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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 582 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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    • Image and Reality in the Third Reich
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: George Cunningham
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 07-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Few, if any, 20th-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. Ian Kershaw's groundbreaking study charts the creation, growth, and decline of the "Hitler myth"....

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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 1,603 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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    • 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 663 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 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 949 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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    • By: Herman Wouk
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Series: Winds of War, Book 2
    • Length: 56 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,522 ratings
    • Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers....

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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 284 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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    • 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 110 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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    • 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 433 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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    • 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 716 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: Julian Jackson
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 41 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • In a definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures this titanic figure as never before....

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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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    • FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
    • By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
    • Narrated by: Bret Baier
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • A gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war’s endgame, including the D-Day invasion....

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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 696 ratings
    • A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....

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    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 38 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 547 ratings
    • The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time.....

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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 917 ratings
    • Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates....

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    • A History of Horror
    • By: Jacques Delarue, Mervyn Savill - translator
    • Narrated by: Eric Brooks
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • A history of Nazi Germany's secret police written by one of their victims, with a new introduction by the author....

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