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  • The Pentagon's Brain cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 22-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings

    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings

    • 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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    • Lancaster

    • The Second World War’s Greatest Bomber
    • By: Leo McKinstry
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings

    • Whilst addressing the political controversy surrounding the bombing offensive against Germany, Leo McKinstry also weaves individual tales into this compelling narrative....

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    • Raven Rock

    • The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
    • By: Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....

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  • Tank Battles of the Cold War 1948-1991 cover art

    • Tank Battles of the Cold War 1948-1991

    • By: Anthony Tucker-Jones
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its preeminence on the battlefield. But then in the mid-1960s anti-tank weapons became ever deadlier....

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    • Soldiers and Slaves

    • American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
    • By: Roger Cohen
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews....

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    • Firepower

    • How Weapons Shaped Warfare
    • By: Paul Lockhart
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • 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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    • Stalking the Red Bear

    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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    • Spitfire

    • Portrait of a Legend
    • By: Leo McKinstry
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings

    • Prize-winning historian Leo McKinstry's vivid history of the Spitfire brings together a rich cast of characters and firsthand testimonies....

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    • Racing for the Bomb

    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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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
    • Release date: 11-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • 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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    • The Button

    • The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
    • By: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • Written in an accessible and authoritative voice, The Button reveals the shocking tales and sobering facts of nuclear executive authority throughout the atomic age, delivering a powerful condemnation against ever leaving explosive power this devastating under one person's thumb....

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    • Hiroshima Diary

    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....

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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
    • Release date: 13-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....

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    • The Bomb and America's Missile Age

    • By: Christopher Gainor
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM....

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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
    • Release date: 14-08-24
    • Language: English
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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.

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    • Nuclear Weapons

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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