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    • The Legacy of the War and Its Impact on Political and Military Thinking Since 1945
    • By: Matthias Strohn
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The year 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking....

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    • A History of Collective Joy
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions....

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    • The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963
    • By: Michael Swanson
    • Narrated by: Larry Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military....

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    • U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint
    • By: Michael O'Hanlon
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Michael O'Hanlon presents an informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextension....

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    • The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    • By: H.W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans....

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
    • By: Sichan Siv
    • Narrated by: David Thorn
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a target of the Khmer Rouge - ending up, perhaps, as one of the millions of anonymous human skeletons buried in his nation's Killing Fields....

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    • Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
    • By: David Kang
    • Narrated by: David Henry
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841...

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    • The Biography
    • By: Tad Szulc
    • Narrated by: Josef Sommer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II -- by The American Expert on the Pope....

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    • Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
    • By: Derek Leebaert
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis....

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    • Fighting the First World War
    • By: William Philpott
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another....

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    • The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
    • By: Mary Jo McConahay
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The Tango War fills an important gap in World War II history. Beginning in the '30s, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America....

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    • In the War for American Ideals
    • By: Jeremy McCarter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy McCarter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions....

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    • Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
    • By: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
    • Narrated by: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • For six months, the world's major leaders met in Paris to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One....

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    • A History in Twenty Lives
    • By: Christopher Harding
    • Narrated by: Christopher Harding
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of 20 remarkable individuals....

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    • Empire of the Mind
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Although frequently vilified, Iran is a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and one of the oldest continuing civilizations in the world....

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    • By: William Weir
    • Narrated by: Rick Turner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history....

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    • Human Rights in an Unequal World
    • By: Samuel Moyn
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared....

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