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    • New Biography of a Dictator
    • By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

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    • Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Series: Stalin, Book 1
    • Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....

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    • A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 57 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 844 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Julia Lovell
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favor of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

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    • A New History
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution....

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    • By: Herman Wouk
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Series: Winds of War, Book 1
    • Length: 45 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,623 ratings
    • Herman Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family....

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    • A New History
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 954 ratings
    • Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....

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    • A History of Intelligence
    • By: Christopher Andrew
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 37 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In this audiobook, distinguished historian Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia - and shows its relevance today....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
    • Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,379 ratings
    • In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Discover the key themes and big ideas behind more than 80 of the world's most important historical events - from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century....

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    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

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    • War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
    • By: Laura Engelstein
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 31 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues....

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    • Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
    • By: Tara Zahra
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind....

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    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war that would continue to resonate into the 21st century....

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    • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 39 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,248 ratings
    • No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt....

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    • America and the World in the 1950s
    • By: William I. Hitchcock
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 25 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 718 ratings
    • An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike's enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself....

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    • Its Changing Nature and Use in the Twenty-first Century
    • By: Joseph Nye
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • In the 16th century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge...

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