Interwar Period

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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Strategy has existed as long as there has been organized conflict. In this account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system....

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    • The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
    • By: Richard Hurowitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Less than a century ago, the Second World War took the lives of more than fifty million people; more than six million of them were systematically exterminated through crimes of such enormity that a new name to describe the horror was coined: the Holocaust....

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    • Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
    • By: Cita Stelzer
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Stelzer draws on previously untapped material and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during, and after WWII....

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    • How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Republicans and Democrats Together to Win World War II
    • By: Peter Shinkle
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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      As Adolf Hitler’s Nazi armies threatened Europe, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged a divided America to mobilize to defend democracy and freedom. Many Republicans accused FDR of leading the nation needlessly into war and demanded that America remain neutral....

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    • The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
    • By: Caroline Moorehead
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: The Resistance Quartet
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born....

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    • The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
    • By: Michael Reid
    • Narrated by: Asa Siegel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Michael Reid overturns the stereotypical view of Spain as a country haunted by its Francoist past and presents an incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond....

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    • A History of Vienna
    • By: Angus Robertson
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Crossroads of Civilization is a rich and illuminating history of the world capital that has transformed art, culture, and politics....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare....

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    • The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents
    • By: Hervie Haufler
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered Germany's defense and intelligence organization to carry out Operation Lena - a program to place spies within Britain....

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    • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Len Cariou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II....

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    • Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice
    • By: Patrick Bishop
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other best-selling World War Two historians, Operation Jubilee is a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942....

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    • Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
    • By: Jonathan Fenby
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 28 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as "carrying France on [his] shoulders"....

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    • Men of Secrets
    • By: David Stafford
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-02
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • An intriguing look behind the congenial facade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...

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    • A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
    • By: Henry Hemming
    • Narrated by: Henry Hemming
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The astonishing story of the British spies who set out to draw America into World War II....

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    • Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper
    • By: Brooke Lindy Blower
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections....

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    • A Personal History of Europe
    • By: Timothy Garton Ash
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies...

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    • By: Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Churchill's keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change....

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    • By: John Maynard Keynes
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I - specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times....

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    • The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944
    • By: Stephen L. McFarland, Wesley Phillips Newton
    • Narrated by: Patrick Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over Western Europe during World War II....

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    • From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
    • By: Sheri Berman
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • At the end of the 20th century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. But soon, this democratic "ending" began to unravel....

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