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    • How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the 20th century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt....

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    • A Story of Intercultural Understanding
    • By: Nile Green
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent....

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    • Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
    • By: Nicholas Wapshott
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war....

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    • A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010 ratings
    • The fateful quarter-century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was heaving in its pain....

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    • By: Stanley G. Payne
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth....

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    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 48 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 694 ratings
    • Johnson's monumental history of the United States, from the first settlers to the Clinton administration, covers every aspect of American culture: politics, business, art, literature, science, society and customs, complex traditions, and religious beliefs....

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    • Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
    • By: Robert Gellately
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin's true motives - and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire....

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    • The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Michael Damon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe....

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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 320 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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    • 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 Life
    • By: Michael Zantovsky
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Written by Michael Zantovsky, Havel's former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend, Havel: A Life presents a revelatory portrait of this giant among men....

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    • The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
    • By: Alex Abella
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present....

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • Europe 1950-2017
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 9
    • Length: 27 hrs
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe....

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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 695 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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    • A History of 1945
    • By: Ian Buruma
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency....

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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 End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
    • By: Michael Neiberg
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce....

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    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In Churchill, Johnson applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career.....

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