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    • The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
    • By: Stephen Walker
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • April 12, 1961. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history....

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    • Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
    • By: Archie Brown
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong....

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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 871 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 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 605 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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    • 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 817 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 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 4,529 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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    • Nixon and China, 1969-1972
    • By: Chris Tudda
    • Narrated by: Aaron Killian
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Chris Tudda's A Cold War Turning Point reveals new details about the relationship forged by the Nixon administration and the Chinese government that dramatically altered the trajectory....

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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 105 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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    • My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa
    • By: James M. Hawes, Mary Ann Koenig
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government....

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    • A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It
    • By: Dan Hampton
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of Viper Pilot chronicles another thrilling chapter in American aviation history: the race to break the sound barrier....

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    • By: Tony Judt
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,314 ratings
    • Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement.....

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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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 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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    • 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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    • By: Warren Kozak
    • Narrated by: Grainger Hines
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • The firebombing of Tokyo. Strategic Air Command. John F. Kennedy. Dr. Strangelove. George Wallace. All of these have one man in common—General Curtis LeMay, who remains as enigmatic and controversial as he was in life. Until now....

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    • Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom
    • By: W. Cleon Skousen
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 984 ratings
    • The Naked Communist contains a distillation of more than a hundred books and treatises on communism, many written by Marxist authors....

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    • Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century....

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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 1,705 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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