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    • A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945; Citizens and Soldiers
    • By: Nicholas Stargardt
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 811 ratings
    • A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche....

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    • The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust....

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    • John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Philip Rose
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

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    • The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
    • By: Andrew Morton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II....

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    • The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
    • By: David I. Kertzer
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II....

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    • The World at War, 1939-1945
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 31 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 407 ratings
    • From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences....

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    • Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
    • By: Winston Groom
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders - aligned to win World War II and created a new world order....

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    • The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
    • By: Deborah Cohen
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story....

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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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    • FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II
    • By: James Lacey
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter, James Lacey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • A Team of Rivals for World War II - the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, DC, to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific....

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    • A History of Horror
    • By: Jacques Delarue, Mervyn Savill - translator
    • Narrated by: Eric Brooks
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • A history of Nazi Germany's secret police written by one of their victims, with a new introduction by the author....

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    • Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely devastating despots....

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    • Churchill, 1940-1945
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 25 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 323 ratings
    • A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character....

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    • Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live....

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    • Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
    • By: Dennis Showalter, Harold Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • From the Munich crisis to the dropping of the first atom bomb, and from Hitler's declaration of war on the United States to the D-Day landings - historians suggest "what would have been"....

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    • How the Nazis Ruled Europe
    • By: Mark Mazower
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 27 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Drawing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained, and lost their European dominion - and offers a chilling vision of what the world would have become had they won the war....

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    • By: Paul Gottfried
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years....

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    • The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe
    • By: Michael Jones
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • After Hitler shines a light on 10 fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the 20th century....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Kevin Passmore
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Fascism is notoriously hard to define. Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world....

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