Bestsellers
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance107
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Story107
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the...
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- By Paul Boothroyd on 10-20-23
By: Martyn Rady
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In the Shadow of the Empress
- The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
- By: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall196
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Performance169
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Story168
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of...
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Awful narration!
- By Suanne Laqueur on 09-27-21
By: Nancy Goldstone
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,483
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Performance1,259
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Story1,257
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even...
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a warning for the future
- By judith on 11-06-19
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Enemy at the Gate
- Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
- By: Andrew Wheatcroft
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance88
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Story89
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of...
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Look elsewhere
- By Ben H. on 09-20-21
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance82
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Story82
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....
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Awesome
- By Will Georgiadis on 04-11-23
By: Peter H. Wilson
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: Simon Boughey
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall454
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Performance388
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Story384
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies...
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An Excellent and Interesting History
- By Darrel Bishop on 09-14-20
By: Martyn Rady
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance107
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Story107
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the...
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- By Paul Boothroyd on 10-20-23
By: Martyn Rady
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In the Shadow of the Empress
- The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
- By: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall196
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Performance169
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Story168
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of...
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Awful narration!
- By Suanne Laqueur on 09-27-21
By: Nancy Goldstone
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,483
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Performance1,259
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Story1,257
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even...
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a warning for the future
- By judith on 11-06-19
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Enemy at the Gate
- Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
- By: Andrew Wheatcroft
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance88
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Story89
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of...
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Look elsewhere
- By Ben H. on 09-20-21
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance82
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Story82
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....
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Awesome
- By Will Georgiadis on 04-11-23
By: Peter H. Wilson
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: Simon Boughey
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall454
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Performance388
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Story384
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies...
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An Excellent and Interesting History
- By Darrel Bishop on 09-14-20
By: Martyn Rady
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The Pity of War
- Explaining World War I
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance67
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Story67
From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German...
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Ferguson wouldn’t know history if it hit him in the head
- By Schen on 10-07-20
By: Niall Ferguson
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The Envoy
- The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf...
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I was amazed i hadn't heard about this part of history
- By Kindle Customer on 07-08-25
By: Alex Kershaw
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The Last Days of Budapest
- The Destruction of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
- By: Adam LeBor
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
"The Last Days of Budapest is a masterpiece. Immaculately researched, it is packed with large-than-life characters and revelations about the unknown espionage history of the Second World War…. This is history as it should be written: utterly engrossing." -Malcolm Brabant, author of the New...
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Outstanding and harrowing
- By Greg Russell on 06-19-25
By: Adam LeBor
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Danubia
- A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
- By: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall198
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Performance178
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Story176
From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia. Thrillingly informative, Danubia is a treat that listeners will be eager to dip into....
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Magnificent history of the Habsburg Empire
- By Skeptical on 10-25-18
By: Simon Winder
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The Bridge at Andau
- The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
- By: James A. Michener
- Narrated by: Larry McKeever
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall135
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Performance115
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Story115
The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a...
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Every American should read this book.
- By Ivie D. on 07-26-20
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- By: Richard Cockett
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance27
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Story27
Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....
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Fascinating book! HORRIBLE narration
- By E. A. Windhager on 06-14-24
By: Richard Cockett
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Budapest
- Portrait of a City Between East and West
- By: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance52
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Story52
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between East and West—from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin “A compelling portrait of one of...
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Absolutely Amazing 🤩
- By Elizabeth Hoadley on 04-28-24
By: Victor Sebestyen
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The Habsburg Empire
- A New History
- By: Pieter M. Judson
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall388
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Performance334
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Story333
In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....
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Ideal for students of empires, nationalism, minorities and ethnic groups
- By Uther on 02-11-17
By: Pieter M. Judson
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Metternich
- Strategist and Visionary
- By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance37
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Story37
Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....
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Very intensely researched
- By PDH on 04-11-23
By: Wolfram Siemann, and others
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Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
- Jewish Lives
- By: Derek Penslar
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement?
By: Derek Penslar
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For God and Kaiser
- The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
- By: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Aaron Blain
- Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance84
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Story83
The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history....
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excellent insight
- By Nicholas on 08-04-19
By: Richard Bassett
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History of Austria
- A Captivating Guide to Austrian History
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Story28
When Austrian President Franz Jonas visited the Vatican in 1971, Pope Paul VI named Austria “the Island of the Blessed”. He did so to emphasize Austria’s steep recovery. Only 25 years had passed since the end of the Second World War....
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a hodgepodge country
- By kristy a. palmer on 01-19-22
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Passionate Spirit
- The Life of Alma Mahler
- By: Cate Haste
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance7
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Story7
A new biography of Alma Mahler (1879-1964), revealing a woman determined to wield power in a world that denied her agency History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her peers. Drawing on Alma's...
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A truly moving story
- By Guerguan Tsenov on 02-06-24
By: Cate Haste
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The Yellow Star House
- The Remarkable Story of One Boy's Survival in a Protected House in Hungary
- By: Paul V. Regelbrugge
- Narrated by: Paul V. Regelbrugge
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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Story0
Between May 15 and July 9, 1944, over 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported, and most were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The sole exception were the Jews in Budapest. This is the story of how one Jewish boy and 400 others were protected in a "yellow star house"....
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Thunder at Twilight
- Vienna 1913/1914
- By: Frederic Morton
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance126
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Story124
Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna—and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a...
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great era great book great narrator
- By John on 03-18-16
By: Frederic Morton
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The Habsburg Empire
- A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance31
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Story31
The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times to World War I, but they still exist as one of the most prestigious Austrian families. To keep themselves in such high positions, the Habsburgs had to develop unique strategies to fight their political enemies....
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Good history lecture
- By Lisa Sooter on 07-08-23
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From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume 2
- IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945
- By: Douglas E. Nash Sr.
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 26 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Story21
This is the concluding volume of the history of the IV SS-Panzerkorps, a relatively unknown organization that was born in battle during the last year of the war and fought exclusively on the Eastern Front....
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military History At Its Finest
- By Placeholder on 07-03-21
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The Red Prince
- The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Michael Damon
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance75
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Story75
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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little known story about Hapsburgs
- By Janice on 03-30-10
By: Timothy Snyder
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Beethoven
- A Life in Nine Pieces
- By: Laura Tunbridge
- Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance27
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Story28
The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him....
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Laura Turnbridge is an excellent author & narrator
- By Alex Scriabin on 04-25-23
By: Laura Tunbridge
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Twelve Days
- The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
- By: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrated by: Rick Reitz
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance78
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Story77
In Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, Victor Sebestyen vividly recreates not only the days of the uprising but the events, meetings and days that led up to it....
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Frustrating
- By Hans on 11-26-11
By: Victor Sebestyen
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Did America Have a Christian Founding?
- Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
- By: Mark David Hall
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance63
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Story61
A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions. In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the...
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Yes.
- By Philip D. Larson on 02-04-20
By: Mark David Hall
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The Assassination of the Archduke
- Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
- By: Greg King, Sue Woolmans
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall315
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Performance277
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Story276
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I....
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Sarajevo trip in riveting slow motion
- By Skeptical on 06-29-14
By: Greg King, and others
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
- The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
- By: James Longo
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance89
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Story90
As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo....
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More of the Story
- By EJJ on 08-28-19
By: James Longo
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Asperger's Children
- The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
- By: Edith Sheffer
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance69
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Story68
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....
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Powerful but partial analysis
- By Mira Krishnan on 12-17-20
By: Edith Sheffer