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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How FDR Led the Nation into War
    • By: David Kaiser
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In No End Save Victory, esteemed historian David Kaiser draws on extensive archival research to reveal the careful preparations that enabled the United States to win World War II....

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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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    • Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
    • By: Nicholas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning---and surviving---that harrowing conflict....

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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 8 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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    • By: John Maynard Keynes
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I - specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Disaster, 1940-1945
    • By: Frank McDonough
    • Narrated by: Paul McGann
    • Series: The Hitler Years, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In this second volume of The Hitler Years, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich and Germany's ultimate defeat....

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    • The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
    • By: Adam LeBor
    • Narrated by: John Mawson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution....

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    • From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
    • By: Sheri Berman
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • At the end of the 20th century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. But soon, this democratic "ending" began to unravel....

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    • Studies in Character and Statecraft
    • By: Lewis E. Lehrman
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war. Synthesizing a variety of sources, from memoirs and letters to histories and biographies, Lewis Lehrman explains how the Anglo-American alliance worked....

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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 41 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 Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
    • By: Rebecca Erbelding
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In Rescue Board, US Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar Rebecca Erbelding uses unrivaled access to archival materials and fresh interviews with survivors to tell the dramatic unknown story of America's last-ditch effort to save the Jews of Europe....

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