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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Bomb

    • Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 23-05-23
    • Language: English
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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Trinity

    • The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
    • By: Frank Close
    • Narrated by: Anthony Howell
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Trinity by Frank Close....

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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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  • A Fiery Peace in a Cold War cover art

    • A Fiery Peace in a Cold War

    • Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
    • By: Neil Sheehan
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever....

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