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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 53 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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    • By: Joyce E. Salisbury, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Joyce E. Salisbury
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • The Middle Ages was a time of major historical shifts and transformations. This amazing era reverberates with discoveries, events, and processes integral to the world we know now. In these 24 lectures, Professor Salisbury leads you on a sumptuous tour of this incredible historical epoch....

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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 4,487 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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    • His Life and World
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 43 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194 ratings
    • This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world....

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    • Americans in Paris
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,395 ratings
    • Here is the enthralling story of the American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900....

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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 2,766 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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    • By: Alan Furst
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Series: Night Soldiers, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 801 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, the Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

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    • June 6, 1944
    • By: Cornelius Ryan
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,212 ratings
    • The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy....

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    • Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Alexander Adams
    • Length: 28 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and best-selling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success....

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    • Russia, Europe, America
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479 ratings
    • 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 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 10,455 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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    • The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
    • By: Dan Jones
    • Narrated by: Dan Jones
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,823 ratings
    • In 1307, as they struggled to secure their last strongholds in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Templars fell afoul of the vindictive and impulsive king of France....

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    • The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
    • This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

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    • Ascent 1889-1939
    • By: Volker Ullrich
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....

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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 1,213 ratings
    • September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever....

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    • Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
    • By: James Holland
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 26 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 801 ratings
    • The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread....

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    • War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • By: Scott Anderson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East....

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    • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II.

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