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• 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
  Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers.
  
  
• 102 Minutes
  The dramatic and moving untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers.
  
  
• 109 East Palace
  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...
  
  
• 1776 (Abridged)
  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...
  
  
• 9/11 Commission Report
  Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attack Upon the United States.
  
  
• 9/11 Commission Report Executive Summary, The
  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!
  
  
• Advance and Retreat
  Traces the life of Confederate General John B. Hood
  
  
• After Chancellorsville
  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.
  
  
• Against All Enemies
  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...
  
  
• Alabama
  Story of the famed Confederate Warship and scourge of the Union shipping fleet
  
  
• Alamo, The
  "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...
  
  
• All The Best, George Bush
  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...
  
  
• American Revolution, The: Part 2
  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...
  
  
• American Soldier (Unabridged)
  A journey retraced from small-town boyhood through a lifetime of military service.
  
  
• America's Women
  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...
  
  
• An Army at Dawn
  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...
  
  
• An Unfinished Life
  The first single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades.
  
  
• Antietam
  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...
  
  
• Antietam: The Lost Command
  Full-cast tale of espionage, betrayal and romance set against the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
  
  

Audio Book Category

• Band of Brothers
  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...
  
  
• Basic History of the United States, A, Vol. 3: The Sections and the Civil War, 1826-1877
  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 ...
  
  
• Battle Road
  The Battles of Lexington and Concord dramatized in this accurate portrayal
  
  
• Bill of Rights and Additional Amendments, The
  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...
  
  
• Black Adder, The
  The original six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson,Tim Mclnnerny, Brian Blessed, Peter Cook, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall
  
  
• Blackadder Goes Forth
  Six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Tony Robinson.
  
  
• Blackadder II
  The serpentine Lord Blackadder lowers the whole tone of England's Golden Age.
  
  
• Blackadder The Third
  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...
  
  
• Blockade Runners, The
  A Jules Verne adaptation about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
  
  
• Bomber
  The highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 production starring Tom Baker, Jack Shepherd and others.
  
  
• Bound for Canaan
  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...
  
  
• Boys of Pointe du Hoc, The
  A riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy.
  
  
• Bunker Hill
  The Revolutionary War's bloodiest battle comes to vivid life in this action packed epic
  
  
• Captured by Indians: A True Account by Mary Rowlandson
  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...
  
  
• Case for Hillary Clinton, The
  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.
  
  
• Chain of Command
  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...
  
  
• Chancellorsville
  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...
  
  
• Chickamauga
  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...
  
  
• Child of Fortune, A
  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...
  
  
• Chronicles - Volume One
  "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...
  
  
• Citizen Soldiers
  Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches...
  
  
• Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian
  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 ...
  
  
• Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. III, Red River to Appomattox
  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.
  
  
• Civil War, The: Part 1
  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...
  
  
• Civil War, The: The American Heritage History Of
  "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 ...
  
  
• Common Sense
  The work that George Washington said helped spark the Revolutionary War.
  
  
• Constitutional Convention, The
  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...
  
  
• Constitutional Journal
  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...
  
  
• Crack in the Edge of the World, A (Unabridged)
  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
  
  
• Cracking DaVinci's Code
  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...
  
  
• D-Day
  They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits...
  
  
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
  One of the greatest texts in the English language.
  
  
• Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
  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...
  
  
• Deliver Us From Evil
  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...
  
  
• Different Drummer, A
  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...
  
  
• Distant Mirror, A: The Calamitous 14th Century
  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...
  
  
• Dixie Bull
  Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur trapper named Dixie Bull
  
  
• Dr Crippen
  Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
  
  
• Dying to Cross
  Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in United States history.
  
  
• Echo of Greece, The
  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 ...
  
  
• Ethnic America
  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...
  
  
• Eyewitness 1910-1919
  Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith...
  
  
• Eyewitness 1920 - 1929
  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...
  
  
• Eyewitness 1960 - 1969
  Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of a decade of the century described by those who saw them happen...
  
  
• Eyewitness 1990 - 1999
  The unique history of the Twentieth Century - 1990 to 1999.
  
  
• Fame's Revenge
  The story of William Fly, New England's most notorious pirate.
  
  
• Family, The
  Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the Vatican.
  
  
• Famous People in History 2
  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...
  
  
• Finest Hour
  The bestselling audiobook of the acclaimed BBC1 series, described as 'Brilliant' by the Daily Mail
  
  
• Firehouse
  "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;...
  
  
• Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty
  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...
  
  
• Future of Freedom, The
  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...
  
  
• Gettysburg
  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...
  
  
• Gettysburg Day 1 - Good Ground
  A stunning historical production covering the three days of Gettysburg
  
  
• Gettysburg Day 2 - Sea of Anguish
  The second part of the stunning Gettysburg trilogy from Colonial Radio.
  
  
• Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne'
  'The Natural History of Selborne' has become part of that curious concoction of ideas and artefacts, which are seen as defining...
  
  
• Great Bridge, The
  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...
  
  
• Great Hurricane, The: 1938
  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...
  
  
• Great Raid on Cabanatuan, The: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
  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 ...
  
  
• Great Speeches
  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.
  
  
• Great Speeches in History
  Here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches.
  
  
• Greek Way, The
  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...
  
  
• Guests of the Ayatollah
  From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis
  
  
• Heroes of American History
  Exciting biographies of three of America's greatest men: George Washington, Daniel Boone and Benjamin Franklin. Full cast production.
  
  
• Histories, The
  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...
  
  
• History Audio Books
  Now you can listen to the greatest selection of best-selling history audio books on the net ... anytime ... anywhere!
  
  
• History of Britain - At The Edge Of The World 3000BC - AD1603
  This epic three-volume history explores life's grand themes through Britain's rich and colourful history.
  
  
• History of Britain - The British Wars 1603-1776
  The second volume of Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles.
  
  
• History of Britain - The Fate of Empire 1776-2000
  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...
  
  
• History of Classical Music, The
  Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
  
  
• History of English Literature, The
  The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
  
  
• History of Latin America, A
  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 ...
  
  
• History of Opera, The
  This absorbing history is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
  
  
• History of the Conquest of Mexico
  William Hickling Prescott's monumental History of the Conquest of Mexico is a classic work.
  
  
• History of the Musical, The
  An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
  
  
• History of Theatre, The
  Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
  
  
• Hitler's Scientists
  A gripping, in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences.
  
  
• How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
  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...
  
  
• In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America
  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...
  
  
• Inside The Kingdom
  Carmen Bin Ladin tells of her time married into the Bin Laden family.
  
  
• Iraq War, The
  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...
  
  
• Is Paris Burning?
  "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...
  
  
• Isaac Newton
  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...
  
  
• Island Race, The
  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...
  
  
• It's My America Too
  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...
  
  
• Jarhead (Unabridged)
  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...
  
  
• Jefferson's War: America's Frist War on Terror 1801-1805
  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...
  
  
• John Adams (Unabridged)
  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...
  
  
• Korean War, The
  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 ...
  
  
• Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded
  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...
  
  
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
  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 ...
  
  
• Last Voyage Of Columbus, The
  The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
  
  
• Lee: The Last Years
  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 ...
  
  
• Let Freedom Ring
  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...
  
  
• Life and Work of Marcel Proust
  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...
  
  
• Life and Works of W.B. Yeats, The
  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...
  
  
• Life of Oscar Wilde, The
  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...
  
  
• Life of Shakespeare, A
  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...
  
  
• Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The
  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...
  
  
• Light and the Glory, The
  "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's Letters The Private Man and the Warrior
  Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal
  
  
• Little Big Horn
  The real story of Custer and his famous last battle against the Sioux
  
  
• Little History of the World, A
  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...
  
  
• Lives of the Twelve Caesars
  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...
  
  
• Long March, The
  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, ...
  
  
• Long Walk To Freedom
  A moving and exhilarating autobiography of one of the great moral and political leaders of our time.
  
  
• Manassas
  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...
  
  
• Map That Changed the World, The
  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,...
  
  
• Mexican-American War, The
  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...
  
  
• Monarchy of England, The: The Beginnings
  Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English…
  
  
• Morir en el Intento
  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...
  
  
• My Country Versus Me
  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...
  
  
• New World Coming
  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,...
  
  
• No One Left behind (Unabridged)
  The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
  
  
• No Room for Error
  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...
  
  
• Nothing Like It In The World
  Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad.
  
  
• Ola Latina, La
  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...
  
  
• Old Ironsides - And the Barbary Pirates
  Old Ironsides battles Tripolitan Pirates to free the crew of the captured USS Philadelphia
  
  
• Old Ironsides - Escape to the Wind
  An amazing but true story of Yankee ingenuity!
  
  
• One Christmas in Washington: Roosevelt and Churchill Forge the Grand Alliance
  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...
  
  
• One Man's War: The WWII Saga of Tommy LaMore
  "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...
  
  
• One Soldier's Story
  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...
  
  
• Outposts
  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...
  
  
• Over the Edge of the World
  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,...
  
  
• Pale Horseman, The
  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...
  
  
• Partly Cloudy Patriot, The
  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...
  
  
• Path Between the Seas, The
  Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story ...
  
  
• Pembrokeshire Wizard, The
  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...
  
  
• People Speak , The
  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...
  
  
• Persian War, The
  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...
  
  
• Pirate Coast, The: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
  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...
  
  
• Plan of Attack
  Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush...
  
  
• Plimoth Adventure - Voyage of the Mayflower
  The pilgrims embark on a perilous voyage to the New World in search of religious freedom
  
  
• Plutarch - Greek Lives
  Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
  
  
• Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, The
  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...
  
  
• Portrait of a Killer
  Using the first-hand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used...
  
  
• President's House, The
  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,...
  
  
• Promise Of Glory
  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...
  
  
• Prosecuters, The
  Lifts the lid off today's legal system with details more shocking than any fictional TV show
  
  
• Proud Tower, The: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
  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...
  
  
• Ratification Debates, The
  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...
  
  
• Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
  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...
  
  
• Red, White & Liberal
  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 rightful...
  
  
• Rise of the American Republic
  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...
  
  
• Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way
  Pope John Paul II's recollections of his life and thoughts on issues facing the world.
  
  
• Roman Way, The
  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
  
  
• Ronnie And Nancy
  Their path to the White House - 1911 to 1980.
  
  
• Savannah
  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...
  
  
• Sceptred Isle 10: The Age of Victoria - 1837-1901, This
  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...
  
  
• Sceptred Isle 2: The Making of the Nation - 1087-1327, This
  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
  
  
• Sceptred Isle 3: The Black Prince to Henry V - 1327-1547, This
  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
  
  
• Sceptred Isle 4: Elizabeth I to Cromwell - 1547-1660, This
  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...
  
  
• Sceptred Isle 5: Restoration and Glorious Revolution - 1660-1702, This
  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...
  
  
• Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 1: 1155-1783, This
  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...
  
  
• Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 2: 1783 - 1876, This
  The new Sceptred Isle - the master storyteller is back! Vol 2 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed...
  
  
• Sceptred Isle: Twentieth Century - 1939-1959, This
  Continuing the award-winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day
  
  
• Sceptred Isle: Twentieth Century - 1979-1999, This
  Continuing the award-winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day
  
  
• Searching for the Sound
  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...
  
  
• Secret Man, The
  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...
  
  
• Seizing the Enigma
  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...
  
  
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  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...
  
  
• Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War
  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, ...
  
  
• Shenandoah
  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...
  
  
• Shiloh
  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...
  
  
• Since Yesterday
  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...
  
  
• Six Armies In Normandy
  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..
  
  
• Six Days of War
  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,...
  
  
• Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
  The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages...
  
  
• Sky's The Limit, The
  Passion and property in Manhatten.
  
  
• Sole Survivor
  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...
  
  
• Speaking My Mind
  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...
  
  
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
  An amazing insight into the life of one of histories greatest villains...
  
  
• Story of America, The
  Learn about the Pilgrims, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 in this educational full-cast presentation.
  
  
• They Made America
  Evans tells the epic story of the men and women who made America over two centuries.
  
  
• They Saw It Happen
  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...
  
  
• To America
  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...
  
  
• To Conquer The Air
  "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...
  
  
• Toast
  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...
  
  
• Trial and the Death of Socrates, The
  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...
  
  
• Truman
  Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
  
  
• Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
  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..
  
  
• Tyrannosaurus Sue
  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...
  
  
• Undaunted Courage (Unabridged)
  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...
  
  
• Victorian London
  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...
  
  
• Voices of Black America
  Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
  
  
• War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II
  Unforgettable memoires from soldiers, citizens and historians. Includes tales of bravery, courage, sadness and reflection.
  
  
• William Pitt the Younger
  William Hague’s biography is comparable to Roy Jenkins’s recent bestselling life of Churchill – an eminent politician writing an outstanding Prime Ministerial life.
  
  
• Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches: Never Give In !
  Sir Winston Churchill’s greatest speeches digitally remastered, selected and introduced by his grandson Winston S. Churchill...