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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
- Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
- By: Neil Sheehan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the...
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Good but mostly not about the main topic
- By Amazon UK Customer on 17-04-23
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
- Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-09-09
- Language: English
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
- The Oklahoma Western Biographies
- By: Jon Hunner
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Jon Hunner’s concise account of Oppenheimer’s life and the emergence of an Atomic West distills a vast literature for students and general listeners. In this brisk, engaging biography, the author recounts how Oppenheimer helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and helped establish leading physics departments at the University of California–Berkeley and Caltech.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
- The Oklahoma Western Biographies
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-07-19
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret...
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Dark Sun
- The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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Tanks in Hell
- A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
- By: Oscar E. Gilbert, Romain Cansiere
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 20, 1943, the 2nd Marine Division launched the first amphibious assault of the Pacific War, directly into the teeth of powerful Japanese defenses on Tarawa. A single company of Sherman tanks, of which only two survived, played a pivotal role in turning the tide from looming disaster to legendary victory. In this unique study, Oscar Gilbert and Romain Cansiere use official documents, memoirs, and interviews with veterans to follow Charlie Company from its formation, and trace the movement, action - and loss - of individual tanks in this horrific four-day struggle.
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A Different Side To WW2
- By C H. on 29-01-24
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Tanks in Hell
- A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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Secret Weapons of World War II
- By: William B. Breuer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Here are the extraordinary tales behind the ingenious weapons and technological wizardry that determined the outcome of the war. From radar, huff-duff (high-frequency direction finding), invisible radio beams, electronic-guidance systems, homing devices, and submarine-detection equipment, Breuer deftly exposes the gargantuan efforts employed by both adversaries and the fascinating details of the high-stakes warfare waged behind the well-known scenes of combat.
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Secret Weapons of World War II
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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Night Hunters: The AC-130s and Their Role in US Airpower
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
- By: William Pace Head
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
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In Night Hunters, air power historian William P. Head provides the first detailed study of the development and deployment of the AC-130 gunship. While other airframes and other types of close air support (CAS) and interdiction weapon systems preceded or flew with the AC-130s, this four-engine cargo airframe proved to be not only the longest serving fixed-wing gunship but also the most effective by far.
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Awesome
- By @ZennyReadsAlot on 11-03-22
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Night Hunters: The AC-130s and Their Role in US Airpower
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford
- By: Hill Williams
- Narrated by: Sean Schroeder
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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At an isolated location along the Columbia River in 1944, the world's first plutonium factory became operational, producing fuel for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II. Former Seattle Times science writer Hill Williams traces the amazing, tragic story - from the dawn of nuclear science to Cold War testing in the Marshall Islands.
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Made in Hanford
- Narrated by: Sean Schroeder
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-08-14
- Language: English
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Misfire
- The Tragic Failure of the M16 in Vietnam
- By: Bob Orkand, Lyman Duryea
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The M16 rifle is one of the world’s most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War and, indeed, as the US military’s standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a success story. In the early years of the war, the US military had a problem: Its primary infantry rifle, the M14, couldn’t stand up to the enemy’s AK-47s. The search was on for a replacement that was lighter in weight, more durable, and more lethal than the M14.
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Misfire
- The Tragic Failure of the M16 in Vietnam
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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Surface at the Pole
- The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
- By: James Calvert
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Under the guidance of James Calvert this nuclear submarine had navigated through polar ice packs, braved atrociously cold conditions, and broken through layers of thick ice to arrive at their destination; the northernmost point of the world. This mission, however, was not just about completing a seemingly impossibly feat of Arctic exploration. It also had huge implications for military strategy during the height of the Cold War.
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Enjoyed it.
- By David Hogarth on 15-08-23
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Surface at the Pole
- The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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Weapons of Mass Migration
- The Deep State Uncovered, Book III
- By: Michael Morton
- Narrated by: Michael Whitlock
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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The Deep State Uncovered, Book III: Weapons of Mass Migration, explores the strategic manipulation of migration by powerful global elites as a tool of geopolitical influence.
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Weapons of Mass Migration
- The Deep State Uncovered, Book III
- Narrated by: Michael Whitlock
- Series: The Deep State Uncovered, Book 3
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-11-24
- Language: English
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The Bomb and America's Missile Age
- By: Christopher Gainor
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. More than a generation later, we are still living with the political, technological, and scientific effects of the space race, while nuclear-armed ICBMs remain on alert and in the headlines around the world. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision, in March 1954, to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM.
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very involved, too many technical terms and minutiae
- By JDEVLIN on 25-04-24
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The Bomb and America's Missile Age
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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Churchill's American Arsenal
- The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two
- By: Larrie D. Ferreiro
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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Many weapons and inventions were credited with winning World War II, most famously in the assertion that the atomic bomb "ended the war, but radar won the war." What is less well known is that both airborne radar and the atomic bomb were invented in British laboratories, but built by Americans. The same holds true for many other American weapons credited with the Allied victory: the P-51 Mustang fighter, the Liberty ship, the proximity fuze, the Sherman tank, and even penicillin all began with British scientists and planners.
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Churchill's American Arsenal
- The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-10-22
- Language: English
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We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
- By: Laurie Calhoun
- Narrated by: Laurie Calhoun
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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In We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, Laurie Calhoun examines the 21st-century practice of remote-control killing of suspects located in third-world countries and challenges listeners to reflect upon the long-range implications - moral, political, psychological, and cultural - of this new form of “warfare”. Through the use of provocative analogies and examples, We Kill Because We Can clarifies and criticizes targeted killing as incompatible with the values and principles of modern Western democratic societies.
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We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
- Narrated by: Laurie Calhoun
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 29-01-19
- Language: English
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Nagasaki
- The Last Witnesses
- By: M. G. Sheftall
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War. On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon...
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Nagasaki
- The Last Witnesses
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Series: Embers, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-08-25
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Somme
- The Second Deadliest Battle of World War One
- By: Jay M Londo
- Narrated by: Chris Housden
- Length: 9 hrs
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"The Battle of the Somme" historical fiction that weaves together the cataclysmic events of World War I. The novel centers on Thomas Ashworth, a bright, quick-witted, raised on the outskirts of Manchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thomas’s formative years unfold in a modest family home, where the air is filled with the scent of baked bread. He is shaped by the steady discipline of his father, who teaches him the value of hard work and perseverance, and the gentle curiosity of his mother, Margaret, who nurtures his love of stories and learning.
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The Battle of the Somme
- The Second Deadliest Battle of World War One
- Narrated by: Chris Housden
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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The Long Reckoning
- A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
- By: George Black
- Narrated by: Elyse Dinh
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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The moving story of how a small group of people—including two Vietnam veterans—forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrors—agent orange and unexploded munitions—inflicted on the Vietnamese. "Fifty years after the last U.S. service member left Vietnam, the...
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The Long Reckoning
- A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
- Narrated by: Elyse Dinh
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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Empire of Guns
- The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
- By: Priya Satia
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Priya Satia
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as...
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Empire of Guns
- The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Priya Satia
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Mexican Revolution
- The Fight for Freedom That Shaped Modern Mexico (1910-1920) (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
- By: Daniel Wrinn
- Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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This was a decade-long struggle that toppled a dictatorship, reshaped the nation's social fabric, and set the stage for modern Mexico. This turbulent conflict pitted revolutionary leaders like Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, and Venustiano Carranza against the oppressive regimes of Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta, leading to sweeping political and social reforms. In this concise yet comprehensive book, you'll explore the revolutionary battles, shifting alliances, and the fight for land reform that defined the era.
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Mexican Revolution
- The Fight for Freedom That Shaped Modern Mexico (1910-1920) (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
- Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Atomic Americans
- Citizens in a Nuclear State
- By: Sarah E. Robey
- Narrated by: Trisha Patricks
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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As Sarah E. Robey shows in Atomic Americans, people negotiated the contours of nuclear citizenship through overlapping public discussions about survival. Policymakers and citizens disagreed about the scale of civil defense programs and other public safety measures. As the public learned more about the dangers of nuclear fallout, critics articulated concerns about whether the federal government was operating in its citizens' best interests.
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Atomic Americans
- Citizens in a Nuclear State
- Narrated by: Trisha Patricks
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 31-10-22
- Language: English
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The End of Victory
- Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
- By: Edward Kaplan
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC). From 1953 onward, US leaders wanted to know as precisely as possible what would happen if they failed in a nuclear war—how many Americans would die and how much of the country would remain. The NESC told Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy what would be the result of the worst failure of American strategy.
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The End of Victory
- Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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