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    • Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Roy Samuelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, taking listeners on a terrifying journey into the Cold War and our mutual assured destruction....

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    • Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
    • By: Penny M. Von Eschen
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth....

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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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    • Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
    • By: Taylor Downing
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983 - the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon. The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one - more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis....

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    • America, Russia, and Political Warfare: 1945-2020
    • By: Tim Weiner
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president....

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    • The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
    • By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief....

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    • Russia, Europe, America
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,472 ratings
    • With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....

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    • Russia Against the West and with the Rest
    • By: Angela Stent
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage....

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    • Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World
    • By: Lori Clune
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Their case became an international sensation....

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    • Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
    • By: Thomas de Waal
    • Narrated by: David Rapkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I....

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    • The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
    • By: David Talbot
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • David Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath....

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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 722 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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    • 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 15 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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    • 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 2,032 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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    • Rethinking Cold War History
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective....

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    • The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
    • By: Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 604 ratings
    • Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD....

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    • Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990
    • By: James Stejskal
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan....

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    • The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
    • By: A. J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America....

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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 4,442 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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    • An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
    • By: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of US involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context....

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