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    • By: John Maynard Keynes
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I - specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times....

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    • A Personal Frontline History
    • By: Peter Millar
    • Narrated by: Damian Lynch
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent....

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    • The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe's Bullion
    • By: George M. Taber
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In the highly anticipated new book from the best-selling author of Judgment of Paris,George M. Taber reveals the integral role gold played in World War II....

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    • Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A propulsive human drama, The Last Ships from Hamburg chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible....

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    • The Battle for Austria 1945
    • By: William Alan Webb
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 36 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Austria's fate held major ramifications for postwar Europe and the entire free world, yet there is no complete account of the campaign written in English. Given the scale of the fighting and the scope of the consequences, this book fills a major gap in the literature of World War Two....

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    • How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
    • By: Andrew Pettegree
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A top literary historian illuminates how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents for peace....

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    • The Legacy of the War and Its Impact on Political and Military Thinking Since 1945
    • By: Matthias Strohn
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The year 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking....

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    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified...

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    • From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
    • By: Sheri Berman
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • At the end of the 20th century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. But soon, this democratic "ending" began to unravel....

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    • Political Leadership in the Modern Age
    • By: Archie Brown
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • All too frequently leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak....

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    • The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
    • By: Craig L. Symonds
    • Narrated by: Craig L. Symonds
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 365 ratings
    • Seventy years ago, more than 6000 Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a 50-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • The Race for the Atom Bomb
    • By: Michael Joseloff
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But Allied scientists are struggling. Intelligence reports put them second in a competition that could determine the outcome of the war: the race to build the world’s first nuclear weapon....

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    • The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
    • By: Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • In 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer...

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    • Coco Chanel's Secret War
    • By: Hal Vaughan
    • Narrated by: Susan Denaker, Mark Deakins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture. She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair....

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    • How the Second World War Changed Us
    • By: Keith Lowe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as World War II was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since....

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    • By: Jonathan Sperber
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist....

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    • A Short History
    • By: Norman Stone
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace....

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    • A Life
    • By: Adam Zamoyski
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was seeking to achieve....

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    • A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
    • By: Paul Preston
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Paul Preston's magisterial work begins in the late 19th century with Spain's collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory....

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