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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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    • How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the 20th century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt....

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    • America and the World in the 1950s
    • By: William I. Hitchcock
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 25 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 718 ratings
    • An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself....

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    • A Cultural History of Russia
    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 29 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself....

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Jolene Kim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age....

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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 1,201 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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    • How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
    • By: Sarah Rose
    • Narrated by: Sarah Rose
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • Here is the remarkable account of Robert Fortune's journeys into China - a thrilling narrative that combines history, geography, botany, natural science, and old-fashioned adventure....

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    • The Birth of American Independence
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding....

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    • Leading Millions into the Abyss
    • By: Laurence Rees
    • Narrated by: Michael Jayston
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian and documentary filmmaker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler's appeal and reveals the role his supposed "charisma" played in his success....

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • By: Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • By: Eric Flint, David Weber
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Series: 1632: Ring of Fire, Book 3
    • Length: 22 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,437 ratings
    • In 1633, the West Virginians attempt to use their modern-day knowledge to build a resistance against the forces of France, Spain,and England....

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    • The Man and the Statesman
    • By: A.J.P. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s....

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    • Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome
    • By: Christopher Kelly
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • We see Attila as both a master warrior and an astute strategist whose rule was threatening but whose sudden loss of power was even more so. The End of Empire is an original exploration of the clash between empire and barbarity in the ancient world, full of contemporary resonance....

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    • How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 513 ratings
    • Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date....

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    • A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
    • By: Cathal J. Nolan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive". Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt - all resonate in the literature of war....

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    • From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
    • By: Thomas R. Martin
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 705 ratings
    • 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 Unmooring of American Military Power
    • By: Rachel Maddow
    • Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,091 ratings
    • Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails....

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    • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
    • By: Ian Black
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today....

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