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    • How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
    • By: Anthony McCarten
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 970 ratings
    • May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to prime minister, and the horrors of Blitzkrieg witness one Western European democracy fall after another....

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    • Disaster, 1940-1945
    • By: Frank McDonough
    • Narrated by: Paul McGann
    • Series: The Hitler Years, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In this second volume of The Hitler Years, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich and Germany's ultimate defeat....

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    • By: Richard Pipes
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 41 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Groundbreaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world", The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that aroused great controversy....

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    • Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
    • By: Michel Paradis
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo Michel Paradis provides a thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.

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    • The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....

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    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • "The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist," best selling author Mark Kurlansky says...

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    • A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
    • By: Fernando Cervantes
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....

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    • A Longer View
    • By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state....

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    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: John Julius Norwich
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 366 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich - called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France, a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best....

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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 313 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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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    • By: Jason Stearns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....

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    • Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 571 ratings
    • From acclaimed best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell....

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    • A Warning
    • By: Madeleine Albright
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,501 ratings
    • From one of the most admired international leaders comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses....

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    • By: Robert Tombs
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 43 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • Robert Tombs' momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world....

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

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    • The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
    • By: Rodney Stark
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 537 ratings
    • How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas-among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge...

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    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

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    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified...

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