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    • The Price of Peace
    • By: S. M. Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy’s engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR’s negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought....

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    • America and Our Imperiled World
    • By: Robert Kagan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world - and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward....

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    • The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
    • By: Stephen R. Platt
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 839 ratings
    • As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....

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    • A Life
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,313 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times best-selling author of The Storm of War....

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    • Defender of the Republic
    • By: David L. Roll
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America’s most distinguished soldier - statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century....

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    • Churchill, 1940-1945
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 25 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 323 ratings
    • A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character....

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    • Walking with Destiny
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,417 ratings
    • In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman, and leader can finally be fully understood - by the best-selling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War....

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    • By: John Maynard Keynes
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I - specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times....

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    • Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,651 ratings
    • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

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    • A New History
    • By: Christopher Goscha
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 23 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • A major achievement, Vietnam offers the grand narrative of the country's complex past and the creation of the modern state of Vietnam....

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    • Why the First World War Failed to End
    • By: Robert Gerwarth
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but the 20th century as a whole....

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    • Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    • By: David S. Landes
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....

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    • Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
    • By: George Packer
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era....

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    • Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882-1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940-1945)
    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 58 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns's magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating political figure....

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    • The Biography of Pope John Paul II
    • By: George Weigel
    • Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • Now, with an updated preface, the latest edition of the definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the 20th century that can still be felt today....

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    • An Extraordinary Re-Creation of World War II Through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
    • By: Joanna Potts, Simon Berthon
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Warlords recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, and Roosevelt as World War Two unfolded day by day....

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    • By: Frederick Taylor
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • The appearance of a hastily constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected....

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    • FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong defining battle with Churchill as the war raged in Africa and Italy....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers the listener an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art....

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