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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...
  • At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town...
  • Billy Graham looks back at it all with down-to-earth warmth and candor -- remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences.
  • This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen mont...
  • With fiery words of wisdom and a passion for justice, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired people everywhere to perform extraordinary acts of courage.
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
  • Dust swirled round the world for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of lght. The effects were felt as far away as France.
  • 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 ...
  • The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
  • From bestselling author and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current and future power of the Latino vote in American politics.
  • When was the last time you were energized by ideas? In this self-paced program, the growth of human freedom, science, culture, and capitalistic prosperity are explained.
  • 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 ...
  • The descendants of Richard and Anne Lee have occupied a preeminent place in American history. They were among the first families of Virginia. Two were signers of the Declaration of Independence, and several others distinguished themselves during the Revolutionary War. And one, Robert E. Lee,...
  • This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For sixty years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation while never disclosing its blunders to the American public. Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter uses the CIA’s own archives to reveal the CIA as a deeply flawed...
  • Listen as a full-cast tells us of Hiawatha's battle with Pearl Feather.
  • Sean Hannity makes clear that the greatest challenge Americans have to overcome may not be an attack from overseas, but the slow compromising of our national character.
  • Once more personally selected by Alistair Cooke these middle years in America bring reports on the black revolution and ’60s counter culture as well as fascinating memories.
  • In 1909 Elinore Pruitt took a job with a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. This was the beginning of the eloquent letters narrated in this remarkable audiobook.
  • Elizabeth Jenkins, in her classic biography, reveals the woman behind the skilful politician, showing her belief in personal sacrifice to secure peace for the country she loved more than any man.
  • In this informative yet entertaining audio-biography, Pearson Phillips reflects on Queen Elizabeth II , her life and times.
  • Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties - complete, unabridged and read by the author
  • This first audio-biography of Marcel Proust tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses.
  • The story of Beethoven, widely believed to be the greatest composer who ever lived.
  • Regarded one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music.
  • Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook which presents the most important poems in the context of his life and ambitions.
  • Here is a brief account of Dante's life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio) by Benedict Flynn.
  • The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language.
  • In this classic biography, Hesketh Pearson puts his skills as an actor and biographer to lively use, looking at the man as much through his work
  • This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time.
  • "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...
  • Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal.
  • Speeches, Essays and other writings including 'The Gettysburg Address' and 'The Second Inaugural Address'.
  • Beyond the Civil War’s bloody battles was an equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe. At the head of the fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the “father of modern American intelligence”
  • In Lion in the White House, historian Aida D. Donald masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern president.
  • Experience the tortured journey of Samson
  • The real story of Custer and his famous last battle against the Sioux
  • 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...
  • The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
  • Suetonius wrote Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled their extraordinary careers, presenting perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
  • The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
  • 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, ...
  • A moving and exhilarating autobiography of one of the great moral and political leaders of our time.
  • In 1941, seven escapees of a Soviet labor camp in Siberia spent a year walking to freedom over four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth, always a step away from death. They had no map and no compass but only a fierce determination to survive.
  • 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...
  • In 1898, when the Spanish- American War was not going well for the United States, Richmond Pearson Hobson survived a “suicide mission” in a failed attempt to block Santiago Harbor in Cuba and was i
  • This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond.
  • 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...
  • From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology.
  • In this collection of lectures Feynman originally gave in 1963, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science. Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend.
  • Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection, and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons until the Renaissance. In 1623, William H...
  • After Rome fell in the 5th century A.D., Europe endured a long drought of ideas. The Middle Ages were a time when spiritual, other-worldly concerns dominated intellectual life; study of the natural...
  • 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...
  • The Forts Henry and Donelson campaign, the first decisive Union victory, fought on the western edge of the theater, was a gruesome omen of what was to come in the battle between two great men: U.S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
  • 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...
  • By the end of World War I, Britain had promised control of Palestine to both Arabs and Jews. Each of these peoples claimed a longstanding right to the same piece of land, and violence was inevitabl...
  • 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.
  • Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English…
  • 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.
  • Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.
  • For O. J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop and brilliant detective had to be destroyed. That was the strategy of the Simpson defense. But as certainty about Simpson's guilt grew, so...
  • The account of the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy.
  • In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The author reveals how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America and states that only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur’s grip...
  • The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
  • The Bestselling story of how one man's courage changed the course of history. 'A magnificent piece of popular history.' Independent On Sunday
  • Among the greatest natural historians was Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), who influenced Goethe, Darwin, and America's leading naturalists. Humboldt's Cosmos, published in five volumes from 184...
  • Exploring in vivid detail the trap into which the dreams of America’s leaders have taken us and the likely consequences of our dependence on a permanent war economy, Johnson’s prophetic book, Nemesis, shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, economically and politically.
  • The concept of the atom—the smallest physical building block of nature—has been around at least since ancient Greece. Leucippus and Democritus conceived of a mechanical or physical atom...
  • 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,...
  • The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
  • The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
  • 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.
  • The political story the media was afraid to touch. The story of how the "Right" stole...
  • Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad.
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
  • Como los Hispanos Elegiran al Proximo Presidente de los Estados Unidos.
  • Old Ironsides battles Tripolitan Pirates to free the crew of the captured USS Philadelphia
  • An amazing but true story of Yankee ingenuity!
  • 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...
  • "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...
  • Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life.
  • 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...
  • In 1846, eighty-seven men, women, and children set out for California, attempting a new overland route. After many struggles, they reached the summit of the Sierras but were trapped there. Many per...
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