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    • Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
    • By: Eliot A. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war....

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    • By: Paul Bushkovitch
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Accessible to students, tourists, and general listeners alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991....

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    • By: Susan Dunn
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the onslaught of the Nazi army and air force....

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    • The Birth of Modern Istanbul
    • By: Charles King
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • With beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world....

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    • By: Daniele Ganser
    • Narrated by: Chuck Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world peace....

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    • Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
    • By: Joseph S. Nye Jr.
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions....

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    • The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities
    • By: Ryan McMaken
    • Narrated by: John Quattrucci
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Breaking Away differs from countless other books on secession and decentralization in that it considers examples, benefits of secession, and radical decentralization in a much broader historical, geographical, and theoretical context....

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    • A New History of Soviet Intelligence
    • By: Jonathan Haslam
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving military intelligence and the special service - which specialized in codes and ciphers - lurking in the shadows....

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    • From Mao to Now
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping....

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    • Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
    • By: Kwasi Kwarteng
    • Narrated by: Kwasi Kwarteng, Elliot Levey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Kwasi Kwarteng brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire....

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    • Geography, Technology, and Institutions
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale....

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    • Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Amin Maalouf, George Willer - translator
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation....

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    • Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
    • By: Gabriel Gorodetsky
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • 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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    • Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    • By: Jeffrey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....

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    • How Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
    • By: Diana Preston
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • A Reader's Edition
    • By: Unknown
    • Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
    • Length: 30 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This new Reader’s Edition of Harry Truman’s memoirs corrects some important problems that made the prior two volumes difficult to enjoy. This new edition offers the thrill of hearing the authentic Harry S. Truman, probably the most important president of the last 75 years....

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    • By: Bill Hayton
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day....

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