Interwar Period

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    • The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
    • By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....

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    • A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
    • By: Robert Hughes
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 26 hrs
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From the beginning, Rome was a hotbed of power, overweening ambition, desire, political genius, and corruption....

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    • The Indirect Approach
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers - a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century"....

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    • World War II in Europe, 1939-1945
    • By: Norman Davies
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 526 ratings
    • If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels....

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    • The Price of Peace
    • By: S. M. Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy’s engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR’s negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought....

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    • Voices from the BBC Archive
    • By: Joanna Bourke
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first half of the 20th century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith....

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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 525 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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    • 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 546 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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    • The Invasion of Poland 1939
    • By: Robert Forczyk
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe....

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    • America and Our Imperiled World
    • By: Robert Kagan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world - and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward....

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    • Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
    • By: Cita Stelzer
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • Stelzer draws on previously untapped material and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during, and after WWII....

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    • The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents
    • By: Hervie Haufler
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered Germany's defense and intelligence organization to carry out Operation Lena - a program to place spies within Britain....

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    • The Tyrants and the Second World War
    • By: Laurence Rees
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike....

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    • Emperor, Soldier, Saint
    • By: Peter Sarris
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In Justinian, a definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, Peter Sarris offers a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times....

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    • A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
    • By: Madeleine Albright
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 434 ratings
    • Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia....

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    • Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
    • By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • From a New York Times bestselling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
    • By: John Foot
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war, in Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond....

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    • The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World
    • By: James Lacey, Williamson Murray
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • James Lacey and Williamson Murray spotlight only those engagements that changed the course of civilization....

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    • By: John Lukacs
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • In the days between May 24th and 28th, 1940, the British War Cabinet held a historical debate over whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war....

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