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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Howard
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction audiobook provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Kevin Passmore
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Fascism is notoriously hard to define. Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world....

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    • The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
    • By: Helen Fry
    • Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets....

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    • Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
    • By: Brendan Simms, Charlie Laderman
    • Narrated by: Damian Lynch
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • A riveting account of the five most crucial days in 20th-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States....

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    • FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong defining battle with Churchill as the war raged in Africa and Italy....

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    • Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely devastating despots....

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    • Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live....

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    • The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
    • By: Andrew Morton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II....

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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 412 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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    • John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Philip Rose
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

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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 83 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: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 28 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness....

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    • The World at War, 1939-1945
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 31 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences....

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    • By: Dr. Sean Lang
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First World War for Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a global perspective of this global conflict, proving insight into the motivations of the participants....

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    • How the Nazis Ruled Europe
    • By: Mark Mazower
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 27 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Drawing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained, and lost their European dominion - and offers a chilling vision of what the world would have become had they won the war....

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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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Robert J. McMahon
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more....

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    • The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
    • By: Modris Eksteins
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945....

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    • Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
    • By: Tom Reiss
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince....

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