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    • The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....

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    • China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
    • By: Michael Pillsbury
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,504 ratings
    • One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....

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    • Year of Revolution
    • By: Mike Rapport
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 - but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom....

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    • The Giants Who Made Our World
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history....

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    • 1918, the Last Year of the Great War
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • From freezing infantrymen huddled in trenches to intricate political maneuvering in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War....

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    • A History of the World in Eight Plagues
    • By: Jonathan Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history....

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    • From Enlightenment to Tyranny
    • By: Ian Davidson
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 878 ratings
    • A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson....

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    • The Battle for Stalingrad
    • By: William Craig
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410 ratings
    • A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....

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    • Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
    • By: Aja Raden
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? Listen to find out....

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    • The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Jim Frangione
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant, conflicted humanity....

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    • The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria
    • By: Theo Aronson
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Although rarely documented as the warmest of monarchs and often criticized for her surly attitude to motherhood, Queen Victoria did successfully heir nine children. By the late 19th century, she had over 30 surviving grandchildren....

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    • The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores....

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    • The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
    • By: Calder Walton
    • Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
    • Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Calder Walton presents the “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.

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    • A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
    • By: Vijay Prashad
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Harry Chase
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt (abridged), Book 2
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 726 ratings
    • The most eagerly awaited presidential biography in years, Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris’s classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt....

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    • Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
    • By: Tim Marshall
    • Narrated by: Tim Marshall
    • Series: Politics of Place
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future....

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    • Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings
    • From acclaimed best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell....

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    • A Novel
    • By: James A. Michener
    • Narrated by: Larry McKeever
    • Length: 30 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies....

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    • The Life of Heydrich
    • By: Robert Gerwarth
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 418 ratings
    • Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership....

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    • Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A propulsive human drama, The Last Ships from Hamburg chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible....

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