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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
- By: Lacey Baldwin Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history....
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- By Megan G. on 08-27-18
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-21-17
- Language: English
- Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history....
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....
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First released 20 years ago & now a classic!
- By Wayne on 11-05-18
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
- This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- By: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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Lacks Nuance
- By Joel Langenfeld on 07-02-15
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-29-11
- Language: English
- As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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The Death of Democracy
- Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
- By: Benjamin Carter Hett
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, with disturbing resonances for our own time....
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I can't trust the author's account of these events
- By Example: Mark Twain on 11-10-19
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The Death of Democracy
- Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, with disturbing resonances for our own time....
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
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War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death....
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Wonderful
- By Tad Davis on 11-14-21
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War and Peace
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-04-21
- Language: English
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War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death....
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Overthrow
- America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled 14 foreign governments, not always to its own benefit....
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Looking at the dark side
- By Stanley on 08-02-06
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Overthrow
- America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-08-06
- Language: English
- A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled 14 foreign governments, not always to its own benefit....
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- By: David S. Landes
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
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Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....
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A detailed explanation
- By Kaarlis on 12-07-21
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-27-21
- Language: English
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Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....
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American History World History Our History
- By Bill on 06-13-22
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-12-22
- Language: English
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Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....
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Debt of Honor
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- By: Tom Clancy
- Narrated by: John MacDonald
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
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Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world....
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WORSE READING/PERFORMANCE EVER!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-20-15
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Debt of Honor
- A Jack Ryan Novel
- Narrated by: John MacDonald
- Series: A Jack Ryan Novel (publication order), Book 6, A Jack Ryan Novel (chronological order), Book 8
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-19-11
- Language: English
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Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world....
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Embers of War
- The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- By: Fredrik Logevall
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
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An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another....
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Understanding Why We failed the People of Vietnam
- By VA on 03-22-21
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Embers of War
- The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-13-18
- Language: English
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An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another....
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Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches....
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I thought I knew the battle of the frontiers
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-21
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Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 12-02-20
- Language: English
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches....
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The 48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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Not a how to guide ..
- By Go2Go on 03-19-13
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The 48 Laws of Power
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-25-07
- Language: English
- Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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Fire and Blood
- A History of Mexico
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 35 hrs and 36 mins
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T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization....
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Good book bad narration
- By M. A. Chris Raine on 03-23-19
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Fire and Blood
- A History of Mexico
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 35 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
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T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization....
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Antony Beevor has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin is a terrible story of pride, stupidity....
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Engrossing
- By Salui on 09-06-16
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-22-16
- Language: English
- Antony Beevor has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin is a terrible story of pride, stupidity....
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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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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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- By Richard Keohane on 04-08-18
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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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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The Ottoman Endgame
- War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
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An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East....
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WWI from a different perspective
- By Michael L Krogh on 11-09-15
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The Ottoman Endgame
- War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-13-15
- Language: English
- An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East....
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Crimea
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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Outstanding History of the Crimean War
- By Rick Sailor on 11-08-18
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Crimea
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-12-18
- Language: English
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- By: Cornelius Ryan
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy....
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Horrendous narration makes it impossible to listen
- By Mary on 03-18-12
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The Longest Day
- June 6, 1944
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-02-12
- Language: English
- The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy....
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
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In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....
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Stalinist Tyranny
- By Kindle Customer on 12-28-19
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....
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Desert Fox
- The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
- By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany - when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend - through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II....
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Amazing Detail, Amazing Story!
- By Al888 on 05-19-19
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Desert Fox
- The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-12-19
- Language: English
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This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany - when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend - through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II....
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