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In Land of Lincoln, Ferguson embarks on a curiosity-fueled coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation, encountering everything from hatred to adoration to opportunism and all manner of reaction in between. Land of Lincoln is an entertaining, unexpected, and big-hearted celebration of Lincoln and his enduring influence on the country he helped create.
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This is the true story of brave women from villages and cities across France who were united in hatred and defiance of their Nazi occupiers. Captured by the Gestapo, they found solace and strength in their deep affection and camaraderie.
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Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly "Letter from America". This selection of Letters includes Cooke's reports on momentous events such as Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, the ceasefire in Vietnam and the assassination attempt on Gerald Ford.
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Harry Lamin was born in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted and eventually joined the 9th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment and was sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy.
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A moving and surprising memoir of an ordinary soldier in the First World War
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One of our company's favorites, The Long Walk is the astonishing story of a trek to freedom.
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Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.
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Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not alone: Sherman, Davis, Jackson-nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers had been fo
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In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
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An unvarnished and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the Pacific Theater of World War II and whose story is featured in the HBO series The Pacific.
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Like "Jarhead" and "We Were Soldiers Once," this combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying black ops night missions during the Vietnam War. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
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A fierce and controversial Civil War officer, the unschooled but brilliant Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of his rise from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.
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Every generation has to fight the same battles as their ancestors had to fight, again and again, for there is no final victory and no final defeat. Two flames have burned from the beginning of time - the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope. This book intends to fan both flames.
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. However, Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. Across the oceans of the world, the pirate hunter, Kidd, pursued the pirate, Culliford. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter is
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Like "Jarhead" and "We Were Soldiers Once," this combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying black ops night missions during the Vietnam War. Unabridged. 2 MP3 CDs.
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From the bestselling author of "Under the Black Flag" comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling 19th-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
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Tom Hanks introduces the rousing story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers": William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron, who were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
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'Apache' is a blazing true story from the heart of Afghanistan -- a tale of courage, comradeship, technology and tragedy, straight from the cockpit of the world's deadliest helicopter. Includes an exclusive 20 minute Q & A with the author
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Alexander the Great is considered one of the most successful commanders of all time and was known to be undefeated in battle. By the time of his death at age 32, he had amassed an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River.
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Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. This riveting memoir from the Navy doctor earned him praise as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of "Newsweek." Unabridged. 7 CDs.
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No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing true story of four young sailors from the USS Grenadier who were captured and tortured by the Japanese during World War II, the bond that sustained them, and their struggles to resume their lives.
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John Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes--as a madman, martyr, or enigma. This illuminating biography brings him to life in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism. Unabridged. 2 MP3 CDs.
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The underside of modern American politics-raw ambition, manipulation, and deception-are revealed in detail by Andrew Young's riveting account of a presidential hopeful's meteoric rise and scandalous fall.
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Known by his troops in World War II as "The Soldier's General" because of his care of and compassion for the soldiers under his command, Omar Bradley commanded the U. S. 12th Army Group in Europe. By the spring of 1945, this group contained 4 field armies, 12 corps, 48 divisions, and more than 1,300,000 menthe largest exclusively American field command in U.S. history.
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The definitive account of the little-known 1920s Palestinian leader who allied himself with Hitler and forms the hidden link between the fascism of the twentieth century and the new fascism of the twenty-first.
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. However, Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. Across the oceans of the world, the pirate hunter, Kidd, pursued the pirate, Culliford. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter is
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Eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and reports of military officers form this riveting narrative of William Clarke Quantrill, a quiet Ohio schoolteacher who became the most notorious guerrilla of the Civil War.
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In a masterly narrative, historian and novelist Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Abraham Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the final campaigns of the Civil War, was re-elected president, and laid out his vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West.
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The nation's most revered president gets an informative, entertaining, and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent--and most unusual and surprising--questions asked about Abraham Lincoln. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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This devastating and inspiring account follows a group of committed doctors who staff a combat hospital in Iraq and achieve an astounding survival rate as they forge deep and lasting bonds based on friendship, good humor, and fidelity to the well-being of the American soldier.
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The true story of a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran while serving as a member of the secretive and feared Revolutionary Guards.
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John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."
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A selection that contains eight of Alistair Cooke's Christmas and New Year "Letters from America", broadcast in December and January over the five decades of his career and covering a range of festive topics from the light-hearted to the sombre. It includes his reflections on Christmas in Vermont, and the early days of television in the USA.
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Climb back inside the cockpit of the world's deadliest helicopter and learn how one mission helped change the course of the Afghan conflict and rewrite the rules of combat.
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Combining the behind-enemy-lines suspense of Black Hawk Down with the first-person intensity of Jarhead, this is the heart-pounding story of a young American who became one of the most elite counterterrorism commandos in the world.
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Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly Letter from America. Wise and witty, informed yet informal, Cooke was the doyen of foreign correspondents. This title features five specially selected letters from American election years, based on the BBC Radio 4 series "Cooke's Elections".
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The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a un...
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Movie Tie-In: Good Night, and Good Luck nominated for 6 Academy Awards!Long before the era of the news anchor, the pundit, and the mini-cam, one man blazed a trail that thousands would follow. Edwards brings to life the great stories Murrow covered and brought into American living rooms for the first time-the rooftop reports of the London Blitz, bombing raids over Berlin, and the 1954 broadcast th
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Combining the behind-enemy-lines suspense of Black Hawk Down with the first-person intensity of Jarhead, this is the heart-pounding story of a young American who became one of the most elite counterterrorism commandos in the world.
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A real-life Suite Francaise, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in World War II is translated into English for the first time.
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