Bestsellers
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- By: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Authors Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff take a riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military.
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Poor Job Telling a Great Story
- By Andrew N Dobson on 10-31-24
By: Raj M. Shah, and others
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51....
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
- By Cynthia on 10-08-15
By: Annie Jacobsen
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The Origins of Victory
- How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
- By: Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century....
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Interesting listen
- By Gerry on 11-11-23
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- By: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....
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Amazingly detailed, sober and above all, damning
- By Greg on 11-22-14
By: Kim Zetter
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American Gun
- A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
- By: Chris Kyle, William Doyle
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, was finishing a book that retold American history through the lens of a hand-selected list of firearms....
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An Important Look at US History
- By harry on 06-24-13
By: Chris Kyle, and others
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Leadership and Training for the Fight
- A Few Thoughts on Leadership and Training from a Former Special Operations Soldier
- By: Paul R. Howe
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Tested and effective leadership and teaching advice based on riveting combat stories from a Special Operations veteran....
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Congratulations on your assignment, SWAT Team Ldr
- By J on 03-03-17
By: Paul R. Howe
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- By: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Authors Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff take a riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military.
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Poor Job Telling a Great Story
- By Andrew N Dobson on 10-31-24
By: Raj M. Shah, and others
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51....
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
- By Cynthia on 10-08-15
By: Annie Jacobsen
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The Origins of Victory
- How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
- By: Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century....
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Interesting listen
- By Gerry on 11-11-23
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- By: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....
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Amazingly detailed, sober and above all, damning
- By Greg on 11-22-14
By: Kim Zetter
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American Gun
- A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
- By: Chris Kyle, William Doyle
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, was finishing a book that retold American history through the lens of a hand-selected list of firearms....
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An Important Look at US History
- By harry on 06-24-13
By: Chris Kyle, and others
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Leadership and Training for the Fight
- A Few Thoughts on Leadership and Training from a Former Special Operations Soldier
- By: Paul R. Howe
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Tested and effective leadership and teaching advice based on riveting combat stories from a Special Operations veteran....
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Congratulations on your assignment, SWAT Team Ldr
- By J on 03-03-17
By: Paul R. Howe
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The Bastard Brigade
- The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb....
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Awesome
- By Solar red on 07-12-19
By: Sam Kean
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Firepower
- How Weapons Shaped Warfare
- By: Paul Lockhart
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponry and how it transformed not only the conduct of warfare, but also the very structure of power in the West....
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Needs More Guns Less Political Opinion
- By Jeb on 10-20-22
By: Paul Lockhart
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Dawn of the Code War
- America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
- By: John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
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The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....
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Exhausting
- By Raz on 01-08-19
By: John P. Carlin, and others
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....
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overall outstanding
- By Thomas on 06-25-09
By: Richard Rhodes
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Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945
- Red Steamroller
- By: Robert A. Forczyk
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II....
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Excellent account
- By E. Ronakov on 07-15-24
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The Bomb
- Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
- By: Fred Kaplan
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump....
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Excellent, important book, bad narration.
- By Richard L. Hubbell on 02-06-20
By: Fred Kaplan
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Glock
- The Rise of America's Gun
- By: Paul M. Barrett
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Based on 15 years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as America’s gun....
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Interesting story. Could have done w/o anti gun rhetoric
- By jcgeesling on 02-24-19
By: Paul M. Barrett
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The Guns of John Moses Browning
- The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
- By: Nathan Gorenstein
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Few people are aware that John Moses Browning - a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West - was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict....
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Fascinating Story
- By tb on 07-02-21
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The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
- The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi
- By: Romulus Hillsborough
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi - the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868)....
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Kill Chain
- The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
- By: Andrew Cockburn
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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This essential, pause-resister narrative on the history of drone warfare by the acclaimed author of Rumsfeld explores how this practice emerged....
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Introduction
- By Batman on 03-24-15
By: Andrew Cockburn
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Gambling with Armageddon
- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world....
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Important History
- By J. B. Evans on 06-12-21
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American Gun
- The True Story of the AR-15 Rifle
- By: Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II....
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Don't Look Away
- By Mike on 10-31-23
By: Cameron McWhirter, and others
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- By: Ray Monk
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....
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A comprehensive biography
- By Jean on 10-17-14
By: Ray Monk
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By the Sword
- A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
- By: Richard Cohen
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting - a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since....
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An excellent history
- By Peter on 08-12-23
By: Richard Cohen
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Shots Fired in Anger
- A Rifleman's View of Battle of Guadalcanal
- By: John B. George
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
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"Shots Fired in Anger" by Lt. Col. John George is a compelling memoir and technical analysis from the front lines of the Burma campaign during World War II. George provides an insightful narrative that offers a detailed look at the challenges and realities of combat against the Japanese forces....
By: John B. George
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Achtung Panzer!
- By: Heinz Guderian
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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This is one of the most significant military books of the 20th century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War....
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Genius!
- By Parker Rydbom on 02-07-21
By: Heinz Guderian
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The Assassination Complex
- Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
- By: Jeremy Scahill, The Staff of The Intercept, Edward Snowden - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Jeremy Scahill - introduction, Glenn Greenwald - afterword
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy....
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well put together
- By TibHip on 05-11-16
By: Jeremy Scahill, and others
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Wings of Fire
- A Combat History of the F-15
- By: Mike Guardia
- Narrated by: Damian Salandy
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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From Israel to Afghanistan. The definitive combat history of the F-15 Eagle and Strike Eagle...as told by the pilots who flew them....
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The Narrator makes this a tough listen.
- By RD on 02-19-21
By: Mike Guardia
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Armor and Blood
- The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
- By: Dennis E. Showalter
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs
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While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians....
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Big Ups to Prof. Showalter and Audible
- By Placeholder on 08-28-13
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The Fires of Babylon
- Eagle Troop and the Battle of 73 Easting
- By: Mike Guardia
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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On the morning of August 2, 1990, Iraqi armored divisions invaded the tiny emirate of Kuwait....
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Good picture of Desert Storm unit action
- By Brent on 05-11-18
By: Mike Guardia
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How Carriers Fought
- Carrier Operations in WWII
- By: Lars Celander
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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In November 1921, the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battle cruisers into aircraft carriers after World War I required the consideration of issues....
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Interesting but not mandatory
- By Thor Olson on 08-29-19
By: Lars Celander
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Toxic
- A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
- By: Dan Kaszeta
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Toxic recounts the grisly history of these weapons of mass destruction: a deadly suite of invisible, odorless killers....
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Solid primer on nerve agent history and technology
- By Jim Nasium on 01-16-22
By: Dan Kaszeta
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Dam Busters
- The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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The night of 16 May, 1943: Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000-lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it....
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A must for anyone interested in Air Warfare
- By Jim In Texas! on 03-24-14
By: James Holland
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Now It Can Be Told
- The Story of the Manhattan Project
- By: Leslie R. Groves
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. Edward Teller assesses General Groves' contributions—and Oppenheimer's—while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work.
By: Leslie R. Groves