Interwar Period

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    • The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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    • The German Revolution
    • By: Robert Gerwarth
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure. Robert Gerwarth argues here that it brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way....

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    • A Life in the Cold War
    • By: Robert L Beisner
    • Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
    • Length: 31 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era....

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    • Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
    • By: Giles Tremlett
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 23 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation....

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    • A History of Communism
    • By: David Priestland
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 28 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • In The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across 200 years....

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    • The Last European Dictatorship
    • By: Andrew Wilson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Protests continue in Belarus in the aftermath of 2020's fraught presidential election. In this updated edition of his exploration of Belarus's complicated road to nationhood, Andrew Wilson has added two new chapters that reveal the extent of Aliaksandr Lukashenka's grip on power....

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    • War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
    • By: Laura Engelstein
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 31 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues....

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    • The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 6
    • By: Upton Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Series: The Lanny Budd, Book 6
    • Length: 30 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Lanny Budd infiltrates the Nazi high command in the riveting sixth chapter of Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series of historical novels....

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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 520 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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    • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Len Cariou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II....

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    • 1923-1968: The Idealist
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Kissinger: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson, read by Roy McMillan....

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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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    • 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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    • The End of World War Two in the West
    • By: Peter Caddick-Adams
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Here is Peter Caddick-Adams's third volume in his trilogy about the final year of the Western front in World War Two. Fire & Steel covers the war's final 100 days....

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    • By: Judith Mackrell
    • Narrated by: Julia Franklin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned....

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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 63 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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    • The First World War and American Society
    • By: David M. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history....

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    • Portrait of a City Between East and West
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling  account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe....

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    • A Personal History of Europe
    • By: Timothy Garton Ash
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies...

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