History Audio Books is a great resource for history buffs or anyone
interested in learning about the history of the world, it's people
and politics. We will be expanding soon so come back often...
1776
By David McCullough
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Truman" and "John Adams"--and one of America's most beloved
historians--relates the intricate story of the Revolutionary War with this powerful testimony to how
much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding era.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette, CD
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Afghanistan
By Stephen Tanner
For more than 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has
served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes
between civilizations. As a result of the United States' engaging in armed
conflict with the Afghan regime, an understanding of the military history
of that blood-soaked land has become essential to every American.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette, CD, MP3-CD
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
By Norman F. Cantor
In 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of
the Middle Ages. Now a thorough revision, update, and significant expansion
of the book have been made, with a third of the text new. The Civilization
of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in
interpretation, and novel perspectives.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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A History of the Arab Peoples
By Albert Hourani
Albert Hourani, distinguished historian and interpreter, has written a
masterwork-a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history
and culture. He looks at all sides of this rich and venerable civilization:
the beauty of the Alhambra and the great mosques, the importance attached
to education, the achievements of Arab science-but also internal conflicts,
wide-spread poverty, the role of women, and the contemporary Palestinian
question.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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A History of the English People
By Paul Johnson
This is a provocative and panoramic survey of 2,000 years of English
history. Johnson tells the story of how a small nation, living in a
geographical back-water, developed unique economic and political
institutions, expanded its territory, and saddled upon it the frame of a
modern industrial society.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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The Last Division:
A History of Berlin, 1945-1989
By Ann Tusa
Ann Tusa presents an engaging chronicle of the Cold War partitions of this
historic city, from the political strife and administrative division by
the victors against Hitler, through the building and eventual destruction
of the Wall. Using newly available documents, she offers by far the
fullest account to date of the political, diplomatic, and military affairs
of the city.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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Reflections on the French Revolution
By Edmund Burke
This began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Burke's opinion
on whether France's new ruling class would succeed in creating a better
order. Blending history with principle,
graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the
most influential political treatises in the history of the world.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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The Secret Man
The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
By Bob Woodward; Boyd Gaines; Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward reveals how he met and interacted with W. Mark Felt, a.k.a. "Deep Throat." The
bestselling author tells how the former FBI official became the legendary secret source whose
insider guidance was so critical to The Washington Post's coverage of the Watergate scandal.
Genre: History
Format: CD
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The Soul Of The Indian
By Charles Alexander Eastman
Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939), an educated and well-known Sioux,
saw both sides of the great divide between Indians and whites, and he
wrote eleven books attempting to reconcile the two cultures. This book is
his illumination of Indian spiritual beliefs and practices.Part
history and part reminiscence, told in very personal terms, and coupled
with seven folk tales, this book treats the listener to a good look at the
ethics and morality of a culture that so few people know about.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette, CD
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Utopia in Power:
A History of the Soviet Union, 1917 to Present
By Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr M. Nekrich
This magnum opus has been universally acclaimed as the best single-volume
history of the Soviet Union in print. Its two authors are both
highly-respected scholars who spent most of their lives in the Soviet
Union and were educated there. They lived through many of these events,
and gained a keen feel for the texture of the Soviet Empire. The book
starts with a chapter entitled "Before October 1917" and works its way to
1985 and the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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Vietnam
By Stanley Karnow
The time is ripe for a comprehensive, fair-minded history of America's war
in Vietnam. Stanley Karnow's magnificent book is precisely that-an
enthralling narrative that clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies this
tragic ordeal. Panoramic in scope, profound in understanding, and
compassionate in its human portrayals, it is filled with fresh revelations
drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with hundreds of
participants on both sides.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Cassette
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The Search for Modern China
By Jonathan D. Spence
Over four centuries of Chinese history, from the waning days of the
once-glorious Ming Dynasty to Deng Xiaoping's bloody suppression of the
pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Spence fashions the
astonishing story of the effort to achieve a modern China. Through the
ideas and emotions of its reformist Confucian scholars, its poets,
novelists, artists, and its visionary students, we see one of the world's
oldest cultures struggling to define itself as Chinese and modern.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Casssette
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The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas L. Friedman
In this brilliant new book, an award-winning "New York Times" columnist demystifies the brave
new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding
before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic
issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century.
Genre: History Audio Books
Format: Audio Books: Cassette, CD
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