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Title: The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

Author: Robert Southey

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2008

Genres: Military

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Having entered the British Navy at the age of twelve, Horatio Lord Nelson achieved the rank of captain at the age of twenty. As captain, he was quickly recognized as a magnetic and controversial figure. He triumphed at Cape St. Vincent and the Nile but failed at Tenefife and Boulogne. With the glories of Copenhagen and Trafalgar yet ahead of him, his ardent passion for Emma Hamilton, the wife of a British Ambassador, cast a heavy shadow over his career. Audacious in battle (he once ignored a superior's order to cease action at Copenhagen by putting his telescope to his blind eye and saying he could not see the signal) and winner of some of Britain's greatest victories, Nelson possessed an extraordinary amount of dash and courage, thus rendering him one of history's great romantic figures. This extensive biography of one of England's most famous navy heroes—a great commander able to inspire and bring out the best in his men—is a great reference work for anyone interested in British naval history.

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Title: Campaigning with Grant

Author: Horace Porter

Narrator: Noah Waterman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Release date: November 5, 2008

Genres: Military

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Horace Porter served as lieutenant colonel on Ulysses S. Grant’s staff from April 1864 to the end of the Civil War. He accompanied Grant into battle in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns, and was present at Lee’s surrender at McLean’s house. Throughout the war, he kept extensive notes that capture Grant’s conversations, as well as his own observations of military life. Porter’s portrait of Grant is the most comprehensive first-hand account that we have. We see Grant as a soldier and hear in his own words the tactical evaluations that led to many of the war’s key decisions. We also hear of Grant’s dealings with Lincoln, of the close relationship between Sherman and Grant, and of Lee’s noble bearing at his surrender. This is a stirring account of our country’s most memorable conflict.

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Title: The Nightingale’s Song

Author: Robert Timberg

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 8 minutes

Release date: October 3, 2008

Genres: Military

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Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle. A riveting tale that illuminates the flip side of the fabled Vietnam generation: those who went.

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Title: Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth

Author: Norman F. Cantor

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Release date: July 8, 2008

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines—heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure. In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor draws on the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries as well as the most recent psychological and cultural studies to illuminate this most legendary of men—a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments. Cantor describes Alexander's ambiguous relationship with his father, Philip II of Macedon; his oedipal involvement with his mother, the Albanian princess Olympias; and his bisexuality. He traces Alexander's attempts to bridge the East and West, the Greek and Persian worlds, using Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, as his model. Finally, Cantor explores Alexander's view of himself in relation to the pagan gods of Greece and Egypt. More than a biography, Cantor's Alexander the Great is a psychological rendering of a man of his time.

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Title: LeMay: A Biography

Series: Part of The Great Generals Series

Author: Barrett Tillman

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: Military

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Packed with breathtaking air battles and ground tactics, this new addition to the Great Generals Series features the controversial command and strategies of the former Air Force Chief of Staff. Curtis LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. He was responsible for tens of thousands of civilian deaths, a fact he liked to celebrate by smoking Cuban cigars. But LeMay was also the man who single-handedly transformed the American Air Force from poorly trained and badly equipped pilots into one of the fiercest weapons of the war. Over the last decades, most US military missions were carried out entirely through use of the Air Force. This is LeMay’s legacy.

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Title: Eisenhower

Series: Part of The Great Generals Series

Author: John Wukovits

Narrator: Brian Emerson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

This new addition to Wesley Clark’s Great Generals Series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II and his relevance today. World War II expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower’s contributions to American warfare. American general and thirty-fourth president of the United States, Eisenhower led the assault on the French coast at Normandy and held together the Allied units through the European campaign that followed. The book reveals Eisenhower’s advocacy in the pre-war years of the tank, his friendships with George Patton and Fox Conner, his service in the Philippines with Douglas MacArthur, and his culminating role as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe. Wukovits skillfully demonstrates how Eisenhower’s evolution as a commander, his military doctrine, and his diplomatic skills are of extreme importance in understanding modern warfare.

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Title: Stonewall Jackson: A Biography

Series: Part of The Great Generals Series

Author: Donald A. Davis

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Deemed “irreplaceable” by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that the Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Jackson’s leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died in 1863. Davis highlights Stonewall Jackson as a general who emphasized the importance of reliable information and early preparedness, who so believed in information that he had a personal mapmaker with him at all times, and he details Jackson’s many lessons in strategy and leadership.

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Title: Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

Author: William Manchester

Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth 'angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms.' To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese. In this intensely powerful memoir, America's preeminent biographer-historian, who has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed lives of General Douglas MacArthur (American Caesar) and Winston Churchill (The Last Lion), looks back at his own early life. He offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.

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Title: Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out against John Kerry

Author: Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., John E. O’neill

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Release date: June 26, 2005

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

In their book, Unfit for Command, John O’Neill and coauthor Jerome Corsi bring together the words of more than two hundred Navy veterans who served with Kerry and who feel it their duty to tell why John Kerry is unworthy of the presidency. In 1971, John O’Neill, the officer who took over John Kerry’s swift boat in Vietnam, returned home from Vietnam only to realize that the man he served with, John Kerry, had become a leader of the radical group Vietnam Veterans against the War and was slandering his fellow veterans as war criminals. O’Neill debated John Kerry on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971, successfully demolishing Kerry’s accusations against his fellow troops in Vietnam. Find out why John Kerry is unfit for command, as told by the men who served with him.

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Title: In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

Author: Alice Rains Trulock

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Release date: June 22, 2005

Genres: Military

Publisher's Summary:

Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the brilliant charge that saved Little Round Top. Promoted to brigade command, Chamberlain won a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant for his distinguished conduct in the assaults against Petersburg. He was held in such high esteem by his superior officers that Grant accorded him the honor of receiving the formal Confederate surrender at Appomattox. There Chamberlain endeared himself to succeeding generations with his unforgettable salute to Robert E. Lee's defeated army. After the war, he went on to serve four terms as governor of his home state and later became president of Bowdoin College. He wrote prolifically about the war, including The Passing of the Armies, a classic account of the final campaign of the Army of the Potomac. This remarkable biography traces his life and times.