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Bestsellers
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A. Denis
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."
By: Nelson A. Denis
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
- By: Bill O'Reilly, David Fisher
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders....
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Couldn't stop listening!
- By Erin on 08-05-16
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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Magna Carta
- The Birth of Liberty
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....
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Complicated period of history made accessible
- By NH on 12-09-15
By: Dan Jones
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....
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Audio Skips!!
- By Joseph M. Arnold on 07-02-15
By: Simon Schama
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Washington's Spies
- The Story of America's First Spy Ring
- By: Alexander Rose
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.....
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Kinda boring
- By Randall on 07-10-19
By: Alexander Rose
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- By: Jonathan Healey
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics....
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- By cmurrell on 07-30-23
By: Jonathan Healey
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A. Denis
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."
By: Nelson A. Denis
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
- By: Bill O'Reilly, David Fisher
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Bill O'Reilly
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders....
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Couldn't stop listening!
- By Erin on 08-05-16
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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Magna Carta
- The Birth of Liberty
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....
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Complicated period of history made accessible
- By NH on 12-09-15
By: Dan Jones
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....
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Audio Skips!!
- By Joseph M. Arnold on 07-02-15
By: Simon Schama
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Washington's Spies
- The Story of America's First Spy Ring
- By: Alexander Rose
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Story
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.....
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Kinda boring
- By Randall on 07-10-19
By: Alexander Rose
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- By: Jonathan Healey
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics....
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- By cmurrell on 07-30-23
By: Jonathan Healey
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The Federalist Papers (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as "the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written," The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788....
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I must for everyone who slept through history class
- By Claire Bassett on 06-23-19
By: Alexander Hamilton, and others
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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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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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The 20th Century's New Weird History
- By Darwin8u on 08-12-17
By: China Mieville
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- By Kindle Customer on 04-26-22
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
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History of the Russian Revolution
- By: Leon Trotsky
- Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
- Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed....
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One of the Greatest Works of History Ever Written
- By Sophie on 12-01-22
By: Leon Trotsky
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Russia
- Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Rob Heaps
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin....
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Not Enough Context
- By Amazon Customer on 02-14-23
By: Antony Beevor
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American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....
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Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- By Peter Stephens on 11-16-16
By: Alan Taylor
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This Fierce People
- The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
- By: Alan Pell Crawford
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The battles that form the backbone of the story put forth of American independence—at Lexington and Concord, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Monmouth, while crucial, did not lead to the surrender at Yorktown. It was in the three-plus years between Monmouth and Yorktown that the war was won....
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Ghastly
- By Wayne on 09-09-24
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The Boston Massacre
- A Family History
- By: Serena Zabin
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political....
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if could give Zero I would. 5 chpts in & gave up!!
- By Anonymous User on 06-12-20
By: Serena Zabin
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The Ottoman Endgame
- War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East....
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WWI from a different perspective
- By Michael L Krogh on 11-09-15
By: Sean McMeekin
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it....
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- By Buretto on 10-21-21
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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Twelve Against the Gods
- The Story of Adventure
- By: William Bolitho
- Narrated by: Ric Jerom
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve Against the Gods was an instant best seller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives of 12 great adventurers....
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Disappointed
- By Justin Miller on 07-25-22
By: William Bolitho
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Revolutionary Spring
- Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
- By: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Christopher Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....
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Like the revolutions, it got off to a good start
- By Anonymous User on 06-23-23
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- By: Timothy Tackett
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....
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Terrible Accent
- By john on 06-15-21
By: Timothy Tackett
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On Wings of Eagles
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Marcia Hyde, Larry Robinson, Ralph Williams, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands....
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Was the narrator in a hurry?
- By Tammy on 06-19-08
By: Ken Follett
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Founding Mothers
- The Women Who Raised Our Nation
- By: Cokie Roberts
- Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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Cokie returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate look at the passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families and country....
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Founding Mothers
- By Carol Roath on 05-31-04
By: Cokie Roberts
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The Federalist Papers
- Selected Essays
- By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles, written between 1897 and 1888, advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution....
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Wooden Reader
- By ListenLoud on 07-30-08
By: Alexander Hamilton, and others
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Toussaint Louverture
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Philippe Girard
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....
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very powerful story
- By jim on 01-06-17
By: Philippe Girard
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The Russian Revolution
- A New History
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Great Book on the Russian Revolution
- By Nostromo on 09-02-17
By: Sean McMeekin
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The Quartet
- Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew....
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bias is not good history
- By Craig on 01-24-18
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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A People’s Tragedy
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 47 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....
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It would be 5 stars
- By Michael Polevoy on 01-31-19
By: Orlando Figes
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The American Revolution
- A History [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....
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The foremost scholar on the subject
- By Robert on 08-20-05
By: Gordon S. Wood
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American Spring
- Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
- By: Walter R. Borneman
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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When we look back on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion....
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Terrific book, marginal delivery
- By Brian McCreath on 08-18-14
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Rebellion
- The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 19 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Rebellion, Ackroyd gives his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king James VI, to flight and exile of his grandson James II....
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Good but not great
- By Ryan on 01-21-15
By: Peter Ackroyd
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Civil Wars
- A History in Ideas
- By: David Armitage
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is and what it isn't have a long and contested history....
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excellent read
- By Donald Reedy on 09-03-24
By: David Armitage