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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 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare....

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    • By: David Lamb
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent....

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    • Essays, 1995-2010
    • By: Tony Judt
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 01-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written....

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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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    • FDR at War and at Peace
    • By: David B. Woolner
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals....

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    • The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
    • By: Eric D. Weitz
    • Narrated by: Robert Slade
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 5 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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    • America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
    • By: Derek Leebaert
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A new understanding of the post-World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower - with global insights for today....

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