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    • Never a Dull Moment
    • By: Jane Ridley
    • Narrated by: Joanna David
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired....

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    • By: Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt....

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    • To Rule the World
    • By: Martyn Rady
    • Narrated by: Simon Boughey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall....

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    • How Europe Went to War in 1914
    • By: Christopher Clark
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 862 ratings
    • The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War....

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    • The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 32 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 906 ratings
    • In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, best-selling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander's leadership during World War II....

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    • Opium's Hidden Histories
    • By: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family—the climax of a years long project....

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    • An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
    • By: Julia Baird
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing....

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    • Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
    • By: R. F. Kuang
    • Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
    • Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,190 ratings
    • 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation....

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    • The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: George K. Wilson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,675 ratings
    • Citizen Soldiers provides a compelling account of the extraordinary stories of ordinary men in their fight for democracy....

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    • The Road to 1914
    • By: Margaret MacMillan
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 980 ratings
    • From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I....

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    • The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
    • By: William Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25....

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    • The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan....

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    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 35 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,389 ratings
    • The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany....

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    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,903 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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    • The Escape of Adolf Hitler
    • By: Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • Did Hitler - code name "Grey Wolf" - really die in 1945? Gripping new evidence shows what could have happened....

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    • Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
    • By: Benjamin Carter Hett
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 577 ratings
    • Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, with disturbing resonances for our own time....

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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,072 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 912 ratings
    • When Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had already become the most admired person in the US and one of the most unlikely celebrities to capture the world’s imagination....

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