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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david s mcdonough”
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  • Nuclear Superiority

    The 'New Triad' and the Evolution of American Nuclear Strategy

    by David S. McDonough ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    In 2002 the Bush administration completed a Nuclear Posture Review that introduced a ‘new triad’ based on offensive-strike systems, defences and a revitalized defence infrastructure. The new triad is designed for a new strategic threat environment, characterized not by a long-standing nuclear rivalry with another superpower, but by unstable relationships with rogue-state proliferators, alongside ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Self and Society

    Are Communal Solidarity and Individual Freedom Allies or Antagonists?

    by Michael Amherst, David Crane, Nick Inman, Beninio McDonough-Tranza, Tara McEvoy ...
    Series series Haus Curiosities
    A collection of five essays from the 2020 Hubert Butler Essay Prize that examine contemporary society, featuring a foreword from Irish President Michael D. Higgins.Bringing together the winning and shortlisted essays from the 2020 Hubert Butler Essay Prize, Self and Society presents five fresh perspectives on the tension between individual freedom and communal solidarity, asking what we owe our ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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    William Tecumseh Sherman

    In the Service of My Country: A Life

    by James Lee McDonough ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 33 min

    General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family. As a soldier, Sherman evolved from ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Southern Storm

    Sherman's March to the Sea

    by Noah Andre Trudeau ...
    Narrated by Eric Conger ...

    Abridged

    11 hours 23 min

    Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, allowed Sherman to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    If/Then

    How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

    by Jill Lepore ...
    Narrated by Jill Lepore ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica.Although Silicon Valley likes to ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Bald Eagle

    The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

    by Jack E. Davis ...
    Narrated by Dan John Miller ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 2 min

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies ... Read more

    $34.00 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    American Rebels

    How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution

    by Nina Sankovitch ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Codename Nemo

    The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine

    by Charles Lachman ...
    Narrated by Qarie Marshall ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    A 2025 Audie Award® FinalistThe white-knuckled saga of a maverick captain, nine courageous sailors, and a US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944—capturing Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine.Two days before D-Day—the course of World War II was forever changed. The hunters of the Atlantic Ocean had become the hunted, and ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

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    Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

    by O. Edward Cunningham ...
    Narrated by Brian P. Craig ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 7 min

    The bloody two-day battle of Shiloh changed the course of the American Civil War. The conflagration at Shiloh had its roots in the strong Union advance that resulted in the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee. The offensive collapsed General Albert S. Johnston's advanced line in Kentucky and forced him to withdraw to northern Mississippi. Anxious to attack the enemy, Johnston began ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Chesty Puller

    A Marine Legend in World War II

    by John Wukovits ...
    Narrated by Josh Innerst ...
    Series series American War Heroes

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the dramatic tale of Marine Corps legend Chesty Puller, focusing on his combat service during the Pacific War.Chesty Puller is an American legend. He began his career fighting guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua during the 1920s and 1930s before displaying astonishing battlefield bravery in the Pacific during World War II. From Henderson Field to ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD

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    Foolproof

    Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

    by Sander van der Linden ...
    Narrated by Sander van der Linden ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have proven insufficient.With remarkable clarity, Sander van ... Read more

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    Three Roads to the Alamo

    The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

    by William C. Davis ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 34 min

    Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle. ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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