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    • Time to End the War on Terrorism
    • By: Scott Horton
    • Narrated by: Scott Horton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism is a masterly history of these chaotic, tragic and above all futile conflicts, ranging with his usual excoriating accuracy from Mali to Pakistan, from Iraq to Yemen by way of Syria and Libya....

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

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    • A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume II
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 739 ratings
    • Between 1485 and 1688, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. His daughter, Elizabeth I, battled for succession and supremacy at home....

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    • An American Life
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Length: 31 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar delivers a revelatory biography of the Cold War's troubled mastermind....

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    • Soldier of Destiny
    • By: Michael Broers
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Written with great energy and authority - and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself - the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror....

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    • The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Series: The Red Wheel, Book 3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....

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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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    • Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Elliot Hill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010 ratings
    • A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks....

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    • By: Otto Penzler - editor
    • Narrated by: Rachael Beresford, Stephen Bowlby, Dan Calley
    • Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries....

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    • American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
    • By: Robert M. Gates
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed number one best-selling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world....

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    • The Long Year of Revolution
    • By: Mary Beth Norton
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775....

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    • The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper
    • By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, David Foreman, Martin Pelger, Alla Igorevna Begunova
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2,000 female snipers....

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    • A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation.....

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    • The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • By: Douglas Waller
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

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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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    • The Giants Who Made Our World
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history....

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    • From Enlightenment to Tyranny
    • By: Ian Davidson
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 877 ratings
    • A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson....

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    • By: Rebecca Stefoff, Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • This audiobook brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in stories for young people....

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    • Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
    • By: Nicholas Morton
    • Narrated by: Nick Biadon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions....

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