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    • How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
    • By: Tobias Hürter
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Tobias Hürter takes us back in time to present the epic gripping history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century....

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    • 1587-1968
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 48 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • In this narrative of extraordinary richness, depth, and authority, America's preeminent biographer/historian explored the German national character as no other writer has done....

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    • A History of the World's Most Liberal City
    • By: Russell Shorto
    • Narrated by: Russell Shorto
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 588 ratings
    • An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World....

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    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,232 ratings
    • The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

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    • Coco Chanel's Secret War
    • By: Hal Vaughan
    • Narrated by: Susan Denaker, Mark Deakins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture. She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair....

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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 317 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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    • A Social History of the Raj
    • By: David Gilmour
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • An immersive portrait of the lives in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire....

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    • His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
    • By: Frank McLynn
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to becoming Genghis Khan....

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    • A Cultural History of Russia
    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself....

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    • The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
    • By: Dennis E. Showalter
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 08-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 497 ratings
    • While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been unjustly overlooked by historians....

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    • From Noah to Now
    • By: Hugh Johnson
    • Narrated by: Simon De Deney
    • Length: 26 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Chronicling the making, merchandising, and drinking of wine through millennia, this new edition is fully updated to include Johnson’s view of the evolution of wine over the past 30 years....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • Memoirs of a European
    • By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
    • Narrated by: David Horovitch
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 686 ratings
    • Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....

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    • A History of East Germany
    • By: Katja Hoyer
    • Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer the definitive new history of East Germany—from the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall....

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    • By: A. Scott Berg
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
    • Length: 32 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 831 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg presents Wilson - the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
    • By: Anthony Kaldellis
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 874 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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