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    • How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
    • By: David Kilcullen
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict....

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    • The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,269 ratings
    • With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....

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    • A New History of World War II
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin - not Hitler - was the animating force of World War II in this major new history....

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    • A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
    • By: Daniel J. Boorstin
    • Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • The Discoverers is a vivid, sweeping and original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him...

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    • By: John Keegan
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 739 ratings
    • In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict....

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    • Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Elliot Hill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012 ratings
    • A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks....

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    • How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the 20th century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt....

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    • Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change
    • By: Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital....

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    • A Deep History of the Earliest States
    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 846 ratings
    • Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....

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    • Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
    • By: Andrew Lownie
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service....

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    • The Attraction of Evil
    • By: Paul Roland
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • The Nazis believed their mission was to "masculinize" life in Germany, but many women still became active participants in murder and mayhem....

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    • By: William Chester Jordan
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • It was an age of hope, accomplishment, and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. The era seemed to be flowering into a renaissance - until the disastrous 14th century rained catastrophe....

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    • Countdown to Infamy
    • By: Eri Hotta
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose....

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    • History for the Classical Child: The Modern Age (Story of the World)
    • By: Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrated by: Jim Weiss
    • Series: The Story of the World, Book Volume 4
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Spend an entire year investigating the fascinating story of the modern world, from the American Civil War through the end of the twentieth century—from Europe and the Middle East through India, China, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, and both North and South America....

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    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
    • Here is the New York Times best seller, revised and expanded with a new afterword - an essential update of Fareed Zakaria's analysis of America and its shifting position in world affairs....

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    • Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
    • By: Eric D. Weitz
    • Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Robert G. Slade paints a riveting portrait of the Weimar era....

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    • Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 313 ratings
    • This is the story of two men and the two decisions that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War I and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution....

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    • A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Often romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus Konstam separates myth from reality, tracing the history of piracy through the centuries....

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