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Naval Audiobooks

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    Normandy ‘44

    D-Day and the Battle for France

    by James Holland ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 20 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Normandy '44 by James Holland, read by John Sackville.________________Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign, it's time to draw some radically different conclusion... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Castaway

    The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858

    by Robert Macklin ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the eastern tip of New Guinea, however, the ship became engulfed in fog, struck reefs and ran aground ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    The Wager

    by David Grann ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read' Guardian‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator‘A cracking yarn… Grann’s taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expression here’ ObserverTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIME... ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Neptune's Inferno

    The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 38 min

    With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.Neptune’s Inferno is ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    The Boundless Sea

    A Human History of the Oceans

    by David Abulafia ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    41 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020From the award-winning author of The Great Sea, a magnificent new global history of the oceans and of humankind's relationship with the seaFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

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    Blue Machine

    How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    by Helen Czerski ...
    Narrated by Helen Czerski ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 52 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHTAll of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.**In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Honor and Betrayal

    The Untold Story of the Navy SEALs Who Captured the “Butcher of Fallujah”—and the Shameful Ordeal They Later Endured

    by Patrick Robinson, Matthew McCabe, Jonathan Keefe ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 31 min

    From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller LoneSurvivor comes the riveting behind-the-scenes story of the three NavySEALs who captured the “Butcher of Fallujah” and, having been charged with prisoner abuse, their long road to justice.On a daring nighttime raid in September 2009, a team ofNavy SEALs grabbed the notorious terrorist Ahmed Hashim Abed, the villainous“Butcher of Fallujah,” ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    D-Day

    The Battle for Normandy

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Narrated by Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 49 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor, read by Cameron Stewart.Reissued, with a new foreword, for the 70th Anniversary.Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear.The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

    by Charles Spencer ...
    Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON ’A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZPICKED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY MAIL AND THE DAILY EXPRESS.The sinking of the White Ship in 1120 is one of the greatest disasters England has ever... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    Enemy of All Mankind

    A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

    by Steven Johnson ...
    Narrated by Jason Culp ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    “Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom The New York Times–bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the worldHenry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Madhouse at the End of the Earth

    The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

    by Julian Sancton ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winterAugust 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Slave Ships

    New York and the End of the Middle Passage

    by John Harris ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 43 min

    A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    The Pirate World

    A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 44 min

    Often romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus Konstam separates myth from reality, tracing the history of piracy through the centuries, from the pirates who plagued the Ancient Egyptians to the Viking raids and on to the era of privateers. He discusses the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy" and colorful ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Steel Boat Iron Hearts

    A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505

    by Hans Goebeler, John Vanzo ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 37 min

    Using his own experiences, log books, and correspondence with other U-boat crewmen, Hans Goebeler offers rich and personal details about what life was like in the German Navy under Hitler. Since his first and last posting was to U-505, Goebeler's perspective of the crew, commanders, and war patrols paints a vivid and complete portrait unlike any other to come out of the Kriegsmarine. He witnessed ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Red Star Rogue

    The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.

    by Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond ...
    Narrated by Brian Emerson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile.We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Eyes on Target

    Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs

    by Scott McEwen, Richard Miniter ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired SEAL sniper with a small team held off one hundred terrorists while his repeated radio calls for ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Pirate Coast

    Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

    by Richard Zacks ...
    Narrated by Raymond Todd ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 19 min

    A real-life thriller—the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their kneesAfter Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured three hundred US sailors and marines. President Jefferson sent out navy squadrons, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

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    The Sunken Gold

    A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History

    by Joseph A. Williams ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure, but any salvage had to be secret since the British government dared not alert the Germans to the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    U.S.S. Seawolf

    Submarine Raider of the Pacific

    by Gerold Frank, James D. Horan, Joseph Eckberg ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    The USS Seawolf was one of the greatest submarine raiders of all time. Having narrowly avoided the attack on Pearl Harbor the Seawolf set out for the seas of the Pacific to wreak havoc on Japanese shipping. Joseph Melvin Eckberg was on the Seawolf from her maiden voyage and remained with her until January 1943. As chief radioman he was instrumental in assisting Captain Frederick Warder to find and ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of the Caribbean

    Indispensable for Travellers

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...
    series Brief Histories

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present dayThis is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its mainland coastal states, with a focus on the past few centuries.The history of the Caribbean does not make much sense without factoring in the ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Trafalgar

    The Biography of a Battle

    by Roy Adkins ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 6 min

    This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships did their best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hours they were in ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Crisis Convoy

    The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic

    by Sir Peter Gretton ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    In April 1943, Commander Peter Gretton was in charge of escorting a vital Allied trade convoy from New York to Great Britain across the North Atlantic. Over the course of the voyage, the sixty-one merchant ships of convoy HX231, along with the six ships of B7 Escort Group, were continuously shadowed and attacked by a German wolf pack of twenty U-boats. With the aid of air support, the convoy and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 15 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpowerWinner, Commodore John Barry Book Award, Navy League of the United States • Winner, John Lehman Distinguished Naval Historian Award, Naval Order of the United StatesWith its ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Prepare for that battle

    by Gabriel Agbo ...
    Narrated by Dan Caringer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 24 min

    Are you battle ready? Always be prepared. We must not take anything for granted. Yes, life is war, and as in every war there are always many battles to fight. When you win one, then you prepare or go over to the next. Until you win the entire war. Here you will know why the war and also learn the principles of winning life battles. Solomon became the wisest, richest, most influential and most ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus