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Nazi Billionaires
- The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
- By: David de Jong
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it....
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Good but flawed
- By I. M. Rightwriter on 07-11-23
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Nazi Billionaires
- The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-19-22
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it....
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A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
- By: John Gibney
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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A brisk, concise, and enjoyable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the 21st century....
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Accurate, concise, but lacks spark
- By lightbringer34 on 01-22-24
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A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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A brisk, concise, and enjoyable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the 21st century....
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
- By: Nikolaus Wachsmann
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 31 hrs and 5 mins
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In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding....
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Narrator warning!
- By S R L COTTERILL on 04-24-15
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 31 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-14-15
- Language: English
- In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding....
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Wealth, War, and Wisdom
- By: Barton Biggs
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....
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A Must For Every Serious Investor
- By morton on 07-30-08
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Wealth, War, and Wisdom
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-03-08
- Language: English
- Legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs will help the 21st-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy....
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Unfamiliar Fishes
- By: Sarah Vowell
- Narrated by: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year crucial to our nation's identity - the year the United States annexed Hawaii....
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Sarah Vowell does it again!
- By Kat on 03-23-11
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Unfamiliar Fishes
- Narrated by: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery, Sarah Vowell
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-22-11
- Language: English
- Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year crucial to our nation's identity - the year the United States annexed Hawaii....
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- By: S. Frederick Starr
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....
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Subject worthwhile but repetative narrative
- By F-M on 04-10-14
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Lost Enlightenment
- Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-12-13
- Language: English
- Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....
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Ancient Greece, Second Edition
- From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
- By: Thomas R. Martin
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century BC....
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Just the way I like it!
- By TracyB on 07-25-18
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Ancient Greece, Second Edition
- From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
- In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century BC....
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The Polish Officer
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Insight into a dark era
- By Charles Lawton on 12-10-07
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The Polish Officer
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Series: Night Soldiers, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-01-05
- Language: English
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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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Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- By: Iain Gately
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....
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Interesting until a pro-smoking ending
- By Kelli on 12-25-20
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Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-13-15
- Language: English
- Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....
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The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy
- By: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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This volume of Churchill's history ofWorld Ward 2 recounts the dramatic months as the war drew to a close - the normandy landings, the liberation of western Europe....
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Always good, occasionally great
- By John M on 12-15-08
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The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Series: Churchill's WWII, Book 4
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-07-08
- Language: English
- This volume of Churchill's history ofWorld Ward 2 recounts the dramatic months as the war drew to a close - the normandy landings, the liberation of western Europe....
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Beyond the Wall
- A History of East Germany
- By: Katja Hoyer
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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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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Well written and accurate
- By Jane on 11-05-23
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Beyond the Wall
- A History of East Germany
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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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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Stalin's Englishman
- Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
- By: Andrew Lownie
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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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 World's Worst Spy - But Interesting
- By Jose on 06-03-17
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Stalin's Englishman
- Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-31-17
- Language: English
- 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 Pope at War
- The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
- By: David I. Kertzer
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
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When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II....
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Intellectually dishonest
- By ReviewAmazon384 on 04-08-23
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The Pope at War
- The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-07-22
- Language: English
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When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II....
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
- By: Sandra Benjamin
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
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Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale....
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Surprisingly compelling!
- By P. Strayer on 08-25-12
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-19-12
- Language: English
- Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delight in this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dipped into over time, or used as a reference guide to each period in Sicily's fascinating tale....
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The Rothschilds
- A Family Portrait
- By: Frederic Morton
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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No family in the past two centuries has been as constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life....
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Engaging read but dubious sentiment
- By T.G. on 04-23-20
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The Rothschilds
- A Family Portrait
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-13-18
- Language: English
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No family in the past two centuries has been as constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life....
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Those Angry Days
- Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
- By: Lynne Olson
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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At the center of the debate over American intervention in World War II stood the two most famous men in America....
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Incivility in Politics - A Real Shocker!
- By Carole T. on 04-24-13
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Those Angry Days
- Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-26-13
- Language: English
- At the center of the debate over American intervention in World War II stood the two most famous men in America....
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The Dragons and the Snakes
- How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
- By: David Kilcullen
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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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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Horrible narrator
- By Paul on 12-21-23
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The Dragons and the Snakes
- How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-24-23
- Language: English
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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 Mother Tongue
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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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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More satire than history
- By Barbara Kindle Customer on 12-18-15
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The Mother Tongue
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-15-15
- Language: English
- 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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The Reformation
- A History
- By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 36 hrs and 11 mins
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At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart....
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Excellent
- By Eli Shem Tov on 05-15-17
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The Reformation
- A History
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 36 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-28-17
- Language: English
- At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart....
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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The usual Vietnam info delivered in the old prose
- By Kevin Warren on 10-26-17
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Ken Burns, Brian Corrigan
- Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
- A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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