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    • The Strategy of Musashi
    • By: Miyamoto Musashi
    • Narrated by: Alec Sand
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings
    • Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....

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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

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    • The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,280 ratings
    • Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....

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    • A Deep History of the Earliest States
    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 859 ratings
    • Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....

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    • By: Kenneth Harl
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization....

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    • By: Nick Brokhausen
    • Narrated by: George Spelvin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
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    • Whispers in the Tall Grass is the second volume of Nick's riveting memoir of his time with MACV-SOG....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
    • By: Roger Hill, Lynn Vincent
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,253 ratings
    • The army does not want you to listen to this book. It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk....

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    • By: Flavius Josephus
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-12
    • Language: English
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    • In AD 66, nationalist and religious revolutionaries in Judaea led a ferocious revolt of the Jewish people against the authority of mighty Rome....

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    • How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-10
    • Language: English
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    • The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....

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    • Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence
    • By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-19
    • Language: English
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    • In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as SOG has spawned many myths, legends, and war stories. Special Forces medic Joe Parnar served with SOG during 1968 in FOB2/CCC near the tri-border area that gave them access to the forbidden areas....

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    • By: Craig Benjamin, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Professor Craig Benjamin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-20
    • Language: English
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    • In 24 half-hour lectures delivered by award-winning teacher and historian Craig Benjamin of Grand Valley State University, explore the paradox of the Mongols’ extreme barbarity combined with their enlightened religious attitudes and respect for high civilization....

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    • The Classic Korean War History
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 24 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126 ratings
    • A monumental study of the Korean conflict that began in June 1950. Successive generations of U.S. military officers have considered this book an indispensable part of their education....

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    • Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East”
    • By: Stewart Gordon
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
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    • Author Stewart Gordon has fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers....

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    • Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC....

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    • The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
    • By: Lars Brownworth
    • Narrated by: Lars Brownworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,875 ratings
    • Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
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    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • A landmark biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known....

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    • Special Ops, Helicopter Support, SEAL Team Six, and the Deadliest Day of the US War in Afghanistan
    • By: Ed Darack
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
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    • In The Final Mission of Extortion 17, Ed Darack debunks conspiracy theories and uncovers the truth behind the mysterious tragedy of a helicopter shootdown in 2011 that claimed 38 lives....

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