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    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
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    • In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico....

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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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    • Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China
    • By: Matthew Kroenig
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power rivalries. He contends that democracies actually have unique economic, diplomatic, and military advantages in long-run geopolitical competitions....

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    • A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
    • By: Frank Dikotter
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order....

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    • By: The Great Courses, J. Rufus Fears
    • Narrated by: J. Rufus Fears
    • Series: The Great Courses: Modern History
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,384 ratings
    • In these 12 inspiring lectures, Professor Fears presents a well-balanced portrait of Churchill that does not whitewash his flaws. Yet he also draws on the most recent historical scholarship and material from Churchill's writings and speeches....

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    • Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
    • By: Tom Reiss
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,083 ratings
    • General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiarbecause his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers....

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    • The Indirect Approach
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers - a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 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 539 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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    • By: John Gibney
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • A brisk, concise, and enjoyable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the 21st century....

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    • A History of European Civilization from Wycliffe to Calvin, 1300 - 1564 (The Story of Civilization, Book 6)
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 6
    • Length: 50 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-14
    • Language: English
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    • The sixth volume of Durant's acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Reformation chronicles the history of European civilization from 1300 to 1564....

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    • The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History
    • By: William Stevenson
    • Narrated by: David McAlister
    • Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-14
    • Language: English
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    • The classic real-life story of the superspy whose vast intelligence network helped defeat the Nazis in World War II....

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    • A Family Portrait
    • By: Frederic Morton
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • 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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    • France 1940
    • By: Alistair Horne
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 24 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne's narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions....

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    • Europe 1950-2017
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 9
    • Length: 27 hrs
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe....

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    • The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Daniel McGowan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Soon after WWII, U.S. statesman Dean Acheson warned that creating Israel on land already inhabited by Palestinians would "imperil" both American and all Western interests in the region....

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    • The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
    • By: Julia Boyd
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon....

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    • A Reassessment
    • By: Robert Conquest
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 30 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.....

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    • Explaining World War I
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims....

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