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Books narrated by Max Boot

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  • Reagan

    His Life and Legend

    by Max Boot ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWashington Post • 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024Best Books of 2024: The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, The Auburn Citizen"This elegant biography of the 40th president stands out for its deep authority and nimble style.... A landmark work." —New York Times, "10 Best Books of 2024""Reagan: His Lif... ... Read more

    R624,67

  • Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    by Max Boot ...
    As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world—when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies—Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq ... Read more

    R318,54

  • War Made New

    Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today

    by Max Boot ...
    A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefieldCombining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise ... Read more

    R239,88

  • The Road Not Taken

    by Max Boot ...
    'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book ReviewIn this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's The Quiet American, Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a 'hearts and minds' diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America's giant military bureaucracy, ... Read more

    R293,35

  • The Savage Wars Of Peace

    Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

    by Max Boot ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read [this book] . . . Vividly written and thoroughly researched." -- Los Angeles TimesAmerica's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with ... Read more

    R206,99

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    The Sunday Times bestseller about The Rivals who defeated Hitler

    by Tim Bouverie ...
    The Sunday Times bestselling, prize-winning history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace – from the author of the acclaimed Appeasing Hitler'Brilliant' ANTONY BEEVOR'Superb' JAMES HOLLAND'A masterpiece' RICHARD J. EVANS** WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2026**‘The best book I have ever read about the politics of the Second World War’ TIM SHIPMAN</stron... ... Read more

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  • Conquering The Pacific

    An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    The true story of a colorful and momentous 16th-century voyage, and of the Black mariner whose accomplishment was almost lost to history.It was a voyage of epic scope. In a Spanish plot to break Portugal's trade monopoly with the fabled Orient, four ships set sail from a hidden Mexican port. The smallest of them was guided by Black seaman Lope Martín, one of the most qualified pilots of the era. ... Read more

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  • The War for the Seas

    A Maritime History of World War II

    by Evan Mawdsley ...
    This "impeccable, myth-busting study" of WWII maritime operations sheds new light on the conflict with sharp analysis and an international perspective (The Sunday Times, UK).Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant ... Read more

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  • Rasputin

    And the Downfall of the Romanovs

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Rasputin: visionary, fraud or victim of history?THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' DAN SNOW'ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES OF HISTORY, TOLD BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST HISTORIANS' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'THIS EXTRAORDINARY STORY HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER TOLD' ANTHONY HOROWITZ'A STUNNING BANQUET OF A BOOK' ROSE TREMAINHow could a barely literate peasant from S... ... Read more

    R496,67

  • The History of the Renaissance World

    From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world.Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a ... Read more

    R485,86

  • The Prosecutor

    The Gripping True Story of One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice from the Bestselling Author of The Volunteer

    by Jack Fairweather ...
    **WINNER of 75th National Jewish Book Award: Biography‘FIVE STARS … Magnificent’ Telegraph‘Compulsively readable’ Financial Times‘Gripping and timely’ The Times'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian Junger****THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEERThe true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war ... Read more

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  • The Great Betrayal

    The Great Siege of Constantinople

    by Ernle Bradford ...
    An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae .At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center of art, culture, and commerce that had commanded trading routes between Asia, Russia, and Europe for ... Read more

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