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    • What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today
    • By: Hal Brands
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons in how to succeed in great-power rivalry today....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 994 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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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 310 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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    • 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 the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
    • By: Frederick Kempe
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • In Cold War Berlin, the United States and the Soviet Union stand nose to nose, with the possibility of nuclear war just one misstep away....

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    • The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
    • By: Iain MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the US confronted the USSR during the Cold War....

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    • Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
    • By: Gregg Herken
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails....

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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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    • Europe 1950-2017
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 9
    • Length: 27 hrs
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe....

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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 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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    • World at War 85 Series, Book 1
    • By: Brad Smith
    • Narrated by: Keith Tracton, Chelsea Kreines, Mark Singer
    • Series: World at War 85, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Storming the Gap: First Strike reveals the explosive origins of the Third World War and delves into the opening salvos of the conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in a world where the Cold War turns hot in 1985....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 263 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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    • 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 Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
    • By: Susan Eisenhower
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne, Susan Eisenhower
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time — by a DC policy strategist, security expert, and his granddaughter. Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them....

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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 Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
    • By: Michael Jones
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • After Hitler shines a light on 10 fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the 20th century....

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