Interwar Period

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    • An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
    • By: William L. Shirer
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 48 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • As an international war correspondent and radio commentator, William L. Shirer didn't just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world's oldest military powers - and institute a rule of terror and paranoia....

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    • The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 434 ratings
    • This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

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    • Downfall: 1939-1945
    • By: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 comes a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself....

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    • A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
    • By: David Gilmour
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake....

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    • The True Story of the D-Day Spies
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 950 ratings
    • On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery....

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    • Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 31 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,432 ratings
    • Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur....

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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 384 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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    • Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
    • By: Miranda Carter
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 611 ratings
    • In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia....

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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 583 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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    • By: Hew Strachan
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • The First World War was a truly global conflict from the start, with many of the most decisive battles fought in or directly affecting the Balkans, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire....

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    • How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,604 ratings
    • Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe)....

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    • Rethinking the Long Peace
    • By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • A vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War which views the decades-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the 20th century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace" actually was....

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    • Europe 1914-1949
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 8
    • Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 717 ratings
    • The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the 20th century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II....

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    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 921 ratings
    • Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates....

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    • The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Jack Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term....

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    • Ascent 1889-1939
    • By: Volker Ullrich
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 700 ratings
    • A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....

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