The Vietnam War
By: John C. McManus
4.17
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
The war in Vietnam was initially a localized civil conflict—a bloody and brutal contest for state c…
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1. The Poems of Wilfred Owen
By: Wilfred Owen
4.31
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 ma… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- war
"With him they buried the muzzle his teeth had kissed, And truthfully wrote the Mother, Tim died smiling."-Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen
" Consummation is consumption We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume All joys are cakes and vanish in eating All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth"-Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen
"What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons."-Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen
"The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug o…"-Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen
2. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
By: Neil Sheehan
4.24
Format: 896 pages, Paperback
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illu… read more
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- history
- war
- nonfiction
- military history
"Malcolm Browne managed to take a photograph of Arnett [AP's Peter Arnett] standing behind Halberstam for protection a moment later, just before another plainclothesman sneaked up behind Browne and sm…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"Lieutenant Calley, who herded many of his victims into an irrigation ditch and filled it with their corpses, was the only officer or soldier to be convicted of a crime. He was charged with personally…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"The monks fought back in a Vietnamese way. On the morning of June 11, 1963, a seventy-three-year-old monk named Quang Duc sat down in the middle of a Saigon intersection a few blocks from Ambassador …"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"He had scribbled a note in pencil giving Patton authority to assume command of the four American divisions in Tunisia the moment he landed there, and Patton had taken off again directly for the front…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
3. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- war
4. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- history
- war
- nonfiction
- military history
5. World War II: A Military and Social History
By: Thomas Childers
3.30
Format: 208 pages,
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- history
- nonfiction
- war
6. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies (Great Courses, #8510)
By: Robert J. Allison
4.27
Format: 67 pages, Audiobook
List of the 36 Lecture Titles 1 The World before Colonial America 2 Spain's New World Empire 3 John… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
By: Peter H. Wilson
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing … read more
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- history
- war
- nonfiction
- military history
9. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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10. Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques
By: James Hynes
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Whether you're huddled around the campfire, composing an email to a friend, or sitting down to writ… read more
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11. All's Well That Ends Well
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.99
Format: 273 pages,
In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more
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12. The Historical Jesus (Great Courses, #643)
By: Bart D. Ehrman
2.75
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was he like? For more than 2,000 years, people and groups of varyin… read more
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13. The Early Middle Ages
By: Philip Daileader
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more
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14. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
By: Bảo Ninh , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam W… read more
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15. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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16. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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17. From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity (Great Courses #6577)
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.86
Format: 368 pages,
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18. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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19. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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- history
- war
- nonfiction
- military history
20. Timecode of a Face
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.01
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? Th… read more
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- nonfiction
"We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something…"-Ruth Ozeki, Timecode of a Face
21. Renaissance: The Transformation of the West
By: Jennifer McNabb
4.03
Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio
26 hours and 35 minutes While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. How the Crusades Changed History
By: Philip Daileader
3.86
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
11 hours 52 mins Hundreds of years have passed since the last crusader knight laid down his swor… read more
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- nonfiction
- war
23. Charlemagne Father of Europe
By: Philip Daileader
3.76
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In Charlemagne: Father of Europe, you will look back on Charlemagne’s rule and the way his dynasty … read more
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- nonfiction
24. The Industrial Revolution
By: Patrick N. Allitt
4.25
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at hom… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.47
Format: 652 pages, Hardcover
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was… read more
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- history
- war
- nonfiction
- military history
26. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
By: Michael Shermer
3.81
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.87
Format: 13 pages, Paperback
Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long… read more
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- history
- war
- nonfiction
- military history
"Our side has agents. Their side has spies."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
"Espionage is the world's second oldest profession."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
"Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
"You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears."-Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
28. War in the Modern World
By: David R. Stone
4.21
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
World War II was a formidable conflict that engulfed more than 50 nations, many of them world power… read more
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29. The Vietnam War
By: John C. McManus
4.17
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
The war in Vietnam was initially a localized civil conflict—a bloody and brutal contest for state c… read more
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30. Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses)
By: Emily Zarka
3.41
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, t… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Talking While Female & Other Dangerous Acts
By: Teatro Luna
3.98
Format: 190 pages, Audiobook
Talking While Female & Other Dangerous Acts is a fresh collection of original short stories on them… read more
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