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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story5 out of 5 stars 34
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant
- By trishreads on 15-12-2018
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 203
From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read
- By AndrewH on 28-06-2017
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Elizabeth
- By: David Starkey
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England's most successful ruler....
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Lightning Out of Lebanon
- Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil
- By: Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman
- Narrated by: Tony Call
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the "Party of God"....
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story5 out of 5 stars 34
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant
- By trishreads on 15-12-2018
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 203
From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read
- By AndrewH on 28-06-2017
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Elizabeth
- By: David Starkey
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England's most successful ruler....
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Lightning Out of Lebanon
- Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil
- By: Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman
- Narrated by: Tony Call
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the "Party of God"....
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Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy
- By: Pamela Radcliff, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Pamela Radcliff
- Length: 24 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Consider the intense and rapid changes that transformed the political, social, and economic struggles of the world during the 20th century....
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Nein!
- Standing Up to Hitler 1935-1944
- By: Paddy Ashdown
- Narrated by: Paddy Ashdown
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right....
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
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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Helen Thomas at the 92nd Street Y on the Press and the President
- By: Helen Thomas
- Narrated by: Amy Goodman
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Legendary journalist Helen Thomas discusses political news coverage and the reasons the press must be more vigilant at this visit to New York's 92nd Street Y....
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....
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Church History in Plain Language
- Fourth EditionFourth Edition
- By: Bruce L. Shelley
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Dr. Bruce Shelley's church history is not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really well laid out and solid narrator
- By Hermand on 29-08-2017
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Synthesis
- By Shane on 29-05-2016
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story5 out of 5 stars 113
Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Boys Own stuff but I loved it. ..
- By I. B. McKenzie on 19-11-2016
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive, Objective yet Self-Aware
- By Marcus on 28-04-2018
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Selling Hitler
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler....
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Blood, Class, and Empire
- The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Anthony May
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's 'special relationship' with Britain....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hitch is gone. Sigh.
- By Daivin on 16-01-2015
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12 Strong
- The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
- By: Doug Stanton
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban....
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Jerusalem
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day, and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Biography of a City
- By Nelson C on 03-12-2015
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On War
- By: Carl von Clausewitz
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
A Prussian soldier and writer, von Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory...
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The Master of Auschwitz:
- Memoirs of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant SS
- By: Rudolf Hoess
- Narrated by: Tim Dalgleish
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
The first-hand account of the life, career, and the practices of horror at Auschwitz....
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Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
- By: Suzanne M. Desan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Suzanne M. Desan
- Length: 24 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
The French Revolution shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Clarity leaves me feeling informed
- By Stan on 31-05-2015
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too focused on personality and drama.
- By steve on 16-08-2018
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing.
- By sheep on 03-04-2017
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Trump's America
- By: Newt Gingrich
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight than the former Speaker of the House. In Trump's America: The Truth About Our Nation's Great Comeback, Newt Gingrich describes our country's tremendous turnaround under President Donald Trump's leadership....
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Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Pik-sen Lim
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines....
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Vietnam
- Why We Should Have Won
- By: Dan Lyons
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Lyons resigned as Dean at Gonzaga University to become the free world's leading advocate of winning...
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- By: Christian Goeschel
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....
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Mi historia [Becoming]
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Escucha el íntimo, poderoso e inspirador libro de memorias de la exprimera dama de Estados Unidos....
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Paris After the Liberation
- By: Artemis Cooper, Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Antony Beevor's Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949 is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August 1944....
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Phenomena
- The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great ( Read ) listening <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-2018
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- By: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....
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Churchill
- By: Roy Jenkins
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 38 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent!
- By Anonymous User on 01-09-2018
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Antifa
- The Anti-Fascist Handbook
- By: Mark Bray
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism - also known as "antifa." Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and '30s....
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Simcoe's Rangers
- The History of the British Queen's Rangers During the Revolutionary War
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school....
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
- Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Tracy Borman takes us behind the scenes to reveal the intimate secrets of the Tudor court and the private lives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and more....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Facinating
- By Jane on 15-06-2016
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
- By: Edmund Burke
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world....
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- By: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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The Age of Sacred Terror
- By: Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Two of the country's leading anti-terrorism experts probe to the heart of 9/11, examining the plots and conspiracies that led up to that day, and showing us the need for continued vigilance against future threats. For those of us who believe that the current danger comes only from Osama Bin Laden and Al-Quaeda, Benjamin and Simon show that they are only part of a larger and more durable phenomenon.
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Pyongyang Again Jerusalem of the East
- Prayer, Prophets and Deals
- By: Brother Eric
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
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An inside view on the prayers and prophecies, the facts and fiction, the hope and hypocrisy in play behind the 2018 Korean peace talks.
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Golden Ghetto
- How the Americans & French Fell in & out of Love During the Cold War
- By: Steve Bassett
- Narrated by: Bill Fike
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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Considering the suspicions, jealousies, bigotry, and crass opportunism inherent whenever one power occupies another, Golden Ghetto: How the Americans and French Fell in and out of Love During the Cold War pieces together an improbable tale of how fear and skepticism were crushed by trust and friendship.
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Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan
- Haney Foundation Series
- By: Donald T. Critchlow
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The scholarly and popular narrative of American politics has come to focus on ideology over all else. But as Donald T. Critchlow demonstrates in his riveting new book, this obsession obscures the important role of temperament, character, and leadership ability in political success. Critchlow looks at four leading Republican presidential contenders - Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan - to show that, behind the scenes, ideology mattered less than principled pragmatism and the ability to build coalitions toward electoral and legislative victory.
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Ike's Mystery Man
- The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
- By: Peter Shinkle
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans. Ike's Mystery Man relies on thousands of personal letters, interviews, and previously classified archives to tell a gripping story that has never before been told.
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- By: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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The Age of Sacred Terror
- By: Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Two of the country's leading anti-terrorism experts probe to the heart of 9/11, examining the plots and conspiracies that led up to that day, and showing us the need for continued vigilance against future threats. For those of us who believe that the current danger comes only from Osama Bin Laden and Al-Quaeda, Benjamin and Simon show that they are only part of a larger and more durable phenomenon.
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Pyongyang Again Jerusalem of the East
- Prayer, Prophets and Deals
- By: Brother Eric
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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An inside view on the prayers and prophecies, the facts and fiction, the hope and hypocrisy in play behind the 2018 Korean peace talks.
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Golden Ghetto
- How the Americans & French Fell in & out of Love During the Cold War
- By: Steve Bassett
- Narrated by: Bill Fike
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Considering the suspicions, jealousies, bigotry, and crass opportunism inherent whenever one power occupies another, Golden Ghetto: How the Americans and French Fell in and out of Love During the Cold War pieces together an improbable tale of how fear and skepticism were crushed by trust and friendship.
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Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan
- Haney Foundation Series
- By: Donald T. Critchlow
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The scholarly and popular narrative of American politics has come to focus on ideology over all else. But as Donald T. Critchlow demonstrates in his riveting new book, this obsession obscures the important role of temperament, character, and leadership ability in political success. Critchlow looks at four leading Republican presidential contenders - Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan - to show that, behind the scenes, ideology mattered less than principled pragmatism and the ability to build coalitions toward electoral and legislative victory.
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Ike's Mystery Man
- The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
- By: Peter Shinkle
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans. Ike's Mystery Man relies on thousands of personal letters, interviews, and previously classified archives to tell a gripping story that has never before been told.
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The Children
- By: David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 32 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution.
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Lioness
- Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
- By: Francine Klagsbrun
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 32 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life.
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Why I Stand
- From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism
- By: Burgess Owens
- Narrated by: Rich Cade
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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American Individualism has been the crown jewel of a nation that has prioritized God, family, and freedom to out-dream its obstacles. It is the freedom of this individual spirit that is under attack by its adversarial ideology, Marxist Socialism. This destructive ideology has resulted in “killing fields” of bodies, souls, and dreams of billions worldwide. Consistent is the destruction of manhood, womanhood, the family, and every pillar that supports love of God and country. Why I Stand documents an ideology that uses trust to divide and betray.
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
- A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
- By: William L. Riordan
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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There's honest graft and dishonest graft, according to George Washington Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th-century politician and decide for yourself if things have changed.
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Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The man who came to be known as Vladimir Lenin almost single-handedly sparked Communist revolution in Russia, and he very nearly brought his brand of Marxism to the rest of the world. What drove him to do this? Where did he derive such an immense desire for societal change? This audiobook serves to examine the landscape that brought such a pivotal figure to such prominence, examining all of the catalysts, from personal to national, that led the man known simply as Lenin down his inexorable path of revolution.
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Why Veterans Run
- Military Service in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2016
- By: Jeremy M. Teigen
- Narrated by: David A. Wood
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In Why Veterans Run, Jeremy Teigen explains the tendency of parties to elevate those with armed forces experience to run for high office. He describes the veteran candidate phenomenon by examining the related factors and patterns, showing why different eras have more former generals running and why the number of veterans in election cycles varies. With both quantitative and qualitative analysis, Why Veterans Run investigates each postwar era in US electoral history and elaborates why so many veterans run for office.
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The Revolution of ’28
- Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal
- By: Robert Chiles
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Revolution of ’28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith’s work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early 20th century. The book charts the rise of that idiomatic progressivism during Smith’s early years as a state legislator through his time as governor of the Empire State in the 1920s, before proceeding to a revisionist narrative of the 1928 presidential campaign.
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- By: Dana Hercbergs
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets, and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged narratives about belonging and rights to place.
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The Austro-Prussian War and Franco-Prussian War: The History of the Wars That Led to Prussia’s Unification of Germany
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Prussian leaders, especially Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor and advisor to Prussia’s king, believed Prussia could be a united power, but only without the traditional Austrian dominance. At the time, the Austrian empire was a collection of ethnically diverse peoples and had been dominated by a socio-political conservatism that sought to keep the empire ruled in Hapsburg tradition. After Prussia was victorious in the Austro-Prussian War, Bismarck played a waiting game where the unification of Germany was concerned, as the joining of the southern states would have to be overcome.
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Charles II: A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles II of England remains one of the most easily identifiable and best known of England’s monarchs. Deprived of his throne following the execution of his father, he contended with hardship and exile before achieving a peaceful restoration and the beginning of what would be remembered as a colorful period of English history. His reign also led to the creation of the two-party system that would shape English and later British politics for centuries to come.
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Nein!
- Standing Up to Hitler 1935-1944
- By: Paddy Ashdown
- Narrated by: Paddy Ashdown
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing, with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler’s command committed to bringing about his death and defeat. Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler’s Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory.
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The Rise of Andrew Jackson
- Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
- By: David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
- Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Jackson's election in 1828 is usually viewed as a result of the expansion of democracy. Historians David and Jeanne Heidler argue that he actually owed his victory to his closest supporters, who wrote hagiographies of him, founded newspapers to savage his enemies, and built a political network that was always on message. In transforming a difficult man into a paragon of republican virtue, the Jacksonites exploded the old order and created a mode of electioneering that has been mimicked ever since.