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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- By: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....
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could've done without the afterword...
- By Andrew lester on 06-07-20
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81. Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 04-07-20
- Language: English
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The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- By: Christopher Clark
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 23 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I....
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Excellent, but
- By James A. Nietopski on 03-12-22
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82. The Sleepwalkers
- How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 23 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-28-20
- Language: English
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A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them....
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This is a must read!
- By V. Richmond on 04-14-23
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83. A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
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84. The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-26-10
- Language: English
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....
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Interesting Approach to a Well Known History
- By HistoryNerd on 09-24-21
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85. Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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Pagan America
- The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come
- By: John Daniel Davidson
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted.
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Insightful; accurate projections for the future.
- By Nick Troutt on 04-02-24
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86. Pagan America
- The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-26-24
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....
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John Lee is GREAT!
- By David on 09-21-18
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87. The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 09-18-18
- Language: English
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Undaunted Courage
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
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Meriwether Lewis and his partner, William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights on their 1803 cross-country trip to unexplored West....
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Narration kills a great book
- By Kindle Customer on 02-10-08
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88. Undaunted Courage
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-12-01
- Language: English
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And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Jon Meacham
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations....
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A Winner
- By Diane Moore on 10-31-22
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89. And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- Narrated by: Jon Meacham
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-18-22
- Language: English
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With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- By: E. B. Sledge
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed....
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This is the second audio book of Sledge's work
- By Richard on 10-21-13
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90. With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-15-13
- Language: English
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Napoleon
- A Life
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
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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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What a dynamo!
- By Tad Davis on 01-16-15
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Curse of Riches
- By: Claire Prentice
- Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage....
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Kept Waiting for it to be Interesting
- By Mary on 06-23-23
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92. Curse of Riches
- Narrated by: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-08-22
- Language: English
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- By Cynthia on 08-10-13
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93. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-02-10
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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94. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....
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Long Winded
- By Patrick D. on 12-16-23
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95. The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-05-23
- Language: English
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Dressed for a Dance in the Snow
- Women's Voices from the Gulag
- By: Monika Zgustova
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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An unexpectedly uplifting account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced-labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors....
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96. Dressed for a Dance in the Snow
- Women's Voices from the Gulag
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 30 hrs and 39 mins
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Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history....
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Tedious
- By Jim Redding on 06-14-16
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97. The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 30 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-10-16
- Language: English
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Alexander Hamilton
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins
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Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton....
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An Outstanding & Riveting Book!
- By Kevin on 03-04-05
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98. Alexander Hamilton
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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Jesus and the Essenes
- By: Dolores Cannon
- Narrated by: Carol Morrison, Saundra Kaye, Ted Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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This extraordinary document represents a new form of historical research and straightens out many open questions and misinterpretations. It takes the form of direct dialogues between a modern researcher and a member of the Qumran Essene community....
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everyone should read or listen to this
- By Fractal Cat on 03-24-19
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99. Jesus and the Essenes
- Narrated by: Carol Morrison, Saundra Kaye, Ted Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-23-18
- Language: English
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Catherine de Medici
- Renaissance Queen of France
- By: Leonie Frieda
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
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Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....
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Narrator didn't get one name right
- By Georgina García- Menocal on 09-15-19
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100. Catherine de Medici
- Renaissance Queen of France
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-16-18
- Language: English
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