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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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    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the present day....

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    • The Holocaust as History and Warning
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first....

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    • The Fight for Freedom
    • By: Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 819 ratings
    • Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930s - Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,198 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
    • By: Scott Anderson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world....

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    • A Global Biography
    • By: Brendan Simms
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A powerfully argued and utterly definitive account of a murderous tyrant we thought we understood, Hitler is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the Second World War....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
    • By: Daniel Yergin
    • Narrated by: Bob Jamieson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 806 ratings
    • The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself....

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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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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • Soldier of Destiny
    • By: Michael Broers
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Written with great energy and authority - and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself - the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror....

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    • The Life of Heydrich
    • By: Robert Gerwarth
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership....

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    • A History of Intelligence
    • By: Christopher Andrew
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 37 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • In this audiobook, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia - and shows its relevance today....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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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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    • America in World War I
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period....

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    • By: Keith Jeffery
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Keith Jeffery’s fascinating and revealing account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world’s first spy agency....

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    • The Year The World Ended
    • By: Paul Ham
    • Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
    • Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did....

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    • By: Stanley G. Payne
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth....

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