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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 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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    • War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
    • By: Michael R. Auslin
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability....

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    • The History of an Idea
    • By: Jacob Soll
    • Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • MacArthur “Genius”Jacob Soll presents an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century....

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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 49 ratings
    • Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans....

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    • By: John Lukacs
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Lukacs casts a hard eye at the consequences of the Second World War-the often misunderstood Soviet-American cold war-and at the shifting social and political developments....

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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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    • By: William Weir
    • Narrated by: Rick Turner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
    • By: Richard Stites
    • Narrated by: Greg Wagland
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia....

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    • The Path from Suez to Brexit
    • By: Philip Stephens
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly 60 years later the rebuke rings true again....

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    • By: Christopher Lee
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....

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    • Men of Secrets
    • By: David Stafford
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-02
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • An intriguing look behind the congenial facade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...

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    • A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness
    • By: Brian Brown
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire....

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    • The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
    • By: Nicholas Griffin
    • Narrated by: Tom Burka
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • After 22 years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a détente - achieved not by politicians but by ping-pong players....

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    • A Portrait
    • By: Patrick French
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul....

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    • Indispensable for Travellers
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Series: Indispensable for Travellers
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a fascinating new way....

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    • American Foreign Policy in Retreat
    • By: Vali Nasr
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In this essential new book, Vali Nasr argues that the Obama administration had a chance to improve its relations with the Middle East....

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    • America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
    • By: Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Bill Thatcher
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values....

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    • The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China
    • By: John Delury
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong....

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