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    • Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945
    • By: Michael Beschloss
    • Narrated by: Michael Beschloss
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • From one of America's most respected historians, The Conquerors reveals one of the most important stories of World War II...

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    • How History Makes History
    • By: Priya Satia
    • Narrated by: Tanya Rodriguez, Priya Satia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed....

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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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    • Britain's Place in the World: A 10,000 Year History
    • By: Ian Morris
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and—increasingly—Chinese actors. Geography Is Destiny shows that the great question for the coming century is not what to do about Brussels; it's what to do about Beijing....

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    • By: Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In the 25 years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart....

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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 39 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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    • The Emperor in World History
    • By: Dominic Lieven
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history....

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    • The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit
    • By: Ian Buruma
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit....

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    • The New Great Game for Global Dominance
    • By: Robert Winder
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Bloody Foreigners and The Last Wolf, Robert Winder explored the way Britain was shaped first by migration and then by hidden geographical factors....

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    • Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent
    • By: David Harsanyi
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Europe has been declining under the weight of its antiquated institutions, economic fatigue, moral anemia, and cultural surrender....

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    • The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
    • By: Jeremy M. Black
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Whittle
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Prize-winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871....

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    • By: John McHugo
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The concise history reveals how the Arab world came to have its present form, why change was inevitable and what choices lie ahead following the Arab Spring....

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    • America and the World in 1950
    • By: Nick Bunker
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Prizewinning historian Nick Bunker shows us a polarized nation facing crises at home and abroad in this evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War....

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    • How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
    • By: Deirdre N. McCloskey, Art Carden
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment....

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    • By: Gregory Claeys
    • Narrated by: Michael Gould
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work. Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere 11 mourners attended his funeral....

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    • Political Leadership in the Modern Age
    • By: Archie Brown
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • All too frequently leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak....

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    • By: Jean Edward Smith
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt....

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    • By: Steven W. Mosher
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The signs are everywhere. China unilaterally claims the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim....

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    • America's Abdication of Global Leadership
    • By: Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • American diplomacy is in shambles, but beneath the daily chaos is an erosion of the postwar order that is even more dangerous....

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