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Title: The End of the Cold War

Subtitle: 1985-1991

Author: Robert Service

Narrator: Andrew Cullum

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-16

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Soviet bloc was a sea change in world history.

Here, acclaimed Russian historian Robert Service examines precisely how that change came about. Drawing on a vast and largely untapped range of sources, he builds a picture of the two men who spearheaded the breakthrough: Ronald Reagan, president of the United States; and Mikhail Gorbachev, last general secretary of the Soviet Union.

Authoritative, compelling and meticulously researched, this is political history at its best.

Critic Reviews:

"The great nonfiction book of the year as a serious and fascinating dive into the events that shaped our world it cannot be bettered." (The Times)

"A riveting read." (The Telegraph)

"Our leading historian of the Soviet Union...magisterial." (Observer)

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Title: Among the Headhunters

Subtitle: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle

Author: Robert Lyman

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Flying the notorious "hump route" between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double agent posing as an OSS operative, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser.

Against the odds, all but one of the 21 people aboard the aircraft survived - but they fell from the frying pan into the fire. They landed in wild countryside dominated by the Nagas, notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice. Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans. Among the Headhunters is the first account of this incredible story.

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Title: The Greatest Speeches of Great Politicians

Author: SpeechWorks

Narrator: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-16

Publisher: SoundWorks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The Greatest Speeches of Great Politicians features historical speeches given by those aspiring to win over voters and gain positions of power. Well-known candidates for a variety of offices address campaign rallies, press conferences, and the general public. This collection includes speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Barry Goldwater, Barbara Jordan, Bob Dole, Carl Stokes, Bobby Kennedy, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, and others.

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Title: The Second Battle of the Marne

Author: Michael S. Neiberg

Narrator: David Stifel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The First Battle of the Marne produced the so-called Miracle of the Marne, when French and British forces stopped the initial German drive on Paris in 1914. Hundreds of thousands of casualties later, with opposing forces still dug into trench lines, the Germans tried again to push their way to Paris and to victory. The Second Battle of the Marne (July 15 to August 9, 1918) marks the point at which the Allied armies stopped the massive German Ludendorff Offensives and turned to offensive operations themselves. The Germans never again came as close to Paris nor resumed the offensive. The battle was one of the first large multinational battles fought by the Allies since the assumption of supreme command by French general Ferdinand Foch. It marks the only time the French, American, and British forces fought together in one battle. A superb account of the bloody events of those fateful days, this book sheds new light on a critically important 20th-century battle.

Critic Reviews:

"This is well worth the read and there is much to consider here." (Journal of Military History)

"This is a first-rate work of analysis, an original contribution to the study of the Western Front." (The Listening Post)

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Title: Working in the Wings

Subtitle: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor

Author: Elizabeth A. Osborne - editor, Christine Woodworth - editor

Narrator: Cynthia Wallace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind-the-scenes, challenging and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history.

The essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations - from African Americans' performance of the cakewalk in Florida's resort hotels during the Gilded Age to the UAW Union Theatre and striking automobile workers in post-World War II Detroit to the creative struggle in the latter part of the 20th century to finish an adaptation of Moby Dick for the stage before the memory of creator, Rinde Eckert, fails. Contributors incorporate methodologies and theories from fields as diverse as theatre history, work studies, legal studies, economics, and literature, and draw on traditional archival materials, including performance texts and architectural structures, as well as less tangible material traces of stagecraft.

Working in the Wings looks at the ways in which workers' identities are shaped, influenced, and dictated by what they do; the traces left behind by workers whose contributions have been overwritten; the intersections between the sometimes repetitive and sometimes destructive process of creation and the end result - the play or performance; and the ways in which theatre affects the popular imagination. This collected volume draws attention to the significance of work in the theatre, encouraging a fresh examination of this important subject in the history of the theatre and beyond.

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Title: The Great War

Subtitle: 1914-1918

Author: Hilary Brown, Go Entertain

Narrator: Alan Sisto

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-16

Publisher: Go Entertainment Group Ltd

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

It lasted four-and-a-half years, left cities, towns and vast tracts of land as blasted wildernesses, and cost the lives of 16 million people. Packed with fascinating detail, this publication presents a penetrating portrait of World War I. It sets the scene by examining the seismic train of events that led to war, charts its progress through key battles, and concludes by examining how the post-war punishments meted out to Germany set the world on course for the next global conflict.

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Title: Discovering Texas History

Author: Cary D. Wintz - editor, Light Townsend Cummins - editor, Bruce A. Glasrud - editor

Narrator: Dr. Bill Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-15

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Discovering Texas History focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990.

In two sections, arranged topically and chronologically, some of the most prominent authors in the field survey the major works and most significant interpretations in the historical literature. Topical essays take up historical themes ranging from Native Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and women in Texas to European immigrant history; literature, the visual arts, and music in the state; and urban and military history. Chronological essays cover the full span of Texas historiography from the Spanish era through the Civil War, to the Progressive Era and World Wars I and II, and finally to the early 21st century. Together the essays gathered here will constitute the standard reference on Texas historiography for years to come, guiding listeners and researchers to future, ever deeper discoveries in the history of Texas.

The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press.

Critic Reviews:

"Broad in scope, yet succinct,

Discovering Texas History is a thorough, informative, and readable guide to modern Texas history from several of the state's most gifted historians." (Paul Carlson author of

West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State)

"

Discovering Texas History gives us a comprehensive and insightful guide to the past quarter-century of writings on Texas history from the acknowledged authorities on the topic. Editors Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz are to be commended for their efforts." (T. Lindsay Baker, author of

More Texas Stories I Like to Tell My Friends)

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Title: The Naval Warfare of World War II

Subtitle: The History of the Ships, Tactics, and Battles That Shaped the Fighting in the Atlantic and Pacific

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Doug Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Naval combat underwent a significant metamorphosis during World War II. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan launched some of the most powerful battleships ever to sail the world's oceans, yet the conflict witnessed the emergence and triumph of the aircraft carrier as the 20th century's true monarch of the seas. Submarine warfare expanded and developed, while aircraft technology and doctrine experienced several revolutionary changes due to the unforgiving demands of the new combat environment.

Popular accounts of World War II frequently focus on the dominance of German panzers over the more lightly armored, lightly armed tanks of the Soviets, British, and Americans or the superb fighting skills of the Waffen SS and ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers. Germany's land forces enjoyed an undoubted advantage over their enemies thanks to excellent vehicle technology while German soldiers slaughtered vast numbers of Soviet conscripts and proved formidable opponents even to their better-trained English and American counterparts.

However, the Axis failed to secure either the seas or the skies, and their defeat in these theaters ultimately led to their doom. Many highly advanced aircraft designs languished on the drawing boards of Junkers and Messerschmitt engineers, left undeveloped due to high-command disinterest or simple lack of resources. The most advanced fighters developed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were equaled or outmatched by such aircraft as the US F6F Hellcat (which achieved kill ratios of between 13 to 1 and 19 to 1 against Japanese "Zero" fighters) or P-51 Mustang.

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Title: The Greatest Battles in History: The Guadalcanal Campaign

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Daniel F Purcell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

"You ran a fever of 106 degrees. And you still had to try to stay, and stay with your position. You had dengue fever, which is even worse than malaria. Men that were scratched with coral became infected with a rundown condition. It was a war of attrition, mostly, for the marines." (Major Vincent Kramer, Fifth Defense Battalion, US Marines)

The names of history's most famous battles still ring in our ears today, with their influence immediately understood by all. Marathon lent its name to the world's most famous race, but it also preserved Western civilization during the First Persian War. Saratoga was won by one of the colonists' most renowned war heroes before he became his nation's most vile traitor. Hastings ensured the Normans' success in England and changed the course of British history. Waterloo, which marked the reshaping of the European continent and Napoleon's doom, has now become part of the English lexicon. In Charles River Editors' Greatest Battles in History series, listeners can get caught up to speed on history's greatest battles in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, which ran from August 1942 to February 1943, was a bitter and protracted struggle that also happened to be a strange and transitional confrontation quite unlike any other in the long Pacific War. In conjunction with the American victory at the Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal represented the crucial moment when the balance of power in the Pacific tipped in favor of the Allies, but the idea that Guadalcanal would be such a significant battle would have come as a surprise to military strategists and planners on both sides.

Nonetheless, by the time the Guadalcanal campaign was underway, it was a confrontation that neither side actively sought, but that both sides came to believe they could not afford to lose.

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Title: Houston, We've Had a Problem

Subtitle: The History of the Apollo 13 Mission

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Bob Barton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

"The only experiment we completed on Apollo 13 was not on the original mission list." - James Lovell, Jr.

In the summer of 1969, Apollo 11 successfully landed men on the Moon for the first time in history, and Apollo 12 successfully landed astronauts on the Moon just a few months after Apollo 11's successful mission. Apollo 12 was actually more successful than Apollo 11 from the standpoint of fulfilling the mission objectives, but it was naturally overshadowed since it did not come first.

Another reason Apollo 12 is mostly forgotten today can be credited to the dramatic and fateful Apollo 13 mission, which took twists and turns nobody could have predicted when it launched on April 11, 1970. Apollo 13's mission was to land on the Moon near the Fra Mauro highlands, which were hills that had somehow formed in the middle of a huge crater tens of miles wide. The mission was supposed to test for seismic activity and take samples to analyze the crater and try to find an explanation for the formation of the hills.

Of course, as is widely known today, Apollo 13 never made the landing. The ever-dependable Saturn V properly thrust Apollo 13 out of the Earth's orbit and toward the Moon, but two days into the voyage, the crew heard a loud bang. At first, the crew was not sure what had happened, leading Commander James Lovell to famously transmit to Mission Control, "Houston, we've had a problem." As it turned out, one of the main oxygen tanks had ruptured in the Service Module, causing a catastrophic failure. The Command/Service Module's fuel cells all shut down, leaving the command/Service Module to run on backup batteries.

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