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    • An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
    • By: Julia Baird
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing....

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    • Stalin's War on Ukraine
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,113 ratings
    • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes - the consequences of which still resonate today....

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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,503 ratings
    • If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....

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    • Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world....

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    • The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,788 ratings
    • In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project....

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    • The True Story of the D-Day Spies
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 950 ratings
    • On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
    • Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,382 ratings
    • In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....

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    • A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945; Citizens and Soldiers
    • By: Nicholas Stargardt
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche....

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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 4,546 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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    • Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
    • By: Douglas Brunt
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252 ratings
    • This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I.

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    • Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882-1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940-1945)
    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 58 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns's magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating political figure....

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    • The Escape of Adolf Hitler
    • By: Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • Did Hitler - code name "Grey Wolf" - really die in 1945? Gripping new evidence shows what could have happened....

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    • The Century Trilogy, Book 2
    • By: Ken Follett
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: Century Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • Ken Follett follows up his New York Times best seller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, pause-resisting epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age....

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    • By: Tim Powers
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • In his 11th novel, Tim Powers takes his unique brand of speculative fiction into uncharted territory, instilling the old-fashioned espionage novel with a healthy dose of the supernatural....

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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence....

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    • A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014 ratings
    • The fateful quarter-century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was heaving in its pain....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 919 ratings
    • This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism"....

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    • By: Hew Strachan
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire....

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    • Never a Dull Moment
    • By: Jane Ridley
    • Narrated by: Joanna David
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired....

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