A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin

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A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventure

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The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

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A Prisoner of Morro

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Courage Under Fire: The 101st Airborne's Hidden Battle at Tam Ky

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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

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Summary of Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life After World War II

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War Ready: In My Father's Shadow

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A Foot Soldier for Patton: The Story of a "Red Diamond" Infantryman with the US Third Army

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Strange and Obscure Stories of World War II: Little-Known Tales about the Second World War

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Radio: One Woman's Family in War and Pieces

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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War

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King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict

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The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865

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A Thousand Places Left Behind: One Soldier's Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma

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War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

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Summary Bundle: History & Self Help: Includes Summary of Unbroken & Summary of Unfu*k Yourself

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A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918

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Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina

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Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

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Shiloh, 1862

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Tattered Kimonos in Japan: Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

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On Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill

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Champlain's Dream

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The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War

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Battle Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day

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The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

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They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans

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The Story of Abraham Lincoln

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Blackhorse Riders: A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Up From Slavery

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

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The Wright Brothers

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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1776

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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The Untold History of the United States

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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The Book of Charlie

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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Elizabeth Becker, "You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War" (PublicAffairs, 2021): An interview with Elizabeth Becker

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#1484 Ten Things About James Monroe: Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky discuss James Monroe, America’s fifth president. He is perhaps best remembered for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while asserting America’s dominance in...

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Best of - James Michener: Master Storyteller: James Michener was born to tell stories. He was one of the most popular and best-selling American novelists of all time… able to merge equal parts fiction, history, geography and culture into a perfect, page-turning blend. Here, he tells his own dramatic and mysterious life story, and he describes his very first venture into writing fiction, when he was stationed on an island in the Pacific during World War II. The book that came of that experience was "Tales of the South Pacific," which earned him a Pulitzer, and later became the Broadway hit and movie: “South Pacific.” Michener also describes what he calls some of the “differential experiences” in his life, like the very moment he decided he would live his life as if he were a great man. And he extols all of us to look out for unexpected opportunities and grab them. This episode originally posted in November of 2015.

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#1331 Young Washington with Peter Stark: "The French ... thought it was an assassination, a war crime, that Washington was a murderer." — Peter Stark We speak with Peter Stark, author of Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father. We discuss George...

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James Michener: Master Storyteller: James Michener was born to tell stories. He was one of the most popular and best-selling American novelists of all time… able to merge equal parts fiction, history, geography and culture into a perfect, page-turning blend. But when you hear Michener’s voice in this episode, you’ll realize his enormous talent for storytelling was not limited to the page. He is sure to win you over in this 1991 interview, recorded when he was 85 years old and was looking back on his own dramatic life story. He talks about the unlikely approach he took to overcoming considerable obstacles, and about his very first venture into writing fiction, when he was stationed on an island in the Pacific during World War II. The book that emerged from that experience was "Tales of the South Pacific," which won him a Pulitzer, and later became the Broadway hit and movie: “South Pacific.” Michener also describes what he calls some of the “differential experiences” in his life, li

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20 - The Castaway’s War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan

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“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim as he finds himself “unstuck in time”. The book is centered around his time as an American soldier during World War II, his capture by the German Army, and his survival of the...

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Origins of WW1: Beyond the Archduke

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Winston Churchill: Winston Churchill was many things a writer, politician, journalist, painter but the defining aspect of his career was as a war leader. Joining Dan to discuss how his military experiences shaped him as a war leader is Anthony Tucker-Jones.

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Civilizations 37f – Yankee Imperialism pt6 – “The more you burn and kill the more it will please me”: The US assault on the Philippines: General Jacob Smith was reprimanded for his order to commit atrocities in the war against the Philippine Republic, but he was not alone in giving such orders. The US war in the Philippines set the stage for more than a century of counterinsurgency,

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157 - General Patton: George S Patton Junior starred as an Olympic athlete in the 1912 Stockholm games. In 1916 under John J. Pershing Patton joined the Mexican Expedition against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa. When the US...

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Geronimo by Geronimo ~ Full Audiobook

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156 - Churchill, Master and Commander: From his earliest days, Winston Churchill was a risk-taker. As a young Lieutenant in the army he charged with the cavalry at the battle of Omdurman, he saw action on the North-West Frontier and took a trip to Cuba to observe the war there. As a...

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Robert Fisk: Kirsty Young's castaway is journalist Robert Fisk

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Robert Fisk: Kirsty Young's castaway is journalist Robert Fisk

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Best of - Daniel Inouye and Norman Mineta: In Defense of Liberty: Norman Mineta spent three years in a internment camp for Japanese-Americans when he was a child. But this shameful period in American history did not deter him from becoming a celebrated civil servant, one who broke racial barriers to become a 10-term U.S. Congressman from California and the first Asian-American member of the Cabinet. In honor of Norm Mineta, who died last week at the age of 90, and in celebration of Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we invite you to take a second listen to our episode from 2020. It also features the story of long-serving U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, a veteran of the most decorated regiment in US history, the 442nd. The 442nd was a segregated Japanese-American unit that fought in Europe after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. These two stories stand in stark contrast, and reflect some of the worst - and best - impulses in America. And they are a testament to the triumph of

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Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: On Bill Cooper with Mark Jacobson: William Milton Cooper was one of the most influential conspiracy theorists of the 20th century. Mark Jacobson, author of Pale Horse Rider, joins me to discuss Cooper's life, ideas, and eclectic cultural impact.

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385 The Gettysburg Address

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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023): An interview with Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023): An interview with Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

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Two Hearts That Beat as One by Frank Norris: There is something special about the Old West. Life is the western United States for much of the 19th century was akin to living in another country, which makes sense as it was cobbled together from many diverse societies. Our next story takes place...

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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023): An interview with Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023): An interview with Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

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EPISODE 45 Sex, Sake and Zen: The Life of Ikkyu Sojun (Part 1): “The autumn breeze of a single night of love is better than a hundred thousand years of sterile sitting meditation.” Ikkyu

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The Story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary A. Hamilton ~ Full Audiobook: The Story of Abraham Lincoln by Mary A. Hamilton audiobook. In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lin...

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In the Nation's Service: Philip Taubman on George P. Schultz's UnTrumpian Role in Ending the Cold War

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Peter Zinoman, “Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung” (U California Press, 2013): Over the course of the 1930s, Vietnamese author Vũ Trọng Phụng published eight novels, hundreds of works of narrative nonfiction, stories, plays, essays and articles. He was a best-selling writer in his own day who sharpened his acute literary talents,...

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#1310 Valley Forge with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin: "It's a very patriotic story in the best sense of the word … these were people who were fighting for a cause." — Tom Clavin Clay and David are joined by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, the #1 New York Times bestselling authors, to discuss their newest...

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177 - Japan's Pacific War: I seem to have had a good run of episodes this year looking at operations from the German perspective. In this episode, we are off to the Pacific to look at the Japanese perspective of the war. I'm joined by Peter Williams. Peter lived in Japan...

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Prisoners of War: During the Pacific War, the Japanese took over 130,000 Allied prisoners of war and held them in camps spread all over the Japanese Empire. Nearly all Allied prisoners were deprived of food and medical care, were regularly beaten, and were worked past...