My Military History Audio Bookshelf

Following up on yesterday’s post covering the Military History books that survived the Great Purge (so far), here is a list of the Audible audio books I’ve read, er, listened to. It doesn’t include books I’ve side loaded from other sources. I am not sure I have a good way to build that list.

There are some eBooks as well, that will have to be another post. Amazon will have the ones I bought on the Kindle and Calibre tracks those that I’ve side loaded.

Audio books (last 10 years only):

 

  • Barry Strauss – The War That Made the Roman Empire
  • Dan Jones – Powers and Thrones
  • Daniel W. Drezner – Theories of International Politics and Zombies
  • Malcolm Gladwell – The Bomber Mafia
  • Lord Russell of Liverpool – The Knights of Bushido
  • Captain David Render & Stuart Tootal – Tank Action
  • Peter Tsouras – Panzers on the Eastern Front
  • Mike Duncan – The Storm Before the Storm
  • Max Hastings – Battle for the Falklands
  • Robert Gaudi – African Kaiser
  • Gregory S. Aldrete – History’s Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach
  • Andrew R. Wilson – Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers
  • Siegfried Knappe & Ted Brusaw – Soldat
  • Boris Johnson – The Churchill Factor
  • Antony Beevor – The Second World War
  • G. J. Meyer – A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
  • Herodotus – The Histories
  • Julius Caesar – The Commentaries
  • Marcus Cowper – Command: Henry V
  • Gordon S. Wood – Revolutionary Characters
  • Patrick J. Buchanan – Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War’
  • Robin Olds, Christina Olds & Ed Rasimus – Fighter Pilot
  • Miyamoto Musashi – A Book of Five Rings
  • Barbara W. Tuchman – The March of Folly
  • Barbara W. Tuchman – The Proud Tower
  • Alan Axelrod – Patton
  • David Fromkin – Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
  • Barbara W. Tuchman – The First Salute
  • Barbara W. Tuchman – The Guns of August
  • Charles Esdaile – Napoleon’s Wars
  • Dick Winters & Cole C. Kingseed – Beyond Band of Brothers
  • William Manchester – American Caesar

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Cover of Windsor Chair Making in America

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