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    • The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
    • By: Helena Merriman
    • Narrated by: Helena Merriman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children - all willing to risk everything to escape....

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    • The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
    • By: Susan Colbourn
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground....

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    • The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
    • By: Norman M. Naimark
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought....

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    • Inside the Cold War Mind
    • By: Martin Sixsmith
    • Narrated by: Kris Dyer
    • Length: 26 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind....

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    • The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
    • By: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,703 ratings
    • In August 1968 NASA made a bold decision: In just 16 weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon....

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    • The Man and His Era
    • By: William Taubman
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 34 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century....

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    • What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy
    • By: Monika Wiesak
    • Narrated by: Monika Wiesak
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The common man around the globe lost the day John F. Kennedy died. This book details the story and the struggle, in a way never told before, of a man with the courage to repeatedly take on the most powerful forces on the globe....

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    • The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission
    • By: Captain William R. Anderson, Don Keith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Roger Mueller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine....

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    • The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
    • By: Alex Abella
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Robert J. McMahon
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more....

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    • Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
    • By: John Ganz
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Acclaimed political writer John Ganz looks back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today....

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    • A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
    • By: Nina Willner
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family....

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    • The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War
    • By: Daniel F. Harrington
    • Narrated by: John Sipple
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union defeated and began their occupation of Germany in 1945....

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    • The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
    • By: Chris Miller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,050 ratings
    • You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips....

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    • A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
    • By: William J. Burns
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, William J. Burns
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time. Here, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career....

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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 869 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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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 4,469 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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    • Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
    • By: Nicholas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning---and surviving---that harrowing conflict....

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