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    • The Politics of Us and Them
    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,474 ratings
    • As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics....

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    • China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
    • By: Michael Pillsbury
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,501 ratings
    • One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....

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    • The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
    • By: Philippe Sands
    • Narrated by: Philippe Sands, Katja Riemann, Stephen Fry
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perón's Argentina, "the Ratline" - from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street....

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    • A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
    • By: Gerald Posner
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church....

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    • The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 21 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world....

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    • The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
    • By: Jeffrey Lee
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the Crusades....

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    • The Power of Words
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Fraser Wilson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye....

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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 869 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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    • The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
    • By: David de Jong
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,267 ratings
    • 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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    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

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    • By: Frances FitzGerald
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam - the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists....

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    • A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas....

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    • By: Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan - translator
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with....

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    • Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
    • By: Vincent Bevins
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,205 ratings
    • In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
    • By: Gregory J. Wallance
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 544 ratings
    • The classic real-life story of the superspy whose vast intelligence network helped defeat the Nazis in World War II....

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    • How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers
    • By: Bruce Jones
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production....

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    • By: William Chester Jordan
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • It was an age of hope, accomplishment, and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. The era seemed to be flowering into a renaissance - until the disastrous 14th century rained catastrophe....

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