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The Berlin Wall
- August 13, 1961 - November 9, 1989
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
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On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two....
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Thorough and lively
- By Faycal Ikhouane on 07-31-23
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The Berlin Wall
- August 13, 1961 - November 9, 1989
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two....
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Inventing Japan [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country....
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Excellent Primer on Modern Japan
- By John Pavliga on 06-13-06
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Inventing Japan [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-15-05
- Language: English
- LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country....
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Lost Peace
- Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope: 1945-1953
- By: Robert Dallek
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe....
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A Solid Overview and Summary, Clearly Read
- By Frank Donnelly on 04-19-20
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Lost Peace
- Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope: 1945-1953
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-19-10
- Language: English
- In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe....
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- By: Charles Emmerson
- Narrated by: Charles Emmerson
- Length: 25 hrs and 13 mins
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The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the 20th century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance....
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Splendid in all respects
- By Paul Custer on 02-11-20
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- Narrated by: Charles Emmerson
- Length: 25 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the 20th century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance....
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1945
- The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder
- By: Tom Pocock
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1945, Tom Pocock travelled widely and saw the final collapse of the German armies; the horror of concentration camps and destroyed cities; retribution reaching war criminals; and the unpredictable strangers from the east, the Red Army....
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1945
- The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-16-21
- Language: English
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In 1945, Tom Pocock travelled widely and saw the final collapse of the German armies; the horror of concentration camps and destroyed cities; retribution reaching war criminals; and the unpredictable strangers from the east, the Red Army....
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Strategy and the Second World War
- How the War Was Won, and Lost
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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In this timely book, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices made, revealing their continued political resonances....
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Interesting Read
- By David A on 10-31-21
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Strategy and the Second World War
- How the War Was Won, and Lost
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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In this timely book, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices made, revealing their continued political resonances....
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Blitzkrieg Europa
- Blitzkrieg Alternate Series, Book 1
- By: Max Lamirande
- Narrated by: Kenneth Montgomery
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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September 1st, 1939. Germany invades Poland, igniting a major European war. A few months later, the French are also invaded, and the allied armies are utterly defeated. Then the Dunkirk disaster happens, and the United Kingdom loses most of its land army....
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Blitzkrieg Europa
- Blitzkrieg Alternate Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Kenneth Montgomery
- Series: Blitzkrieg Alternate, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-21-22
- Language: English
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September 1st, 1939. Germany invades Poland, igniting a major European war. A few months later, the French are also invaded, and the allied armies are utterly defeated. Then the Dunkirk disaster happens, and the United Kingdom loses most of its land army....
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Leon Trotsky
- A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives)
- By: Joshua Rubenstein
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion....
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Leon Trotsky
- A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- Language: English
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Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion....
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The Day of Battle
- The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: Rick Atkinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate....
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Breathtaking
- By Alexis on 05-17-08
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The Day of Battle
- The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
- Narrated by: Rick Atkinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-24-07
- Language: English
- The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate....
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In the Shadow of Fear
- America and the World in 1950
- By: Nick Bunker
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Prizewinning historian Nick Bunker shows us a polarized nation facing crises at home and abroad in this evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War....
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In the Shadow of Fear
- America and the World in 1950
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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Prizewinning historian Nick Bunker shows us a polarized nation facing crises at home and abroad in this evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War....
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The Forgers
- The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
- By: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrated by: Roger Moorhouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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The Forgers tells the secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II....
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The Forgers
- The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation
- Narrated by: Roger Moorhouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-17-23
- Language: English
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The Forgers tells the secret history of one of the largest—and least-known—rescue operations of World War II....
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Conspiracies of World War II
- Devious Plots, Sinister Saboteurs and Extraordinary Enigmas
- By: Alexander Macdonald
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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There are a wealth of conspiracies surrounding World War II, from covert assassinations to outlandish secret missions and shocking cover-ups....
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worth it
- By Sebastián on 12-02-23
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Conspiracies of World War II
- Devious Plots, Sinister Saboteurs and Extraordinary Enigmas
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-01-23
- Language: English
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There are a wealth of conspiracies surrounding World War II, from covert assassinations to outlandish secret missions and shocking cover-ups....
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The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
- A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye
- By: Barry Trachtenberg
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In the early 1930s in Berlin, Germany, a group of leading Eastern European Jewish intellectuals embarked upon a project to transform the lives of millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews….
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The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish
- A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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In the early 1930s in Berlin, Germany, a group of leading Eastern European Jewish intellectuals embarked upon a project to transform the lives of millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews….
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Imperialism and War: The History Americans Need to Own
- By: Walter L. Hixson
- Narrated by: Walter L. Hixson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Transcending the mythology of “American exceptionalism”, the acclaimed historian Walter Hixson unveils a long history of war and imperialism, one that is deeply embedded in the American national DNA....
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Thanks prof.Hixson
- By Amazon Customer on 01-14-22
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Imperialism and War: The History Americans Need to Own
- Narrated by: Walter L. Hixson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-20-21
- Language: English
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Transcending the mythology of “American exceptionalism”, the acclaimed historian Walter Hixson unveils a long history of war and imperialism, one that is deeply embedded in the American national DNA....
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Beauty Is in the Street
- Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe
- By: Joachim C. Häberlen
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history. In the decades between, Joachim C. Häberlen argues, new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting....
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Beauty Is in the Street
- Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-05-23
- Language: English
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In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history. In the decades between, Joachim C. Häberlen argues, new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting....
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A Special Mission
- Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
- By: Dan Kurzman
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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In September 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome and ordered SS General Karl Wolff to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII....
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A Special Mission
- Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-28-15
- Language: English
- In September 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome and ordered SS General Karl Wolff to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII....
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The Maisky Diaries
- Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
- By: Gabriel Gorodetsky
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records, let alone keeping personal diaries....
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Informative look at the Soviet perspective
- By Mike From Mesa on 03-17-16
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The Maisky Diaries
- Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-01-15
- Language: English
- The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records, let alone keeping personal diaries....
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Life Under Nazi Occupation
- The Struggle to Survive During World War II
- By: Paul Roland
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead, they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry, and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe....
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Life Under Nazi Occupation
- The Struggle to Survive During World War II
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-09-23
- Language: English
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When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead, they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry, and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe....
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Lenin on the Train
- By: Catherine Merridale
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich....
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Deteriorates into Unhinged Lenin-Bashing
- By Ike Nahem on 03-18-19
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Lenin on the Train
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 04-21-17
- Language: English
- In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich....
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1939: Countdown to War
- By: Richard Overy
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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On August 24, 1939, the world held its collective breath as Hitler and Stalin signed the now infamous nonaggression pact, signaling an imminent invasion of Poland....
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The vexed question of inevitability
- By Adeliese Baumann on 12-15-13
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1939: Countdown to War
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-23-10
- Language: English
- On August 24, 1939, the world held its collective breath as Hitler and Stalin signed the now infamous nonaggression pact, signaling an imminent invasion of Poland....
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