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    • Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope: 1945-1953
    • By: Robert Dallek
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War
    • By: Simon Reid-Henry
    • Narrated by: Elliott Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 34 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation....

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    • Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Amin Maalouf, George Willer - translator
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation....

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    • Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
    • By: Joshua Keating
    • Narrated by: Joshua Keating
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • What is a country? While certain basic tenets - such as the clear demarcation of a country's borders, and the acknowledgment of its sovereignty by other countries and by international governing bodies - seem applicable, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules....

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    • How the Chinese Negotiate with India
    • By: Vijay Gokhale
    • Narrated by: Derek Denzil
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • India's relations with the People's Republic of China have captured the popular imagination ever since the 1950s but have rarely merited a detailed understanding of the issues. Individual episodes tend to arouse lively debate....

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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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    • A Short History
    • By: Norman Stone
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Decolonization and the Cold War
    • By: Jessica M. Chapman
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
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    • Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order....

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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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    • 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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