovereign states, bound together by the Articles of Confederation. After years of war, men like Tho...
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You are there, in 1787, at America's constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast jou...
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
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Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
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One of the greatest texts in the English language.
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The controversy grows with every sale of the bestselling novel. Throughout the contemporary fictional storyline of The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown skillfully weaves "historical" assertions...
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They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits...
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From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
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From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
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The Army of the Potomac attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the bloodbath at Fredericksburg. Joe Hooker makes yet another attempt, but Stonewall Jackson turns his flank at Chancellorsville. In ...
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Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the battlefield, which finally decided the fate of this nation.
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"The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the human race," wrote Bruce Catton. According to the New York Times, this work is "scholarly, judicious, clear, and ...
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The work that George Washington said helped spark the Revolutionary War.
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John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans that they could not pay back. His true story exposes international intrigue, corrup...
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In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to the great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers. Classical Music 101 is a high...
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Of the expeditions led by Yossi Harel from 1946 to 1948, it was the voyage of the Exodus to Palestine that became a beacon for Zionism and a symbol to all that neither guns, cannons, nor warships c...
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Richard Curtis’ and Ben Elton’s award-winning comedy in which Rowan Atkinson as the ubiquitous Blackadder, ably hampered by Tony Robinson as the loyal Baldrick, wreaks havoc throughout the...
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Story of the famed Confederate Warship and scourge of the Union shipping fleet
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"Those who doubt the greatness of men can leave this book alone or read and recant. This follows the story of the seige of the Alamo. It is one of the mightiest tales that the history of this or an...
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This collection of letters reveals the Civil War for many who lived it, overwhelming and ultimately tragic, viewed through the eyes of a courageous youth and an unforgettable young woman.
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The real war on terror has happened largely behind closed doors, run by the White House, drawing on secret intelligence and operations around the world. There is no man who knows more about it...
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Spectacular epic production of one of the worlds most famous battles
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In 1764, Britain imposed the first of several taxes with the Sugar Act. This was followed by the Stamp Act and the Townshend Revenue Act. In 1773, the Seven Years War with France had made Britain t...
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Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to theAmerican story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all. The Commander in Chief of the...
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A Public Figure, A Private Man.
Read by President Bush, with Barbara Bush, Dorothy Bush Koch, Marvin Bush, Neil Bush, George P. Bush and Jonathan Bush
Though reticent in...
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In 1764, Britain imposed the first of several taxes with the Sugar Act. This was followed by the Stamp Act and the Townshend Revenue Act. In 1773, the Seven Years War with France had made Britain t...
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They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only...
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Twelve Books that Changed the World presents a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. There are also surprises. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton..
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Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers.
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The dramatic and moving untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers.
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In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole...
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Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attack Upon the United States.
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Traces the life of Confederate General John B. Hood
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In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole...
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The summary from the report that has dominated the news. It has major implications for our domestic and foreign policy. A must-read for all americans!
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Carson begins this third volume by diagnosing the root causes that eventually gave rise to sectionalism. Also examined are removal of the Indians, the plantation system, the Transcendentalists and ...
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord dramatized in this accurate portrayal
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Here's a popular audiobook title we highly recommend ... Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Written By : Clayborne Carson Narrated By : LeVar Burton Published By : Hachette Audio...
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Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the story of...
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In 1791, the Constitution was amended to include ten amendments, which are commonly referred to as The Bill of Rights. These were the guarantees of individual liberty upon which critics of the Cons...
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Six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Tony Robinson.
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The serpentine Lord Blackadder lowers the whole tone of England's Golden Age.
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Yossef Bodansky gives us an in-depth look at the rise of Osama bin Laden, the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war. Here is a comprehensive account in meticulous detail of what dr...
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The original six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson,Tim Mclnnerny, Brian Blessed, Peter Cook, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall
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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists...
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In the first volume of a remarkable trilogy, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.
The liberation of Europe and the destruction...
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A journey retraced from small-town boyhood through a lifetime of military service.
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Through the vast information-gathering network of his private global intelligence company, Stratfor, called "The Shadow CIA," George Friedman presents the startling truth behind America's foreign p...
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The first single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades.
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Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit...
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The story of a remarkable scientist, statesman and diplomat and one of the founding fathers of America.
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Full-cast tale of espionage, betrayal and romance set against the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
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Antietam is the third in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family, the Brannons. Mac, a Brannon son and a gifted horseman, joins Jeb Stuart's cava...
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The second volume of Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles.
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Winner of a Bronze Award at the Spoken Word Awards 2003 Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed...
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Herodotus is the father of historical writing and a most compelling storyteller. His tales laid bare the intricate human entanglements at the core of great historical events. He infused his magnifi...
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This epic three-volume history explores life's grand themes through Britain's rich and colourful history.
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Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
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This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
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William Hickling Prescott's monumental History of the Conquest of Mexico is a classic work.
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The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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Pendle was closely connected with Latin America for more than forty years. His text emphasizes how many races and classes have contributed to the civilization of this great landmass, with its vast ...
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In January 1945, captured American soldiers, emaciated and ill from brutal mistreatment, were still in the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines when Army Rangers set out on a daring ...
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Here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches.
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From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of John Adams
First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time—the...
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Those who survived still remember the Great Hurricane as the most terrifying moment of their lives. Using newspaper reports, survivor testimony, and archival sources, Burns reconstructs this harrow...
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These speeches span the years 1940 – 1987.Among others listen to Winston Churchill’s First Radio Address As Prime Minister, John F Kennedy’s Inaugural Address and Richard Nixon’s Resignation speech.
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What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is "wall-to-wall popular in the United States," says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar...
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Exciting biographies of three of America's greatest men: George Washington, Daniel Boone and Benjamin Franklin. Full cast production.
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Based on a thorough study of Greek life and civilization, of Greek literature, philosophy, and art, The Greek Way interprets their meaning and brings a realization of the refuge and strength the pa...
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis
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Through exclusive interviews, Keegan probes the war's causes, complications, costs, and consequences. The Iraq War is authoritative, timely, and vitally important to our understanding of a conflict...
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"Is Paris burning?" is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French and American troops battered their way into the city. Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of...
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Carmen Bin Ladin tells of her time married into the Bin Laden family.
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Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present...
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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform...
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A highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen.
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Now a Major Motion Picture from Universal Pictures.... New York Times bestselling author Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on...
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Here is a history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times. Churchill's resonant prose brings to...
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With It's My America Too, Ben Ferguson, the voice of America's youth and the host of The Ben Ferguson Show, one of the country's fastest growing syndicated radio shows, delivers his views on all...
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Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
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With the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to war making, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies over the course of some two thous...
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An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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The World Cup is the largest sports event outside the summer Olympics: the progress of the 32 countries which qualify for the finals is watched by billions all over the globe. To host the World Cup...
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A gripping, in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences.
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In 1942, eight Nazi saboteurs were caught on American beaches and executed. The decision was challenged in court but eventually upheld in the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Quirin—a case that h...
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In this unparalleled work of investigative journalism, Kessler reveals the inner world of the CIA. Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including two with active Directors of Cen...
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An account of one man's profound respect and affection for a president who changed his life.
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No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. This book by best-selling author...
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'The Natural History of Selborne' has become part of that curious concoction of ideas and artefacts, which are seen as defining...
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Peter Huchthausen, in a patrol boat on the Mekong River, rescued a badly wounded Vietnamese child, Nguyen Thi Lung, arranged for her treatment and education, then lost track of her during the Tet ...
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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet...
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Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in United States history.
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With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, of the much-loved playwright Menander, of the Stoics, and ...
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The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Through these tales of adventure, edited by American Book Award...
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith...
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Presents the history of the Twentieth Century, based on contemporary accounts of events as they happened, using BBC Archives. Presented in 10 episodes as a unique oral history. One for each decade...
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Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans...
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Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
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Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
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A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three decades. A former aide and longtime family friend, Michael Deaver...
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The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily...
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As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Sean Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice...
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The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a wo...
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Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves - Manhattan.
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Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
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Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur trapper named Dixie Bull
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In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerge to illustrate the various struggles and victories fought during wartime: a Japanese -American at an internment camp; a Native American ...
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One of the most important news stories of the last three centuries comes to life in this "eyewitness account" of America's first federal elections, the first congress, and President Washington's cr...
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Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation.
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Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, daredevil flyer Jimmy Doolittle led a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo itself. This is the true account of how ordinary people, when faced with ex...
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A true and moving story of American courage.
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More democracy means more freedom. Or does it? American democracy is, in many people's minds, the model for the rest of the world. Fareed Zakaria points out that the American form of democracy is o...
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The second part of the stunning Gettysburg trilogy from Colonial Radio
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Gettysburg is the sixth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. As the armies clash at Gettysburg, Will and Mac Brannon are swallowed up in t...
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A stunning historical production covering the three days of Gettysburg
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The second part of the stunning Gettysburg trilogy from Colonial Radio.
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The unique history of the Twentieth Century - 1990 to 1999.
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The story of William Fly, New England's most notorious pirate.
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.
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Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
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Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the Vatican.
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The bestselling audiobook of the acclaimed BBC1 series, described as 'Brilliant' by the Daily Mail
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"In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses and, most importantly, share terrifying risks;...
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Here are the life stories of nine famous people who have left their mark upon the world. There are men of action such as Alexander the Great and George Washington, and a woman, Joan of Arc, who...
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Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus who set off into unknown seas in a small ship in the 15th...
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