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VietnamCivil WarAncientWW2Wild WestHigh Seas

Vietnam Fine Print

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  Honorable ExitThurston Clarke, with Richard Armitage and Captain Kiem Do's plan and the USS KirkListen to the audiobookFrom: The ship that went back for South Vietnam's navy
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  The Vietnam War: An Intimate HistoryGeoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, the illustrated companion to the seriesListen to the audiobookFrom: They pushed $10 million of helicopters overboard for this plane
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  The Unlikely War HeroMarc Leepson (book, Kindle and audiobook)From: He smuggled 256 POW names out in his memory
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  Sailors to the EndGregory A. Freeman, on the Forrestal fireFrom: They thought they had 10 minutes
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  Every Weapon I HadParis Davis with Theo Emery, his own accountListen to the audiobookFrom: The Army lost his Medal of Honor paperwork. Twice

Civil War Fine Print

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  Twenty DaysDorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., the assassination in picturesFrom: The pictures of Lincoln's death you weren't supposed to see

Ancient Fine Print

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  The ParthenonMary Beard, the building from the Greeks to the explosion and the marblesListen to the audiobookFrom: The day they blew up the Parthenon
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  The Saint Who Would Be Santa ClausAdam C. English, on Nicholas of Myra and the sailors who took his bonesFrom: Who stole Santa Claus?
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  The Twelve CaesarsSuetonius, in Robert Graves's translation, Caesar's calendar includedFrom: In 46 BC, the year lasted 445 days
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  The Annals of Imperial RomeTacitus, the main account of the fire of AD 64From: Who gave Nero the fiddle?
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  Makers of RomePlutarch, with his Life of Antony and the account of Cleopatra's deathFrom: Who gave Cleopatra the snake?
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  The OdysseyHomer, in Robert Fagles's translation, where the wooden horse turns upListen to the audiobookFrom: Who wrote the Trojan Horse?

WW2 Fine Print

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  War As I Knew ItPatton's own memoir, footnote includedListen to the audiobookFrom: Patton's famous prayer scene came from a footnote
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  ReminiscencesMacArthur's own memoir, finished weeks before he diedFrom: MacArthur never planned to wade ashore
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  Crusade in EuropeEisenhower's own account of the war, Reims includedListen to the audiobookFrom: The Allies forgot their own surrender

Wild West Fine Print

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  Geronimo: My LifeHis own story, as told to S. M. Barrett in 1906Listen to the audiobookFrom: Geronimo surrendered on a promise. He died a prisoner 22 years later
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  On the Border with CrookJohn G. Bourke, General Crook's aide, writing in 1891Listen to the audiobookFrom: Crazy Horse never let anyone take his picture. Now his face is a mountain
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  The Banditti of the PlainsA. S. Mercer's 1894 account, with George Dunning's confessionListen to the audiobookFrom: 50 hired guns invaded Wyoming. The president saved them

High Seas Fine Print

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  A General History of the PyratesCaptain Charles Johnson's 1724 book (this edition credits Daniel Defoe), where most of Blackbeard's legend comes fromListen to the audiobookFrom: The Navy cut off Blackbeard's head to get paid