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    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny.

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    • By: Elie Wiesel
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Series: Night Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,699 ratings
    • Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps....

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    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,349 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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    • The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
    • By: Lucy Adlington
    • Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 599 ratings
    • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz presents a powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps....

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    • The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    • By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 793 ratings
    • A number-one New York Times best seller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco....

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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,544 ratings
    • If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....

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    • Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9,005 ratings
    • Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power....

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    • A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre.

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    • Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
    • By: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
    • Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,273 ratings
    • In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in 40 years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life - the theologian and the spy - to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil....

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    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,942 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,595 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,977 ratings
    • On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....

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    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,640 ratings
    • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....

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    • June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,408 ratings
    • Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....

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    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,727 ratings
    • This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....

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    • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,962 ratings
    • The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

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    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Bob Balaban
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,441 ratings
    • Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....

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    • How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
    • By: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....

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    • By: Iris Chang
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,466 ratings
    • In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....

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