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    • Narratives for the Next Global Age
    • By: Paul Starobin
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Paul Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower....

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    • By: Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 28 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • In 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work....

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    • A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
    • By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....

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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: Alfred J. Rieber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Alfred J. Rieber examines Stalin as a wartime leader—showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and repression affected all aspects of Soviet society....

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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
    • By: Madhusree Mukarjee
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II....

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    • The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
    • By: Linda Himelstein
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The sweeping story of entrepreneurship, empire, and epicurean triumph unlike anything the world has ever seen before....

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    • The Prophetic Statesman
    • By: James C. Humes
    • Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • James C. Humes reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain's most famous prime minister and how his critics' perceptions of them shaped his political career....

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    • How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
    • By: Bernard E. Harcourt
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States....

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    • How They Changed History and What They Mean Today
    • By: Peter Furtado
    • Narrated by: Debra Michaels, Philip Bretherton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as ‘liberty, fraternity, equality’, articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because we are shocked by the destructive forces unleashed when social conventions break down....

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    • FDR and the Year That Changed History
    • By: Jay Winik
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II....

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    • The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
    • By: P.E. Caquet
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design....

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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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    • 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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    • International Communism and the Origins of World War II
    • By: Jonathan Haslam
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew - the roots of the Second World War - and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation....

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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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    • How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives
    • By: Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gray, Laura Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of listeners new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing....

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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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    • Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (A Pelican Book)
    • By: Jonathan Holslag
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan. In 3,000 years of history, China has spent at least 11 centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 percent of its lifetime....

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