Military Audiobooks | History

The story of Captain Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. By governing his ship through his unique management techniques, Abrashoff turned the Benfold into a model of naval efficiency, with amazing cost savings, the highest gunnery score in the Pacific Fleet, and a highly motivated and top performing crew. In IT'S YOUR SHIP, he first demonstrated how to bring his successful management techniques from the ship to the boardroom. Now, in his newest book IT'S OUR SHIP, in the same rugged, can-do voice, Abrashoff will focus on the leadership, motivational, and management insights and tips that he has learned from his last six years of addressing business and corporate audiences. Abrashoff's timely advice will be eminently prescriptive, and will feature anecdotes and insights from leaders of businesses large and small and from public and non-profit sectors.

Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, D. Michael Abrashoff (Author), Author, Ben Sherwood, Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, D. Michael Abrashoff (Narrator)

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Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers

Lynn D. Compton, Marcus Brotherton (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War 1846-1848

Nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers-Grant, Lee, Sherman, Davis, and Jackson-were forged in the heat of the Mexican War. This is their story. The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance. It was the first U.S. war waged on foreign soil, and it nearly doubled the size of our nation. At this fascinating juncture of American history, a group of young men came together to fight as friends, only years later to fight as enemies. Full of dramatic battles, daring rescues, secret missions, soaring triumphs, and tragic losses, The Training Ground is history at its finest. "[A] fast-paced, colloquially written account....Dugard's spirited narrative animates a group of men whose force of character, professional skill, and ability to think outside conventional limits revitalized the sclerotic army."-Publishers Weekly

Martin Dugard (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator)

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Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman

In this explosive, heartbreaking, and deeply personal book, Mary Tillman shares the story of her son Pat's extraordinary life, the meaning of patriotism, and the Tillman family's efforts to uncover the truth about his death in Afghanistan at the hands of his fellow soldiers. Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract after the 9/11 attacks, choosing to enlist in the U.S. Army. He graduated from their elite Ranger school and was deployed to Iraq in 2003. On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan. The administration and the Pentagon immediately portrayed his death as the result of a dramatic gun battle with the enemy, and Pat was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and a promotion in recognition of his bravery. But as would later emerge, Army officials were all along hiding the truth: Pat was killed by his fellow Rangers. The Tillmans discovered this fact five weeks after Pat's death, and six separate investigations have since been launched, largely due to the family's passionate insistence. But even now, the true circumstances remain murky and fraught with contradictions. Here is Mary Tillman's story, as she describes her attempts to uncover the truth about what happened to Pat and why the government went to such great lengths to keep the circumstances secret. In the process, she paints an indelible portrait of her son, a man of remarkable character who followed a set of guiding principles that ultimately led him to Afghanistan and, in death, into the hearts and minds of people all over the world. Written to coincide with the release of the feature film The Tillman Story, Mary Tillman's explosive new foreword describes her family's ongoing appeals to President Obama, the Pentagon, and members of Congress to get to the bottom of what happened and hold accountable the senior military officials responsible for the cover-up of Pat's death. "McChrystal's actions should have been grounds for firing. That is why it was so disturbing to us when President Obama instead promoted McChrystal to the position of top commander in Afghanistan.... On June 22, 2010, General Stanley McChrystal was forced to retire after remarks he and his staff made to a Rolling Stone reporter, Michael Hastings. I found myself feeling strangely validated." —Mary Tillman

Mary Tillman, Narda Zacchino (Author), Mary Tillman (Narrator)

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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

Jim Sheeler (Author), Mark Deakins (Narrator)

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Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story

Amidst all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent . . . until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle, LTG (Ret) Ricardo S. Sanchez, former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global War on Terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling exploration of America's historic military and foreign policy blunder. With unflinching candor, Sanchez describes the chaos on the Iraqi battlefield caused by the Bush Administration's misguided command of the military, as well as his own struggle to set the coalition on the path towards victory. Sanchez illuminates the fallout of the communication breakdown between the leadership on the battlefield and the politicians in Washington. The first book written by a former on-site commander in Iraq, Wiser in Battle is essential reading for all who wish to understand the current war and the American military's role in the new century.

Ricardo S. Sanchez (Author), Ricardo S. Sanchez (Narrator)

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Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War

Were World Wars I and II, which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction, inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond man's control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen, Winston Churchill first among them, the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe's central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations. Among the British and Churchillian blunders were: -The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that mutilated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler -Britain's capitulation, at Churchill's urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo-Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan -The greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939, that guaranteed the Second World War Certain to create controversy and spirited argument, CHURCHILL, HITLER AND "THE UNNECESSARY WAR" is a grand and bold insight into the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and guaranteed a future that no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.

Patrick J. Buchanan (Author), Don Leslie (Narrator)

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Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and Within

For the first time, Army Ranger hero Nate Self tells his story. Self recounts the Roberts Ridge Rescue mission, the ferocious battles in Afghanistan, and the lone war of attrition that Nate Self has waged against post-traumatic stress disorder. This book will become a go-to audiobook for understanding the long-term effects of the war on terror. Thousands of families are fighting this battle, and Nate Self opens up his whole life--tragedies, successes, failures, and a struggle with suicidal thoughts--to share the facts and to show how his family and his faith pulled him through.

Nate Self (Author), Nate Self (Narrator)

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Vivir con diabetes

La educaciOn sanitaria y la actitud del paciente diabEtico constituyen una parte esencial del tratamiento de esta enfermedad. Es, por ello, sumamente importante que las personas diabEticas conozcan, con fundamento y veracidad, quE es la diabetes y cuAl es su tratamiento, pero tambiEn quE es lo que estA en su mano hacer para afrontarla y para llevar una vida saludable y feliz a pesar de todo. Vivir con diabetes es una guIa que proporciona toda la informaciOn que precisan los enfermos y quienes con ellos se relacionan (familares y cuidadores). Su cualidad fundamental es que estA escrita desde el punto de vista del paciente. Por ello, ademAs de tratar extensamente la faceta mEdica, tambiEn incorpora ese lado humano que ni el mEdico ni la medicina contemplan, como por ejemplo: cOmo afrontar el proceso psicolOgico y emocional de la enfermedad, alteraciones del carActer, experiencias compartidas por los enfermos, el significado profundo de la enfermedad o cOmo cuidar y apoyar al diabEtico.

Juan Jose Murillo Moreno, Juan José Murillo Moreno (Author), George Bass (Narrator)

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Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

In the decades that followed the American Civil War, artist James E. Kelly (1855-1933) conducted in-depth interviews with more than forty Union generals in an effort to accurately portray them in their greatest moment of glory. "I had always felt a great lack of certain personal details," Kelly explained. "I made up my mind to ask from the living officers every question that I would have asked Washington or his generals had they posed for me, such as what they considered the principal incidents in their career and particulars about costumes and surroundings." When, during one interview, a general declared, "I don't see how you can show this in a picture," Kelly responded, "Just tell me the facts, and I'll attend to the picture." By recording those stirring facts, Kelly left us a truly unique picture of the great figures of the American Civil War.

William B. Styple (Author), John Lescault, Patrick Cullen (Narrator)

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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula.

Rifleman Harris (Author), Jason Salkey (Narrator)

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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964

Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur. Endowed with arrogance, great charm, an iron will, and a soaring intellect, General MacArthur was a fascinating paradox: a man whose character was elevated by his vision but destroyed by his own tragic flaws. "Listening to Parker, one imagines a jovial uncle delivering a slap on the back and sitting down to describe war experiences in a rich voice filled with humor and pathos. The "you-are-there" quality grabs and holds. This is a carefully done, seamless audio presentation." -AudioFile

William Manchester (Author), Tom Parker (Narrator)

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