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Enola Gay
- Mission to Hiroshima
- By: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs
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Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.
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Incredible listen, I couldn’t stop.
- By Amazon Customer on 20-02-24
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Enola Gay
- Mission to Hiroshima
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers - Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States - have struggled with new realities.
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-08-10
- Language: English
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Who Rules the World?
- Reframings
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world. Noam Chomsky is the world's foremost intellectual activist. Over the last half century, no one has done more to question the great global powers who govern our lives, forensically scrutinizing policies and actions, calling our politicians, institutions and media to account. The culmination of years of work, Who Rules the World? is Chomsky's definitive intellectual investigation into the major issues of our times.
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The flip side is no less blind
- By G. Erlendsson on 11-07-16
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Who Rules the World?
- Reframings
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-05-16
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Joseph M. Siracusa
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons. Tracing the story of the nuclear bomb, Joseph Siracusa chronicles the race to acquire the H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon with revolutionary implications; and the history of early arms control, nuclear deterrence, and nonproliferation. He also tracks the development of nuclear weapons from the origins of the Cold War in 1945 to the end of Moscow-dominated Communism in 1991, and examines the promise and prospect of missile defense.
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Nuclear Weapons
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-12-20
- Language: English
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Blitzkrieg
- From the Ground Up
- By: Niklas Zetterling
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false conclusions drawn became myths about the Blitzkrieg that have lingered for decades.
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Horrendous pronunciations and repetitive narrative
- By Eirik on 05-08-21
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Blitzkrieg
- From the Ground Up
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
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Outstanding
- By ARW on 19-08-24
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Question 7
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-05-24
- Language: English
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Spitfire
- Portrait of a Legend
- By: Leo McKinstry
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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The gripping saga of the plane that carried Britain through the Second World War. In June 1940, the German army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of Europe depended on Britain.
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Definitive
- By Neil Ferguson-Lee on 06-07-18
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Spitfire
- Portrait of a Legend
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-04-18
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- By: John Hussey
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 34 hrs and 6 mins
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The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.
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It is great! Now PLEASE RELEASE VOLUME 2!
- By Nigel on 31-03-21
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 34 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-05-20
- Language: English
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Rain of Ruin
- Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
- By: Richard Overy
- Length: Not Yet Known
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In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy’s remarkable book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombs. The popular view that bombing worked in this case has now to be set in a broader context of what was happening in Japan in the months before surrender. The easy equation ‘bombing equals surrender’ is no longer viable.
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Rain of Ruin
- Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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Firepower
- How Weapons Shaped Warfare
- By: Paul Lockhart
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
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The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. 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, from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era.
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Good but not great
- By Toby Badham on 21-03-22
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Firepower
- How Weapons Shaped Warfare
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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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
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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. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain".
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A Potentially Fascinating Look At Dark Tech.
- By HellRazor on 19-12-18
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 22-09-15
- Language: English
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Mosquito Mayhem
- de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII
- By: Martin W. Bowman
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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The Mosquito was probably World War II's most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators. It portrays the dramatic experiences of flying in its many roles as pathfinder, night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft, precision bombing, and low-level ground attack aircraft. It describes many of the RAF's most audacious raids on prime, but difficult, targets where carpet bombing by heavy bombers was likely to be ineffective and cause unnecessary casualties to civilians.
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Boring,boring, boring!
- By Adrian Austin on 04-11-19
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Mosquito Mayhem
- de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Intercept
- The Secret History of Computers and Spies
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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This is the exhilarating secret history of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes us from the Second World War to the internet age, revealing the astonishing extent of cyberespionage carried out today.
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Excellent review of capabilities and the moral question
- By richard keane on 14-09-21
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Intercept
- The Secret History of Computers and Spies
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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Hegemony or Survival
- America's Quest for Global Dominance
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as in the Cuban missile crisis, to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. Now the Bush administration is intensifying this process, driving us toward the final frontiers of imperial control, toward a choice between the prerogatives of power and a livable Earth.
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History given the voice of fact....unmissable
- By Welsh Mafia on 03-04-07
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Hegemony or Survival
- America's Quest for Global Dominance
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 21-11-03
- Language: English
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- By: Susan Williams
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
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In White Malice, Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa’s new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in.
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Riveting narrative spoilt by cloth-eared reader.
- By Mary J. Bryce on 07-03-24
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-08-21
- Language: English
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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. Mining new sources and materials, and going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union — triggered when Khrushchev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest....
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Gambling with Armageddon
- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Attack Warning Red!
- How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
- By: Julie McDowall
- Narrated by: Julie McDowall
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 changed the nature of war forever. The awesome power of the atomic blast and its deadly fallout meant that nowhere was safe: every town, village, street and home in Britain fell under the nuclear shadow, and the threat of annihilation coloured every aspect of ordinary life for the next forty years. As the media reported on the inevitability of approaching conflict with the Soviet Union, the British people were told to prepare for the coming apocalypse.
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Terrifying!
- By Liam_H on 19-04-23
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Attack Warning Red!
- How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
- Narrated by: Julie McDowall
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Command and Control
- By: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
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A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Schlosser reveals that this question has never been resolved, and while other headlines dominate the news, nuclear weapons still pose a grave risk to mankind.
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Gripping and insightful
- By Kate on 13-11-13
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Command and Control
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-09-13
- Language: English
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V-Bombers
- Britain’s Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War
- By: Dr. Tony Redding
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
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This is the story of a British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers—the Valiant, Victor, and Vulcan—but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain's small force of subsonic bombers have retaliated following a Soviet attack, and would they have succeeded? This book is the product of seven years of research by Dr. Tony Redding.
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V-Bombers
- Britain’s Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Machine
- By: Daniel Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
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Interesting book - hideous audiobook!
- By Thad Beumont on 24-01-18
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The Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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