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68 reviews
Cornelius Ryan

Books on Tape, Inc., 1990

Excellent Introduction in this Important part of WW2 History
I can't say it much better than the previous reviews have already. I wanted to read something on this subject and was led to this book. I couldn't have asked for a better introduction to the topic. Broad in scope yet detailed in its descriptions of the soldiers, units, and battles in this massive offensive. This is an excellent jumping off point to begin studying the Battle of Arnhem. Well ...

Papillon

82 reviews
Henri Charriere

Books on Tape, Inc., 1978

VERY overdue for an updated translation
No, there's no need whatsoever for some poor sod to re-translate the whole book! It still reads beautifully. But, and this is a BIG but, the translation is, today, WAY TOO TAME. The quaint, oblique, charming English expletives he employs now badly interfere with the book's mood and thrillingly immediate, rough flavour. He translated this book way back in 1969; even the English aren't so delicate ...

These Old Shades: A Georgian Romance

53 reviews
Georgette Heyer

Books on Tape, Inc., 1984

Another great Heyer book
This Heyer book has it all. A little bit of mystery, a lot of humour, and romance. Justin Alastair is the Duke of Avon and he is the hero in this story. He is jaded and has lived a life of hedonistic pleasures and vices. He is always coolly aloof, never one to indulge into a fit of temper, and has the most dry sense of humour that is very amusing. He is not known as the kindest of gentlemen, ...

A Time For Dancing

184 reviews
Davida Wills Hurwin

Books on Tape, Inc., 1996

nothing like a good book
well any book that makes me cry I consider to be pretty good, and this book had me crying. It's a sad story, but it's beautifully written.

Fate Is The Hunter

94 reviews
Ernest K. Gann, Dick Estell

Books on Tape, Inc., 1987

Fate Above All.
Flight possesses a seductive mystique and "Fate is the Hunter" is one of the few books that has ever really truly captured flight's essence. It is not only pilots that look skyward at the sound of an aircraft or slow down a little as they drive past an airfield. Similarly, Gann captures what is almost intangible and presents it to the reader with an immaculate style that will engross all who ...

The Price Of Glory: Verdun 1916

50 reviews
Alistair Horne

Books on Tape, Inc., 2000

Literary Glory
The Battle of Verdun was a condensed version of the entire First World War. In this 10 month-long battle, the Germans made impressive initial gains, but were unable to exploit their advantage due to the adamant and intense French defense that denied them final victory. The feuds between German generals and administrative problems also worked against their initial success. Sir Alistair Horne ...

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Book 4, Audio)

5167 reviews
J.K. Rowling

Books on Tape, Inc., 2000

Harry Potter and the Four Champions
Triwizard Tournment ,Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasly. Harry potter has a horrible life under the commands of the Dursleys. He wants to get to Hogwarts, a wizard and witchcraft school, one of the three, Beaxubutions and Durmstrang. This year the Triwizard Tournment is happening at Hogwarts it hasn't happened in over one-hundred years. The champions are Viktor Krum, one of the ...

The Longest Day June 6, 1944.

72 reviews
Cornelius Ryan

Books on Tape, Inc., 1991

It Started Two Genres
Cornelius Ryan invented two genres with his ground-breaking history-The Longest Day. On the one hand, he started a trend to personalized history. His book relies heavily on the recollections of those who fought on both sides. In this he anticipates Ken Burns' The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and also The Second World War the more scholarly John Keegan. His other innovation, a brisk ...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York (Part 1)

104 reviews
Robert A. Caro

Books on Tape, Inc., 1991

Damning, erudite and compelling
Robert Caro's biography reads like an extraordinary work of investigative journalism - damning, erudite and compelling - that surely would have been appreciated by Robert Moses had he not been the subject. It is a fascinating study of the evolution of government in New York City and Robert Moses' ability to shape laws as the "best bill drafter in Albany" and to seize upon prevailing trends and ...

A Man On The Moon: The Voyages Of The Apollo Astronauts (Part A)

113 reviews
Andrew Chaikin

Books on Tape, Inc., 1999

The best telling of Apollo... period!
I'd like to be able to say that I like my own Apollo book better, but I can't. Chaikin's work stands alone in my mind as the definitive telling of the Apollo program. This is a book that entertains while informing- never an easy task, especially with science. Chaikin went to great lengths to assure accuracy... he is well-known by the living moonwalkers/Apollo CM pilots, and his work is respected ...

Lieutenant Hornblower

48 reviews
C.S. Forester

Books on Tape, Inc., 1984

The beginning of a beautiful relationship --
This is arguably the best book as "literary work" in the "Hornblower" series (although my personal favorite is the collection of short stories called "Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies.") This story has two aspects that make it unique: 1) it is told from the viewpoint of Hornblower's comrade Bush (who is senior to Hornblower) and provides a completely different view of Forester's ...

Lust For Life

46 reviews
Irving Stone

Books on Tape, Inc., 1979

Living for Lust
I should have read this biography sooner. I used to be in love with his paintings, and even fantasized that IF I were to travel back in time, I would've married him -- all this BEFORE I read this book. After I read it I found out that there was one such infatuated woman (Margot), and also a tragic unrequited love story that led him to religion and then to painting. Anyone who is creative will ...

The Lieutenants

28 reviews
W.E.B. Griffin

Books on Tape, Inc., 1995

Excellent military novel (with flaws)
If you want to understand the "culture" of the military, read this book. Then, if you liked it, read the whole "Brotherhood of War" series, of which it is the first book. I spent four years in the Navy (one in Vietnam), but I never really understood the positive side of the military until I read "The Lieutenants." It's easy to find novels that are critical of military values, and it's easy to ...

The Twelve Caesars

32 reviews
Suetonius

Books on Tape, Inc., 1989

A Great Introductory Book to Imperial Rome
Suetonius grew up in the years following Nero's reign and wrote these histories while he was the secretary of the emperor Hadrian in the early second century A.D. His book covers the successive reigns of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. The stories focus on the emperors themselves more than the events which ...

Red Square

30 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Books on Tape, Inc., 1993

Back in the USSR
Martin Cruz Smith is a former journalist and magazine editor. "Red Square" is his third novel - after " Gorky Park " and "Polar Star" - to feature Arkady Renko and was first published in 1992. Renko, the hero, works as an Investigator with Moscow's militia - more or less the standard police force - and has something of a chequered career. Never a truly 'practising' member of the Party, Renko ...

The Princess And The Goblin

40 reviews
George MacDonald

Books on Tape, Inc., 1998

A Classic Fantasy Tale
Macdonald inspired C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Lewis Carroll. He is the father of modern fantasy. This is one of his best. Directed more for kids, but like all of his tales, sophisticated enough for adults.

Citizen Washington

33 reviews
William Martin

Books on Tape, Inc., 2000

Audio version: Entertaining!
The audiobook runs 6 hours and is surprisingly fun to listen to. Other reviewers have covered most of what you need to know so I will just add a parental advisory: contains rough language of a creative sort that boys of a certain age may like to quote, so if you are looking for something educational for a family car trip, this may not be suitable. Otherwise, I certainly recommend this book as an ...

Little Big Man

32 reviews
Thomas Berger

Books on Tape, Inc., 1988

terrifically funny but sometimes touching novel
I was pretty much hooked by the narrator's first words: "I'm a white man and never forget it" (followed by "but I was brought up by Cheyenne from the age of ten"). A few paragraphs later: "I never suspected it at the time, being just a young boy, but I realize now that my Pa was a lunatic," and I was a complete goner. Little Big Man is an extremely humorous novel of the American west, ...

The Last Battle

32 reviews
Cornelius Ryan

Books on Tape, Inc., 1991

Historical Masterpiece
Cornelies Ryan ceases to amaze me with his meaningful and destinct historical details of some the 20th century's most important events. This book achieves what most histories fail to do. It gives great amounts of information without becoming dry and repititious. Ryan drags you through the last days of the third reich, through the good the bad and the ugly. This non-partisan view is an ...

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - Visions Of Glory

39 reviews
William Manchester

Books on Tape, Inc., 1984

As Good as Biography Gets
This fully lives up to its reputation as perhaps the best biography ever written. Manchester does a peerless, masterful job filling in the background colors and giving a complete picture of Churchill from a young man into his early fifties. As Manchester emphasizes, this background was essentially the decline and fall of the British Empire and the aristocracy who ran it. Manchester's main point, ...

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