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    • Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
    • By: J. Samuel Walker
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research, mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available....

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    • A Portrait
    • By: Patrick French
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul....

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    • The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
    • By: Alex Abella
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present....

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    • China's World War II, 1937 - 1945
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan....

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    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, was born to power. But history has not been kind to "Charley", as the king called him, because, in his own words, he "backed the wrong horse", and a very dark horse indeed: Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party....

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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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    • The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
    • By: Norman M. Naimark
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought....

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    • How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation
    • By: Robert L. Beir, Brian Josepher
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • There is a great debate among historians about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions during the Holocaust. Was FDR the hero that defeated the Germans, or did he turn a blind eye to the plight of the Jews as long as he possibly could.....

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    • Radical Protest and Its Enemies
    • By: Richard Vinen
    • Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale. The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world....

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    • The Transforming History of Land Ownership
    • By: Andro Linklater
    • Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • The history and evolution of land ownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed....

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    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Featuring fascinating case studies drawn from history, Leadership is the classic audiobook for anyone seeking to understand executive decision-making....

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    • The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
    • By: Michael S. Neiberg
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the "most shocking single event" of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940....

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    • A Life
    • By: Michael Zantovsky
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Written by Michael Zantovsky, Havel's former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend, Havel: A Life presents a revelatory portrait of this giant among men....

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    • The History of an Idea
    • By: Jacob Soll
    • Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • MacArthur “Genius”Jacob Soll presents an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century....

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    • Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
    • By: Tara Zahra
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this sweeping work of history, Tara Zahra examines how nationalism, rather than internationalism, came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century....

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    • America and China, 1776 to the Present
    • By: John Pomfret
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future....

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    • How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this engaging history, James MacGregor Burns brings to vivid life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,085 ratings
    • Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S Truman captured the heart of the nation...

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    • Good and Evil in World War II
    • By: Michael Burleigh
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 26 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope....

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    • FDR's Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 3
    • Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy....

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