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August in Kabul
- America's Last Days in Afghanistan
- By: Andrew Quilty
- Narrated by: John Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control.
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A mostly accurate historical account
- By Megan C. on 05-16-24
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August in Kabul
- America's Last Days in Afghanistan
- Narrated by: John Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-19-22
- Language: English
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Crusade
- The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
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Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media’s access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war.
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A very decent account of the gulf war
- By Lyle Wincentsen on 08-12-13
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Crusade
- The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 24 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-07-11
- Language: English
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Origins of the Sphinx
- Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization
- By: Robert M. Schoch PhD, Robert Bauval
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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No other monument in the world evokes mystery like the Great Sphinx of Giza. It has survived the harsh climate of Egypt for thousands of years and will remain long after our own civilization is gone. According to orthodox Egyptology, the Sphinx was built around 2500 BCE as a memorial to the pharaoh Khafre. Yet this “fact” has scant to no supportive evidence. When was the Sphinx really built and, most importantly, why?
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The Truth is Out There
- By nasamike on 04-15-21
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Origins of the Sphinx
- Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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The Crisis of Zionism
- By: Peter Beinart
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In the next generation, the liberal Zionist dream - the dream of a state that safeguards the Jewish people and cherishes democratic ideals - may die.
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Urgent call to save the Jewish state from itself!
- By Mushon on 07-02-12
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The Crisis of Zionism
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-29-12
- Language: English
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Mystery of the Magi
- The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
- By: Dwight Longenecker
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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The Magi of nativity scenes are romanticized as well-dressed wisemen bringing gifts to Jesus. Traditional Chrstians tell of a miraculous star that guided exotic kings from Persia, India, and Africa. Academics dismiss both accounts as no more than a pious legend. Who is right? In The Mystery of the Magi, Dwight Longenecker shows that all sides are wrong and the Magi were diplomats from Petra, the capital of the Nabatean kingdom of Arabia.
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A Fascinating Deep Dive into the Story of the Magi
- By Pastor Ryan on 08-06-18
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Mystery of the Magi
- The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-06-17
- Language: English
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Taliban, Third Edition
- The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
- By: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Ahmed Rashid, called “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” by Christopher Hitchens, brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia into sharp focus in this modern classic. Rashid offers an authoritative account of the Taliban’s rise to power, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban. He also describes the new face of Islamic fundamentalism and explains why Afghanistan has become the world center for international terrorism.
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Taliban, Third Edition
- The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
- Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-08-22
- Language: English
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A Rope from the Sky
- The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
- By: Zach Vertin
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round. But the celebration would not last: South Sudan's freedom-fighters soon plunged their new nation back into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their American backers. Drawing on extraordinary personal stories of identity, liberation, and survival, this narrative tells an epic story of paradise won and then lost. Zach Vertin's firsthand accounts, from deadly war zones to the halls of Washington power, bring listeners on an extraordinary journey into the rise and fall of the world's newest state.
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Fascinating Book
- By Robert on 02-25-19
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A Rope from the Sky
- The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-09-19
- Language: English
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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- A History of the Armenian Genocide
- By: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent - more than 1,000,000 people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events.
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Great book, unbiased view finally
- By Raffy Afarian on 10-30-15
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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- A History of the Armenian Genocide
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-30-15
- Language: English
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- By: Andrew J. Bacevich
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise - now more than 30 years old and with no end in sight.
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A Key to Understanding the US Need for Perp. War
- By Darwin8u on 05-01-16
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-05-16
- Language: English
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The Arab Conquests
- The Landmark Library, Book 13
- By: Justin Marozzi
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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In the seventh and eighth centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he had managed to unite the feuding tribes of Arabia at the point of his sword. The Muslim conquests lasted until 750, by which time several generations of marauding Arab armies had carved out an Islamic empire which, in size and population, rivalled that of Rome at its zenith.
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The Arab Conquests
- The Landmark Library, Book 13
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-13-21
- Language: English
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The Case Against Israel's Enemies
- Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
- By: Alan Dershowitz
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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In addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war, and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, Alan Dershowitz argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter and other western leaders who would delegitimize Israel as an apartheid regime subject to the same fate as white South Africans; Israel's academic enemies, led by professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who would accuse supporters of Israel of dual loyalty and indeed disloyalty to America.
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finding out who settling them up
- By William C Cady on 12-28-23
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The Case Against Israel's Enemies
- Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-16-20
- Language: English
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- By: Jason Goodwin
- Narrated by: Grahame Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted and total.
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Good introduction to the Ottomans, bad narration
- By Skeptical on 06-06-18
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- Narrated by: Grahame Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
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90 Minutes at Entebbe
- The Full Inside Story of the Spectacular Israeli Counterterrorism Strike and the Daring Rescue of 103 Hostages
- By: William Stevenson, Uri Dan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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In captivating detail, Stevenson provides a fast-paced, hour-by-hour narration from the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 to the final 90-minute mission. In addition to discussing the incredible rescue itself, Stevenson also covers the political backdrop behind the hijacking, especially Ugandan President Idi Amin's support for the hijackers, which marked one of the first times a leader of a nation had backed terrorist activities.
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Story, true, of an extrodinary rescue .
- By Jeannie Marcus on 05-13-15
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90 Minutes at Entebbe
- The Full Inside Story of the Spectacular Israeli Counterterrorism Strike and the Daring Rescue of 103 Hostages
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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Guests of the Sheik
- An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
- By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
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Unforgettable
- By Avalon on 01-05-18
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Guests of the Sheik
- An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-28-17
- Language: English
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GRANDPA, WHAT DOES PENTECOST MEAN?
- THE TWINS OF PENTECOST
- By: BEN PETERS
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Jet and Ryder are 6 year-old non-identical twins. Seattle is their 9 year-old sister. They love spending time at their grandparent's house. They chat about sports and Grandpa tells them about the coming Jewish holidays, including Pentecost. They ask what Pentecost means and the story of Twin Pentecosts begins. In three separate sessions, the grandkids learn some amazing things about Pentecost - past, present and future. They learn about the many different twins of Pentecost. This is a fiction book, but the characters are real. And the question was actually asked by Seattle, "Grandpa, what ...
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GRANDPA, WHAT DOES PENTECOST MEAN?
- THE TWINS OF PENTECOST
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-03-24
- Language: English
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Follow the Pipelines
- Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
- By: Charlotte Dennett
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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In The Crash of Flight 3804, Investigative Journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies - the British, the French, and the Russians - in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through vivid storytelling, extensive research, and deep analysis of region-defining maps, she reveals how feverish competition among intelligence networks, military, and Big Oil interests have fueled indiscriminate attacks and targeted killings that continue to this day.
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Best read on this topic
- By JP Achour on 03-08-24
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Follow the Pipelines
- Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-25-20
- Language: English
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The Last Shah
- America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- By: Ray Takeyh
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power.
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The Last Shah
- America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-28-22
- Language: English
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Smyrna, September 1922
- The American Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide
- By: Lou Ureneck
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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The year was 1922: World War I had just come to a close, the Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Asa Jennings, a YMCA worker from upstate New York, had just arrived in the quiet coastal city of Smyrna to teach sports to boys. Several hundred miles to the east in Turkey's interior, tensions between Greeks and Turks had boiled over into deadly violence. Mustapha Kemal, now known as Ataturk, and his Muslim army soon advanced into Smyrna, a Christian city, where a half a million terrified Greek and Armenian refugees had fled in a desperate attempt to escape his troops.
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Horrific!
- By JPV on 07-27-20
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Smyrna, September 1922
- The American Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-14-20
- Language: English
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In the Company of Soldiers
- A Chronicle of Combat
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: Rick Atkinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat.
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A Mixed Bag
- By Kevin Christy on 04-10-04
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In the Company of Soldiers
- A Chronicle of Combat
- Narrated by: Rick Atkinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-09-04
- Language: English
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Where Cowards Go to Die
- By: Benjamin Sledge
- Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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While serving a portion of his time under the Special Operations Command, Benjamin Sledge fought to keep his humanity amid the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But war never leaves its participants unscathed. In Where Cowards Go to Die, Sledge reveals an unflinchingly honest portrait of war that few dare to tell.
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Couldn't stop listening
- By Matthew Orlandi on 07-29-22
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Where Cowards Go to Die
- Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-05-22
- Language: English
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