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Arms Control Audiobooks

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    One Minute to Midnight

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    Narrated by Bob Walter ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 25 min

    In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Westwind

    The classic lost thriller from the Iconic #1 Bestselling Writer of Channel 4’s MURDER ISLAND

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Narrated by Ian Rankin, Julian Rhind-Tutt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* * * * *It always starts with a small lie. That's how you stop noticing the bigger ones.After his friend suspects something strange going on at the launch facility where they both work - and then goes missing - Martin Hepton doesn't believe the official line of "long-term sick leave"...Refusing to stop asking questions, he leaves his ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Has China Won?

    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    Narrated by Aaron Abano ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.America prizes freedom; ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    My Seditious Heart

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Narrated by Tania Rodrigues ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 16 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy, read by Tania Rodrigues.My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Kuuban ohjuskriisi: 13 kohtalon päivää

    by Orage ...
    Narrated by Tapio Rauvala ...
    series Historia

    Unabridged

    16 min

    1962 maailma sai pidättää henkeään kolmentoista päivän ajan, kun kylmä sota uhkasi kärjistyä ydinaseiden käyttöön. Kriisin puhjetessa kylmää sotaa oli takana jo 20 vuotta. Kahden maailmanmahdin, Yhdysvaltojen ja Neuvostoliiton, ideologiset erot ja vaikutuspyrkimykset olivat johtaneet maailmanpoliittisen tilanteen kärjistymiseen pian toisen maailmansodan jälkeen. Kuuban kriisin taustalla ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

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    Central America

    by Joseph Stromberg, Pat Childs ...
    Narrated by Harry Reasoner ...
    series The World’s Political Hot Spots

    Unabridged

    2 hours 42 min

    A cluster of five countries; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; are commonly referred to as Central America. Although these nations differ in their histories and politics, they share at least one factor: they have been caught up in the turmoil of America’s foreign policy in this region. These recordings depict the chain of events that have led to the Central America we ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Rise of Nuclear Iran

    How Tehran Defies the West

    by Dore Gold ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold shows why engaging Iran through diplomacy is not only futile but also could be deadly.In the West, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, convinced that Tehran will respond to reason and halt its nuclear weapons program. Yet, countries have repeatedly tried diplomatic talks and utterly failed. In The Rise of Nuclear ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Shadow World

    Inside the Global Arms Trade

    by Andrew Feinstein ...
    Narrated by Gildart Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 2 min

    The digital audiobook edition of Andrew Feinstein's powerful exposé, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, complete and unabridged and read by the actor Gildart Jackson.Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Richard Murray's Pulpit Episode 1

    The right to bear arms against a government

    by Richard Murray ...
    Audiobook 1 - Richard Murray's Pulpit

    Unabridged

    2 min

    Media in NYC is full of admonishment for the recent Supreme court ruling but while I read or heard various arguments in NYC media. I see one key absence, that no one is addressing. The right to bear arms stems from the right to protect one self from the neighbor who is always with you, the government. ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Dead Hand

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Bob Walter ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 35 min

    **“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve CollThe Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.**The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill. In the last half of the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Conflict

    The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

    by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past—and anticipate in the future—in order to navigate an ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Lands in Between

    Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War

    by Mitchell A. Orenstein ...
    Narrated by Bob Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 24 min

    Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Future War and the Defence of Europe

    by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Narrated by Liam Price ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Dead Hand

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Bob Walter ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 46 min

    **“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve CollThe Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.**The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill. In the last half of the ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Crisis

    by Nicky Perfect ...
    Narrated by to be announced ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life.Nicky Perfect knows that the most dangerous time in any negotiation is when ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Complex Battlespaces

    The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare

    by Winston S. Williams, Christopher M. Ford ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 21 min

    The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations. As the nature of how and where wars are fought changes, new challenges to the application of the extant body of international law that regulates armed conflicts arise.This inaugural volume of the Lieber Studies series seeks to address several issues in the confluence of ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours

    This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century. It shows how militaries that successfully pursue disruptive innovation can gain a major advantage over their rivals, while those that fail to do so risk exposing their countries to great danger. The Precision Warfare Revolution, introduced by the U.S. ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    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 twenty 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, ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    Since the Truman administration, America has been one "push of a button" away from nuclear war-a decision that rests solely in the hands of the president. Without waiting for approval from Congress or even the secretary of defense, the president can unleash America's entire nuclear arsenal. From authors William J. Perry, secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, and Tom Z. Collina, the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Bomb

    Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    Narrated by Edward Bauer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    From the author of 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.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Withdrawal

    Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power

    by Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 40 min

    Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan.Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds.Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Euromissiles

    The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO

    by Susan Colbourn ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 13 min

    In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles-intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war==highlighted how the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Crippled America

    How to Make America Great Again

    by Donald J. Trump ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Lowell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we’re going to look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them?It’s time to bring America back to its ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Russia and the Soviet Union

    by Ralph Raico, Pat Childs ...
    Narrated by Peter Hackes ...
    series The World’s Political Hot Spots

    Unabridged

    2 hours 55 min

    Recent events have made it clear that the Soviet Union is not a monolith; it’s a collection of nationalities, many with serious objection to union. The demise of communism holds great promise and great danger not only for the Soviets, but for the world. This presentation examines how the region’s long history led to modern reality.The World’s Political Hot Spots series explains the basis of ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial